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China’s Go West plan

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China launches new Go West development drive to counter post-coronavirus geopolitical risks

China announced a new Go West plan on the eve of the annual National People’s Congress in May, calling for development of central and western provinces. Illustration: Henry Wong

China is looking to its western regions to help steady the economy amid friction with the US and potential isolation in the post-coronavirus world.


Can Xi Jinping revive China’s dream of turning its poor west into an economic powerhouse?

In May, the Chinese government announced a new Go West strategic blueprint to develop its western hinterlands. Illustration: Henry Wong

(160411) -- BEIJING, April 11, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on July 4, 2014 shows terraced fields in mountainous area of Dingxi City, northwest China's Gansu Province. China has perfected the art of building terraced fields as an effective way to preserve water and soil, and had a long history of terracing the ridges for high-yield cropping. (Xinhua/Wang Song) (ry)

Beijing’s new Go West blueprint is an ambitious plan to boost growth in China’s west, but experts say it will face the same challenges as previous strategies.


China’s Go West plan fails to capture imagination of foreign firms suffering from ‘regional development plan fatigue’

Referred to as the Go West strategy, the plan will see Beijing attempt to corral investment into its lesser developed inland regions. Illustration: Brian Wang

China’s latest blueprint to bolster its western provincial economies has been met with indifference by foreign firms, fatigued by a series of regional development plans.


The Chinese government’s new Go West plan aims to develop the central and western regions of the country in response to growing challenges in the international environment


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China’s Go West plan

The Chinese government’s new Go West plan aims to develop the central and western regions of the country in response to growing challenges in the international environment

Can China’s new Go West plan succeed where its predecessor failed?

China is looking to its western regions to help steady the economy amid friction with the US and potential isolation in the post-coronavirus world.

China’s west is still declining, can they fix it?

Beijing’s new Go West blueprint is an ambitious plan to boost growth in China’s west, but experts say it will face the same challenges as previous strategies.

China’s Go West plan fails to capture the imagination of foreign firms

China’s latest blueprint to bolster its western provincial economies has been met with indifference by foreign firms, fatigued by a series of regional development plans.