Shanghai teams up on plans with its neighbors

Shanghai is teaming up with seven neighboring cities in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces for collaborative planning in one of the latest efforts to further push forward the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta region.

The planning will focus on transportation, ecological protection and improvement, municipal infrastructure, the internet network, tourism and coordinated industrial development, a senior official of the Shanghai Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Administration said during the National Planning Conference 2018 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, from Nov 24 to 26.

Planning authorities in Shanghai and the other seven cities - Suzhou, Wuxi, Nantong, Jiaxing, Ningbo, Zhoushan and Huzhou - will work together to optimize the use of space in each city and construct a coordinated pattern at the regional level, said Xiong Jian, head of the master plan division of the Shanghai administration.