To comprehensively strengthen infrastructure construction, efforts should also be made in functional innovation

The 11th meeting of the Financial and Economic Commission of the CPC Central Committee held not long ago made strategic plans for comprehensively strengthening infrastructure construction, and emphasized the importance of "practical innovation and theoretical innovation" in the process. On May 23, the executive meeting of The State Council deployed 33 measures to stabilize the economy, including "the new construction of a number of water conservancy projects, especially large-scale diversion irrigation, transportation, and underground integrated pipe corridors." The "Opinions of The General Office of the State Council on Further revitalizing Stock Assets and expanding effective Investment" released on May 25 also takes infrastructure project assets with large scale, good current returns or large growth potential as one of the key areas to revitalize stock assets and expand effective investment.

It can be predicted that a new round of infrastructure construction that strengthens investment and highlights the characteristics of comprehensive benefits will accelerate the process. Infrastructure has its standard functional definition, when it comes to infrastructure innovation, it is often about the mode, mechanism, technology, etc., and functional innovation is rarely mentioned. How to strengthen the functional innovation of infrastructure is one of the important propositions of "practical innovation and theoretical innovation" in this round of infrastructure construction.

This requires that in promoting a new round of infrastructure construction, improving the efficiency of infrastructure services is the key, breaking the traditional concept, exploring the innovation of facility functions, optimizing the standard and specification system, and improving the level of facility construction.

First of all, through the reasonable expansion of infrastructure function space, strengthen the complex function of infrastructure, improve its comprehensive income. The "Opinions of The General Office of the State Council on Further activating stock Assets to expand effective Investment" clearly put forward that "according to local conditions, actively explore the sinking of sewage treatment plants, the construction of properties on the subway, and the comprehensive development of above-ground and underground space of transportation hubs, and effectively revitalize assets such as existing railway yards and stations and surrounding developable land." Such innovative ideas and measures to reasonably expand the functional space of infrastructure not only apply to the revitalization of existing assets but also apply to new infrastructure.

Secondly, the function of infrastructure system should be improved by rationally arranging the construction of infrastructure system with complementary functions, chimeric and linkage relations. For example, in the promotion of the strategy of "counting in the East and counting in the west", many western regions are simultaneously promoting the construction of data centers around new energy projects such as photovoltaic and wind energy. While absorbing new energy power on the spot and improving energy utilization efficiency, they are solving problems such as energy consumption indicators and carbon emission indicators constraints of data centers that require large amounts of energy but also consume large amounts of energy. Make the local infrastructure system more powerful. In the new round of infrastructure construction, we should also take the initiative to strengthen the systematic and collaborative planning of infrastructure, optimize the layout of the infrastructure system, and give play to the superposition effect of "1+1 > 2" facility functions.

At the same time, through reasonable planning to increase the diversification of subsidiary functions, in-depth exploration of functional potential, expand the application scenarios of infrastructure functions. For example, the "Eye of the Sky" in Guizhou has simultaneously developed tourism functions during its completion and commissioning phase, receiving hundreds of thousands of visitors annually. In the new round of infrastructure construction, under the premise of ensuring the safe operation of basic functions of infrastructure, the diversification, diversification and multi-dimension of infrastructure functions can be realized according to local conditions, and the added value of its functions can be improved.

To meet new needs and cater to new trends, the construction of infrastructure also requires new ideas, new technologies and new materials. In accordance with the principle of moderate advance, constantly improve the functions of infrastructure, build infrastructure benchmarking projects with the characteristics of The Times, scientific and technological content, and powerful functions, and lead the construction of modern infrastructure systems.