Workers are setting up ecological floating islands in the moat of Qinhuangdao. Photo to Hebei Daily
It feels like a tranquil scroll matching the blue sky, clear water, green roads, and lush mountains very well when you ride along the Beidaihe Binhai Avenue in the morning breeze.
As an important node city for the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the first developed coastal area in Hebei province, Qinhuangdao actively integrates into the “Belt and Road” and the overall construction of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration and the Bohai Rim port group, aiming to build a “first-class international tourist city”, embarking on the road of high-quality development featuring ecological priority, innovation-driven, overall planning and coordination, and striving for the start of the “14th Five-Year Plan” and rapid development.
• A beautiful port city with improved ecological environment
“Birds are sounded here and there, and flowers are in full bloom among lush forests.” The water plants thrive in the Beidaihe National Wetland Park, a red and white water bird is quiet and elegant, and forages by the water,
“Birds are very picky about the environment. Beidaihe is a paradise for migratory birds, and it is the best place for me to watch them. I took many wonderful pictures of them each time I came here.” said the photographer Song Qingyun from Beijing, who was pleased to a better ecological environment in Beidaihe.
Adhering to the principle of “Lucid water and lush mountains are invaluable assets”, Qinhuangdao city has developed the city with ecology, and the ecological environment has been improved significantly.
It has won the honorable titles of national civilized city, national forest city, and national sanitary city.
Qinhuangdao boasts of a 162.7-kilometer coastline with soft sand and calm waves, and the 223-kilometer Ming Great Wall traversing east to west. It is known as the Great Wall Waterfront Park, the Beijing-Tianjin Back Garden, and the bird-watching capital of China, attracting tens of millions of tourists home and abroad for leisure and vacation.
“Ecological environment is the root and foundation of Qinhuangdao. It is our responsibility and mission to protect the ecological environment. All walks of life across the city must pay attention to ecological construction completely and comprehensively, so that all Qinhuangdao people can live in a better ecological environment.” said Zhu Zhengxue, secretary of the Qinhuangdao Municipal Party Committee.
In recent years, Qinhuangdao has launched the campaigns to protect the blue sky, clear water, and pure land. The average concentration of PM2.5 dropped by 17% in 2020, the air quality reached the national second-level standard, and the number of days of good quality reached 297 days. The water quality of 10 national and provincial test sections met the standards, and all the coastal waters reached Class I sea water quality.
The clean heating and clean coal heating were implemented in 406,500 households in rural areas, 475,700-mu afforestation was completed, sewage treatment was conducted in 230 village, 370 hectares of green space was added, more than 70 parks and gardens were built or renovated, and the per capita park green area reached 17.83 square meters ……The ecology is getting better, the city and rural areas are getting more beautiful.
The flood-draining river, dubbed “Longxugou” by the public, used to smelly and no fauna and flora at all. After comprehensive ecological management, especially the promotion of wetland construction and restoration, the water source is fundamentally conserved and water quality purified. The banks of the river are green, fish swim and birds forage in the water.
“We must treasure the hard-won achievements in ecological management!” commented Shi Yanhuan, who is 70 years old, and ,took the initiative to become a cleaner and supervisor of the flood drainage river.
•All-for-one health care, emerging industries are booming
On March 17 this year, the Yashe · International Oral Health Medical Industrial Park project, with a total investment of about 700 million yuan, was signed in Beidaihe New District, aiming to build a group dental industry base.
Relying on its own advantages, Qinhuangdao has precisely positioned its strategic emerging industry cultivation and development goals, focusing on key areas such as new medical technology, new equipment, new drugs, health big data, artificial intelligence, etc., to promote the in-depth integration of tourism, medical, and health care industries, and accelerate the establishment of a big health industry chain featuring “medical treatment, medication, recuperation, health care, and tourism”, to take care of people’s health in the whole life cycle, serve people’s health in the whole chain, and develop the health industry in an all-round way.
In 2016, with the approval of the State Council, 13 ministries and commissions including the National Development and Reform Commission jointly approved the establishment of the Beidaihe Life Science and Healthcare Innovation Demonstration Zone, which boosts Qinhuangdao’s health care industry. In 2019, Qinhuangdao achieved 15.222 billion yuan in added value of the health care industry, accounting for 9.4% of the city’s regional GDP. A health care industrial pattern of all-for-one, full chain and full cycle is rapidly emerging.
