Delta and neighbors told to join hands

Cooperation will boost growth, Vice-Premier Wang Yang said

Vice-Premier Wang Yang has urged the provinces and regions of the Pan-Pearl River Delta regional cooperation bloc to break down local protectionism and deepen economic cooperation to deal with increasingly fierce domestic and foreign competition.

"The PPRD provinces and regions should establish an open, fair and transparent cooperative system to boost their economic growth and meet the challenges in the years ahead," Wang said in his keynote speech at the Ninth High-Level Forum on PPRD Regional Cooperation and Development, which opened in the Guizhou provincial capital on Monday.