On September 16, 2010, Baoding City, Hebei Province officially established Baigou New City. The area includes the original Baigou·Baiyangdian Hot Spring City Industrial Cluster and the entire Baigou Town, with a total area of ??118.5 square kilometers. Population 120,000. This is not only an adjustment of administrative divisions, but also a turning point in the direction of regional construction and development policies. That is to say, Baigou will develop green industries such as tourism on the basis of commerce, logistics, etc., vigorously build an ecological satellite city in southern Beijing, and become a "tourism and shopping garden" between Beijing and Hebei.
Modern Logistics Industry Base
Baoding Baigou New City Modern Logistics and Trade Center has lines radiating to more than 20 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country. According to reports, Baigou New City relies on location and industrial advantages, takes the luggage and luggage industry as the main line, relies on the distribution of small commodities, is based on the local area, radiates to the surrounding areas, and follows the three major distribution principles of "commerce circulation distribution, industrial base distribution, and urban logistics distribution" , comprehensively build a modern logistics industry base.
“Six Cities Create Together”: Baigou’s ecological construction goals
Baigou is a veritable city of commerce and luggage. It started from a traditional township market. After nearly 30 years of development, Baigou now has more than 300 large-scale enterprises, more than 3,000 processing companies, nearly 10,000 individual processing households, and an annual output of 500 million bags, making Baigou formed The huge luggage industry chain and industrial cluster have become the largest luggage production and sales base in the country. At the same time, service industries such as catering, logistics, warehousing, and transportation have also developed rapidly.
The development of economy and trade promotes the urban construction of Baigou. Ecological and environmental protection plays a considerable role in the urban construction of Baigou.
The urban construction goals set by the leaders of Baoding City and Baigou Town are: six cities to be co-created - a civilized city, a health city, a garden city, an environmental city, a cultural city, and a tourism city, to be built simultaneously. And its ten major strategies for urbanization - "Scaling of city establishment projects, industrial clustering and park development, strategic positioning and branding, standardization of industrial production, accelerated internationalization of trade, diversification of investment entities, ecological civilization of Baigou, and pursuit of refined management" "Integration of agriculture, industrialization and regional planning", the ecological civilization of Baigou is also clearly listed.
The leadership of Baigou summarizes the ecological civilization as follows: energy conservation and emission reduction, environmental protection, advocating nature, humanistic care, scientific development, and harmonious development to build Baigou into a modern business and tourism destination. City, an emerging environmentally friendly light industrial city, an ecologically livable cultural and civilized city.
Experts involved in the research on the development of Baigou pointed out that the urban construction of Baigou highlights the characteristics of a commercial city and is not limited to commerce. The proposed ecological and environmental protection goals are in line with the current trend of urban construction and are also a The only way to achieve sustainable urban development is that Baigou’s approach is far-sighted.
The reporter learned that ecological environmental protection is not only the construction goal of Baigou New City, but also the construction principle of Baigou for many years.
Baigou effectively ensures the smooth construction of a large number of urban infrastructure projects such as urban road networks, pipe networks, line networks, and sewage treatment plants. It also provides services to Fumin Road, Jingbai Road, Jinbao Road, and Baigou. The greening of major parts such as parks has been renovated, improved and managed to ensure the greening effect; street lights and outline lights have been installed on main roads, and dilapidated advertisements have been vigorously updated to further beautify the image of Baigou.
Under the guidance of the new goals, the future Baigou New City will develop in a better environment.
Ecologically Beautiful City: Let Baigou be filled with green
In the urban construction of Baigou, the greening of Baigou must be mentioned.
It is reported that in 2009, Baigou added 821,900 square meters of green space.
In the greening of urban areas, according to the local natural conditions, the principles of landscape, wind protection, sand fixation, and air purification are used to make green plants play their greatest role in protecting the environment. For example, in the greening design of the North First Ring Road, trees, shrubs, and grasses are combined, evergreen tree species and deciduous trees are staggered at different heights, and fast-growing tree species and slow-growing tree species grow in complementary ways, creating an open, fresh and beautiful atmosphere. Such scenery. In terms of varieties, the introduced ash, five-pointed maple, white pine, etc., all have windproof, sand-fixing, and sterilizing effects, while birch and other tree species are beneficial to purifying the air.
According to the urban overall plan, by 2020, the green space rate in Baigou urban area will not be less than 35%; the urban green coverage rate will not be less than 40%, and the urban public green space will account for not less than the total urban construction land area in the city. In 7, the per capita green space area is not less than 14 square meters.
