The blast furnace of the first plant of Shanghai Steel has now been transformed into a "golden furnace", which not only retains industrial memory, but also injects vitality into production transformation and life renewal. Wusong Innovation City in Baoshan District, a rare "coat material" in Shanghai's urban development, is constantly staging vivid stories from "industrial rust belt" to "art show belt". Looking to the future, there is a higher pursuit here - clinging to the word "innovation" and building a model of urban renewal.
The new momentum of a region's development is often inseparable from the transformation of old industries and the cultivation of new industries, and its driving force comes from scientific and technological innovation. Because of this, Chen Jie, secretary of the Baoshan District Party Committee, said that this will be a fundamental and strategic adjustment that will take up to decades.
To this end, Wusong Innovation City openly solicited construction plans from the world this year. Chen Jie revealed that the relevant departments are conducting in-depth analysis of the shortlisted plans, systematically planning functional zoning and spatial structure planning, and striving to build Wusong Innovation City into a national old industrial base transformation and development demonstration area and an international innovative and creative industry functional agglomeration area.
Increase the concentration of science and technology innovation and achieve more innovative breakthroughs from "1 to 100"
The convergence of various resources helps to stimulate a steady stream of innovation. Baoshan District is actively opening up various blockages from "laboratory" to "production line", and Wusong Innovation City is the key point of strength. Last week, the Baoshan Fudan Science and Technology Innovation Center was announced. The transformation bases of scientific and technological achievements of 12 engineering technology research centers of Fudan University will be settled here. In the future, the center will focus on emerging fields such as chemical materials, information electronics, and equipment manufacturing, and transform the results of science and technology services throughout the life cycle.
To optimize the innovation ecology, it is also necessary to condense the wisdom of all parties including the government, universities, and the market. In the future, many technology financial service institutions are also expected to enter Wusong Innovation City. Therefore, with the organic integration of innovative resource elements, the concentration of regional science and technology innovation is comprehensively improved. In the view of many experts, the future of Wusong Innovation City can be compared with Kendall Square in Cambridge near Boston. From the government to promote space renewal, university-led innovation transformation to market forces to participate in space creation, and strive to achieve more "from 1 to 100" innovation breakthroughs.
Inject "art +", always based on people's perception as the yardstick
Renderings of the Upper University of Fine Arts
Scientific and technological innovation, in the final analysis, serves people, so we must always put people's feelings in the "priority". Chen Jie believes that this fully explains why a city or a region must inject more artistic elements if it wants to seek innovation and change in science and technology.
On both sides of the river, residents are happy to bid farewell to the gray days of the past. Up to now, there are 258 yards in Baoshan District, and 104 have been cleaned up. The iterative upgrading of the industry has created another possibility for the production and life of the waterfront. On the shore of Wisdom Bay, the long-idle bridge shade space is gradually lit up. Football fields, basketball courts... The diverse and flexible leisure space not only realizes the functional compound utilization, but also allows urban life to have a different way of opening.
Baoshan District also plans to build a central steel park of about 560 hectares to strengthen the sustainable development of the ecological environment of Wusong Innovation City, and at the same time strengthen the function of central iron and steel park to preserve historical context and memory. Not far from the park, the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University (Wusong Campus) will further transform and build a cultural and creative base to return more production and living space to the people.
Return to small-scale blocks and make strong links between excellent people and people
Adhering to the concept of "people-oriented", Baoshan District focuses on returning to small neighborhoods with pleasant scales in planning, building a slow-moving transportation system with rich layers and three-dimensional structures, and realizing the organic synergy of public transportation and personal travel. In particular, by improving the density of the road network and improving the composite function of transportation, enriching the "capillaries" of Wusong Innovation City, increasing the accessibility of roads in small blocks, and promoting green transportation and low-carbon environmental protection.
Environment first, ecology first, as early as the beginning of Wusong Innovation City to draw the blueprint, this green concept was written into the planning. According to the "Wusong Innovation City Construction Plan", the proportion of ecological green space in Wusong Innovation City is not less than 25%. In addition, because Baoshan District is located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, it may encounter typhoons and rainy seasons every year. Therefore, in the construction, it will also run the sponge city concept through the whole process, create a green and low-carbon transformation model, continuously improve the quality of the ecological environment, and build livable neighborhoods and urban areas.
Source: Wen Wei Po
Editor: Ge Jinghong