On October 23, the Information Office of Liaoning Provincial People’s Government held a press conference, presenting the approval of “the Jinzhou Developing Program for Regional Center City” and the province’s efforts to implement and promote it.

Jinzhou, a key port city in the Circum-Bohai Sea Area, serves as a hub connecting North China and Northeast China and a “gateway” to the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor. Building a regional center city is conducive to stabilizing local industrial and supply chains, lowering logistics costs, developing the city into a cradle and a home for emerging industries, and creating a new development pattern of circulations between domestic and foreign trade that serves the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region and Northeast China, and connects China-Mongolia-Russia and China-Japan-South Korea economic development. Based on the entire Jinzhou city, the program strives to build Jinzhou into a regional center city that drives the development of West Liaoning, facilitates the growth of Heilongjiang, West Jilin, and East Inner Mongolia, and cooperates with regional center cities of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region.

Jinzhou has been comprehensively creating a layout of city functions characterized by “one hub, two centers, and two pacesetters”. It will drive the surrounding cities to pool their strengths together, and facilitate transport connectivity, complementation of each other’s functions, industrial collaboration, joint construction and shared benefits of infrastructure, and extensive protection of the ecosystem among cities in West Liaoning. Moreover, Jinzhou has made coordinated efforts to advance the integrated development of ports, industries, and cities, the construction of a modern logistics hub system, the transformation and upgrading of Jinzhou Port, and the establishment of green energy bases, and created a new model of “passage + logistics + internet + industries”. By doing so, the city aims to grow itself into a national-level logistics hub.

Next, with a focus on industrial agglomeration, population concentration, and high-quality development, Jinzhou will further promote its industrial transformation, city transformation, and social transformation. Building upon this, in 2025, the city will enjoy more refined center city functions and possess a stronger capability for driving regional development. In 2035, the city will consolidate its status as a regional center city more than ever, better leverage its role as a crossroad at the West Liaoning Corridor when it drives the development of West Liaoning, facilitates the growth of Northeast China and East Inner Mongolia, and cooperates with the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, get involved in domestic and international circulations, and build new frontiers for regional opening-up.