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A Medical City 　　If local government leaders have their way， the name Taizhou will soon be synonymous with China’s Medical City（CMC）， as it aspires to become the pharmaceutical and medical technology capital of Asia. Taizhou， even with a population of 5.08 million， is a third-tier city located in the country’s Jiangsu Province， on the northern bank of the Yangtze River. 　　Taizhou’s authorities highlighted both their progress and plans to become leaders in all things related to medicine at a presentation to the media on January 7. Lan Shaomin， Secretary of Taizhou’s Municipal Party Committee， described a “vigorously developing health industry，” with a stated goal that by 2020 the city will have built itself into a “world-famous medical center.” 　　At the same time， officials are working to establish the region as a medical tourism center for traditional Chinese medicine （TCM）， aimed at a domestic audience. Already， city planners and politicians have begun amassing a large number of multinational companies and foreign direct investment into the sprawling mass of buildings being constructed in and around the footprint of China’s Medical Hi-Tech Zone. 　　 A modern metropolis 　　The actual campus of CMC is located across more than 120 square km， and is studded with massive， modern buildings that dwarfed its visitors. A full-scale model of the city boasted ecological areas along the Yangtze River Delta， health centers strategically located based on anticipated need， restaurants， hotels， post offices， churches and residential housing units. All of it is being built and provided for the large amount of foreign and returning Chinese researchers that Taizhou’s officials hope to recruit. 　　“We have mostly domestic companies now but we hope that companies from foreign countries will come and join us soon， so we can become a big family，” said Fiona Wang， Deputy Director of international business development for the CMC. “We even have a museum and a children’s playground t