China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country's top economic planner, has recently outlined plans for building the Bohai-rim region, which show three development axes and two belts.
The Bohai-rim region connects China's northern, northeastern and northwestern regions, and it includes not only the coastal areas but also the border areas, which has great growth potential and could be a new engine of China's economic structuring.
An official from the NDRC said the region will be based on several city clusters and key transportation belts. The Bohai-rim region covers Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Liaoning, Shandong, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, with a total area of 1.86 million square kilometers, a population of 314 million and annual GDP of 18.5 trillion yuan.
The three development axes are Shenyang-Beijing-Shijiazhuang, Beijing-Tianjing-Huhhot-Xinjiang and Qingdao-Jinan-Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan, and the two belts are the opening-up belt along the seashore and the belt along the border.
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