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Chengdu works to become a core area for western growth

China's State Council recently announced plans to develop the city of Chengdu, Sichuan province into a strategic interior area for an open economy as part of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) for Western Development.

The municipal Party Committee will have five strategic approaches in transportation, industry, new towns, improving older towns, and the integration of "three circles". The five employ a scientific understanding of national and global urbanization trends to deal more actively with the regional competition.

Chengdu gets Global Top 500 recognition

The capital of Sichuan province, in China’s southwest, has a long history, a beautiful environment, and rich culture and has long been known as a “Land of abundance” or Sichuan’s “Suzhou” or “Hangzhou”.

It got its start in mid-500 BC when the ninth emperor of the Kaiming Dynasty of the state of Shu moved his capital from Guangdu Fanxiang (today’s Shuangliu county) to Chengdu.

Tianfu New District means a golden investment opportunity for China

Chengdu’s Tianfu New District is an important place for developing both a regional center and a greater metropolis. It is expected to push the development of the city’s modern industries and to fuel the economic development of the entire west. The concept behind it shows its role in China and points toward a golden investment opportunity.

During the district’s planning and construction phase, Chengdu, Meishan, and Ziyang will increase cooperation and promote a “reshaping industrial Chengdu” goal.

Expert comments on the “open regional center and international city”

What exactly is “an open regional center and international city”? What does it mean and what’s so important about it and what’s the significance of Chengdu, to Sichuan province, western China, or the whole country, if it becomes an open regional center and international city?

These were some of the questions were posted for Li Houqiang, the Sichuan Social Sciences Academy Party secretary by the Chengdu Business Daily at a meeting on Feb 9, 2012. Li believes that Chengdu has all the advantages needed to develop into an open regional center and an international city but that it needs to emancipate its mind and thinking and develop a new perspective to reach that goal.

It is easy to imagine a Chengdu that produces a “butterfly effect” and plays a demonstrative, guiding, and driving role, a benchmark, when it becomes a regional center and international city.

A rich, strong western area means a rich, strong China

At the 10th Western China International Fair and Second Western China International Cooperation Forum in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan province on Oct 16, 2009, Premier Wen Jiabao spoke about developing western China on a large scale, with rapid growth in the economy.

"The government is resolved and will stick to its policy and make every effort in its Western Development Strategy because the level of development in the region will have an impact on China’s modernization, and the level of opening-up there will influence the breadth of the opening-up of the whole country," Wen pointed out.

The idea is to make fundamental changes in the relatively backward area to make its a new region with a booming economy, more advanced society, more stable life, beautiful environment, and wealthier citizens by the mid part of the 21st century, through hard work, as China modernizes more.