Source: The Beijing News
Many Beijing citizens choose to spent their summer vacation in Qinhuangdao seaside for a holiday tour.
However, maybe many people have no idea that Qinhuangdao in recent years is accelerating the construction of international coastal capital of leisure and vacation and international health city, creating a first-class international tourist city.
Then what has Qinhuangdao done for this goal? And what achievements has it made? Zhang Ruishu, mayor of Qinhuangdao City, gave a detailed answer when he was interviewed by The Beijing News.
On tourism
“Come to Qinhuangdao, Health Never Fall.”
The Beijing News: As a famous tourist city, how does Qinhuangdao further promote tourism to the all-for-one, all-season, and all-format? How to create a first-class international tourist city?
Zhang Ruishu: The new era has provided new opportunities for the development of tourism. The tourism industry has entered the golden age of “big development”. The Qinhuangdao Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government regard the tourism industry as the priority and basic industry in the city, and take the all-for-one tourism as an effective way to upgrade Qinhuangdao tourism, and promote high-quality development of the tourism themed with “Come to Qinhuangdao, Health Never Fall”..
In order to build a first-class international tourist city, we will highlight the following characteristics.
The first is the mountains and sea. As for the sea, we have coordinated the development and protection of marine tourism resources, reformed and upgraded a number of old scenic spots, such as Beidaihe and Pigeon’s Nest, created a number of new highlights, such as the Ledao Ocean Park, enriched marine tourism products, such as sea buses and floating islands, and showed tourists the unique and beautiful marine natural scenery of Qinhuangdao. As for the mountains, we have made full use of the resources of the northern shallow mountain area, and carried out the transformation and upgrading of the Liujiang Geopark and other scenic spots according to the 5A level scenic spot standard, and constructed a number of characteristic towns, such as Tiannv Town, Bancheng Town, and Grape Town, and actively created a combined tourist products of “ski + hot spring + red wine + scenic experience”. As for the mountain and sea linkage, we opened the channel of mountains and sea in Qinhuangdao through the sea cruise, tourist railway, highway and sightseeing bus, so that tourists can experience wonderful feeling of “cars running on the road, tourists traveling in the scenery”.
The second is the Great Wall. We adhere to the concept and mode of “Great Wall +”, relied on the unique Great Wall cultural heritage of more than 200 kilometers in the territory, systematically integrated the resources around the Great Wall, and created a multi-functional International Great Wall Tourism Culture Belt integrating of mountain climbing, hiking, walking, mountain biking, outdoor recreation, rural leisure and so on. In particular, relying on “the First Pass under Heaven” the world-class Great Wall cultural brand, through the construction of the Great Wall Museum, the theme performances, etc., we explored the in-depth cultural heritage to create “The First Ancient City under Heaven” that integrates the Great Wall guard, military fortress, national customs, history and culture and other elements.
The third is the Beidaihe. Since modern times, Beidaihe has been the perfect place for leisure and vacation. We will continue to enrich the tourism industry, enhance the high-end vacation level, fully rely on coastal, beach, forest, hot springs, wetlands and other resources, to attract investment from the domestic and foreign-funded enterprises, and create a large number of large-scale theme parks and boutique scenic spots with great influence and power. We will enhance the management level of bathing beaches, and strive to create a unique international coast, such as “Romantic Coast” and “Passionate Coast”, in accordance with the principle of highlighting the regional natural characteristics and humanistic charm.
While building the brand, we will continue to improve the environment and try our best to meet the needs of tourists in the catering, accommodation, transportation, tourism, shopping, and entertainment, and attract tourists to stay in Qinhuangdao.
On health care
“Hainan Island in the south and Qinhuangdao in the north”
The Beijing News: As a health resort, Qinhuangdao City included Health Care Industry in the “13th Five-Year Plan” in 2016. How to accurately develop Qinhuangdao City based on medical treatment, medication, recuperation, health care, and tourism? At present, what achievements on health care industry has Qinhuangdao made?
Zhang Ruishu: The first national-level life and health industry innovation demonstration zone approved by the State Council in 2016 is the Beidaihe Life and Health Industry Innovation Demonstration Zone in Qinhuangdao. In September 2018, we formed a docking communication mechanism with Boao Lecheng Medical Tourism Pioneer Zone, and initially formed the development pattern of life and health industry with “Hainan Island in the south and Qinhuangdao in the north”.
In recent years, relying on our unique advantages, we have accelerated the construction of a five-in-one health-care industrial cluster of “medical treatment, medication, recuperation, health care, and tourism”, which has added strong momentum and vitality to urban development.
