Shanghai Urged to Take Active Part in Western China DevelopmentShanghai, China's leading industrial city, should actively participate in the development of the country's vast western region, according to Huang Ju, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee, during an inspection tour of North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.For Shanghai, the involvement in the development of the country 's hinterland is not only a responsibility but also an opportunity for the city to achieve further development, said Huang in Hohhot. Shanghai should increase economic cooperation with the provinces and regions in western China, and find new ways to realize common development and prosperity in the new century. Shanghai has had cooperative ties with Inner Mongolia since the 1960s. It signed 45 cooperation projects with the region last year, involving 1.1 billion yuan in total investment. During the inspection tour, Shanghai and Inner Mongolia reached agreements on 51 projects, at a total cost of 2.04 billion yuan. The two sides have decided to increase cooperation in infrastructure, resource development and utilization, engineering machinery, high technology, personnel training, commodity circulation, environmental protection and tourism. |
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