Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks while addressing a New Year gathering held here by the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Xiang Ligang, a smartphone expert and CEO of telecom industry website Cctime, said this is a push by smartphone vendors to fight for their future cash cow. App-related revenue will constitute an increasingly larger proportion of smartphone companies' overall sales.
Xinhua and Zhang Yunbi contributed to this story.
Xiang Ligang, director-general of the telecom industry association Information Consumption Alliance, said there is a good chance that Google's Android will remain inaccessible for Huawei this year and hence must work hard to support its in-house alternative.
Xu Haiyun, chief engineer of the China Urban Construction Design and Research Institute, said the planned ban demonstrates the central government's strong determination to curb pollution from imported solid waste, which is quite encouraging, but he added "implementation may be not easy".
Xing said the proportions of body parts and form of the feathers indicated it was a very young and highly advanced hatchling, adding that the unusually detailed feathers revealed unexpected diversity in primitive birds.
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Xu Bin, industrial and infrastructure analyst in UBS Securities, also said that transportation, especially the railway sector, will have strong prospects in following years as more rail lines are built.
Xin Guobin, vice-minister of industry and information technology, said the trade situation is likely to deteriorate as the epidemic spreads.
Xinhua reported on Monday that one Chinese had been killed, five were missing and another five injured, citing the Chinese embassy in Sri Lanka.
Xinhua and Zhang Zhihao in Beijing contributed to the story.