West China still struggling
By Tan Yingzi | China Daily | Updated: 2009-07-14 07:42
Workers lay rail track in Dazhou, Sichuan province. The government has invested heavily in West China on infrastructure projects in an attempt to close the economic gap between the West and China's wealthier provinces. Cao Ning |
Despite massive exploitation of its natural resources and efforts made via the Go West Campaign, the economy of West China still lags behind the rest of the nation, experts said as the latest Blue Book of the Western Region of China was released.
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