Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei join forces
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INTENSIVE efforts are being made to draft an integrated development plan for Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Province, a senior official with China’s top economic planning body said yesterday.
“Drafting of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Coordinated Development Program has advanced as we, together with other ministries, have completed a research report,” Fan Hengshan, deputy secretary general of the National Development and Reform Commission, told a press conference.
The neighboring areas are faced with problems in coordinating development, Fan said. Beijing is overpopulated and overloaded with functions, and there is no clear delineation of roles and functions in the three locations, he told reporters.
The Beijing urban development program involves an area of 216,000 square kilometers, has a GDP of over 6 trillion yuan (US$1 trillion) and a population of 100 million.
The program explores new urbanization models for Beijing as people flood into the capital seeking better education, medical care and jobs. There are also too many cities and townships in a region choked by uneven development, water shortages and pollution.
Fan said: “We will try to make it as soon as possible while ensuring the quality of the program.”
The program will be drafted to solve the problems of integrated development, reassessing and redefining the functions of the three localities in infrastructure, industrial upgrades, environmental protection, public services, and market system building, Fan said.
Another aim of the program is efficiency of systems in the region, setting an example for national transformation and institutional transition.
Fan’s statement came three months after President Xi Jinping called for coordinated development of the region around Beijing.
The idea of a regional cooperative bloc is not new in China. Shanghai’s Yangtze River Delta and Guangzhou’s Pearl River Delta have brought economic booms to their cities thanks to coordinated industrial and commercial partnerships.
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