CHINA-INTERNAL: STATE COUNCIL LEADING SMALL GROUP FOR DEVELOPING WESTERN REGIONS MEETS

PRC Premier Li Keqiang chaired a meeting of the State Council Leading Small Group on Development of Western Regions on August 20. Others who attended were: Vice-Premiers Han Zheng, Sun Chunlan and Liu He, State Councilor Wang Yong, Secretary General Xiao Jie, Minister of the National Development and Reform Commission He Lifeng, and Bater, Minister of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission.The meeting agreed that the Western regions need to "accelerate the construction of large-scale channels such as the Sichuan-Tibet Railway and the Chongqing-Kunming Railway.” It also decided that "at the same time, western regions should also promote the construction of such backbone networks as electricity, oil and gas, and information.”  It also decided to increase support from the government and said western regions need to also actively attract private capital through deepening reforms.





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