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    Upgrading Western Development

    Jun 04, 2020 4 minutes
    By Wang Jun
    Copyedited by Madhusudan Chaubey

    Chinese policymakers on May 17 issued a guideline on advancing the new pattern of western development in the new era, which calls for winning the “three tough battles” against major risks, poverty and environmental pollution, improving innovation capability and building a modern industrial system in the country’s western region.

    The development of the western region remains unbalanced and inadequate and lags far behind the eastern region, making it arduous to further reduce poverty. The western region is still a weak link in completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects and achieving socialist modernization, the guideline

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