What is the significance of comprehensively deploying and building a modern infrastructure system

"Infrastructure is an important support for economic and social development, we must balance development and security, optimize the layout, structure, function and development mode of infrastructure, build a modern infrastructure system, and lay a solid foundation for comprehensively building a modern socialist country.

Why should we strengthen infrastructure construction at present? How to build a modern infrastructure system? Xinhua News Agency reporter interviewed industry experts and scholars to interpret.

"Of great significance" to comprehensively strengthen infrastructure development

Infrastructure construction is a basic, leading, strategic and leading industry of the national economy.

"Comprehensively strengthening infrastructure construction 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," the meeting said.

From the Chang 'e Jade rabbit flying to the moon, to the south-north water diversion, to the Daxing airport Phoenix wings, China's eye to explore the world... Since the 18th CPC National Congress, China has made a number of world-leading achievements in major scientific and technological facilities, water conservancy projects, transportation hubs, information infrastructure, and national strategic reserves, and the overall level of infrastructure has been improved by leaps and bounds.

However, at the same time, China's infrastructure is not adapted to the needs of national development and security, and there are still many difficulties in infrastructure construction.

"It should be noted that there are still obvious weaknesses in areas such as rural revitalization, high-quality urban life, and supporting industrial transformation and upgrading. In particular, the functional layout, connectivity and comprehensive benefits of infrastructure need to be further strengthened." State Council Development Research Center researcher Long Haibo said.

Infrastructure is an important support for economic and social development. Compared with the traditional "iron public base" project, the comprehensive strengthening of infrastructure construction covers a wide range, and pays more attention to network, industrial upgrading, urban, agricultural and rural, national security and other infrastructure, which needs to be planned in advance and the overall layout.

It is worth noting that the outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan will "build a modern infrastructure system" as part of the chapter of "Accelerate the development of a modern industrial system to consolidate and strengthen the foundation of the real economy".

Long Haibo said that the meeting of the Financial and Economic Commission of the CPC Central Committee will comprehensively strengthen infrastructure construction as an important topic, and its importance is self-evident. "First, it is conducive to better play the 'multiplier effect' of infrastructure, continuously deepen the supply-side structural reform, further expand domestic demand through infrastructure investment, and then drive the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry; Second, it is conducive to better highlight the "mainstay" role of infrastructure, and constantly improve the resilience, stability and security of China's industrial chain and supply chain; Third, it is conducive to better reflect the 'public attributes' of infrastructure, and constantly meet people's aspirations for high-quality urban life and a happy and beautiful countryside."

Define the "construction blueprint" for building a modern infrastructure system

In view of the bottlenecks and difficulties in the current infrastructure construction, how to promote the construction of a modern infrastructure system?

"We must adhere to the concept of people-centered development", "accelerate the construction of new infrastructure, and upgrade the level of traditional infrastructure", "we must drive multiple wheels, and give play to the multi-faceted roles of the government and the market, central and local governments, state-owned capital and social capital"... The meeting clarified the "construction blueprint" for building a modern infrastructure system at present and in the future.

"This is a strategic consideration based on the current, long-term, and overall development and security, and it is also the performance of the CPC Central Committee in the face of the great changes in the world unseen in a century and the combined impact of the epidemic in the century." Long Haibo believes that the central government has clearly promoted the work in many aspects and anchored the blocked points and short boards, which will further release the investment potential led by infrastructure construction and promote high-quality economic development.

To improve the level of traditional infrastructure, we need to open up the "blood" and strengthen connectivity. The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to strengthen the construction of network infrastructure such as transportation, energy and water conservancy, and take networking, network replenishment and strong chain as the focus of construction, and strive to improve network efficiency. And to accelerate the construction of the national comprehensive three-dimensional traffic network backbone, the development of distributed smart grid, accelerate the construction of the national water network backbone and main arteries and other aspects of clear requirements.

To accelerate the construction of new infrastructure, we need to take precise measures and optimize the structure. The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to strengthen the construction of infrastructure for upgrading information, science and technology, logistics and other industries, layout the construction of a new generation of supercomputing, cloud computing, artificial intelligence platforms, broadband infrastructure and other facilities, promote the layout of major scientific and technological infrastructure construction, strengthen the construction of comprehensive transportation hubs and collection and distribution system, layout and construction of a number of regional airports, general airports and cargo airports.

Industry insiders pointed out that the wide range and large scale of infrastructure studied by the conference is not only the need for stable growth at present, but also a strategic layout to lay a good foundation for the country's medium and long-term development. The series deployment will undoubtedly promote the advance implementation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" infrastructure planning, and will drive the development of infrastructure construction and related industries in the near future, bringing development opportunities for related enterprises.

Moderate advance, scientific planning "to calculate both economic accounts and comprehensive accounts"

At present, investment in many areas is making efforts to ensure steady growth. How to comprehensively strengthen infrastructure construction, ensure scientific and orderly, and avoid the extensive old road of "flood irrigation"?

"To be moderately ahead, layout is conducive to leading industrial development and maintaining national security infrastructure, while grasping the degree of advance construction" "to scientific planning, implement the new development concept, based on the whole life cycle, overall planning of all types of infrastructure layout, to achieve interconnection, co-construction and sharing, coordination and linkage" "to pay attention to efficiency, both economic accounts, and comprehensive accounts, Improve the comprehensive benefits of the entire life cycle of infrastructure "... The meeting made further arrangements.

Experts said that it is necessary to always meet the needs of the people as the starting point and goal of infrastructure planning and construction, resolutely avoid face projects and image projects in the process of construction and development, and can not mistakenly equate infrastructure construction with pulling up local GDP.

"Solve the problems in the process of progress through development, and strive to let the people fully enjoy the dividends of infrastructure development." The planning, design, construction and operation of infrastructure are closely focused on the needs of the people, taking into account the aspirations of various groups." Long Haibo said.

How to strengthen the support for infrastructure construction? The meeting stressed that under the unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, a coordination mechanism for major infrastructure construction should be established, infrastructure planning and construction in all fields and regions should be coordinated, and resource factors such as land, sea and energy should be strengthened.

"To moderately advance infrastructure investment is to focus on the requirements of balancing short-term stable growth and long-term structural adjustment." Liu Lifeng, a researcher at the Investment Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research, said that strengthening infrastructure construction should count both economic accounts and comprehensive accounts, maximize the leverage effect of funds, influence and drive the synchronous implementation of local government and social investment, and inject new vitality and momentum into economic growth.