President calls for awareness of areas status, function during inspection tour China has vowed to step up the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta in order to make the region the pacesetter of the new development pattern with the domestic market as the mainstay and the domestic and foreign markets complementing each other. During his inspection tour of Anhui province last week, President Xi Jinping called for a stronger awareness of the status and function of the delta-which involves Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces and Shanghai-in Chinas economic and social development in order to promote the regions integrated development amid grave and complex domestic and international circumstances. Xi made the remark while presiding over a symposium on advancing the integrated development of the region in Hefei, capital of Anhui. The symposium was attended by Vice-Premier Han Zheng and other senior officials of the related departments from the central government as well as relat...