NPC Deputy Proposes Speeding up Development Along EurAsian Continental BridgeA Xinjiang NPC deputy called for efforts to rev up the development of the economic belt along the EurAsian Continental Bridge as part of the Great Western China Development StrategyMr. Guo Jiemin, director of the Urumqi Railway Administration in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, said at group discussions of the on-going session of the Ninth National People's Congress on Tuesday that the central government has invested heavily in the building and transformation of the EurAsian Continental Bridge since the 1990s, greatly boosting the hauling capacity of the major sections of the railway. The railway's hauling capacity is expected to be further raised with the anticipated completion of the Langzhou-Baoji double-track railway, he said. He urged the central government to work out development plans and corresponding policies and start a number of key projects along the railway. Some special zones may be demarcated for developing resources and agriculture and other specialized undertakings by using the capital, technologies and advanced managerial expertise from the eastern part of the country and from foreign countries to hasten the industrialization, urbanization and modernization in the areas, he said. He also mooted the idea of cooperating with big tourism companies to make full use of the tourism resources along the continental bridge to turn them into playlands. |
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