For one Chinese city, new 'Silk Road' leaves old problems unsolved


  • World
  • Wednesday, 10 May 2017

A view of Hunchun Border Economic Cooperation Zone in Hunchun, Jilin province, China, March 28, 2017. REUTERS/Sue-Lin Wong

HUNCHUN, China (Reuters) - In August, 2014, planners in the northeastern Chinese city of Hunchun argued in state media that it should be included in the "One Belt, One Road" project, Beijing's vision laid out the previous year of a new Silk Road across Asia to Europe.

In 2015, the official Xinhua news agency ran stories about how Hunchun was accelerating its "OBOR" plans, and early in 2016, China's cabinet released a list of Chinese cities included in "OBOR": Hunchun was on the map. (GRAPHIC - China's Hunchun city http://tmsnrt.rs/2qoOwM4)

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