Shenyang has decided to designate 2004 as the year of environment, announced the mayor Chen Zhenggao.
The city, an old heavy industrial base, will take a new road of industrialization in efforts to rejuvenate its outdated industry.
According to an outline, the city will persist in sustainable development strategy and practice the idea throughout the efforts to rejuvenate itself.
It will transform the traditional industry with high-technology and stimulate industrialization with informization and vice versa. It hopes to become a first-class center of technical exchange, innovative science and technology and important equipment research and development in the nation.
(CENEWS 2003-12-09)