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Chinese economy centering on three city groups

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The annual Yearbook of China's Cities, which was compiled by nearly hundred experts and scholars domestic and overseas, indicates that the future Chinese economy is tending more and more toward centering on three city groups in Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta and Bohai Bay region. In the near future these three city groups will grow into economic spaces exercising strong influence.

The (2002-2003) Yearbook of China's Cities made its debut on March 1. Organized by China Association of Mayors, it is a work jointly compiled by nearly hundred first-rate experts domestic and overseas. Those who took part in the compilation include Jiang Zhenghua, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of NPC, academicians Wu Liangyong and Zhou Ganshi, Niu Wenyuan, counselor of the State Council, academician at Third World Academy of Sciences, director and chief scientist of the Sustainable Development Research Group of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

At the ceremony for the first publication of the yearbook Jiang Zhenghua said China's city development is similar to that of the world except that the GDP of the three city groups makes up only 38 percent of the country's GDP, which means their potential to accumulate and make wealth has not been fully tapped and appropriate measures should be taken to push them towards that direction. However, he also pointed out that the development and profound impact of city groups will come to show in the decades to come.

Niu Wenyuan said the strategic shift from single-city development to city-group development is an inevitable choice for China in realizing its new cycle of wealth accumulation. It will help achieve the complementary effect among the economies of different cities and speed up the removal of the urban-rural dual structure. On the one hand it will relieve the urban heat island effect from a biological point of view and on the other it can help facilitate the full blending of cultural variations. He pointed out that in the future China must stick to the development of the three big city groups, which have global competitiveness and make them the "motive force" for the new wealth-accumulation cycle.

Niu Wenyuan said, as regards the unbalanced development levels of the three city groups the development of the Pearl River Delta is tending towards maturity. The Yangtze River Delta has by and large come to make itself felt to certain extent while the Bohai Bay region still remains the slowest in its development having only an elementary structure. For them to grow faster, full support should be thrown to with a series of clear-cut policies for developing them into major city regions and groups in the national strategic urbanization planning.

Niu Wenyuan said by 2020 China will be able to generate 2/3 of its GDP only on 3 percent of its territory, and come to form three city-groups in their true sense of a global importance among the world powers and a strategic carrier for China's wealth accumulation

By People's Daily Online

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