IV. To Carry Out All Efforts to Propel the TBNA’s Development and Opening-up in an Earnest Manner

The promotion of the TBNA’s development and opening-up mainly relies on Tianjin’s own capacity and the enhancement of regional cooperation. Those involved departments of the State Council should take effective measures to provide support and assistance. Those relevant sides should strengthen guidance on the macro level and coordination for the promotion of the TBNA’s development and opening-up and establish necessary mechanisms of coordination and cooperation through discussion. The Tianjin Municipal Government should fully recognize that it is a long-lasting and arduous task to propel the TBNA’s development and opening-up. Therefore, it should make an overall analysis about the advantages and challenges to formulate a meticulous plan, make careful arrangement and concerted efforts for the purpose of advancing the TBNA’s development and opening-up in a smooth and orderly way and provide more effective services to promote coordinated regional development. It should further study, improve, and work out in detail the overall plan for the pilot project of comprehensive supporting reforms as well as the special plan for financial and land reforms etc, and put those plans into practice after obtaining approval according to relevant procedures. Those involved departments of the State Council should, according to this Suggestion, carry out in a down-to-earth manner the implementation of the requirements and accelerate the discussion and formulation of concrete policies and measures based upon the actual conditions of the TBNA. They should study carefully to resolve the new problems emerging in the TBNA’s development and opening-up and propose corresponding countermeasures.

To propel the TBNA’s development and opening-up is a great move for implementing the instructions of the 5th Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee and the outline of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan for national economic and social development. It is an important step to implement China’s coordinated regional development strategy. It is also a systematic program that involves a number of aspects. All relevant sectors should consolidate the conception of an overall development strategy of the whole China, reach a common understanding, perform full cooperation, strive to make innovations, make solid efforts, and work hard to create a new situation for the development and opening-up of the TBNA.

The State Council

May 26, 2006