Source: Haigang District Today
Do you know the history of Jinmeng (Golden Dream) Bay?
In the past 70 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Jinmeng Bay has grown from nothing. Compared with the new China of 70 years old, Jinmeng Bay is just a “child” of 7 years old. The establishment of the new China has brought development opportunities to the city, and cultivated a rising star of Bohai Sea in the west coast of Haigang District, that is Jinmeng Bay Business and Tourism Resort.
Jinmeng Bay Area is an important landmark and tourism economic plate featured with characteristics of the coastal area of Qinhuangdao City, which is positioned as the “coastal core area” and is renowned as the “second center” of the city, with the area of about 4.66 square kilometers, coastline of 3.6 kilometers long, total planned construction area of 3.1297 million square meters, and a total area of 2,700 mu. Now Jinmeng Bay has become a new business card of Haigang District, with golden beaches, long wooden trestles, prosperous commerce, and clean streets. There are currently 7 high-end star-rated hotels, such as Shangri-La Hotel, Qinhuang International Hotel, and Shoulv Jinglun Hotel, and so on. 5 high-end residential areas have been built, 2 are under construction, and other 8 squares including Hailan, Haiyue and Haishi, and so on, and 9 parking lots have been built.
It is the first choice for tourists from other places to Haigang District, for business and exhibition activities, for the general public to take a leisurely walking, for lovers posing for wedding pictures, and for college students to take graduation photos.
Large-scale events are held here every year, such as Beach Music Festival, Qinhuangdao Marathon Competition, Hiking Festival, National Coal Trade Fair and so on, which attracted many tourists. There are popular tourist resorts, majestic commercial exhibitions, youthful vitality, and healthy and fresh air.
“When I first came to Jinmeng Bay in 2012, there was only one high-end hotel here, and two high-grade residences of Jinmeng Bay No.1 and the No. 1 View of Jinmeng Bay. The fisherman’s cabins scattering on the uneven beach looked like unpleasant scars on the beautiful seaside. After 7 years of construction and development, great changes have taken place here, the established high-end hotels, high-grade residences, sea-viewing squares, wooden trestle directly to the Beidaihe Pigeon Nest, bicycle lanes throughout the Jingmeng Bay area, and above all, the fisherman’s cabins are eliminated!” said Liang Jun, director of the Jinmeng Bay Management Committee Office, with mixed feelings when talking about the history of the growth of Jinmeng Bay.
In 2007, Qinhuangdao actively developed Jinmeng Bay area, established the Development Headquarters of Jinmeng Bay Projects, and organized the development of Jinmeng Bay Real Estate and West Bathing Beach Renovation Project Phase I.
Before the development and construction, the 3.6-kilometer coastline was full of sands and weeds. Smelly fishing nets was hung everywhere on the cabins and boats, disgusting even in the golden sun. How to develop the wasteland into tourist attraction has become the social concern.
In 2012, in order to promote the better and faster development of Jinmeng Bay, the municipal government handed over the management of Jinmeng Bay Area to the Haigang District government, and the Qinhuangdao Jinmeng Bay Business and Tourism Resort Management Committee was officially established, and the Jinmeng Bay Business and Tourism Resort Management Work Committee of the Haigang District CPC Party Committee was established too.
Planning goes first in development and construction. The Haigang District party committee and the district government changed their thoughts and clearly defined Jinmeng Bay Area as the “new node” for coastal first-line development, the “new hot spot” for economic development in Qinhuangdao area, and the “support point” for big tourism development. The Haigang District party committee and district government organized relevant units to study and drew a conclusion that the development and construction of Jinmeng Bay area should be based on the advantages of the inner location in the urban area and the resources of blue sea and golden sand, and learned from the development experience of Jinshatan in Qingdao and Xinghaiwan in Dalian, to build a high-end business and tourism resort that integrates business exhibitions and coastal resorts, and strive to create a landmark featured with characteristics of a coastal center of “city & sea” in Haigang District.
In the past few years, Jinmeng Bay area has undergone 3 transformations, and established 8 sea-viewing and theme squares, completed 150,000 cubic meters of sand to fill the beach, expanded beaches of 135 mu, built landscapes, increased vegetation of more than 250,000 plants of over 30 kinds, added green area of 56,000 square meters, created Jinmeng Bay wooden trestle of about 4,200 meters, and successfully docked with the original wooden trestle of Beidaihe, forming the Qinhuangdao ten-thousand-meter wooden trestle--the longest pro-sea beach trestle in China, built colorful bicycle lane of 2.4 km along the wooden trestle, completed Jinmeng Bay ecological footpath, finished Wenchang Road railway level crossing project to completely open the largest traffic obstruction point in Hebei Street and Jinmeng Bay Business and Tourism Resort.
Planning, development and construction followed by management. After several years of development, maintenance and management has gradually become the focus of Jinmeng Bay area.
In Jinmeng Bay area, the management committee has established a mechanized, standardized and professional cleaning team, equipped with professional cleaning vehicles, such as sweeping cars, beach cleaning vehicles, sprinklers and speed cleaning vehicles for large-area mechanization and efficient cleaning. At the same time, the whole area is divided into 6 grids, 3 to 4 staff members are responsible for the environmental sanitation and infrastructure in each grid, inspecting and dealing with problems in time.
“Jingmeng Bay will definitely get better and better. We will continue to improve the refined management and humanized service, and at the same time develop the economic format of the area, so that Jinmeng Bay will become a comprehensive tourist resort with beautiful environment, mature management, prosperous business and good order.” said Ma Zhiguo.
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