Chinese leadership reviews measures on the Western region’s development
The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on Friday to review policies and measures to open up a new vista in the large-scale development of the western region.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, chaired the meeting.
The meeting urged focused efforts to pursue well-coordinated environmental conservation, large-scale opening-up, and high-quality development, and move faster to create a new pattern of development to elevate overall regional strength and sustainable development capacity.
Efforts should be made to deepen reform comprehensively, further unleash and develop productive forces, boost the vitality of society, and blaze a path of Chinese modernization that suits the realities of the region, according to a statement released after the meeting.
The meeting also called for developing specialty industries that leverage local strengths, enhance technological innovation capabilities, and promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries.
The meeting stressed efforts to promote high-level environmental conservation, build a beautiful western region, thoroughly control pollution, and advance green and low-carbon development.
It urged the Western region to enhance the openness of the economy, strengthen the guarantee capacity of energy and resources, and promote the construction of clean energy bases.
According to the meeting, measures will be taken to advance the new urbanization in accordance with local conditions, consolidate the poverty alleviation achievements, and ensure that there will be no relapsing into poverty on a large scale in rural areas.
The meeting also noted that a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation should be forged to safeguard ethnic unity and stability in border areas.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
