|
|
NPC & CPPCC > Delegates Proposals
|
'Cross-Straits economic zone' proposedBy (Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-03-02 19:18 BEIJING -- Chinese political advisors have called for accelerated efforts to build a "cross-strait economic zone" covering Taiwan and the mainland's coastal provinces, which they said would become a new engine of growth for the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. Sources at the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomingtang (RCCK) said the proposal would be submitted to the Second Session of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which is due to open here Tuesday afternoon. The proposed economic zone would cover the southern part of Zhejiang Province, eastern Guangdong, central and eastern Jiangxi, and the entire Fujian Province and Taiwan. Such an economic zone was in line with the trend of economic globalization and regional integration, and was made possible by the warming ties across the Taiwan Straits, according to the RCCK sources. RCCK is one of the eight non-Communist parties in China. According to the proposal, the economic zone would fuel the economic development in Taiwan and the mainland's coastal regions, and become another engine of economic growth, just as other major economic zones in China such as the Yangtze River Delta, the Zhujiang River Delta, the Beibu Bay and the Bohai Rim Economic Zones. The RCCK proposed that the "cross-Straits economic zone" should enter the national economic development plan as a major strategy. It proposed both two sides on the Taiwan Straits to promote economic cooperation and division of labor through dialogues, and to set up inter-city links between Wenzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou and Shantou on the mainland, with Taiwan's Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, and Tainan, in the pursuit of mutual benefits and development. The RCCK also called for stepped-up support to the economic zone on the western side of the Taiwan Straits, which included the coastal cities of Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and Fuzhou on the mainland, by offering more favorable policies and funding, and speeding up traffic infrastructure construction. According to the Ministry of Commerce, the trade volume between the mainland and Taiwan in the first 11 months of 2008 reached $122 billion, an 8.4 percent rise year-on-year.
An editorial of the People's Daily has called on China's top political advisory body to made due contributions to help the country weather through difficulties.
|
       |
基隆市| 班戈县| 辛集市| 迭部县| 上饶市| 右玉县| 阜新市| 乌鲁木齐市| 云安县| 宜章县| 闽侯县| 疏勒县| 潜江市| 柳河县| 南溪县| 体育| 荆州市| 平乡县| 嵊泗县| 泌阳县| 阿勒泰市| 芮城县| 铁岭市| 武隆县| 大姚县| 明星| 绥中县| 哈尔滨市| 沈丘县| 兴城市| 斗六市| 延边| 陆河县| 会泽县| 城口县| 唐山市| 南昌县| 云阳县| 咸丰县| 大新县| 白朗县|
