Liaoning is an important interface-link between the Chinese Northeastern Economic Zone and Bohai Economic Rim. It is located at the south of the Northeastern region of China; it faces the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea in its south, and looks over Korea and Japan across the neighboring shore. It is next to Jilin Province and contiguous with Hebei Province at its southwest end. It meets with the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at its western junction and looks over the North Korea at its eastern boarder along the Yalu River. Its profound historical culture also presents a strong presence in the prosperous Chinese national civilization.
With a solid industrial foundation, it has established an industrial system of a core industrial province in China with full variety of industrial categories, including metallurgical, electromechanical, petroleum, chemical and building materials industries as its leading sectors. It has perfect infrastructure, and it has basically formed a communication network with supports of ports, rails, highways, civil airlines and pipelines transportation. The railway length within the territory is about 5,000 km; the total road length is about 50,000 km, in which highway length is about 1,700 km; there are 5 civil airports providing more than 150 locally or overseas bound air-routes. There are more than 120 berths along the coastal seaport cluster and communicating to more than 150 countries and regions in the world.
In 2003, the central government started to implement the strategy of revitalizing the traditional industrial base in the Northeastern region; Liaoning has marched forward in the midst of the voice of clarion, footsteps of the opened economic development are being expedited, the opened concept of “wide opening, further business invitation, intense revitalizing, great development” has been fully exhibited, and the national economy is being launched into a high speed development.
In this new round of outward opening, the CPC Provincial Committee and the Provincial Government have brought up the actions of developing coastal economic belt according to the environment of Liaoning development and its unique advantages.
They fully make use of the geographical advantage, backed by ports and land resources and make full input into establishing“5-dot and 1-line” deployment (that is: the strategic concept of joining the Dalian Changxing Island Lin Gang Industrial Zone, Liaoning (Yingkou) coastal industrial base (including Panjin Marine Building and Repairing Industrial Park), Liaoxi Jinzhou Bay Coastal Economic Zone (including the Jinzhou Xi Hai Industrial Park and Huludao Bei Gang Industrial Park), Liaoning Dandong Industrial Park and Dalian Hua Yuan Kou Industrial Park that are all located along the coastal line of Liaoning). They hope to expedite the momentum of Liaoning Coastal Economic Zone construction, and to drive the speedy economic development of Northeastern region or even the Northeastern Asia through set up of Liaoning Coastal Economic Zone.
The new opened structure is to have Dalian as its driving engine, the central urban cluster of Shenyang as its hinterland, Dandong and Jinzhou as its two wings, and Liaoning shall be like a gigantic industrial vessel being driven by the strong revitalization of the Northeastern region, loads with bustling vitalities and sails towards a prosperous and harmonious destination.
Governor of People’s Government of Liaoning Province Zhang Wenyue