Beijing Review

36 BEIJING REVIEW APRIL 20, 2017 http://www.bjreview.com

BUSINESS

Partnership between:

Shenyang and Beijing

Dalian and Shanghai

Changchun and Tianjin

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Heilongjiang and Guangdong provinces

Liaoning and Jiangsu provinces

Jilin and Zhejiang provinces

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Changchun

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Northeastern Region Partnership With Eastern and Southern Provinces and Cities

Principles

The market operates freely

with the governmentís

guidance

Local governments play the

leading role under Central

Government support

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by highlighting each

otherís characteristics

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demonstrative role

Work plan for the partnership was released by the State Council in March.

Goals

To bear substantive fruits in the

partnership by 2020

To build a cooperation network

with governments, enterprises,

research centers and other social

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on a regular basis

To introduce tested and proven

innovative and reform measures

from the east and the south to the

northeast

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expertise in these areas and accumulated

experience in setting up joint ventures with

foreign companies could be learned by their

counterparts in other regions,î he said.

He also said that exchange of govern-

ment officials between the northeast and

more developed regions is of great signifi-

cance. ìMany problems in the northeast are

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Fu said that implementation of the new

work plan should be prevented from becom-

ing ineffectual.

ìThere were personnel exchanges in the

past, but they were nothing but a mere for-

mality. This time, sincere exchange of proven

and tested development concepts should be

guaranteed in order to ultimately change the

northeastern regionís outdated models of

growth,î he said.

More to do

Over recent years, the Central Government

has issued a number of plans to revive the

northeast. The regionís development lost

steam in the 1990s because of Chinaís

An automated workshop of the Shenyang Machine Tool (Group) Co. Ltd. in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province

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