Giving New Life to an Old Industrial Base

Liaoning Province in northeast China has made great strides in revitalization over the past decade. According to a press conference on August 4, the province has grown stronger, its reform and opening up has deepened, people’s living standards have improved and so has its environment.

Liaoning is part of northeast China, which consists of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces, as well as five cities and leagues in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The region was an important industrial base after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. However, after reform and opening up began in 1978, northeast China gradually fell behind eastern coastal regions. In 2003, the Communist Party of China Central Committee