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<text>
<title>
Yang Rudai On Sichauan's Plan For Opening Up
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<article>
<hdr>
Joint Publications Research Service, August 24, 1992
China: Yang Rudai on Sichuan's Plan for Opening Up
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<body>
<p>By Xiao Longlian, staff reporter, "Yang Rudai Tells Overseas
Reporters About Sichuan's Opening Up to the Outside World"
[Beijing Zhongguo Xinwen She in Chinese, 1333 GMT 7 Aug 92.]
</p>
<p> When meeting with some overseas reporters, Yang Rudai, member
of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau and Secretary for
the Sichuan Provincial CPC Committee, said that Sichuan, as the
first province to start reform in China, will pursue the
strategy of opening along the "four lines," strengthen relations
with other localities in Southwest China, have a stronger urge
to open up, and form a new across-the-board pattern of opening.
</p>
<p> Yesterday afternoon, Yang Rudai met with reporters for
Chinese-language newspapers in the Philippines, Australia,
Thailand, and Singapore, and made the above remarks.
</p>
<p> He frankly admitted that at present, Sichuan still lags
behind the coastal areas in the aspect of opening up to the
outside world. The subjective cause is that they did not have
a strong urge to open up in the past, and objectively,
Sichuan's geographic situation in the interior, less favorable
transportation conditions, and lack of preferential policies
available to the coastal areas are also major reasons for
Sichuan's backwardness.
</p>
<p> Yang Rudai briefed the overseas reporters about Sichuan's
plan for expanding openness and quickening economic development.
He said that the minds of government officials at all levels and
the masses in Sichuan Province were once again emancipated after
the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee. We
shall strengthen cooperation with other localities in Southwest
China, effect openness along the rivers, along the railway
lines, along the coastline, and along the borderline, thus
forming a new pattern of jointly promoting across-the-board
openness.
</p>
<p> Yang Rudai said: In Sichuan, Chengdu and Chongqing are two
major cities with independent budgetary status in state plans,
and Chongqing has been named an open city along the bank of the
Chang Jiang. Chengdu now has also been allowed to enjoy the same
preferential policies as the coastal open cities to attract
foreign investment. With the starting of the Three Gorge
project, Wanxian Prefecture and Fuling Prefecture will also be
turned into open areas. From Jiangyou in the north to Emeishan
in the south, a belt has been allocated for building an economic
and technological development zone for attracting foreign
businessmen to run enterprises.
</p>
<p> He also revealed that in order to improve Sichuan's
transportation conditions, the state plans to invest 500 million
yuan to expand the Shuangliu airport into an international
airport. Railway, highway, and water transportation will all be
developed at the same time. It is expected that Sichuan's
transportation will be substantially improved.
</p>
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</article>
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