Jingxi City carries out development, opens-up strategy to build regional central city

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 28 -- The 18th China-ASEAN Expo was recently held in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

During the expo, Jingxi City signed five projects with the merchants, with a total investment of more than RMB 29.4 billion, according to the Publicity Department of Jingxi City in a statement. (RMB100 = RM64.79)

At the investment promotion conference of China-ASEAN Expo, the main leaders of Jingxi stated that the city would strengthen support for foreign trade and local processing enterprises.

It would also promote the construction of standard factory buildings for commodity processing and the gradual transformation and upgrading of mutual trade to local processing, expand the total amount of foreign trade, and energetically develop local processing.

The city would strive to create a first-class government, legal, cultural, market and social environment to provide quality services for entrepreneurs.

Jingxi is one of the important land passages connecting southwest China to southeast Asia, which borders Vietnam with a 152.5km long border. It has Longbang first-level port, Yuexu second-level port and 4 front trade markets.

In recent years, Jingxi has done a great job in border trade, poverty alleviation, tourism, and urban construction, and made breakthroughs in border development and opening-up.

In the next few years, Jingxi will further implement the ‘Five Strategies’ of development and opening-up, rural revitalisation, industrial city development, holistic tourism, and urban quality improvement.

The city will promote the high-quality development of the Jingxi Leading Area of Guangxi Baise Key Development and Opening Pilot Zone, development of the demonstration and leading area of border stability, security, prosperity and wealth, and construction of ‘two districts and one city’ as the regional central city of China-ASEAN cooperation.

-- BERNAMA