Chinanews.com, Beijing, December 17th (Reporter Li Jingze) The "Borderland Blue Book: China's Frontier Development Report (2022)" released on the 17th pointed out that from 2020 to 2021, China's border areas will accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, and the industrial structure will continue to optimize. Benefits gradually increased.

  Overall, the Blue Book states that the proportion of the primary industry in border areas has been decreasing year by year, the proportion of the secondary and tertiary industries has increased year by year, and the proportion of the tertiary industry is the highest.

Among them, the secondary and tertiary industries of Liaoning, Yunnan, and Guangxi provinces (regions) are developing fastest and have the greatest potential.

The primary, secondary, and tertiary industries in Tibet, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and Hainan are relatively lacking in development and have relatively large room for development.

  The blue paper believes that in the critical period of the century-old major changes and the critical stage of building the "Belt and Road Initiative", China's border areas conform to the development needs of the times and actively undertake the role of important hubs and linking platforms for opening up and the "Belt and Road" construction, which has an important strategy significance and unique value.

  Specifically, the Blue Book points out that from the basic framework of the “Belt and Road” initiative, it can be seen that China’s border areas, whether land or sea, are the key implementation parts of the “Belt and Road” initiative. The line of fit and the original endpoint of China's construction of the "Belt and Road" with neighboring countries.

The six corridors of the Silk Road Economic Belt are all extended from the original endpoints of the nine border provinces of China.

Various ports and ports dotted along the coast and along the border are important interfaces and passages for the implementation of the “Belt and Road” initiative.

  The Blue Book also points out that China's land and sea areas are frontiers and cooperation areas for China to build a community of shared future with neighboring countries. The unique location advantages determine the unique role of China's frontier areas in the construction of the "Belt and Road".

In addition, many cross-border ethnic groups in China live in the border areas, which provides convenient cultural conditions and valuable resource advantages for cultural exchanges for the "Belt and Road" people-to-people bonds.

  According to the blue paper, greening is a new trend for China's frontier regions to participate in the "Belt and Road" construction.

Within the framework of the "Belt and Road Initiative", green industrial parks have been built in China's border areas.

For example, the Lanzhou New District has introduced a number of major projects aimed at leading the development of a green economy.

The projects that have been launched so far include comprehensive utilization of hazardous solid waste, resource utilization of electrolytic aluminum ash and aluminum slag, comprehensive utilization of waste salt resources, warehousing and logistics, etc.

  The blue book is jointly released by the China Frontier Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Social Science Literature Publishing House.

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