Xi calls for accelerating building of world center for talent, innovation

Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed efforts to implement the strategy on developing a quality work force in the new era and to accelerate the work to build China into a major world center of professional talent and innovation.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks when speaking at a central conference on talent-related work, which was held on Monday and Tuesday.