Source: Xuexi.cn
“The air is fresh, the sea is clear, the environment is clean and tidy, and green plants are everywhere. Qinhuangdao is really a beautiful city.” Said Wu Yongqiang, a tourist from Shaanxi province, who were impressed by the beauty of Qinhuangdao.
In recent years, Qinhuangdao City of Hebei Province has firmly adhered to the way of green development, strictly stuck to the ecological protection as the red line, the environmental quality as the bottom line, and the resource utilization as the top limit, accelerated the construction of a green industrial system, fostered a green lifestyle, and enabled the clear water and green mountains to continue to exert ecological, economic, and social benefits.
On October 5, 2019, during the National Day, the most beautiful sunrise appeared in Beidaihe New District, Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province. Photo provided by VCG
The ecological background is brighter
“The seals that have not been seen for many years have come again this year, indicating that the ecology here is getting better and better” Li Changfu, a fisherman of Qinhuangdao, said happily. The Liaodong Bay spotted seal is the national second-class protected animal, and they are very “critical” to the marine ecological environment. The reappearance of the spotted seal in the offshore area of Qinhuangdao this year fully demonstrate the remarkable achievement of ecological environment management.
According to Meng Xiangwei, secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, said that in recent years, Qinhuangdao has established the strategy of “Forging the city by ecology” as the priority of its urban development, and accelerated the building of an ecological model city in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration.
As a coastal city, there are many rivers that enter the sea in Qinhuangdao. In order to protect the clear sea, Qinhuangdao took the lead in implementing the “river-chief system” in the province. Since 2016, 34 city-level river chiefs, 113 county-level river chiefs, and 1,463 village-level river chiefs have been officially appointed, to ensure that “every meter of rivers will not be ignored”, and no pollution point will be missed. In 2017, Qinhuangdao City launched the “bay-chief system” as the first batch of pilot projects in China, delineating the ecological red line and developing borders, and banned 1,454 illegal ships.
Clear waters and sea has been back in Qinhuangdao by establishing the full watershed management system, and comprehensively applying various restoration methods such as nature, physics and ecology. According to Li Yuehong, head of the Department of Water Ecology and Environment of Qinhuangdao Ecological Environment Bureau, in 2018, the water quality compliance rate of the 10 national and provincial assessment sections of the city is 100%; the compliance rate of drinking water source and coastal waters is 100%. The water quality class I standard compliance rate of Beidaihe bathing beach is 98.6%, which is 6.7% higher than that of 2015.
In recent years, Qinhuangdao City has vigorously implemented afforestation projects such as channel greening, river water system greening, urban forests, coastal ecological corridors, and characteristic economic forests. The forest coverage rate has increased from 45% in 2015 to 54% in 2018, successfully creating a national forest city. .
September 24, 2019, the theme flower show at the New Century Park in Haigang District, Qinhuadao, Hebei. Photo provided by VCG
The urban environment is more livable
In 2016, the campaign of “Travel all over Qinhuangdao” was launched in Qinhuangdao City. The five-level “road chiefs” officials from the city level to community level walked through the streets and lanes every day to solve problems on the spot, and achieved seamless and refined management of the city. “Now it has been more than 110,000 kilometers patrolled by road chiefs at all levels, and more than 100,000 problems have been discovered. Some of them with great social influence and long-term concerns of the citizens have been completely solved under the efforts of the officials.” Said Wei Yuqi, head of the Appraisal Department of Qinhuangdao Urban Management Bureau.
Yang Dongming, deputy director of the Municipal Bureau of Administrative Comprehensive Law Enforcement, said that through the carriers like “Travel all over Qinhuangdao”, the smart management platform, and “Washing the city by all of the people”, Qinhuangdao had realized the refined, smart and public management.
In addition, Qinhuangdao City has also set high standards for urban planning, promoted urban and rural construction, comprehensively improved urban infrastructure, enhanced refined urban management, created a beautiful and livable urban environment, and formed a siphon effect of talent and industry.
Yanyangli community in Haigang District, an old and dilapidated old community, has demolished illegal buildings, and been “transformed” into a beautiful garden. The “Maoye Twin Towers” in the west section of Hebei Street in Haigang District is about to become a new urban landmark and trade center... In order to build a first-class international tourist city, Qinhuangdao has implemented construction projects such as Maoye Complex, Wanda Plaza, Qinhuangdao Railway Station, Olympic Sports Center and Cultural Square, and built a number of urban appearance model streets and commercial characteristic blocks. At the same time, we continued to demolish 29,117 illegal buildings of 16.395 million square meters, focusing on building an internationally renowned tourist port and a modern integrated trading port in line with the idea of “building the city by the port, and integrating the city and the port”.
The advantage support is more effective
On the basis of drastically reducing excess capacity such as steel and cement, and banning unqualified enterprises, Qinhuangdao focuses on the advantageous industries such as tourism, health care, and high-tech industries, to achieve transformation and upgrading and structural optimization.
“We regard tourism as the first and leading industry, highlighting ‘be able to know, to reach, to enjoy, and to sustain’, and building a national all-for-one tourism demonstration zone with high standards.” Said Zhang Ruishu, mayor of Qinhuangdao City.
In recent years, Qinhuangdao City has accelerated the transformation and upgrading of tourism, created new-type tourism projects such as Shanhai Tourism Railway, Grape Town and Tiannv Town, gradually formed a new brand of all-for-one tourism of “Tourism + Health care + Ecology + Culture + Agriculture”, expanded winter tourism projects and services, lengthened the travel timeline, and made the tourist peak season become longer and more popular, and the off-season shorter and more flourishing.
In 2016, Beidaihe Innovation Demonstration Zone for Life and Health Industry was established, which marks the Qinhuangdao Health Care Industry embarked on a high-quality development journey. 12 top medical institutions at home and abroad have settled in the Life Science Park, and key projects like the International Health Center have been put into operation. 46 key projects have been accelerated, and the spatial pattern of “one core and five areas”, that is, a core area, plus areas of leisure, recuperation and vacation, comprehensive support services, airport trading, green agriculture, and ecological conservation has been fully opened.
It is reported that Qinhuangdao City is focusing on the development of high-end medical services, biomedicine, medical equipment, high-end health care and old-age care, health management and other industries, making a better big health industry system of “five in one”, that is, the integration of medical treatment, medication, recuperation, health care, and tourism, so that the life and health industry can be a new engine for Qinhuangdao’s green and high quality development. (Written by a reporter and correspondent of Economic Daily, China Economic Net)
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