President Xi Jinping, accompanied by local officials, talks with staff members of the research and development department of China FAW Group Co about State-owned enterprise reform during his inspection tour of Changchun, Northeast China's Jilin province, on July 23, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]

Strategy urged in Northeast to help revitalize industry

President Xi Jinping has highlighted the need to make the economy more competitive, innovative and able to resist risks as part of efforts to further bolster the real economy, especially the manufacturing sector, and improve the level of entire industrial chains.

Xi also urged steps to follow a new development philosophy and fully carry out the strategy to revitalize the country's northeastern area in a meeting with officials of Jilin province on Friday, wrapping up his three-day inspection tour of the province.

In promoting high-quality development of the economy, it is important to further reforms in the quality, efficiency and impetus of economic growth, said Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission.

Xi urged stronger measures to develop new types of infrastructure and quicker steps to establish integrated innovation platforms between enterprises, universities and research institutions.