Liaoning strives to achieve comprehensive revitalization: governor

Northeast China's Liaoning Province pledges to make more efforts for the comprehensive revitalization to recapture its vigor, said the governor of the province Li Lecheng at a press conference in Beijing on Tuesday.

Liaoning is located in the country's former heavy industry heartland.

Last year, according to Li, the province's GDP grew by 5.3 percent, surpassing the national growth rate for the first time in a decade.

In the first quarter of 2024, Liaoning's growth rate increased to 5.4 percent, demonstrating even stronger resilience, vitality and creativity in high-quality development.

The governor said efforts will be made in four aspects to achieve comprehensive revitalization in province, including developing new quality productive forces, making breakthroughs in deepening reform and opening up, consolidating advantages in promoting green development, and improving the well-being of the people.

"First, we will strive to excel on the development of new quality productive forces. We will rely on the advantages of scientific and educational resources to accelerate the creation of regional science and technology innovation centers with national influence. We will focus on the four trillion-yuan-level industrial bases of advanced equipment manufacturing, petrochemical and fine chemicals, new metallurgical materials, and high-quality characteristic consumer goods, striving to transform the 'largest variable' of scientific and technological innovation into the 'largest increment' to promote high-quality development," Li said.

"Second, we will strive for new breakthroughs in deepening reform and opening up. We'll continue to improve the business environment and comprehensively deepen reforms so as to promote high-quality development. Third, we will build our strengths in pursuing green development. The green, low-carbon and intelligent transformation of traditional industries is in full swing now. This year, the installed capacity of non-fossil energy will reach 50 percent [in the province]. Fourth, we will take active steps to improve people's well-being," he said.

Horgos Port, a major border junction linking China to Central Asia, handled over 38 million tons of goods in the first ten months of this year, marking a 10 percent year-on-year increase, according to the latest customs data.

Located on the border of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the port has played a pivotal role in the growing development of trade routes between China and Europe.

Data showed that from January to October this year, the main imported goods through the Horgos Port included electromechanical products, agricultural products, food items, and metal ores and sands. Exports mainly included new energy vehicles, electromechanical products, high-tech goods, textiles, and related products.