Part of the major support package unveiled by the central government on May 20 is a plan to pair China’s wealthier provinces and municipalities of the East to jurisdictions in Xinjiang. Just recently, the Beijing Review wrote an article on the pairing project providing more details regarding whose money will be going where, and for what purpose. Given the novelty of this plan, the obscurity to many people of various Xinjiang jurisdictions, and general interest as to what’s really happening with this ambitious project, I hastily have put together a color coded map that hopefully will help readers visualize the East-to-West partnership the government is attempting here.
| Beijing Municipality | XPCC Div. 14 Khotan City Khotan County Moyu County Lop County |
7.26 billion RMB for housing and agriculture | |
| Guangdong Province | Tumushuke City Shufu County Jiashi County |
9.6 billion RMB for infrastructure construction and public services | |
| Shenzhen | Kashgar City Tashkorgan County |
financing, technologies, talent and management expertise | |
| Jiangsu Province | XPCC Div. 4 and 7 Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture Atushi City Akqi County Wuqia County |
“people’s livelihood,” education, vocational training, oil pipeline projects | |
| Shanghai Municipality | Bachu County Shache County Zepu County Yecheng County |
earthquake-resistant housing, vocational training, agricultural facilities | |
| Shandong Province | Shule County Yengisar County Markit County Yopurga County |
earthquake-resistant housing projects, safe drinking water | |
| Zhejiang Province | Ala’er City Aksu Prefecture |
16.7 billion RMB for industry, modern agriculture, social welfare | |
| Liaoning Province | Tacheng Prefecture | 180 million RMB for disaster relief from 2009 blizzard, job training, modern agriculture | |
| Henan Province | Hami Prefecture XPCC Div. 13 |
orchards, protected agriculture, reconstruction of dilapidated houses | |
| Hebei Province | XPCC Div. 2 Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture |
1.8 billion RMB for agricultural technologies, housing, employment, education | |
| Shanxi Province | Wujiaqu City Fukang City |
coal mining, education, reconstruction in “shanty” areas | |
| Fujian Province | Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture | textiles, social welfare, rural infrastructure | |
| Hunan Province | Turpan Prefecture | housing, coal mining | |
| Hubei Province | Bole City Jinghe County Wenquan County XPCC Div. 5 |
protected agriculture, tourism, education | |
| Anhui Province | Pishan County | 1.3 billion RMB for protected agriculture and modern industries | |
| Tianjin Municipality | Minfeng County Qira County Yutian County |
fruit processing, railways and roads | |
| Heilongjiang Province | XPCC Div. 10 Fuhai County Fuyun County Qinghe County |
mining, education, job training | |
| Jiangxi Province | Akto County | 2.07 billion RMB in infrastructure, education, people’s livelihoods | |
| Jilin Province | Altay City Habahe County Burqin County Jimunai County |
flood prevention, people’s livelihoods |
Comments 7
This mapping idea is neat. Well done!
“Sister Cities” — Kashgar and, uh, Shenzhen? Wonder what we might be able to provide to the typical Kashgar resident: Management, Foxconn-style? Our vibrant “Ernai” culture? Chengguan thuggery?
The mind boggles.
Of course, you never know what will result from such “pairing.” If you had drawn a similar map for Shenzhen in 1978 when it was designated a Special Economic Zone (SEZ), “sister cities” would have included Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei — and look what happened!
Posted 11 Jun 2010 at 5:59 am ¶Like Bruce said…well done! Doesn’t look “hasty” to me.
Don’t you find it a bit funny that Urumqi and Karamay weren’t paired with another sister city in the province? They’re definitely rich enough.
Congrats on the FP link…
Posted 11 Jun 2010 at 6:45 am ¶Thanks, Josh and Bruce! Didn’t even see that we got linked by the FP, so cool.
One criticism I have of the policy, it just seems to me a major lapse that the Party leaders didn’t assign Taiwan as a sister province for a Xinjiang locale… I mean, Taiwan is one of the PRC’s most prosperous, if not THE most prosperous province, am I right? It’s right in the thick of the East seaboard economic boom and you’d think they’d have a lot valuable aid to offer to a place like Kashgar or Khotan. Shame on you, Party leaders!
Posted 11 Jun 2010 at 7:33 am ¶Well done. However, Lop and Moyu counties are listed under the aid of Beijing, but the colors have them in partnership with Hebei.
Posted 13 Jun 2010 at 12:50 am ¶Yeah, schticky, I see what you’re talking about but it’s more just poor color choices on my part, Beijing, Lop, and Moyu are actually indeed of the same color, which is this drab olive green, but it appears I chose a poor color for Hebei, a brighter, minty green which is linked to Bayingolin in the Xinjiang map; nevertheless, they both are green so I could so how I could’ve caused confusion. If I have time, I may go in and choose a more distinct color.
Posted 13 Jun 2010 at 2:14 am ¶Is there any stated logic (economic, political or otherwise) for these pairings? (like relatively prosperous provinces paired with poorer counties, geographically similar areas etc.) Or is this entirely a public relations exercise aimed at demonstrating the unbending unity of the motherland…….
By the way, it seems noteworthy that the Bingtuan divisions all have pairings. They are already to be prioritized in the coming Xinjiang spending binge.
Posted 19 Jun 2010 at 8:21 am ¶Based on what I read the logic about the pairings is exactly as you’ve said: poorer XJ jurisictions get wealthier east coast ones; and I also read an article with some BS about how the Dongbei and North Xinjiang, having similar climates, should be paired together.
I think it’s a PR stunt. There are much better and more efficient ways to allocate aid and funding for Xinjiang, but this “pairing” thing is highly visible, and in terms of party policy in Xinjiang (and pretty much everywhere else, in my opinion), projecting a strong, visible image of effort takes priority over effort itself.
And yeah…. bingtuan getting money. Eye-roll. I laugh because I actually worked for a bingtuan school once. As if they need money (after all, they were one of only two schools in the city that could hire foreign teachers… the other one was the school in the sinopec gated community. Go figure).
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