As an important node in the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor, Shenyang in Liaoning province has given full play to its geographical advantages and participated in the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative to boost coordinated regional development and accelerate the reform of State-owned enterprises, local officials said.
Duan Jiyang, director of the Shenyang development and reform commission, said deep integration into the BRI will help Shenyang play its role in promoting the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor, facilitate economic globalization and develop a higher-level open economy.
Duan said the city will focus on building a high-level open platform, deepening its industrial docking with Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States.
It will also focus on channel construction, production capacity cooperation, economic and trade leaps, financial opportunities and technological innovation.
The city is strengthening transport in terms of "land, sea, air and network", realizing all-around interconnection and maintaining the status of a hub city in Northeast Asia under the BRI.
As the largest railway hub in Northeast China, Shenyang has main railway lines such as the Beijing-Harbin and Shenyang-Dalian routes and two China-Europe trains.
Shenyang has optimized the layout of inland ports, established cross-regional port-airline alliances and accelerated the construction of Shenyang's airport economic demonstration zone to make Shenyang Taoxian International Airport into an international hub in Northeast Asia. The Shenyang National Big Data Comprehensive Experimental Zone has accelerated the construction of key platforms such as the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other supercomputing and cloud computing institutes to promote the internet plus intelligent manufacturing, enhance foreign economic and trade cooperation and facilitate customs clearance and cross-border e-commerce.
Shenyang has also improved economic, political and cultural ties with the countries and regions involved in the BRI and brought new opportunities to local enterprises. Duan said at the second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in April 2019 that three projects including the health and medical diagnosis integration project carried out by Shenyang-based enterprise Neusoft Medical Systems were included in the list of major achievements at the forum.
Those projects mark the latest achievements in China's international cooperation.
Shenyang is deepening the structural reform of the supply side, promoting the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, and building an intelligent manufacturing center for advanced equipment in Northeast Asia. The city has carried out innovative research in key areas such as robots and new materials. The construction of the industry innovation system will lay the foundation for innovation and development of Shenyang's long-term development in Northeast Asia.
In terms of building Shenyang as a hub city in Northeast Asia, the city benefits from the BRI in many ways. Shenyang focuses on key countries and regions such as Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States, zoning in on leading industries such as automobiles and parts, high-end equipment, robots and intelligent manufacturing, new-generation information technology, and biopharmaceuticals to attract investment in the industrial chain.
It has attracted BMW, Renault, and General Electric and other leading enterprises to invest and promote the industrial chain of upstream and downstream enterprises.
Tao Guannan contributed to this story.
