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Article: China forms three metropolitan areas as part of overall urbanplanning scheme
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- December 19, 2002
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China forms three metropolitan areas as part of overall urban
planning scheme
BEIJING, Dec. 19 (Xinhua)-- Three new metropolitan areas have
been established along China's long eastern coast in the northern,
central and southern regions, respectively.
The three metropolitan areas will serve as economic centers with
the aim of boosting the development of their surrounding areas.
The three areas include the group of cities around the Bohai Bay,
the Yangtze River Delta and the Zhujiang River Delta.
Nearly one hundred top-level experts and scholars from home and
abroad concluded in the China Urban Development Report (2001-2002)