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Another flower field in Central China, this one in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province.

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Flower terraces at Kangjinyan village, central China
Xinhua | 2016-09-25 17:04:14 | Editor: Tian Shaohui

Photo taken on Sept. 25, 2016 shows flower terraces at Kangjinyan village in Zhangjiajie, central China's Hunan Province. (Xinhua/Wu Yongbing)

 

[Edison Chen]

Actually, the meaning of central China is diluted now. Shanxi belongs to north China in terms of geography and culture. Henan is north China by culture, 中原经济区 is also an important part of national strategy. Anhui is absolutely a part of 长三角。Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi belongs to 长江中下游经济区, another national strategy. The term, Central China no longer exists.

 

[JSCh]

Premier Li: Fast-track growth of central China
Source: Xinhua | 2016-12-08 00:16:29 | Editor: huaxia

BEIJING, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- China is publishing a five-year guideline on invigorating development of its six central provinces in advanced manufacturing, modern agriculture, new type of urbanization, further opening-up, as well as ecological conservation.

The new guideline was approved at the State Council's executive meeting on Wednesday. Premier Li Keqiang presided over the meeting.

"Our strategy to boost westward growth has not changed," Li pointed out. "Yet recently there has been a divergence in development between southern and northern China. Meanwhile, each of the six central provinces has its own conditions. It is necessary to improve coordination across regions so that the central region can truly play a pivoting role in China's economy."

China's central region comprises six provinces, including Henan, Shanxi, Hubei, Anhui, Hunan and Jiangxi. These areas have rich land and agriculture resources and are abundant in human resources while being well-developed industrial base.

The central government has placed heavy emphasis on the region's development. Premier Li has highlighted time and again on the area's rich potential, and the need for further reform and innovation to achieve sound growth.

He also pointed out in his government work report earlier this year that the government will improve the layout of development across regions and facilitate the rise of the central region.

The six provinces play an important role in maintaining China's growth momentum, he stressed.

China's previous guideline on central region's development, issued in 2006, has achieved significant results. Over the decade, the region has become China's heartland for food and energy raw material production, as well as a rising hub of modern manufacturing and transportation.

In 2015, the region contributes 20.3 percent of China's total GDP, while the figure was only 18.8 percent in 2005.

While China's economy is going through restructuring and industrial upgrading, the region now faces challenges in further retiring excess industrial capacity, reducing reliance on labor and investment, as well as technological innovation.

Reaching a higher level of development and better living standards calls for a set of measures, such as optimizing regional economic structure, nurturing new economic drivers, encouraging industrial upgrading, improving modern transportation infrastructure and new type of urbanization, as well as strengthening modern agriculture development. It also calls for giving priority to reform and innovation so as to invigorate potential from the market.

"While building itself into a key area for advanced manufacturing and urbanization, the region should also spare no efforts in developing modern agriculture and promoting agriculture of scale," Li stressed.

Market will play a decisive role in allocating resources, while the government plays a guiding role. Reform and innovation will be a key priority through the process, along with encouraging wider cooperation across regions, strengthening ecological conservation and improving people's living standards.

Proper control on coal mine production, seeking technological innovation for new economic drivers and boosting industrial upgrading will be the region's prioritized tasks, according to the guideline.

"The region should fully grasp its current momentum of growth, take further steps in opening-up and absorb more modern industries moving westward from the east," Li pointed out.

 

[ahojunk]

Plans will boost central region, official says
2016-12-10 11:12 | China Daily | Editor: Huang Mingrui

Workers test mobile phones at a plant in Wuhan, Hubei province. (Photo/China Daily)​

The six provinces that form central China are expected to catch up with the developed neighboring regions through supportive measures to attract investment and boost development of traditional industries, an official in the nation's top economic regulator said on Friday.

"The region has potential to catch up with neighboring developed regions, with detailed plans and key tasks set for the five-year period," said He Lifeng, vice-minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, referring to a guideline for 2016 to 2020 that the State Council approved this week.

The guideline specifically targets the central provinces of Henan, Shanxi, Hubei, Anhui, Hunan and Jiangxi.

It aims to turn the central region into the nation's major manufacturing base, a model for modern agriculture and urbanization, He said.

The central region has well-established industries such as mining, farming and agriculture processing, and it will receive more government support in industrial upgrading, in spurring the development of traditional industries and in building transportation infrastructure, He said.

The central government will help improve the region's level of opening-up, attract more investment and provide more market access for foreign investment, He said.

Adjacent to the rich and large coastal economies of Guangdong and Shandong provinces, the central region has developed quickly, but unevenly. It has lagged behind developed coastal regions, which have long benefited from the central government' opening-up policies.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, economic growth in five of the six provinces was higher in the first three quarters than the 6.7 percent national level, but the nation's coal base, Shanxi province, only a 4 percent growth rate.

