Chongqing urged to boost modernization

President says urban development should serve the people's interests

President Xi Jinping has called on Chongqing, China's largest municipality in terms of both land area and population, to bear in mind the principle that cities should be built by the people and for the people, and to actively explore new ways for the modernization of governance in super-large cities.

Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks during a three-day inspection tour of the municipality that started on Monday.

The trip, his third to the city since the 18th National Congress of the CPC in 2012, took him to a logistics park, a renovated urban residential compound and a digital urban operation and governance center, among others.