August 20th, 2007 is an important day in the history of Guilin's urban development.
"Protect the Lijiang River, develop Lingui and rebuild a new Guilin." On this day, Liu Qibao, secretary of the Party Committee of the Autonomous Region, made important arrangements for the urban development of Guilin during his investigation and research in Guilin. It is pointed out that the general development ideas and goals should be: building new areas, dissolving old cities, developing in groups, focusing on the west, optimizing layout, improving functions, broadening the space for industrial development, providing support for economic development, and building a modern livable landscape city and an international tourist city.
This strategic deployment was formed after careful research on the basis of repeated research and soliciting expert opinions. It is not only the far-sighted strategic conception and strategic deployment of the leading collective of the autonomous region, but also the concrete implementation of Scientific Outlook on Development, which points out the strategic direction for the future development of Guilin.
To the west, Guilin is opening the leap-forward development of Xinjiang with innovative thinking.
To the west, a new Lingui city with harmonious city and landscape and benign interaction between city and industrial development is about to rise.
In the west, an industrial "pearl" is about to shine.
The western development is a strategic decision to protect the Lijiang River and realize the benign interaction between urban development and industrial development.
On the evening of September 8, 2007, in the CCTV news channel "Welcome to the 17th CPC National Congress in China-Entering Guilin", there was an impressive episode: Kaohsiung, secretary of Guilin Municipal Party Committee, took out a glass bottle filled with Lijiang River and told the audience that it was the water of Lijiang River, which was clear and sweet and met the national second-class drinking water standard. To maintain this standard forever, this is the bottom line that successive party committees and governments in Guilin must keep. Keeping the water of Lijiang River means keeping our home. Kaohsiung's words have profound implications.
Guilin, an international tourist city and a national historical and cultural city, attracted a total of13,379,500 tourists from home and abroad last year, including1/kloc-0,060,200 inbound tourists. Guilin is not only the Guilin of Guilin people, but also the Guilin of the world.
At the same time, Guilin is also a regional central city and an important transportation hub in northern Guangxi, which plays a key role in promoting regional development. However, due to Guilin's small economic aggregate and small city scale, it is obviously not enough to radiate and promote the development of northern Guangxi. It is imperative for Guilin to accelerate its development.
However, if Guilin wants to accelerate its development, it faces two major problems:
The first is the protection of Lijiang River. For thousands of years, Guilin has formed a development pattern with the Lijiang River as the central axis. Urban residents, administrative institutions, secondary and tertiary industries are all congested along the Lijiang River, which is increasingly becoming an unbearable burden for the mother river Lijiang River.
Secondly, the development space of Guilin is narrow and the industrial layout is not reasonable. With the development of the city, the density of population and buildings in the downtown area of Guilin is increasing, with mixed functions. Everyone is crowded in the central city for limited water, land, roads, space and other resources, which leads to congestion in the central city and makes it difficult to optimize the industrial layout.
It is urgent to protect the Lijiang River, and urban development waits for no one. How does Guilin find the fulcrum of balance and realize benign interaction?
Kaohsiung replied with a bottle of Lijiang River: Guilin must jump out of Lijiang River and develop westward if it wants to protect Lijiang River and reduce its pressure.
In 2003, the Master Plan of Guilin approved by the State Council proposed that the urban construction of Guilin should focus on developing westward.
In 2006, the second plenary session of the third session of Guilin Municipal Committee established the development plan of "multi-center, multi-group, shifting the center of gravity to the west, giving consideration to the east and expanding, and developing moderately in the north and south direction"
In 2007, the Third Plenary Session of the Third Session of the Municipal Party Committee established the idea of "developing the west, optimizing the middle, upgrading the east and moderately developing the north and south", and took the west of Guilin, with Lingui as the focus, as the first choice and main platform to undertake industrial transfer.
On August 20th, the party committee and government of the autonomous region made a strategic plan that Guilin should adhere to the principle of "protecting Lijiang River, developing Lingui and rebuilding a new Guilin" and build Lingui New District.
This strategic deployment further clarified the strategic direction of Guilin's urban development and played the prelude to Guilin's westward advancement.
Lingui New District, a new industrial city full of vigor and vitality, will soon shine brilliantly.
On August 28th, 2007, at the investment environment promotion meeting of Guilin-Hong Kong-Macao Economic, Trade and Cultural Activity Week held in Hong Kong, Mayor Zhang Xiulong introduced the development idea of building Lingui New District in Guilin to broaden the space for industrial development, hoping that more merchants would seize the opportunity to participate in the development and construction of Lingui New District, which aroused strong interest of merchants. In their view, when people mention Guilin, they only know that it is a beautiful tourist city, but they didn't expect that the tourist city is also a treasure house for investment and entrepreneurship, and it also has an industrial "ambition". They all said that they would make use of the unique brand effect of world famous cities to invest and start businesses in Guilin and participate in the construction of new districts. On that day, the city signed two projects with Hong Kong businessmen 12, with a total investment of 2,529.5 million US dollars. Among them, the construction projects of Lingui New District include: five-star hotels and commercial and residential development projects with an investment of 500 million yuan in Lingui County, and standard factory buildings and commercial street development projects with investment in Su Qiao Industrial Park.
Indeed, Lingui New District has unique advantages such as location and transportation:
The new area has a large development space. It is only10km away from the center of Guilin; Abundant land resources, mainly earth mountains, sloping fields and state-owned forest farms.
