China to facilitate modernization of industrial, supply chains

China will advance the optimization and upgrading of its entire industrial chain by making sector-specific strategic plans for supply chains in a targeted approach, according to the full text of the CPC Central Committee's development proposals.

Building on its industrial advantages, China will foster emerging industrial chains, push the high-end, smart and green development of traditional industries, and boost service-oriented manufacturing, said the document.

To strengthen weak links in the industrial and supply chains, more efforts will be made to achieve breakthroughs in developing important products as well as key and core technologies, while diversification of industrial and supply chains will be further enhanced.

The country will enhance international industrial cooperation and build industrial and supply chains that are more innovative, secure, reliable and higher value-added.

China to actively foster sound external environment

China will actively foster a sound external environment, according to the full text of the CPC Central Committee's proposals for formulating a new five-year development plan and long-range objectives.

China upholds an independent foreign policy of peace, said the document, which was made public on Tuesday.

China will promote fostering a new type of international relations and building a community with a shared future for mankind, it added.

It also highlighted defending the UN-centered international system and the international order underpinned by international law to jointly address global challenges.

China will actively participate in international cooperation to prevent and control major infectious diseases, the document said, adding that the country will promote the building of a global community of health for all.

China to advance infrastructure construction

China will advance the infrastructure construction in a coordinated way, according to the full text of the Party leadership's development proposals.

The country will build a systematic, highly efficient and practical, intelligent and green, and safe and reliable modern infrastructure system, according to the document.

China will speed up new infrastructure construction in fields like 5G, industrial internet, and big data center, improve comprehensive transportation channels, hubs, and logistics systems, and build more rail transit lines in city clusters and metropolitan areas, it said.

China will advance energy revolution by strengthening domestic oil and gas exploration and development, speeding up the construction of oil and gas storage facilities, and trunk oil and gas pipelines, building a smart energy system, and boosting the consumption and storage of new energy, it added.

The country will also beef up water conservancy infrastructure construction to optimize water resources allocation and improve flood and drought defense capability.