Since the“Pole-Axis Theory”and related“T shaped”spatial structure strategy for territorial develop-ment and economic layout of China were proposed in 1984, the“T shaped”spatial structure strategy has been implemented in 1980s-1990s. As the two most important economic belts, the coastal economic belt and the Changjiang River economic belt constitute a T-shaped in China. The two belts meet at the Changjiang River Delta which is the most economically developed region in China. The Changjiang River economic belt inte-grate the two most development regions (including the Chengdu and Chongqing Areas and the Wuhan Area) with the costal economic belt. The hinterland of Changjiang River economic belt almost includes half of Chi-na, which with rich resources, strong agricultural, economic and technical basis, and has become the world's largest integrated transmission channel with waterway dominated, including railways, highways, pipelines and other components of EHV. Its huge potential for development can not be compared to other economic zone ex-cept the coastal economic belt. To strengthen the two economic belts will lay the foundation for sustained de-velopment of economic and achieving the goal of total economic output in 2020 doubled compared with 2010. The“Pole-Axis Theory”and related“T shaped”spatial structure strategy for territorial development and eco-nomic layout of China (the coastal economic belt and the Changjiang River economic belt as the primary na-tional development axis) have been recognized by many domestic scholars and relevant leadership, and com-ply with the requirements of territorial development and economic layout rationalization in China. It will be a long-term strategy of taking the coastal economic belt and the Changjiang River economic belt as the primary national development axis in the coming decades.
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