Including, along both sides of the main rivers in the new area, modern artificial gardens are laid out in a bead shape, making the ecological functional areas and the riversides become an evergreen urban landscape line all year round. Build an urban garden green space system of "one ring, two belts, five verticals, six horizontals, and seven gardens". "One Ring" refers to the suburban green ring formed along the green belt of the outer ring road of the city; "Two Belts" refers to the green belts on both sides of the planned artificial river in the old city and the artificial river in the ecological new area; "Five Verticals" refers to Fuqiang Road, Fumin Road, The north-south green belt composed of Jingbai Road, Xinglong Street, and Xingsheng Street; "Six Horizontal" refers to the east-west green belt composed of Gaoqiao Middle Road, Beihuan Road, Wuyi Road, Tuanjie Road, Youyi Road, and Jinbao Road; "Seven Gardens" refers to the garden green space composed of Baigou Park, Friendship Park, Wenchang Park, Chengbei Park, Ecological New District Park, Artificial Lake Park and the city central square.
The plan includes not only vegetation, but also water. The plan clearly calls for strengthening the construction of Baigou ecological water network, and connecting four parks including Baigou Park in the old city and Baigou Lake and Forest Park in the new ecological zone with water systems to form a "two rivers, five gardens, and one lake" Water network system.
Since this summer, Baigou has strengthened its greening work in conjunction with the creation of the "National Forest City" activity. If Baigou is to carry out concentrated large-scale greening construction on the East First Ring Road and North First Ring Road, the greening area will reach 500,000 square meters -
New growth pole: green industry tourism
Baigou is prosperous because of commerce and famous for luggage, but in the planning of Baigou New City, The development of tourism has become a very eye-catching content. People analyze that the first reason is that the influence of tourism to Baigou is growing, and there is a good foundation for the development of tourism. The second reason is that it can drive tourism in surrounding areas such as Baiyangdian Hot Spring City. More importantly, it makes the development of Baigou take precedence over commerce and trade. Another growth pole will be established externally. And this growth pole is a sustainable development industry.
Baigou has a good foundation for developing tourism, which can be seen from the professional recognition Baigou has received. In recent years, Baigou has successively won the titles of "China's Tourism and Shopping Paradise", "China's Most Favorite Place for Tourists", "China's Best Tourism Commodity Base", and "China's Best Sustainable Development Tourism Resort for 60 Years of Glory".
On the Dragon Boat Festival in 2009, Baoding City’s “Two Whites and One Male” tourist line was launched. Shopping in Baigou, Baiyangdian Cultural Garden Scenic Area, boating competitions, and the Song and Liao Ancient Plank Road in Xiongxian County became the highlights of the special tourist line. content. The development of Baigou shopping tourism has attracted investors with a keen sense of the market. Many enterprises have begun to invest in the construction of sports, leisure and health ports, resorts, ice and snow world leisure sports theme parks, and Sun City Senior Recreation and Sports Parks. Tourism, leisure, and service facilities have been completed one after another, adding new chips to the development of Baigou tourism industry.
The focusing effect and economic attraction effect of Baigou tourism are becoming increasingly obvious, leaving people with more and more beautiful memories. This foundation enables the tourism industry in Baigou New Town to show bright prospects.
In July 2009, Baoding City decided to develop Baigou·Baiyangdian Hot Spring City as a "sub-central city", and Baigou gained new development opportunities. Experts pointed out that Baigou, Baiyangdian and Hot Spring City are different resources. Baigou is centered on business, while Hot Spring City is centered on leisure and vacation - the most attractive resources, attracting more people to come here for vacation, tourism and shopping. The unified utilization and combination of the three resources are the conditions for great development. In addition to Baiyangdian, nearby high-quality tourism resources such as Yesanpo, Film and Television City, Qingxi Mausoleum, and Song and Liao Ancient Plank Road in Xiongxian County within 100 kilometers will also become a boost to Baigou's tourism industry.
With the listing of Baigou New City, the "rich tourism city" will be further implemented. The leaders of Baigou New City stated that they will strengthen the construction of tourist facilities and tourist attractions, improve tourism creative design, and build Baigou into a well-known tourist city integrating "garden city, shopping paradise, and famous business city".
In August 2014, Hebei Province issued the "Opinions on Supporting the Industrial Development of Baigou New Town", which requires the construction of an international trade center in northern China, a light industrial product circulation hub and important R&D and design with important domestic and foreign influence. Manufacturing base, with the goal of building a regional central city in eastern Baoding, guides and supports Baigou New City to improve and refine urban planning, industrial development planning, and land use planning, achieve effective connection with development planning, and promote urban-rural integration and industry-city integration. The opinion proposes to seize the opportunity of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development becoming a major national strategy, and to undertake the decentralization of Beijing's urban functions and the outward transfer of commercial circulation industries as an important way to achieve Baigou industrial upgrading. Support the strategic cooperation between Baigou New City and Fengtai District of Beijing, and support merchants that meet Baigou’s market positioning to engage in business in Baigou. On the basis of expanding cooperation with Beijing, we will carry out commercial cooperation with advanced coastal provinces and cities such as Tianjin and attract internationally renowned commercial and trade companies to invest and purchase properties in Baigou.