Comprehensive traffic conditions are superior. Over the years, the state has invested more than 654.38 billion yuan in this area to build infrastructure such as airports and road networks. Existing Gui Xiang Railway, Guihai Expressway, Airport Road, Wanfu Road and National Highway 32 1 intersection; In the national long-term expressway network planning, there are six expressway radiating from Lingui. The double-track urban section of Xiang-Gui Railway will be connected to the main line of the existing Xiang-Gui Railway from here. After the completion of the capacity expansion and reconstruction project of Xianggui Railway, it only takes two hours from Guilin to Nanning. After the completion of Liangjiang International Airport, which is being expanded, it can take off and land the world's largest Airbus A380 aircraft and has opened more than 50 domestic and international routes.
According to the constantly revised and improved planning of Lingui New District, the planned area of this area is about 106 square kilometers, which is divided into five functional areas according to industry, logistics, airport economy, administrative center and commercial supporting services, among which Lingui County is a comprehensive new district with administrative office and business services as the main group; Phoenix Group is a high-quality ecological new industrial district integrating office work, scientific research and development, industrial incubation, high-tech industries and residential facilities. Liangjiang Group makes use of the airport transportation advantages of Liangjiang International Airport to vigorously develop aviation logistics industry and derivative industries; Su Qiao Group is an industrial satellite city to undertake industries and promote Guilin's industrialization. Yanshan Science and Education Group is a comprehensive area integrating scientific research, culture and education, administrative office and leisure tourism services.
At present, Guilin is raising funds in various ways, mobilizing the enthusiasm of all parties, building Lingui New District, and setting off the climax of infrastructure construction in the new district.
The planned five roads, such as Airport Road, Wanfu Road West Extension, Guiyan Road, Sulin Road and Linyan Road, not only build a good urban traffic skeleton for the west, but also make the connection between this area and the old city more convenient and quick. According to the preliminary design, the five roads are 97 kilometers long. The city has signed a development financial agreement with Guangxi Branch of China Development Bank, and will focus on supporting the construction of these five roads in the near future. Zhang Xiulong said in an interview with reporters that the construction of the backbone road network in Lingui New District should be started as soon as possible. Before the end of this year, two roads, Airport Road and Wanfu Road West Extension Line, were started; Next year, the construction of the core area of Lingui New District 16 square kilometers will be started.
Lingui New District, an industrial new city full of vigor and vitality, is about to rise.
"Guilin model", innovative thinking to create a new district, the industry "pearl" is even more dazzling.
At 8: 30 pm on September 6, the meeting room of Guilin Municipal Committee was brightly lit, and the joint meeting of the Party and Government of the Municipal Committee was being held here. The first agenda is to listen to the report of the Urban Construction Planning Committee on the planning of Lingui New District, which was revised by the construction planning department 13. With the planning drawings projected on the screen, a blueprint for the development of Lingui New District with perfect functions, complete facilities and reasonable organization is presented to reporters.
After listening to the report on the planning of the new district, Kaohsiung put forward higher and newer requirements for the planning and construction of the new district. He said that the planning and construction of Lingui New District should emancipate the mind and innovate thinking to form the "Guilin model" for the construction of Lingui New City. The core of this model is the integration of city and landscape, taking the road of eco-green city construction, not only to make the new district alive, rich and strong, but also to make the new district green and beautiful, so as to realize the harmonious development of "green, beautiful, lively, rich and strong".
He also demanded that the construction of the new district should be closely linked with the transformation and upgrading of the old city, with unified planning, overall development and more ecological and environmental protection concepts. The old city of Guilin has the reputation of "a thousand peaks surround the wild, and one water holds the city flow"; 65438-0999 After the implementation of large-scale urban transformation and the successful development of the "two rivers and four lakes" water system around the city, the city is in the scenery, and the scenery is in the city. The wonderful natural landscape blends with the profound historical and cultural heritage that has been deposited for thousands of years. For the planned Lingui New District, we should strive for the harmony between people and environment, introduce the surrounding landscape into the new urban district with unique natural environmental conditions, and integrate the artificial and natural environment, which not only reflects the urban characteristics of Guilin as "mountain-water-city", but also incorporates more modern fashion elements. It is not only a "vivid, rich and powerful" industrial new city, but also a "new, green and beautiful" charming city.
Lingui county has also established a new development idea of pragmatic innovation in the spirit of pioneering and innovation. The county insists on relying on the development of Guilin and actively integrates with the main city of Guilin, becoming a part of its organic whole and realizing the integration with the main city. To this end, the county has further expanded the county framework by building a transportation network extending in all directions. The organization invested nearly 500 million yuan to build three vertical and six horizontal road networks such as century avenue and Daxue North Road. The county has built 0/5 primary and secondary roads/kloc-with a total length of 58.7 kilometers and a total pavement area of 54 1 1,000 square meters. Intensify the efforts to "build a city", realize the combination of modern flavor and local characteristics, and realize the harmonious integration of Lingui's unique humanistic essence with mountains and rivers and urban features. More than 30 modern and noble residential quarters with complete functions and facilities have been built, which has improved the grade of the county. The commercial pedestrian streets in the world, such as Guilin, Zaishuiyifang and Sunshine Watertown, are the combination of ancient and modern, and China and the West, realizing the unity of modern architecture and ancient culture.
During the National "Two Sessions" this year, General Secretary Hu Jintao said: "Guilin is beautiful and a pearl." Lingui New District, which is about to rise, will be another more brilliant industrial "pearl", and it will surely bloom more brilliantly in the near future.