Xi's article on new development pattern to be published

BEIJING -- An article by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on accelerating the creation of a new development pattern will be published on Sunday.

The article by Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will be published in this year's eighth issue of the Qiushi Journal, a flagship magazine of the CPC Central Committee.

China is working to achieve modernization for more than 1.4 billion people, more than the combined population of all developed countries today. It is a task of unparalleled difficulty and complexity, so China must maintain a firm grasp on its development, stresses the article.

Only through accelerating the creation of a new development pattern can China lay a solid foundation for its economic development, enhance the security and stability of its development, and ensure that the course of national rejuvenation is not delayed or interrupted, according to the article.

While acknowledging China's solid progress and achievements in fostering a new development pattern, the article points out that there is much more work yet to be done to build a new development pattern in all respects.

It calls for accelerating improving the weak links in China's industrial and supply chains in a more targeted way to ensure the smooth flow of economic circulation and boosting the dynamism and reliability of the domestic economy to enhance China's competitiveness in the global economy.

The article says it is imperative to coordinate the implementation of the strategy to expand domestic demand with efforts to deepen supply-side structural reform and accelerate the pace to build self-reliance and strength in science and technology.

The article also stresses the importance of speeding up the building of a modern industrial system, advancing coordinated urban-rural and regional development in all respects, and deepening the reform and opening-up.