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The East Coast
(with existing development programmes)
"Rise of Central China"
"Revitalize Northeast China"
"China Western Development"
China Western Development (simplified Chinese: 西部大开发; traditional Chinese: 西部大開發; pinyin: Xībù Dàkāifā), also China's Western Development, Western China Development, Great Western Development Strategy, or the Open Up the West Program is a policy adopted by the People's Republic of China to boost its less developed western regions.

The policy covers 6 provinces (Gansu, Guizhou, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan), 5 autonomous regions (Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet, and Xinjiang), and 1 municipality (Chongqing). This region contains 71.4% of mainland China's area, but only 28.8% of its population, as of the end of 2002, and 16.8% of its total economic output, as of 2003.

Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Strategy
2.1 Transportation
3 Effects
3.1 Recent developments
4 See also
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External links


[edit] History
Under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, the People's Republic of China began to reform its economy in 1978 by changing from a command economy to a market economy. The coastal regions of eastern China benefited greatly from these reforms, and their economies quickly raced ahead. The western half of China, however, lagged behind severely. In order to help the western half of China catch up with the eastern half, a Leadership Group for Western China Development (西部地区开发领导小组) was created by the State Council in January 2000, led by then-Premier Zhu Rongji.

[edit] Strategy
The main components of the strategy include the development of infrastructure (transport, hydropower plants, energy, and telecommunications), enticement of foreign investment, increased efforts on ecological protection (such as reforestation), promotion of education, and retention of talent flowing to richer provinces. As of 2006, a total of 1 trillion yuan has been spent building infrastructure in western China.

[edit] Transportation
The western development bureau affiliated to the state council released a list of 10 major projects to launch in 2008, with a combined budget of 436 billion yuan (64.12 billion U.S. dollars).

These projects included new railway lines connecting Guiyang and Guangzhou, Lanzhou and Chongqing, Kashgar and Hotan in Xinjiang; highways between Wanyuan and Dazhou in Sichuan Province, Shuikou and Duyun in Guizhou Province; airport expansion projects in Chengdu, Chongqing and Xi’an.

They also include the building of hydropower stations, coal mines, gas and oil transmission tube lines as well as public utilities projects in western regions.

By the end of 2007, China has started 92 key construction projects in western regions, with a total investment of more than 1.3 trillion yuan.[1]

[edit] Effects
China's western regions have reported an annual average economic growth rate of 10.6% for six years in a row. The combined GDP of western regions reached 3.33 trillion yuan in 2005, compared with 1.66 trillion yuan in 2000, while net income grew on average 10% for urban residents in the west and 6.8% for rural residents. [1] Part of the strategy involves encouraging Chinese from wealthier and more crowded regions of China to move to the relatively less crowded western regions. This has drastically increased the numbers of Han Chinese in traditionally non-Han cities such as Lhasa and Ürümqi. For example, at this moment 6.1% of the population in Tibet are of Han Chinese ethnicity. [2]

Environmental effects of the dam have been called into issue. There are worries that the construction of these dams will effect the ecosystems of rivers downstream in Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. [2]

[edit] Recent developments
Chongqing Metro
Qingzang railway, linking Lhasa and China proper
[edit] See also
Bohai Economic Rim
Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone
Northeast China Revitalization
Rise of Central China Plan
Economy of the People's Republic of China
[edit] References
^ http://rss.xinhuanet.com/newsc/english/2008-06/21/content_8413779.htm
^ http://internationalrivers.org/en/china/lancang-mekong-river
[edit] Further reading
Asia Times Online: Asphalt net covers China's west
China's Campaign to 'Open up the West'National, Provincial and Local Perspectives, The China Quarterly Special Issues (No. 5), Edited by David S. G. Goodman
[edit] External links
China Western Development Network
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