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Northeast China to be revitalized for 4 industrial bases
By Shangguan Zhoudong (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2007-08-08 11:06
Northeast China, the country's aging industrial center, is to be the
focus of a new development program making it the home of four industrial
bases, according to the Northeast China revival plan, which has been
approved by the State Council, the country's cabinet, the Shanghai
Securities News reported today.
The bases will cover equipment manufacturing, new material and energy,
commodity grain and animal husbandry production, and research and
development of key technologies.
Areas in the plan involve Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang provinces,
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's Hulunbeier, Tongliao, and Chifeng
cities, and Xingan and Xilinguole leagues.
The area has a total population of 122 million and a land area of 1.45
million square kilometers.
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The plan is to improve Northeast China's development in equipment
manufacturing, including heavy machinery, computerized numerical control
machine tools, electric power transmission equipment, vehicle and spare
parts production, and rail transport equipment manufacturing, according
to Wang Guanglin, researcher with the Liaoning Provincial Academy of
Social Science.
"The establishment of these technological research and development and
innovation bases will be supported by manufacturing sector," Wang said.
The State Council also ordered relevant departments to strengthen
supervision, support, and implementation of the revival plan and create a
sound policy environment for the revitalization of the old industrial
bases.
However, Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang have drafted their-own plans
for the 11th Five-Year Program (2006-10) and different departments have
some special blueprints, said Liu Xiaonan, a researcher with the
provincial academy.
"Conditioned by administrative system, their plans lack cross-provincial
projects and regional coordination. The separate plans are also lacking
coordination," Liu said.
Officials from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said
the revival plan connects the special and regional plans to optimize
distribution of resources.
The State Council also pointed out that administrative division barriers
should be broken to promote reasonable allocation of resources and flows
of production requisites.
Different government organs, including the Northeast Revitalization
Leading Office of the State Council, the NDRC and China Development Bank,
began drafting the plan in May, 2005.
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