Regional economic planning in Jiangsu

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Updated: 2006-05-25 11:33

In accordance with the general objectives for octopling the GDP under the basis of 1980, achieving a relatively conformable life for the people in the whole province and basically bringing about the modernization in certain areas by the year of 2000, the overall framework of the economic layout in our province by the year of 2000 is to concentrate our efforts on the development of the areas along the Yangtze River and to formulate a new and hi-tech industrial belt along the railway between Shanghai and Nanjing.

Among these areas, economic zones concentrated with new and hi-tech industries will be established mainly composed of steel, petrochemicals, power, construction materials shipbuilding and other new and high technological industries.

It is also planned to speed up the construction of the coastal economic belt by exploiting its shoals, marine and biological resources, mainly concentrating on the construction of ports, railways, highways and waterways; to actively construct the economic belt from Xuzhou to Lianyungang by concentrating on the development of heavy chemicals and inshore industries and high-efficient and foreign-exchange-earning agriculture; and to speed up the development of the economic axis of the Great Canal in Northern Jiangsu with the exploitation of coal, petroleum, iron ore, rock salt, gypsum and other mineral resources, readjusting the industrial structure and actively expanding the foreign-exchange-earning agriculture and building the bases of non-staple food of urban areas.