eNorth: Seven Days' "Tianjin Week" has gotten its desired result and closed with great successes. This activity is an very important implement in the moment when Tianjin entered the new century and grasp new opportunities to realize new development; is also a significant step to represent the spirit of Tianjin Seventh Session of Seventh Conference of CPC and to widen the opening-up policy. Seven days is a short term but it will be able to sculpture its effects in the course of accomplish Tianjin's three historical tasks.

Rich Results in Opening High Praises from Circles

When reviewing the activities of "Tianjin Week", you would see that Tianjin self-confidently showed the great achievements since Tianjin's opening and reform, display Tianjin's power and demonstrate the new figure of Tianjin entering New Century in Hong Kong, which is the most advanced city in the world economic development. The scale, momentum and content of this activity all leave the good impression in Hong Kong people.

In short seven-day period, the 19 activities included the economic conferences, commodity exhibitions, academic speeches, art performances, sports games and public shows. These activities got the high praises from various circles of Hong Kong and made great influence in the public of Hong Kong. Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa of HKSAR and Chief Executive Ho Hau Wah of MSAR both think that "Tianjin Week" is the most popular and has the best results in the activities held by inland cities.

People involved in "Tianjin Week" are up to several hundreds of people, who are from political circle, commercial circle, enterprises circle and mass-media of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan besides overseas Chinese people and foreign friends. And tens of thousands of Hong Kong people took part in the Public Shows in the Times Square.

Nearly 30 Hong Kong Media continually cover the kinds of "Tianjin Week" activities by over 200 reports, including articles, pictures and TV programs. "Wave of Tianjin" is being formed in Hong Kong. Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and other countries and regions all paid attentions to Tianjin's development, especially to its investment environment. Through the economic cooperation and cultural communication, both sides knew each other further and strengthened the friendship. And the more solid foundation for new cooperation and development in new fields of both sides have been established.

During the Exhibitions, 188 kinds of high-tech products, light-textile products, ecological agriculture and green food were displayed. Distinguished products of Tianjin attracted various circles people's attentions. Financial Secretary of HKSAR Mr Tsang Yam Kuen were profuse in praise when he visited the exhibition. Through conferences, trading contracts with 492 enterprises of US$0.262 billion were signed, whose US$0.23 billion was from Hong Kong; 84 joint-venture and cooperation contracts of US$5.5 billion were made, whose agreement foreign capital was US$4.6 billion and contractural foreign capital was US$1.77 billion involving infrastructure, industry, commerce, logistics and tourism. All these programs will strongly promote the economic development on both sides and provide a good basic foundation for Tianjin to realize the goals of "Tenth Five-Year Plan".

Under the new circumstance, expanding opening-up further is an inevitalbe choice

Accompanying with our joining WTO, a new-round of opening-up of our country will start. Opportunities are equal for every region. Whether a region can catch the opportunities or not is the top important: one will develop itself if grasping the opportunities, while will lag behind if giving up them. In the past, thanks for the policy of opening-up , Tianjin developed itself greatly. Under the new circumstance, we must implement wide-ranged opening-up, strengthen the fusing of Tianjin's economy with the international market as soon as possible in order to promote both the development and the development in big stride by opening-up. Through the "2001 Tianjin Week in Hong Kong", all the relevant circles of Tianjin deepened their understanding of the theme of the 7th Session of 7th CPC Conference and further increased their sense of urgence and responsibility for achieving the aim of developing in big stride.

Mr. San Xiangjun, Director of Municipal Foreign Economic Committee, said to the journalists with deep feeling that through the performance in Hong Kong this time, the Tianjin Committee of CPC and Tianjin Municipal Government's decision and resolution of further expanding opening-up are proved completely right. Expanding opening-up is both the experience Tianjin got in its development in the period of the "9th Five-Year Plan" and also the inevitable choice Tianjin should take at the time when the new century begins and the historical opportunities of joining WTO is coming to us. Through the activity, we reinforced the conviction: in order to achieve the aim of developing in big stride and narrowing the gap between Tianjin and other developed regions, Tianjin must stand at the frontier of the world's economic development, keeping communicating and contacting with the advanced fields of the world. Only in this way, we can import the large amount of fund and the advanced technologies from abroad and make the opening-up of Tianjin enter a higher phase.

It is belived that everybody who paticipated the "Tianjin Week" has the same feeling as San Xiangjun. Hong Kong is the belt that connects the world's economy, the window of importing overseas fund, technologies and management and the bridge of economic and cultural communication with the outside world. The holding of the activity of "2001 Tianjin Week in Hong Kong" will play an important role in promoting Tianjin to merge itself to the world's economy. In the activity and through communicating and discussing with the domestic and overseas experts, the horizon of the relevant circles of Tianjin is widened, their mind is broadened and their realization is raised. They more clearly realized that expanding opening-up further is the inevitalbe choice of Tianjin.

Tianjin has both the base and the potentiality of expanding opening-up further

"2001 Tianjin Week in Hong Kong" proves that Tianjin has both the base and the potentiality of expanding opening-up further.

After the rapid development during the period of the "9th Five-Year Plan", Tianjin owns very good base for opening-up. Its opening economy has become the main backbone of Tianjin's economic growth. During the "9th Five-Year Plan", Tianjin actually took advantage of foreign capital of US$15 billion and directly used foreign capital of US$12.1 billion; the annual exporting volume increased from U$3 billion to US$8.3 billion; as the window and the frontier of Tianjin's opening-up, Tianjin New Coastal Area has become the biggest economic growth point of Tianjin. Through all kinds of the performances in "2001 Tianjin Week in Hong Kong", the friends from domestic and abroad fully realized the splendid achievements Tianjin, which is the economic center in the Bohai Sea Rim, got during the "9th Five-Year Plan" and they also had a wholly new realization about Tianjin, the important city in Northern China. The domestic and overseas experts who attended the conferences in the "Tianjin Week" also attached nice hope to Tianjin's developing prospect. Tianjin's favourable investment environment, convenient traffic such as port, airport and railway, rich natural resources, abundant advantages of science, technoloies and talents, good ability of constructing industrial infrastructure and the rising of the New Coastal Area, etc. all make full preparation for the chance of joining WTO and the new-round opening-up of our country that Tianjin is facing.

The presidents of many well-known enterprises and groups are greatly interested in Tianjin and expressed their intentions of investing and adding investment in Tianjin.