China Western Development

The development program for the West of China (Chinese西部 大 开发, Pinyin XIBU Dàkāifā, English Western China Development Program ), literally " The Great Development of the West", was proclaimed by the People's Republic of China in January 2000, to there, the infrastructure in the following areas to improve: transport, hydropower, energy and telecommunications.

Are supported:

  • The six provinces of Gansu, Guizhou, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan,
  • The five autonomous regions, Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet and Xinjiang and
  • The direct-controlled municipality of Chongqing.

In this region (71.4% of the Chinese mainland ) live 28.8 % of the population ( as of 2002), only 16.8 % of GDP, generating (as of 2003).

Projects

Traffic

  • The Lhasa railway connects the Chinese province of Qinghai to the Tibetan capital Lhasa
  • Chongqing elevated railway

Hydropower

The East China requires a lot of energy to be delivered among other things of hydroelectric power plants in the west of China. On the Mekong originates in the Yunnan province a cascade of eight dams on a stretch of 800 km ..

See also

  • Go- West Campaign
Autonomous regions of China Tibet Autonomous Region Qinghai–Tibet Railway
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