Tourists visit the characteristic courtyards in Beidaihe Village. In recent years, the old houses in this village attracted many well-known artists and art institutions from Beijing and Tianjin, to create a unique art village. Photo by Zhao Jie/Hebei Daily
In order to promote the vigorous development of the industry, Qinhuangdao has successively completed 11 special plans such as the “Demonstration Zone ‘441’ Big Health Industry System Plan”, extending the health industry to various industries; issued 27 supporting policies on new technologies and new drugs, to provide experimental demonstrations for the country to formulate inclusive policies; played the role of the national comprehensive innovation pilot of the rehabilitation aid device industry and the pilot of the city-enterprise linkage inclusive elderly care, to continuously enhance the attractiveness and influence of the health care industry; took the lead in carrying out the statistical classification standards and related statistical surveys of the health industry, and compiled and published the “Statistical Classification Standards and Accounting Methods of Qinhuangdao Health Care Industry”, which has made useful explorations for promoting the standardization and institutionalization of China’s health care industry statistical investigations.
Under the overall situation of the coordinated development strategy of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Qinhuangdao actively undertakes the transfer of the medical industry in Beijing and Tianjin, promoting new breakthroughs in high-end medical projects, and developing the health care industry. Up to now, nearly a hundred medical and nursing institutions at home and abroad have started up businesses in Qinhuangdao.
Workers are busy operating cranes for the waterproofing projects in Qinhuangdao Hospital of Peking University Third Hospital in the Economic and Technological Development Zone.
“It is expected that the underground works will be completed by the end of May, and the main structure construction of the above-ground works will be carried out then.” said Zeng Fanming, manager of the Jian’an Branch of Qinhuangdao Municipal Group and project manager of Qinhuangdao Hospital of the Third Hospital of Peking University Third Hospital.
The Qinhuangdao Hospital of the Peking University Third Hospital has a total investment of 2.83 billion yuan and has 1,000 beds. It will introduce 20 national key clinical specialties such as sports medicine and reproductive medicine, and will provide Qinhuangdao citizens with high-quality medical services.
•Intelligent manufacturing promotes industry upgrading
In the aluminum wheel line 6 of CITIC Dicastal Co., Ltd., known as the “factory of the future”, the fully automatic digital production line has realized “non-contact manufacturing”.
This traditional auto parts company that has produced the first aluminum wheel in China with artificial intelligence and intelligent equipment has shown a new look of high-quality development.
Line 6, with an annual output of 3 million aluminum wheels, has only more than 300 workers. The per capita annual labor efficiency has increased from 4,500 to 9,000, and the defective product rate has been reduced by 45%, realizing the pedigree of the product.
Auto parts manufacturing is a traditional advantageous industry in Qinhuangdao. Relying on the provincial demonstration base of the intelligent manufacturing industry in the Economic and Technological Development Zone, the CITIC Dicastal and Dicastal Xinglong have achieved intelligent upgrades. In 2018, the provincial demonstration base of Qinhuangdao intelligent manufacturing industry achieved an industrial added value of 4.04 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.1%.
Future factories, unmanned workshops, robotic arms... Qinhuangdao focuses on new opportunities for digital, networked, and intelligent development, accelerating the transformation and upgrading of traditional advantageous industries such as equipment manufacturing, food processing, metal rolling, cultural and sports tourism, and port logistics, developing strategic emerging industries such as life science and health, information intelligence, green building, energy conservation and environmental protection, speeding up the development of future high-potential industries such as high-end software and creative design, and building a “532” modern industrial system with Qinhuangdao characteristics.
In 2020, the added value of Qinhuangdao’s equipment manufacturing industry increased by 16% year-on-year, which is 75% higher than the city’s average growth rate, and accounts for 39.6% of the city’s designated-above industries, driving the city’s designated-above industrial growth by 60%.
The conversion of new and old kinetic energy has been accelerated. Qinhuangdao insists on the principle of the “integration of the port and city”, promoting the construction of an open and modern coastal industrial system through the transformation of Qinhuangdao Port, and accelerating the building of an internationally renowned tourist port and a modern comprehensive trading port.
On November 18, 2020, the Qinhuangdao Comprehensive Bonded Zone was officially put into operation. At present, many companies in the auto parts, logistics distribution and other industries have settled in, and new business forms such as public bonded warehouses and cold chain logistics are entering.
The “Golden Port” is getting the “golden benefits”.
Focusing on the good start of the “14th Five-Year Plan”, Qinhuangdao will grasp the new development stage, implement the new development concept, and build a new development pattern in 2021, firmly establish the work orientation of “politics, courage, implementation, and development” , earnestly carry out various activities in this construction year, coordinate the promotion of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, strive to promote economic stability and long-term, social stability and harmony, and accelerate the comprehensive construction of a strong modernized international coastal city and beautiful port city, for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC.
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