We will comprehensively strengthen infrastructure development

Strengthening infrastructure construction is a major and urgent task

Since the founding of New China, China's infrastructure system (including public service capabilities such as education and health care) has made great progress and achieved great achievements. The ability to guarantee production and life has basically achieved leapfrog development from scratch. However, there are still many shortcomings in infrastructure construction, which have formed prominent constraints on the improvement of production and living conditions, and have formed many obstacles to the change of the structure of urban and rural areas, industry and agriculture. In the face of the second centenary goal of building a great modern socialist country in an all-round way and the people's ever-growing needs for a better life, we must start the modern infrastructure construction project as soon as possible.

The problem of unbalanced and inadequate development of China's comprehensive transportation is still prominent. The layout of the comprehensive transportation network is not balanced, the structure is not reasonable, and the connection is not smooth enough, and the intercity and urban (suburban) railways in key urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas have obvious shortcomings. Industrial chain supply chain support capacity is insufficient. Flood control capacity, agricultural water-saving irrigation, urban water supply and drainage, water-saving projects, etc., still need to be strengthened, and water security risk prevention and control, water resources carrying capacity improvement, water ecological environment protection and other basic capacity building tasks are heavy. The layout planning of urban underground space lags behind, and the construction of underground space facilities, especially underground pipe network facilities, lags behind significantly. The urban waterlogging problem is prominent, and the safety accidents caused by the aging of underground pipelines increase significantly. Problems such as insufficient capacity of urban solid waste classification and treatment facilities, unbalanced regional development, hidden environmental risks of landfill facilities, and imperfect management systems and mechanisms are still prominent. China's energy security capability still needs to be comprehensively strengthened, and its energy clean utilization capacity still needs to be comprehensively improved. To sum up, China's infrastructure system still has many shortcomings and many hidden risks, which restricts the guarantee and improvement of people's livelihood. It restricts the improvement of agricultural production capacity, the development of modern industrial system and logistics system, and the guarantee of industrial chain and supply chain. In order to stabilize growth and ensure people's livelihood, the capacity of the infrastructure system must be improved at a faster pace.

The unbalanced development of China's infrastructure system (including public service capacity) is a prominent weak link that restricts the promotion of new urbanization. The responsibility for building infrastructure systems (including public service capacity) is mainly borne by governments at all levels. Therefore, the comprehensive financial resources, which are restricted by factors such as administrative level and economic development level, determine the level of construction and development of each city's infrastructure system (including public service capacity). Those big cities with high administrative level and high level of economic development, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, have a relatively high level of infrastructure system construction and development (including public service capacity). In the large cities located in the east and south (including quasi-first-tier cities and second-tier cities), the construction and development level of the infrastructure system (including public service capacity) is generally higher than that of similar cities in the west and north. In general, the first - and second-tier cities are higher than the third - and fourth-tier small and medium-sized cities. This pattern has seriously restricted the development of small and medium-sized cities and the formation of urban agglomerations that complement the functions of large cities (central cities). 

The constraints on the development of western and northern urban agglomerations are more serious, and all kinds of enterprises in small and medium-sized cities strongly reflect that there are serious difficulties in the introduction of talents at different levels, mainly reflected in the obvious lack of public service guarantee ability such as education and medical care. Recruiting talents from big cities and central cities such as Xi 'an, Wuhan and Shenzhen, and the difficulties and problems encountered in the process of transferring talents to small and medium-sized cities are more prominent. Some companies have to set up research and development institutions in places like Shenzhen. If this problem is not solved, it will be difficult for the new type of urbanization with urban agglomeration as the main model to move forward smoothly. The process of new industrialization, urbanization and agricultural modernization will be hindered, and the potential for structural change on which China's medium - and long-term economic development mainly depends will not be fully released. Therefore, accelerating the construction of an urban infrastructure system (including public service capacity) with a reasonable layout, comprehensive guarantee and generally consistent level is of great significance for the smooth promotion of new urbanization and the full release of the medium - and long-term development potential of China's economy.