City to clean its air, upgrade industries

Tianjin aims to upgrade the city's manufacturing and substantially improve its environment by 2020, according to a blueprint released on Tuesday to implement the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integrated development plan.

According to the plan, Tianjin will become a national research and development base for the advanced manufacturing industry, a shipping hub for north China, a demonstration area for financial innovation and an experimental area for further reform and opening-up.

Tianjin has set the goal of increasing the share of advanced manufacturing in its industrial output to 70 percent by 2020, according to a document published in Tianjin Daily on Tuesday.