Beijing's Recent History of Development. Beijing can be viewed as an enclosed system towards the rest of the country. With the beginning of the open-door policy under Deng Xiao Ping in 1979, domestic development set off like a bush fire, starting from the Guangdong Province in the 80's (Zhujiang Triangle). In the 90's, ten years later, Shanghai started to develop (Zhangjian Triangle). Then only in the past 10 years major development took place in Beijing (the Jingjin …showed first 75 words of 3314 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3314 total…being one of the components. From time to time one reads about international tenders to provide concepts for this kind of masterplan, but then suddenly silence prevails again and the public is left in the dark what decisions actually have been made and how their implementation will be safeguarded. The conclusion therefore cannot be but: Beijing's traffic problems will still become worse before hopefully strong decision making will be inevitable to improve the situation fundamentally.