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Xiao Gang, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, former chairman of China Security Regulatory Commission, said that China has the unique advantage to combat COVID-19 in the economic way, which is the potential of a super-large scale market, representing by the large quantity of labor force, middle-income groups, new graduates and new-born populaltion on yearly basis. In terms of financial indicators, with comprehensive range of industrial products covering the whole industrial chain, the added value of China’s manufacturing industry has exceeded $4 trillion. The scale of stock market, bond market and private equity market rank second around the world, and China has high levels of national savings rate, abundant foreign exchange reserve, large numbers of assets for SOEs and state-owned financial enterprises. All of these above constitute the large potential of China’s market. He also referred to two ways to unleash the potential, one is to expand increments and the other is to activate the existing stock. For increments expansion, urbanization, digital transformation and infrastructure construction should be accelerated to exploit new demands and new supplies. As for the existing stock, more measures should be taken to increase activation, such as allocating state-owned assets to supplement social security insurance, speeding up reforms of SOEs, expanding REITs to real estate and so on. He also stressed the importance and necessity to well use the potentials to convert short-time stimulus to long-term productivity.