Beijing can lighten its own burden by helping neighbors develop industries

AT A RECENT CONFERENCE, President Xi Jinping emphasized the need to free Beijing from some functions that have little to do with its being the capital, and the need to coordinate the development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province as a greater region. Comments:

Experts have long pointed out the need to shift some enterprises from Beijing to neighboring regions. The problem is, considering the inferior social welfare and insufficient policy support in Hebei province, which entrepreneur is willing to move? In order to free Beijing from its burdensome functions, it is necessary to boost the economic development of neighboring regions first, and let the residents there enjoy their deserved shares of the fruits of common prosperity.

Beijing News, Feb 11