Full text: Report on national economic, social development

4. We will earnestly implement all plans and policies for promoting regional development and make development among regions more balanced.

1) We will intensely promote the large-scale development of the western region. We will promptly formulate guidelines for thoroughly carrying out the strategy for large-scale development of the western region (2010-2019) and introduce plans for implementing them in a timely manner. We will continue to launch a number of key projects to develop infrastructure and improve people's well-being, build upon progress in returning farmland to forests, improve the policies for returning grazing land to grasslands, establish sound mechanisms to compensate for ecological damage and resource depletion, and carry out demonstration projects for ecological conservation. We will promptly formulate development plans for the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone and other areas. We will promote the development of experimental zones for developing and opening up major border cities and towns.

2) We will comprehensively revitalize northeast China and other old industrial bases. We will support mergers, reorganizations, technological upgrading and independent innovation in key enterprises and industries. We will foster and expand industries that can take advantage of local strengths, further promote sustainable development of resource-dependant cities, accelerate development of modern agriculture, and vigorously develop modern service industries such as tourism and logistics. We will energetically press ahead with development of the coastal economic belt in Liaoning Province and the Changchun-Jilin-Tumen development and opening up priority zone. We will formulate plans to protect the ecology of the forests in the Greater and Lesser Hinggan Mountains and transform their local economies.

3) We will effectively boost development of the central region. We will conscientiously implement the plan for energizing development of the region, formulate specific policies and measures to support its development, and draw up plans focusing on development of three different types of production bases and a system of integrated transportation hubs. We will speed up the formulation of development plans for specific areas, such as those to promote economic and social development in the Danjiangkou Reservoir area and its upper reaches. We will introduce and implement guidelines for encouraging industries to relocate to the central and western regions.

4) We will energetically support the eastern region in taking the lead in development. We will effectively implement existing development plans, policies and measures for key areas, including the Pearl River Delta area, and quickly formulate and implement development plans for the Yangtze Delta area, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area and the economic zone in Fujian Province on the west coast of the Taiwan Straits. We will work on the guidelines for promoting development of the marine economy. We will energetically encourage the eastern region to make innovations in systems and mechanisms, and optimize and upgrade industries so that it can participate in international competition and cooperation in all areas.

5) We will increase regional cooperation. We will strengthen overall planning and coordination in areas such as development planning, industrial distribution, infrastructure development, ecological improvement, environmental protection and public services, in order to promote both division of labor and cooperation between regions so that they complement each other better. We will intensify efforts to support development of the old revolutionary areas, ethnic minority areas, border areas and poor areas, and increase government spending and improve basic public services there. We will increase support to ethnic groups with small populations. We will continue to implement the program to develop border areas and improve people's lives there. We will work hard to ensure the eastern and central regions provide assistance to designated areas with financial difficulties in the western region. We will accelerate development of the development priority zones.