Xi sets out eight major tasks for officials

President Xi Jinping delivering an important speech at a meeting to advance the work on coordinating the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus and economic and social development, in Beijing on Feb 23, 2020. - Xinhua

BEIJING: President Xi Jinping set out eight requirements at a key meeting held on Sunday (Feb 23), including taking more targeted tax-cut measures and stabilising employment, to resume the nation's economic activities in an orderly way.

Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech at the meeting on coordinating the prevention and control of novel coronavirus pneumonia and economic and social development.