Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday stressed coordinated
efforts to advance the construction of a modern logistics system to
provide strong support for a new development pattern.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central
Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the
remarks at the eighth meeting of the Central Committee for Financial and
Economic Affairs. He is also head of the committee.
Noting that the logistics system plays a fundamental role in the
national economy, Xi said that building a modern logistics system should
be treated as a critical strategic mission in forming the new
development pattern.
Xi called for coordinated efforts to advance the building of hard
and soft infrastructures for modern logistics system, develop new
logistics technologies and business forms, improve industry regulations
and standards, and nurture modern logistics companies with global
competitiveness, so as to provide strong support for the new development
pattern in which domestic and foreign markets boost each other, with
the domestic market as the mainstay.
The meeting was also attended by other leaders including Li
Keqiang, Wang Huning and Han Zheng. Reports from several central
government departments were heard at the meeting.
Calling an efficient modern logistics system as "indispensable" to
both the domestic circulation and the international circulation in the
new development pattern, the meeting underlined the need to step up the
improvement of a unified domestic market and to enhance high-speed rail
and international air freight transport capacity.
Efforts should also be made to facilitate digital and intelligent
transformations in building a modern logistics system, support upgrading
of commerce logistics facilities that concern people's daily lives, and
provide more financial products easily accessible to business entities
in the logistics sector.
The country's experience in coping with the COVID-19 epidemic should be
drawn upon to quicken the establishment of a resilient emergency
logistics system that can guarantee adequate reserves and make rapid
responses, according to the meeting.
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