Xi to Liaoning: Rely on reforms

President says SOEs should be innovative

President Xi Jinping urged Northeast China on Tuesday to depend on the real economy and push forward supply-side structural reform to revitalize the region's economic growth, which has slowed in recent years with overcapacity cuts in heavy industries.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks at a panel discussion with lawmakers from Liaoning province during the ongoing annual session of the country's top legislature.