Xuzhou-Lianyungang Economic Belt in Jiangsu

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Updated: 2006-05-25 11:33

Xuzhou-Lianyungang economic belt includes two municipalities of Xuzhou and Lianyungang with nine counties and county level cities under their jurisdictions. Both land and population there occupy about 20% of the whole province's.

During the 9th Five-year Plan period, the main targets of the development of Xuzhou-Lianyungang economic belt are to expand rapidly its economic volume so as to double 1995's GDP; to strengthen the development of agricultural and industrial bases, so as to construct basically a modern farming production base and form a embry of heavy industrial belt; to make a rapid development of the tertiary industry so as to set a layout which includes massive circulation, alarge market and great trade; to greatly improve the development of city construction and urbanization so as to obviously strengthen the comprehensive strength and leading place of center city; to enhance obviously the economic opening level; to make a progress in the management of Huaihe water pollution so as to improve the environment conditions; by the year of 2000, to achieve a relatively comfortable life for the people in Xuzhou-Lianyungang, establishing Lianyungang as an international communication port and Xuzhou as a metropolis of commerce and trade, and forming a new prospect of economic springing up.

After entering the 21th century, Xuzhou-Lianyungang economic region will continuously carry out a number of main projects to further accelerate the construction of Xuzhou-Lianyunagang economic belt. By the year of 2010, the GDP will reach over RMB *465 billion with a growth rate of 15% annually in ten years, and the GDP per capita will be 35, 000 yuan, near the average level of the province's. It will basically construct a modern farming base, a heavy industrial base with steel, chemical, machinery and construction material as the pillars, and a modern complex communication system in all sorts of transportation ways. It will practise basically to achieve city's modernization and rural urbanization, making the Xuzhou-Lianyungang economic belt become a junction for uniting with inside and importing form outside in Longhai-Lanxin economic region.