China’s State Council has released a framework to develop 317,000 square kilometers along the Yangtze River as urban areas to host transportation and energy projects, Reuters reported. No specific investment details were released, but the area will span the three provinces of Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi near and around the metropolitan areas of Changsha and Wuhan. China’s top leadership has previously stated its intention to turn the Yangtze, which runs from China’s western highlands and empties into the East China Sea near Shanghai, into an economic axis on par with China’s developed coastal regions.
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