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19 June 2010
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Romance of The Three Zones
In
the beginning, China has Pudong (浦东新区) to be allocated for
developing a new economic powerhouse
model, which is up running now and serves
as the financial and commercial centre
for the southern China in general and Yangtze dealta in particular. After the
coastal area of Tianjin (滨海新区) followed suit and has
been designated as the second powerhouse
for the northern China, yesterday morning
a region in the outskirts of Chongqing (重庆) becomes the third
powerhouse (两江新区) leading the development
progress of China's vast western provinces, according to Chinese
news agency. The total area of the new
economica zone is said to be up to 1,200
km2, with 550 km2
available for urban development.
A tripartite balance of
powerhouses:
The Romance of the Three Zone-doms
About
two thousand years ago, this area was the
base for the Shu Kingdom (蜀国) with China's legendary I Ching master and military strategist Zhuge Liang as its prime minister. Shu was one of the three
Kingdoms that featured in one of the four
greatest Chinese novels of all time: Romance
of The Three Kingdoms (《三国演义》).
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