East China's Fujian Province is planning an economic zone on the west coast of the Taiwan Strait as a major effort to boost its economic growth. The proposed economic zone is also meant to help speed up economic integration with Taiwan, opposite to Fujian across the Straits, and promote reunification between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. Huang Xiaojing, executive vice-governor of the province, pledged to build the West Coast Economic Zone of Straits into one of China's major regional economies alongside the Pan-Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta regions. The planned economic zone will "promote better use of resources of the economic belt in Southeast China and enhance its overall economic strength," he said.