China’s Xi calls for building unified market to ‘secure an edge’ in global race

President Xi Jinping has called for more efforts to develop a unified domestic market, arguing that it will be crucial to helping China secure an edge in international competition and meet its development goals.

In an article published on Monday in Qiushi, the ruling Communist Party’s leading theoretical journal, the Chinese leader listed six key tasks, with measures to deal with excessive cutthroat competition at the forefront.