Liaoyang to fire up development with petrochemicals

Liaoyang, a landlocked city in northeast China's Liaoning province, is stepping up its efforts to become a world-class center for petroleum and chemical production in the near future.

Speaking on the sidelines of the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC), which concluded on Tuesday, Tang Zhiguo, an NPC deputy and mayor of Liaoyang, said that the city has highlighted the development of the petrochemical industry as a "breakthrough" for its economic growth.

"We will firmly seize the development advantages of the city cluster in the central part of the province in the 'Five Points along One Line' development strategy of Liaoning," Tang said.