A Delta’s New Vision
Sep 03, 2020
4 minutes
By Yuan Yuan
Copyedited by Rebeca Toledo
It occupies less than 4 percent of China’s land mass, but produces about one quarter of the nation’s GDP. The Yangtze River Delta, which has spearheaded China’s economic development for over three decades, is exploring a new development pattern amid grave and complex domestic and international circumstances.
When the government decided to set up the Shanghai Economic Zone to promote regional economic coordination in the early 1980s, the Yangtze River Delta city cluster comprised only 10 cities: Shanghai, four cities in Jiangsu Province and five cities in Zhejiang Province, all adjacent to Shanghai. Since then, the cluster has been expanding.
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