Big plan, a little fuzzy
The capital and its neighbouring areas are told to co-operate more
FROM the damming and diverting of mighty rivers to the building of huge new cities from the ground up, China’s government does not shy away from grand schemes. The Communist Party’s highest decision-making body has now signed off on another one: the integration of the capital, Beijing, with the nearby port city of Tianjin and much of the surrounding province of Hebei in a “co-ordinated development programme”.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Big plan, a little fuzzy”
China May 30th 2015
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