<P> Then, beginning in 1985, the central government expanded the coastal area by establishing the following open economic zones (listed north to south): Liaodong Peninsula, Hebei Province (which surrounds Beijing and Tianjin), Shandong Peninsula, Yangtze River Delta, Xiamen - Zhangzhou - Quanzhou Triangle in southern Fujian Province, Pearl River Delta, and Guangxi . </P> <P> In 1990, the Chinese government decided to open the Pudong New Zone in Shanghai to overseas investment, as well as more cities in the Yang Zi River Valley . </P> <P> Since 1992, the State Council has opened a number of border cities and all the capital cities of inland provinces and autonomous regions . </P> <P> In addition, 15 free - trade zones, 32 state - level economic and technological development zones, and 53 new and high - tech industrial development zones have been established in large and medium - sized cities . As a result, a multilevel diversified pattern of opening and integrating coastal areas with river, border, and inland areas has been formed in China . </P>

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