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CHONGQING, China, Jan. 18, 2021 /Xinhua＝KYODO JBN/--

On January 15, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality held a press conference

on turning Liangjiang New Area into a region with high-quality life and

development, according to Chongqing Liangjiang New Area Management Committee.

As the third state-level development and opening-up new district in China and

the first of its kind in the central and western regions, Liangjiang New Area

has been developing for 10 years.

With less than 1.5 percent of Chongqing's area, it contributes about 15 percent

of Chongqing's total economic volume, industrial output value and added value

of digital economy, as well as 30 percent of the municipality's total actually

utilized foreign capital and trade volume.

The press conference offered detailed introduction of the guideline issued last

November to boost the area's high-quality development, which is designed to

help make Liangjiang New Area an inland opening-up portal, smart city in

Chongqing and a pilot area in high-quality life and development.

Specifically, by 2025, high-end and high-quality high-tech industries will

gather at an accelerated pace, while innovation and entrepreneurship will enjoy

full play. The area is expected to take the lead in development and opening-up

in west China, with enhanced smart governance capabilities. A number of

influential modern industrial clusters will be formed, with upgraded industrial

foundation and modernized industrial chains. The area's GDP aims to exceed 500

billion yuan (about 77.15 billion U.S. dollars) by 2025.

The guideline is set to help Liangjiang New Area expand new frontiers and

inject strong impetus in seeking high-quality development. According to a

senior official with the area's management committee, Liangjiang will continue

to remain Chongqing's main frontier of development, growth engine and vanguard

with focus on six aspects.

Liangjiang will speed up the construction of the core place of the sci-tech

innovation center as well as the high-quality development of the real economy,

especially advanced manufacturing. Big data innovation and deepening reforms

are highlighted in a bid to make a leading smart city and a demonstration zone

for institutional reform. The pace will pick up for the building of an

important inland opening-up gateway and the construction of an international,

green, smart, cultured modern city.

Chongqing Municipal Development and Reform Commission will support and promote

the introduction of major national industrial projects in Liangjiang to help

the area build a national demonstration zone for high-quality development in

manufacturing industry, a national demonstration zone for industrial

transformation and upgrading, and a demonstration base for new industrial

industries. At the same time, Liangjiang will explore more open and convenient

talent introduction policies to create a special zone of innovation and talents

by drawing on the strengths of global talents.

For more details, please visit: http://www.liangjiang.gov.cn

Source: Chongqing Liangjiang New Area Management Committee