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.