Central Urban Work Conference Held in Beijing, Xi Jinping Delivers Important Speech

The Central Urban Work Conference was held in Beijing

Xi Jinping delivered an important speech, and Li Qiang made a concluding speech

Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, and Li Xi attended the meeting

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 15th The Central Urban Work Conference was held in Beijing from July 14th to 15th. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the meeting and delivered an important speech. Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, and Li Xi, members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, attended the meeting.

In his important speech, Xi Jinping summarized the achievements of China's urban development in the new era, analyzed the situation facing urban work, and clarified the overall requirements, important principles, and key tasks for doing urban work well. Li Qiang made a concluding speech, making specific arrangements for implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech and further improving urban work.

The Central Urban Work Conference was held in Beijing from July 14th to 15th. Li Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yue Yuewei

The meeting pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has profoundly grasped the laws of urban development in China under the new situation, adhered to the Party's comprehensive leadership over urban work, adhered to the principle that the people build the city and the city is for the people, adhered to the systematic planning of the city as an organic life, and promoted historical achievements in urban development. The level of new urbanization in China and the level of urban development, planning, construction, and governance, the level of livability and workability, the level of historical and cultural protection and inheritance, and the quality of the ecological environment have been greatly improved.

The meeting emphasized that the overall requirements for urban work for the current and future period are: adhere to Xi Jinping's thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era as guidance, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, fully implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on urban work, adhere to and strengthen the Party's comprehensive leadership, earnestly practice the concept of a people's city, adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, adhere to adapting to local conditions and providing classified guidance, with the goal of building innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized, and smart modern people's cities, with the theme of promoting high-quality urban development, with the main line of adhering to the connotative development of cities, with promoting urban renewal as an important starting point, vigorously promote urban structure optimization, kinetic energy transformation, quality improvement, green transformation, cultural context continuation, and governance efficiency enhancement, firmly guard the bottom line of urban safety, and embark on a new path of urban modernization with Chinese characteristics.

The meeting pointed out that China's urbanization is shifting from a period of rapid growth to a period of stable development, and urban development is shifting from a stage of large-scale incremental expansion to a stage dominated by stock quality improvement and efficiency enhancement. Urban work must profoundly grasp and actively adapt to changes in the situation, change the concept of urban development, pay more attention to people-oriented; change the mode of urban development, pay more attention to intensive and efficient; change the driving force of urban development, pay more attention to characteristic development; change the focus of urban work, pay more attention to governance input; change the methods of urban work, and pay more attention to overall coordination.

The meeting outlined seven key tasks for urban development: First, focus on optimizing the modern urban system by enhancing cities' comprehensive capacity to support population, economic, and social progress. This involves developing clustered, networked modern urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas, promoting county-level urbanization, continuing to integrate rural migrants into urban life, fostering coordinated development among cities and towns of all sizes, and promoting integrated urban-rural development. Second, concentrate on building dynamic and innovative cities. Nurture innovation ecosystems and achieve breakthroughs in developing new quality productive forces. Enhance urban momentum through reform and opening up, implement high-quality urban renewal, and leverage cities' pivotal role in both domestic and international dual circulation. Third, prioritize building comfortable and convenient livable cities. Integrate planning for population, industry, urban areas, and transportation to optimize urban spatial structure. Accelerate the development of a new real estate model, steadily advance the renovation of urban villages and dilapidated housing, vigorously develop lifestyle service industries, improve public service levels, and safeguard basic living standards. Fourth, dedicate efforts to building green, low-carbon, and beautiful cities. Strengthen ecological environment governance, implement more effective measures to address urban air quality, protect drinking water sources, and manage new pollutants. Promote synergistic pollution reduction, carbon reduction, and green expansion to enhance urban biodiversity. Fifth, commit to building safe, reliable, and resilient cities. Advance the construction of safety projects for critical urban infrastructure, accelerate the renovation and upgrading of aging pipelines, strictly limit super high-rise buildings, and comprehensively improve housing safety. Strengthen urban natural disaster prevention and control, coordinate urban flood control systems and drainage management, enhance overall social security prevention and control, and safeguard urban public safety. Sixth, strive to build civilized cities that promote ethics and goodwill. Improve the historical and cultural preservation and inheritance system, refine the urban style management system, and protect the city's unique historical context, human geography, and natural landscape. Strengthen the development of urban cultural soft power and improve the civic quality of residents. Seventh, endeavor to build convenient, efficient, and smart cities. Adhere to Party leadership, govern the city according to law, innovate urban governance concepts, models, and methods, utilize mechanisms such as citizen service hotlines, and efficiently resolve the urgent and challenging problems faced by the public.

The meeting emphasized that to build a modern people's city, we must strengthen the Party's comprehensive leadership over urban work. It is necessary to further improve the leadership system and working mechanism, enhance the synergy of urban policies, and strengthen the execution of all aspects. It is necessary to establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, establish and improve a scientific urban development evaluation system, strengthen the quality and capacity building of the urban work team, and encourage the vast number of party members and cadres to start businesses, take responsibility, and make achievements. We must adhere to seeking truth from facts and being pragmatic, and resolutely oppose formalism and bureaucracy.

The meeting pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech scientifically answered the major theoretical and practical questions of who urban development is for, who to rely on, what kind of city to build, and how to build a city, and provided fundamental guidelines for doing a good job in urban work in the new era and on the new journey. It is necessary to earnestly study and comprehend and implement them without compromise. It is necessary to deeply grasp the historical position of China's urban development, and do a good job in urban work with a broader vision; deeply grasp the goal and positioning of building a modern people's city, and consciously practice the people-centered development thought; deeply grasp the strategic orientation of urban connotative development, and more targetedly improve the quality of urban development; deeply grasp the inherent requirements of enhancing the driving force and vitality of urban development, and do a good job in the big article of reform and innovation; deeply grasp the systematic and complex nature of urban work, and focus on improving the ability to implement various tasks and deployments.

The Central Urban Work Conference was held in Beijing from July 14th to 15th. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the meeting and delivered an important speech. Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, and Li Xi, members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, attended the meeting. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi

Members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, members of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, relevant leading comrades of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, State Councilors, President of the Supreme People's Court, Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, relevant leading comrades of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, etc. attended the meeting.

The main responsible comrades of the party and government of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and the responsible comrades in charge of urban work, the main responsible comrades of the party committees of cities specifically designated in the state plan, provincial capitals, and relevant prefecture-level cities, relevant departments of the central and state organs, relevant people's organizations, some financial institutions, enterprises, and universities under central management, and the main responsible comrades of relevant departments of the Central Military Commission attended the meeting.

[Editor in charge: Liu Ziya]