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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.

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.