Huanghua city in Hebei province has launched a bid to attract foreign investment from Hong Kong to the port city, where one of the mainland's biggest transportation infrastructure projects is being constructed.
The Shenhua Project, with investments totalling nearly 90 billion yuan (about HK$83.78 billion), is part of a national push to transport coal from western provinces to the eastern coast, which is short of coal.
The project comprises coal mines, a railway, power stations and a port to the east of Huanghua.
It is expected to be the mainland's second biggest trans-century infrastructure project after the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.
The Huanghua City Government sent a delegation to Hong Kong, promoting various projects ranging from chemical plants to fishing shipyards.
Party chief of Huanghua city, Yan Xinghua, said the 'essential way of development is to use the port to modernise the city'.