We will comprehensively strengthen infrastructure development

Strengthening infrastructure development in an all-round way is of great significance to ensuring national security, unblocking the domestic cycle, promoting the double domestic and international cycle, expanding domestic demand, and promoting high-quality development. In this regard, it is necessary to firmly grasp the direction of infrastructure development, accelerate the implementation of a number of infrastructure projects that are conducive to expanding short-term demand and building long-term momentum, coordinate infrastructure planning and construction in various regions and sectors, optimize factor support measures, and accelerate the construction of a modern infrastructure system. Infrastructure development will play an important role in expanding domestic demand, increasing supply, stabilizing expectations, and benefiting the long-term.

Have strategic significance

Infrastructure is an important support for economic and social development. Moderately advanced construction of infrastructure that has a supporting and leading role in future development is an important experience for China to promote economic and social development. At present, the external environment is becoming more complex, severe and uncertain. China's economic development is faced with the triple pressure of shrinking demand, supply shocks and weakening expectations. It is an arduous task to achieve steady improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity. Specific to the field of infrastructure, although the overall level of China's infrastructure has achieved a leapfrog improvement, it is not adapted to the national development and security needs. In this context, comprehensively strengthening infrastructure construction has the dual strategic significance of responding to the development situation and promoting the adaptation of supply and demand, and plays an important role in promoting high-quality economic development and comprehensively building a modern socialist country.

After years of continuous promotion of infrastructure construction and investment, China has initially formed a super-large-scale infrastructure network, which has become the main artery to ensure smooth domestic and international economic circulation and efficient flow of factors of production, and strongly supported economic and social development. However, it should also be noted that at present, China's infrastructure is not adapted to the national development and security needs, and there are still shortcomings in supporting the smooth economic circulation, coordinated development between urban and rural areas, the construction of a modern circulation system, enabling industrial upgrading, and promoting green and low-carbon transformation, and there are still many hidden risks of security, and structural contradictions in regional distribution and function types. In the face of the outbreak of COVID-19, extreme weather, escalating international disputes and other emergencies, infrastructure has exposed many deficiencies in service support capacity, which still falls short of people's needs for a better life. Based on the new development stage, comprehensively strengthening infrastructure construction is not only an important measure to accurately make up for weaknesses and strengths, but also an inevitable requirement for accelerating the construction of a new development pattern.

At the same time, comprehensively strengthening infrastructure construction and moderately advancing infrastructure investment can play a positive role in increasing effective supply, vigorously expanding domestic demand and stabilizing development expectations in an increasingly complex domestic and international environment, and is an important starting point for promoting steady improvement in quality and reasonable growth of the economy.

Focus on five transformations

To comprehensively strengthen infrastructure development under the new situation, we need to find the right direction to make efforts.

The first is to shift from scale and quantity expansion to quality and efficiency priority. Infrastructure construction under the new situation should fully reflect the requirements and characteristics of the new era and new stage. Specifically, in accordance with the requirements of high-quality development, focusing on adapting to the construction of a modern economic system and meeting the needs of the people for a better life, while further strengthening the weaknesses and strengths, pay attention to the quality improvement of infrastructure development and the realization of comprehensive benefits, pull supply with high-quality demand, create demand with effective supply, and achieve a higher level of dynamic balance and accurate matching between supply and demand. Make infrastructure more supportive of national economic development.

The second is the shift from focusing on cross-regional connectivity to focusing on precise development in sub-regions. At present, the regional restructuring of the global industrial chain and supply chain is obvious. In China, the advantages of the ultra-large market and the potential of domestic demand have accelerated the adjustment of the distribution of economic space and productivity, and the concentration of factors in central cities and urban agglomerations has become more obvious, and the development trend of different spatial scales has accelerated the differentiation between inland and coastal areas, developed and less developed regions, different functional zones, urban agglomerations, and urban and rural areas. According to the development foundation, comparative advantages and strategic bearing requirements of different regions, while consolidating and improving the national infrastructure network and promoting the equalization of basic public services, it is necessary to improve the quality of the regional infrastructure network of major national strategic bearing regions, accurately complement the weak points of development, and enhance the balance of development.