Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, State Council: Steadily and orderly promote the integration of urban agglomerations and the development of metropolitan areas with shared cities.

The "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Promoting the High-Quality Development of Cities" has been released to the public. It mentions the need to steadily and orderly promote the integration of urban agglomerations and the development of metropolitan circles. It calls for the development of modern urban agglomerations and metropolitan circles characterized by clustered and networked development, and the construction of a rational modern urban system. It supports the development of world-class city clusters in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and promotes the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration to become high-quality growth poles. It aims to strengthen the supporting role of urban clusters and metropolitan circles in the central and western regions and the northeast in regional coordinated development, promote complementary positioning, interconnected facilities, and coordinated governance among cities. It also emphasizes the need to strengthen industry chain cooperation within urban clusters, optimize industrial division of labor and spatial connections among urban clusters. It advocates for the development and growth of modern metropolitan circles, supports eligible regions in advancing the development of metropolitan circles, establishes and improves the institutional mechanisms for metropolitan development, deepens the reform to moderately separate economic areas from administrative areas, facilitates efficient commuting, supports industry upgrading and coordination, and promotes convenience and sharing of public services.