Shanghai and the entire delta region should not only provide quality products but also serve as a source of high-level technologies to support China's high-quality development.

-Excerpts from Xi's speech at the symposium on advancing integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta on August 20, 2020

Integrated approach and measures should be taken to break administrative barriers, enhance policy coordination, and enable the smooth flow of production factors on a larger scale.

-Excerpts from Xi's speech at the symposium on advancing integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta on August 20, 2020

The delta region should take the lead in forming a new development pattern that takes the domestic market as the mainstay and allows the domestic and foreign markets to boost each other.

-Excerpts from Xi’s speech at the symposium on advancing integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta on August 20, 2020

While the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and other regions have embarked on the track of quality development, some northern provinces have slowed down in growth. As a result, the national economy has further leaned towards the south.

-Excerpts from Xi's speech at the fifth meeting of the Committee for Finance and Economy under the CPC Central Committee

Imbalances are common, and we should pursue a relative balance between regions—this is a dialectical approach to coordinated regional development.

-Excerpts from Xi's speech at the fifth meeting of the Committee for Finance and Economy under the CPC Central Committee

Yin Zhi, Professor with the Institute for China Sustainable Urbanization, Tsinghua University

Three agglomerations, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, have become the engines of China’s urbanization.

 

 

 

 

Sources: Xi Jinping: The Governance of China (III), Xinhua News Agency, and Beijing Review