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Jingzhou Has Met its New Chance from the Uplift to National Strategy of Yangtze River Economical Bel
Updated: 2014-05-21 14:32:47

 


Chinese prime minister Li Keqiang pointed out in this year’s government work report “build Yangtze River economical belt relying on this golden waterway”, establishing Yangtze River economical belt building as a national strategy. State associated ministries and committees, as well as the provinces and municipality along Yangtze River all go into action to response to this policy. What chances will be brought to Jingzhou, a city sitting along this golden waterway? How can we turn the chances into the impetus to its development?
Overlooking Yangtze River, with 483 kilometers long riverbank, it is like the waist of a huge dragon, meandering past 8 counties and cities of Jingzhou, which flourished on its waterway transportation. Since Shashi City opened its market in 1895, the paddles and sails have witnessed its prosperity, also making Jingzhou a witness and microcosm of historical transition of the Yangtze River's golden waterway.
Every province and municipality along Yangtze River keep exploring and trying to make full use of Yangtze River golden waterway. As early as 1980s, Hubei Province set up provincial development and openness strategy along Yangtze River economical belt. In 2008, Hubei government also put forward a strategy of “Two circles and one belt”, among which “one belt” means “Yangtze River economical belt”.
On the new background of pushing coordinated development of regions, expanding domestic demands, and promoting economical transformation and upgrade, Yangtze River economical belt, as the bond of coordinating the west, the middle and the east regions, attracted a considerable appreciation and support of national leadership and for the first time was written into this year’s government work report. Right now NDRC and Ministry of Transport are drawing up “Instructions of Building National New Economical Support Belt Relying on Yangtze River”, accelerating economical construction along Yangtze River. Since last year, national senior leaders and associated ministries have made intensive investigation of this belt. Hubei lies in the middle stream of Yangtze River, while Jingzhou sits in the middle part of Hubei, so building Yangtze River economical belt is significantly important for Jingzhou. Secretary of Hubei provincial party committee Li Hongzhong, and provincial governor Wang Guosheng instructed to grasp the chance of the central party and the State Council’s high attention to Yangtze River Golden waterway building, pay concerted efforts to promote middle stream channel improvement and golden waterway building, make full use of Yangtze River navigation benefit to push the development of provincial economical and social and openness of Yangtze River economical belt.
Yangtze River economical belt comprises of 9 provinces and municipalities such as Yunan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Shanghai according to the latest planning. The strategically orientation of Yangtze River basin is relying on urban agglomerations of Yangtze river delta, mid-Yangtze river and Sichuan and Chongqing, make stronger the three navigation centers--Shanghai, Wuhan and Chongqing, advancing the development of the interior area of the up and middle streams, promoting the openness of the two ends of the waterway--Shanghai and China-Pakistan and China-India-Burma economical corridors, to ultimately expand China’s development space and form a new transformed and upgraded economical support belt.

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