Liu Shengjun, an economist at Lujiazui Institute of International Finance, said that invigorating the central region's development is important if the nation is to achieve more balanced growth with the economy stabilized, amid the downward economic pressure it faces while settling into the development phase of the new normal.

"Increasing the pace of urbanization would help the region upgrade its economic structure," he said. "The region has enough room to catch up."

The urbanization rate in the six provinces was 51.2 percent in 2015, 5 percentage points lower than the national level, according to the National Development and Reform Commission.

He added that improving public facilities, infrastructure construction welfare in the region stimulate the pace of regional urbanization.


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When the Chinese government plans for it, no doubt it will happen.
They have the track record.
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[TaiShang]

Central China to form transport hub for Belt and Road
By Wu Xiaobo | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-06-16

High-speed railways crisscross near the Zhengzhou East Station in Central China's Henan province. [Photo/Xinhua]

China's central area represented by cities such as Zhengzhou and Hefei will step up the construction of high-speed railway, trunk railway and highway to form a key transportation hub for the Belt and Road Initiative, according to a report by Economic Information Daily.

The central region plans to improve the high-speed railway network to connect Zhengzhou and Hefei with more cities in eastern and western China.

It will also build freight railway lines that will run from Central China cities to North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region and to the coastal regions in East China's Jiangsu province.

Meanwhile, it will speed up the construction of approved national highways and plan more regional and local highways.

Upon the completion of the transport infrastructure, the central region will be better connected with China's eastern coastal cities and western cities, through which it will be linked with international cities along the Belt and Road Initiative such as Luxemburg and Frankfurt.

The moves will not only boost the region's economic growth but also contribute to the development of the Belt and Road Initiative, said Gao Yuwei, a research fellow with the international financial institute of the Bank of China.

He said the region should build its competitive advantage in transportation, logistics and related industries to establish a unique position in the global value chains.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2017-06/16/content_29773143.htm

 

[AndrewJin]

Wuhan 2017

@TaiShang @Shotgunner51 @Mista @Han Patriot @GS Zhou @ahojunk @grey boy 2 @Godman

 

[AndrewJin]

汉口里
Old style Wuhan streets rebuilt in the suburb near the garden expo park

@TaiShang @Godman @Kaptaan @Bussard Ramjet @Echo_419 @Gibbs @DESERT FIGHTER @AViet @anant_s @Han Patriot et al

 

[Han Patriot]

汉口里
Old style Wuhan streets rebuilt in the suburb near the garden expo park

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I think the roof of the Southern Han architecture is too curvy, it does not flow like the Northern Imperial design.

 

[dy1022]

I think the roof of the Southern Han architecture is too curvy, it does not flow like the Northern Imperial design.

Sorry, we are part of Chu kindom

 

[JSCh]

China's huge optoelectronics lab takes shape
By Liu Kun in Wuhan | chinadaily.com.cn | 2017-11-29 15:54

The main structure of China's largest optoelectronics laboratory — which looks like a huge W from above — is completed in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Nov 27, 2017. [Photo by Pan Yanjun/chinadaily.com.cn]

The main structure of China's largest optoelectronics laboratory — which looks like a huge W from above — was completed in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Monday. It's 300 meters at its longest point and 80 meters tall.

The lab, which will study electronic devices and systems that source, detect and control light rays, is expected to cost 430 million yuan ($65.1 million). The project started on Jan 9 and is scheduled to finish in August.

Qiu Weiyi contributed to this story.

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[TaiShang]

JD launches robot courier station in central China city

Xinhua Published: 2018-11-23

A robot courier is seen at e-commerce giant JD.com's first robot courier station in Changsha city, Hunan Province, on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018. [Photo: 163.com]

China's e-commerce giant JD.com on Thursday launched its first robot courier station in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province.

The delivery station covering 600 square meters has a team of 20 robot couriers, serving customers within a range of 5 km from the station.

Liu Xiangdong, director of JD's autopilot center, said the robots can handle 2,000 deliveries a day.

JD has been promoting the use of robot couriers in a number of Chinese cities including Beijing.

The company said earlier this year that it has worked with Chinese robot maker Siasun to develop logistics robots and increase automation from order to delivery. It will renovate 800 logistics centers nationwide with AI technologies in the next five years.

Robot couriers are seen parking at designated areas at JD.com's first robot courier station in Changsha city, Hunan Province, on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018. [Photo: 163.com]

"We look to establish an intelligent system covering storage, delivery vehicles, distribution stations, and customer service. In the future, human couriers will sit in the office and monitor machines that do the jobs for them," Liu Qiangdong, founder of the e-commerce company.

