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IX. Refining the Regional Economic Layout and Promoting Coordinated

Regional Development

Coordinated regional development is essential for Chinese modernization.
We should give full play to the synergies between the coordinated regional

development strategy, major regional strategies, the functional zoning
strategy, and the new urbanization strategy, improve the distribution of major

productive forces, and ensure that key regions play their role as growth poles.
Our goal is to develop a regional economic layout and a territorial space
system that enable regions to leverage their complementary strengths in
pursuit of high-quality development.

28. Promoting more coordinated regional development
We should take solid steps to open up a new vista in the large-scale
development of the western region, achieve new breakthroughs in the full

revitalization of the Northeast, accelerate the rise of the central region, and
encourage the eastern region to modernize more quickly. We should promote
more coordinated development between the eastern, central, and western

regions and between the southern and northern regions.
We should consolidate and enhance the roles of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei
region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao

Greater Bay Area as engines of high-quality development. We should
continue to advance the development of the Yangtze Economic Belt and
ecological conservation and high-quality development in the Yellow River

basin. We should build Xiong’an New Area into a modern city through
high-standard, high-quality development and boost the development capacity
of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone.

We should encourage all regions to leverage their comparative
advantages and distinctive strengths. We should support major provincial
economies in assuming greater responsibility and encourage them to play a

leading, exemplary role in advancing Chinese modernization. We should
strengthen tailored policy support to promote the revitalization and
development of old revolutionary base areas, areas with large ethnic minority

populations, and border areas.
29. Boosting interconnected development between regions
We should advance the construction of major corridors between regions

and across river basins and strengthen regional infrastructure connectivity.

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