China will boost development of its central region in line with its strategy
to promote coordinated development of various regions, according to a top-level
meeting held on Monday.
"We should further cultivate a new scenario featuring interaction between the
eastern, central and western regions and common development," said a statement
from the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
Central Committee, chaired by the committee's General Secretary Hu Jintao.
There were calls for efforts to build the region into a major grain
production base, a base of energy and raw materials, a base of modern equipment
manufacture and new and high-tech industry and a comprehensive transportation
hub.
"The central region will develop through acting as a link between the eastern
and western regions and taking advantage of its strengths in certain sectors,"
said the statement.
Advantages of the central region come from its location, natural resources,
industrial pattern and human resources.
The CPC Central Committee and the State Council have adopted a strategy to
encourage the eastern area to take the lead in development, carry out
large-scale development of the western region and invigorate Northeast China and
other old industrial bases.