Ambitious blueprint set out for Chengdu-Chongqing

The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council issued a guideline on Wednesday regarding the construction blueprint of the Chengdu-Chongqing city economic circle over the next five to 15 years, highlighting its role in promoting regional growth.

The guideline, covering about 15 cities in Sichuan province, requested that Chongqing and Chengdu should better leverage their strength, and catalyze synergized development.

Efforts should be made to encourage the effective flow and clustering of industry, population and other productive factors, and to help the Chengdu-Chongqing rim formulate an economic city circle, with substantial growth capacity and prominent features.

The region is expected to become an important and innovative growth driver for the country's high quality development.

It was made clear in the guideline that the region should harness its comparative advantage, and develop the economic circle into a hub for technological innovation, and a prominent place for reform and opening-up with global influence.

The goal is that by 2035, an urban development system allowing big, medium and small-sized cities to grow more mature, and helping the inter-connectivity of basic infrastructure, will have been realized.

In addition, a science and technical innovation hub with national influence will also have been established.