Sun Yingxiang: Improve the Infrastructure Network to Support the New Journey of Modernization | Opinions of Yangtze IDEI Scholars on the Report of the 19th CPC National Congress (29)

Release time:2017-11-12Author: Sun Yingxiang

It is of great significance for us to improve the infrastructure network in the aspects of meeting people's ever-growing needs for a better life, deepening the supply-side structural reform, solving the imbalanced and insufficient problems of development, and providing support for the modernization process.China's infrastructure construction has experienced an extremely difficult process of "fixing weak links". The inevitable requirements to improve the infrastructure network in the new era are as follows.1. The people's ever-growing needs for a better life.2. The internal requirements of infrastructure construction.3. The main content of deepening the supply-side structural reform.The key contents of improving the infrastructure network are as follows.1. Improve the comprehensive transportation infrastructure network and enhance the level of interconnection.2. Implement the strategy of "Broadband China" and apply information technology to improve the infrastructure network.3. Improve the development structure of infrastructure, ensure that it is inclusive, basic, equitable and sustainable, promote the coordinated development of the infrastructure areas, and improve the spatial layout.4. Improve the infrastructure network such as water conservancy, pipeline and so on, and promote the construction of smart city.The main measures to promote the construction of infrastructure network are as follows.1. Adhere to the guidance of planning, and promote the construction of infrastructure network as a whole.2. Implement preferential policies to fix weak links and improve connectivity through major projects.3. Apply information technology to promote intelligent infrastructure.4. Promote the construction of comprehensive transportation system and hubs.5. Deepen the reform of the investment and financing system and operation mechanism for infrastructure construction, expand effective investment, and optimize the investment structure.6. Accelerate the green, low-carbon and circular development of infrastructure.