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China Daily | Updated: 2014-05-07 07:12
Balanced development needed
Comment on "Xinjiang hopes to prove that the west is the best" (China Daily, April 30)
The central government hopes the Special Economic Zone in Kashgar would replicate the success of Shenzhen, China's first SEZ, despite being in the notso developed Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in western China. True, Shenzhen has transformed from a fishing village to a wealthy and glitzy city. But like every other developed city in China, it has paid a price for that transformation in terms of the environment.
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