“Medical treatment” - to strengthen high-end medical care. Focusing on the world’s most advanced medical science, we focus on the development of new format of health service, such as genetic testing, telemedicine, and individualized treatment, and initially formed a characteristic high-end medical industry cluster, integrating diagnostics, treatment and recuperation, taking the precision medicine as the core.
“Medication” - speed up the development of the layout. We have completed 150,000-square-meter life science park project Phase I, started construction of a 50,000-square-meter bio-industry port, cooperated with Beijing University of Chemical Technology to build a pilot plant for biomedicine and medical devices, promoted the construction of a biomedical research and development base, established postdoctoral research stations and research institutes, medical big data centers, and clinical trial centers. Taking this as a driving force, Qinglong Chinese herbal medicine planting and processing base was built. The planting area of Chinese herbal medicines was 135,000 mu, and the output value reached 340 million yuan.
“Recuperation” - improve the level of health care. We will make efforts to promote the continuous upgrading of the health care industry, build a demonstration base for recuperation and old-age care, vigorously carry out recuperation services for the elderly people, fully develop home-based care industry, and 46 home care service centers have been built, covering 80% of community streets. National Research Center for Rehabilitation Technical Aids and Qinhuangdao Branch Center have been established to create “Mountains and sea in Qinhuangdao, health care resort, and auxiliary new city”.
“Health care” - form the scale effect. We have established the Health Management Science Alliance and the first HRA Community Health Management Center to provide residents with HRA health risk assessment system functional medical testing, EIS red blood cell functional status testing and other inspection services. In the future, health management services will also get close to more people.
“Tourism” - create more prosperous health tourism. We aim to build international health tourism destination, actively enhance the deep integration of medical care, health care, old-age care and leisure tourism, vigorously promote the construction of health tourism projects, and boost the development of all-for-one and all-season medical and health tourism. As the saying goes, “Come to Qinhuangdao, health never fall!” Welcome to Qinhuangdao.
On ecology
Make the sky bluer, the water clearer, the earth greener
The Beijing News: General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the concept of “Lucid Waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets”. In recent years, Qinhuangdao City takes the strategy of “establishing the city by ecology” as the priority, and also proposes to build an ecological model city for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration. How does Qinhuangdao practice the strategy and achieve green development?
Zhang Ruishu: Ecology is environmental protection for other cities, but it is a matter of life and death for Qinhuangdao. Therefore, we clearly put forward the strategy of “establishing the city by ecology”, insisting on fundamentally protecting the ecological advantages, and continuously improving the ecological environment of human settlements, so that the natural scenery, such as blue sea, golden sand, lush mountains and lucid waters, will be more beautiful.
In 2018, the city’s air quality reached the standard for 285 days, an increase of 17 days year-on-year; the average concentration of fine particles (PM2.5) was 38 micrograms per cubic meter, down 13.6% year-on-year, and finished in advance the mission of the average concentration of fine particles over 41 micrograms per cubic meter. In terms of water environment quality, the water quality compliance rate of the 10 major rivers is 100%, and the water quality of the 9 monitoring points in the coastal waters all meet the requirements of the functional area. The main monitoring indicators of the 8 bathing beaches in Beidaihe reach a standard ratio of nearly 100%, the water quality compliance rate of drinking water sources is 100%, and the water environment quality continues to improve.
In order to make the sky bluer, we have strengthened the three major measures of structure, engineering and management emission reduction by focusing on drastically reducing the discharge of major pollutants, completed in advance the de-construction task of steel, cement and glass in “13th Five-Year Plan”, focused on rectifying the polluted enterprises, strengthened bulk coal remediation, eliminated coal-fired boilers, and vigorously implemented cleaning heating project in winter, strengthened the prevention and control of motor vehicle pollution, and the dust pollution control of construction sites.
In order to make the water clearer, we have taken the lead in the province in establishing the “River chief system” at the level of city, county, town and village, and continuously strengthened the comprehensive management of the river system into the sea. Five new sewage treatment plants were newly built with the newly added sewage treatment capacity of 150,000 tons, which continuously reduced the burden of the river. The “Bay chief system” pilot has been carried out to ensure that every meter of the beaches is under supervision.
In order to make the land greener, we actively rectified and renovated the open mines, solidly promoted ecological restoration, and vigorously implemented afforestation. At present, the forest coverage rate has exceeded 54%, the green coverage rate in the central city has reached 40.2%, and the per capita park green area has reached 17.6 square meters. The urban environment of “Harmonious ecology and green all seasons” was fully presented, and Qinhuangdao was awarded the title of “National Forest City”.
Reporter Fan Nana from The Beijing News
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