Economy

China to boost more balanced regional development

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-10-28 14:21

BEIJING - China will strive for more balanced regional development and urbanization in the next five years, according to a Communist Party of China (CPC) guideline document released Wednesday.

The document, the CPC Central Committee's Proposal for Formulating the 12th Five-Year Program for China's Economic and Social Development (2011-15), was adopted at the Fifth Plenum of the 17th CPC Central Committee.

The proposal stressed that China would aim for more coordinated development between regions and continue to push forward urbanization in a positive and sound manner.

Priority should be given to development in the western regions, and regions mainly inhabited by ethnic groups should receive stronger policy support, said the document.

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The country should also speed up the development and opening up border areas, enhancing the construction of international corridors and border cities to enrich local residents, said the document.

China would strengthen poverty alleviation work, targeting old revolutionary base areas, ethnic regions, border areas and poverty-stricken areas in the next five years, it said.

The urbanization pattern would be improved with enhanced urban management, including better household registration and housing management, it said.

Great importance would be attached to building a regional development pattern that enabled regions to make their advantages complementary with main functions clearly defined.

It said the building of a resource-saving and environment-friendly society would be accelerated, and ecological conservation promoted.