Relocation of Yangtze River Delta
The State Council, the country’s cabinet, lately passed a guideline to further push the reform and opening-up in the Yangtze River Delta region and promotes its economic and social development. The move shows the country’s intension to explore a new cooperated development model in the region. This takes place in the context of the tremendously changing international economic environment and of deepening domestic reforms in various aspects. It also demonstrates the government’s resolution to improve the overall economic quality of the delta which is the economic engine of the country and its international competitiveness.
An analysis of changes of China’s development strategy and its emphasis on the development of different regions will clearly indicate the country’s shift of focus in regional development. Its considerable efforts to promote development of the Pearl River Delta region in the 1980s, the Yangtze River Delta region in the 1990s and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei belt in the early 21st century advanced the progress of the coastal regions-first development pattern.
The country marked its strategy for a balanced regional development with its policy to rejuvenate the northeastern region, promote western development, reemergence of the central region and establish a comprehensive experimental zone along the southwestern Chengdu and Chongqing region.
Meanwhile, the regional integrating process has also speeded up within bigger regions. This went along with an accelerating integration between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, between Zhengzhou, Bianzhou and Luoyang in Henan province, between Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiantan in Hunan province, and between Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in coastal Fujian province.
The vigorous development of regional economy throughout the country is shaped up by the strong driving force of the country’s accelerating industrialization, its emerging information technology industry, urbanization as well as an on-going globalization in the world. This is also attributed to the establishment of the socialist market economic system, the introduction of the scientific view of the development and the striving for a harmonious society.
The government released in its latest guiding document that the push for reforms and opening-up in the Yangtze River Delta region and promoting its economic and social development will play a strategic and leading role in the construction of the country’s overall socialist modernization. Viewing its position in the country’s entire development plan, the region has to reach a scientific, harmonious and integrated development, the document says.
It also sets a series of aggressive goal for the region, leaded by Shanghai, the country’s economic and financial hub. For example, the region is guided to develop into the country’s strongest region with all strength, first realize regional integration, and set up an industrial structure with modern services as the mainstream sector. Also, the region is set to become an advanced manufacturing base in the world and spread to the entire Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and even to a wider region from its previous development belt of 16 key cities in the region.
To shape the Yangtze River Delta region into an important open entrance in Asia, an advanced manufacturing base in the world and a world-level modern city with a sharp edge over others, as described by the document, efforts should be made to actively explore a new regional economic development and management model under the new situations.
First, Shanghai, the leader of the Yangtze River Delta region, should play an active role in the promotion of a coordinated region development. At the same time, in the era of information and globalization, all cities, big or small, may be an important link in the world’s economic chain. Take Yiwu for example. It is a city in Zhejiang province which has now become world famous for its increasing daily wholesale volume. Shanghai should act as a modern world hub and help other cities to enhance their extent of opening to and communicating with the outside world.
Second, Shanghai should initial viable cooperation and interaction with other cities within the region in important fields hoping that they can achieve a win-win result in their march toward modernization. For instance, the regional cities should put more strength into the construction of the already developed transport network among them, which will be helpful in promoting the flow of talents within the region and its economic merger and integration.
The cities also should make efforts to promote division of labor and a more reasonable industrial distribution to help foster some advantageous industries or industrial compounds in different regions. For example, Shanghai can cooperate with its neighboring ports of Ningbo and Lianyungang to build a maritime group. Through its hosting of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, It can also build a trans-regional exhibition corporation.
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