With Changchun New Area and Harbin New Area as key development spaces, the Harbin- Changchun urban agglomeration will be constructed into an area that will have key competitiveness and influence in Northeast Asia by complementing each other’s advantages and cooperating for innovation and industrial support.

• The need to implement the Changchun-Jilin-Tumen River corridor’s opening-up and development strategy

To implement the Changchun-Jilin-Tumen River corridor’s opening-up and development strategy, Jilin province will build one corridor and three areas.

By developing the international transport channels that cross China to Mongolia and Russia, the Changchun-Jilin-Tumen River strategy will be stretched to eastern Mongolia and the far east of Russia, forming an international cooperation corridor that connects six Northeast Asian countries and three international cooperation zones.

A key international cooperation zone in Northeast sia will thus be established with Changchun New Area as its core.

• The strategy to make Changchun into a key city in Northeast Asia

It’s an important responsibility and mission of Changchun New Area to upgrade and transform urban areas. Changchun has set a goal of transforming itself into a key city in Northeast Asia.

It needs the new area to further enhance its functions in international services for changing itself from a key regional city into a key international city.

It must also participate more in the international specialization of industry, trade and services and promote its international influence to make itself an important platform serving the country’s economic transition.

Echoing the national strategy, Changchun New Area must shoulder the responsibility of leading regional development.

To this end, it needs to improve its competitiveness in Northeast China and even in Northeast Asia by establishing an open and innovative industrial system, a strategic platform that could serve the whole region and an international transport channel.

• Two centers, two industrial clusters and several industries with an output of 100 billion yuan ($14.5 billion)

China’s intelligent equipment manufacturing center: priority will be given to key spare parts, intelligent control systems and numerical control machine tools and basic manufacturing equipment, which are key parts of intelligent equipment manufacturing, to promote regional industrial competitiveness.

This will help to form several intelligent equipment industry clusters with output of several hundred billion yuan.

A green consumption center in Northeast Asia: Based on the area’s excellent ecological environment and superior resources, all the industry

chains of modern agriculture, sports, and health and pensions will be well integrated to establish a sustainable mechanism for green consumption.

With industry clusters in health-related food, manufacturing and services, there will be several industries with output of several hundred billion

yuan, including top-rate food and biological medicine.

Scientific arrangement

Changchun High-tech Industrial Development Zone, Changchun Beihu Scientific and Technological Development Zone, Changchun Airport Economic Development Zone and Changde Economic Development Zone are key forces in implementing the national strategy in Changchun New Area.

They are also modern urban areas that feature economic development, green ecology, and diversified cultural and intelligence management.

Changchun New Area also aims to build itself into a green and healthy city that boasts a spirit of diversified culture and innovation.