As the center of Northeast Asia (NEA) economy development, Tumen River Economic Zone (TREZ) or Tumen River Delta consists of three main subsystems - transport,economy and natural resources ones. What are the relation of these three subsystems and what kind of transportation planning can coordinate this district economic pattern? In this paper some conclusions are presented.Traffic subsystem is the trigger of this regional economy, impelling the scale of regional economy; economic structure subsystem is the basic core one,defining the economic radiation scope; and natural resource ones is the prerequisite of keeping the continued regional economy. Traffic-Economic Belt is the special property of integrated transportation and economy in TREZ for three reasons:first,the favourable place in geography in TREZ second,a sound transport condition and the last, an opening zone in TREZ, as the transnational special economic zone,which will promote a new form of Northern East Asia regional economic structure under the collaboration and opening policy among these neighbouring countries. (A)
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