Xi lays out priority tasks for urban development

In setting priorities for urban development and governance in the years ahead, China is emphasizing the need to build modern cities that are innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, culturally advanced and smart for the people, and to steer cities toward high-quality development.

At the Central Urban Work Conference, which was held in Beijing from Monday to Tuesday, policymakers called for concerted efforts to blaze a new path for the modernization of cities with Chinese characteristics.

President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, laid out the overall requirements, key principles and priority tasks for urban work at the meeting.