Overall planning, strategic mission of Changchun New Area

The three-step strategy of Changchun New Area

The first step: establish a national-level new area with an open and innovative industry system;

The second step: apply to be a pilot free trade zone to play a major role in the world economy;

The third step: comprehensively build Changchun New Area into China's new window to the world by exploring economic rules and policies that meet the needs of the pilot free trade zone.

Responsibility and mission

• An important platform for the implementation of China's Belt and Road Initiative and other national strategies

It is necessary to speed up the construction of land and maritime transport channels to make cities of Changchun, Jilin and the Tumen River area well integrated into the Belt and Road Initiative.

With the pilot free trade zone as a center to gather resources from larger areas, it is also necessary to bring in more value-added activities to make China a stronger driving force in the global value chain, and also to explore the rules under the new world economic pattern that could help China to be more open.

It is especially important to integrate resources in Northeast Asia, explore the development of innovation-driven industries and international cooperation models that could add more trade value.

Changchun New Area's missions also include promoting economic, social, cultural and ecological cooperation in Northeast Asia, establishing an open industrial system that is well connected with the global value chain and playing a pioneering and exploratory role as requested by national strategies.

Changchun is considered a key city in the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor of the county's Belt and Road Initiative.

The construction of the new area could help build up a main transport channel between China and Europe to enable Jilin province to integrate into the northern part of the Belt and Road Initiative.

In Changchun New Area's efforts to establish itself as a major trade hub, a priority will be the construction of a new airport and inland port to promote regional cultural exchanges, industrial cooperation and economic and trade.

The new area will also construct a land transport corridor and two sea transport corridors between China and Europe. While integrating into the Belt and Road Initiative, it will also encourage cooperation with Europe and North America.

The new area's advantageous location will enhance its contact with Hunchun, which has been a portal for the opening-up of trade exchanges with Europe and North America to guarantee its status as an international inland port and integrated logistics hub.

• Changchun New Area will build three corridors in accordance with the Belt and Road Initiative.

With the construction of the land transport corridor between Europe and Northeast Asia, it also will be connected with Europe through a high-speed railway.

While regular trains from Changchun to Germany via Manzhouli are already in operation, a 9,800-kilometer-long road and sea corridor that starts in China, and goes through Mongolia and Russia is under construction. It will take 14 days in transport time.

The sea route will take about 27 days to reach Europe via the northern channel that starts from Hunchun and eventually goes across the Arctic Ocean, and 36 days via the southern channel through the Indian Ocean.

The northern channel is 5,000 km shorter than the southern channel and could save nine days' travel.

The northern channel will be the shortest sea way to Europe for the new area and the Changchun-Manzhouli-Europe channel will be the most efficient and cost-effective land corridor. The accelerated construction of the three corridors will help the new area to integrate itself into world economic development.