Changchun New Area reveals an overall plan for its development. There is an excerption of the plan.

Changchun New Area has three-step strategies. The first step is to establish a national-level new area with an open and innovative industry system. The second step is to apply to be a pilot free trade area to play a major role in the world economy. The third step is to comprehensively build Changchun New Area into China’s new window to the world by exploring economic rules and policies that meet the needs of the pilot free trade zone.

Responsibility and mission

• An important platform for the implementation of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and other national strategies.

It is necessary to speed up the construction of land and maritime transport channels to make cities of Changchun, Jilin and the Tumen River area well integrated into the Belt and Road Initiative.

With the pilot free trade area as a center to gather resources from larger areas, it is also necessary to bring in more value-added activities to make China a stronger driving force in the global value chain, and also to explore the rules under the new world economic pattern that could help China to be more open.

It is especially important to integrate resources in Northeast Asia, explore the development of innovation-driven industries and international cooperation models that could add more trade value.

Changchun New Area’s missions also include promoting economic, social, cultural and ecological cooperation in Northeast Asia, establishing an open industrial system that is well connected with the global value chain and playing a pioneering and exploratory role as requested by national strategies.

Changchun is considered a key city in the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor of the county’s Belt and Road Initiative.

The construction of the new area could help to build up a main transport channel between China and Europe to enable Jilin province to integrate into the northern part of the Belt and Road Initiative.

• Changchun New Area to build three corridors in accordance with the Belt and Road Initiative

With the construction of the land transport corridor between Europe and Northeast Asia, it also will be connected with Europe through a high-speed railway.

• An impetus for the further rejuvenation of Northeast China’s old industrial base.

Located in the center of the economic corridor in Northeast China, the new area will make full use of its location to gather talents, technology and funds to broaden its economic scale, upgrade its industrial structure and further promote the region’s rejuvenation.