All the robots in the Changsha station have an autopilot, and can move at 15-20 km per hour.

Each robot is a moving cargo tank with 22 package slots. It can distinguish customers through facial recognition or passwords.

http://chinaplus.cri.cn/news/china/9/20181123/213715.html

 

[AndrewJin]

Wuhan 2018!

 

[TaiShang]

Wuhan 2018!

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Xiaomi begins with the construction of a new headquarters in Wuhan

Xiaomi has been able to build official headquarters in large cities in China, their country of origin, but thanks to a series of interesting trades agreements, the Asian giant has decided to create a new headquarters in a level 2 city, it is Wuhan. To be more exact, the company is beginning to build a headquarters in the central Chinese province of Hubei.

However, Xiaomi is not the only big company that is starting to move to smaller cities, because other companies like Huawei are also implementing this strategy change.

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Reasons for Xiaomi’s growth

There have been a number of reasons why Xiaomi has decided to build a new headquarters specifically in Wuhan, among which we can highlight the fact that previously the company already had the intentions of creating R&D headquarters due to the presence of several renowned universities in the region. However, now they also want to grant a total of 10,000 jobs on campus and likewise, have a headquarters that is able to focus solely on artificial intelligence. So much so, that the company’s CEO, Lei Jun, declared saying that “Wuhan is perfect for an R&D center because it is conveniently located in the center of China and has a large number of talents thanks to renowned universities located in the region. With plans to build a headquarters with up to 10,000 employees, Xiaomi wants to establish Wuhan as the new center in the AI era”.

This idea of the new headquarters is not something that was planned from one day to the next; Xiaomi has been conducting conversations for 2 years. In 2017, Xiaomi achieved a strategic partnership with the government of Wuhan, after which they managed to open several offices in the Optical Valley located in the city, and now the launch of the new headquarters is another step in this commercial strategy. However, this new HQ is expected to be complete in 2 to 3 years. After this, Xiaomi will begin a relocation plan for their employees with the same payment and a series of incentives, such as a bonus of 30,000 yuan to carry out the relocation and also the company will help employees to get a home in the locality.

This is only a small step for Xiaomi since they want to reduce the operating costs of large companies, and this is not the first time they have carried out a move of this type like other large companies.

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[TaiShang]

Central Chinese cities have strong growth potential: report

Xinhua, January 27, 2019

Central Chinese cities hold the most promising prospects for growth and business thanks to quickening urbanization and industrial development, reported a British think tank.

Central provinces of Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi dominated the top performers of the latest ranking of Chinese emerging cities by British think tank Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

Suzhou City in eastern China's Anhui Province came first thanks to strong gains in urbanization and metropolitan population, followed by Yueyang City in central China's Hunan Province.

The two cities have made steady progress in developing industrial economies as the Chinese government's plan to promote city clusters has provided policy tailwinds, the report said.

"Beyond the traditional megacities along the coast, third- and fourth-tier cities in central China are rising in economic importance and should be on the radar of China-focused businesses," said Wang Dan, a China analyst at the EIU.

The EIU's China Emerging City Rankings are based on a variety of indicators to measure growth, including real GDP, metropolitan population, urban consumption expenditure, foreign direct investment, fixed-asset investment, the urban built area and policy support.

http://www.china.org.cn/business/2019-01/27/content_74414030.htm

 

[JSCh]

C.China Hubei begins construction of 452 transportation projects
January 25, 2019

Abstract : The construction on 452 major transportation projects has begun in Central China's Hubei Province, with the total investment amounting to 54.68 billion yuan, according to chinanews.com.

BEIJING, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The construction on 452 major transportation projects has begun in Central China's Hubei Province, with the total investment amounting to 54.68 billion yuan, according to chinanews.com.

The projects cover five construction categories including six expressway projects, 53 artery highway projects, seven water transportation projects, 19 logistic station projects, and 367 highway projects in rural area of Hubei.

The total investment will be allocated as 21.49 billion yuan in expressway projects, 20.33 billion yun in artery highway projects, 7.61 billion yuan in water transportation projects as well as 4.6 billion yuan in logistic stations projects.

It is noted that Hubei completed investment in fixed assets of highways and waterways totaling 106.86 billion yuan in 2018, up 9.2 percent year on year, accounting for 125.7 percent of the province's annual target of 2018.

In 2019, Hubei is expected to invest 90 billion yuan in fixed assets of highways and waterways, to build the province into a traffic demonstration zone in China, according to Zhu Hanqiao, head of Department of Transportation of Hubei Province. (Edited by Jiang Feifan)