On the last day of 2021, Shanghai citizens received a "New Year gift".
On the same day, the Expo Cultural Park (North District), which has been built for several years, was officially opened, and on New Year's Day 2022, it ushered in the "punch card fever" of citizens.
At the same time, the news released shows that the entire Expo Cultural Park will be built according to the requirements of "a century plan and a century of fine products", and it is expected to complete the main construction by the end of 2023 and open the whole park in 2024, "so that citizens can walk into the forest, appreciate the garden, see the greenery, feel the culture, get close to the beautiful scenery, and share the beauty" in this urban park.
The 2-square-kilometer Expo Cultural Park is located on the banks of the Huangpu River, and if the land is developed, the income valuation of this area should be in the hundreds of billions. In recent years, people have calculated this "account" on many occasions to interpret "leaving the best resources to the people" - for a "people's city", this is a fundamental value orientation.
From the perspective of urban governance, the Expo Cultural Park is obviously a microcosm. In addition to the trade-offs between the use of "100 billion land", the planning and design, landscape construction, etc., also show the "people's nature" of the "people's city" at many levels.
On the day of the opening of the park on December 31, Li Qiang, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, and others attended the opening activities, but it was not the municipal leaders who stood on the "C position" to start the opening device, but the representatives of the park builders, residents and community units.
They are direct beneficiaries of the park and also direct contributors. Many of the ideas of the Expo Cultural Park come from ordinary Shanghai citizens, such as the famous "Twin Mountains" - in 2017, some citizens suggested that they "pile mountains and landscapes" here to make up for the lack of mountains in Shanghai, and to overlook the banks of the Pujiang River at the top of the mountain. This suggestion was later adopted, and the mountain view and the commercial buildings were "in the same frame" and would become an important landscape on the banks of the Huangpu River in the future.
In many other aspects, urban governance has also paid more and more attention to the wisdom of grassroots and ordinary citizens. Two days before the opening of the Expo Cultural Park, Shanghai held a summary meeting of the 2021 annual people's proposal collection work. When Li Qiang met with the representatives of the winners of the outstanding people's suggestions before the meeting, he said that the "golden ideas" of many Shanghai citizens have become the "golden keys" of urban governance and the "golden fruits" of benefiting the people and benefiting the people.
"Wisdom is among the people," he said, adding that Shanghai should better improve the people's suggestion collection mechanism, "take every suggestion seriously, and let more citizens join the ranks of giving suggestions and suggestions for urban development."
For Shanghai, these measures on new year's eve once again make people think about the deep meaning of the connotation of "people's city" - this is a city "for the people", a city that "relies on the people", and a city that "belongs to the people". Whether or not to fully respect the subjectivity of citizens in the city and highlight its value is directly related to the nature and quality of the city.
A week earlier, Li Qiang had said at the meeting to promote the refinement of urban management that Shanghai should become "a desirable city and a city that people will never return to.". Such a city, must be a city with a special spirit and a special taste in the subtleties, needs to work the details and subtleties to add the warmth, comfort and poetry of the city.
At the same time, such a city should also "consider urban planning, construction, management and other work from the standpoint of the masses, let the masses express their opinions, discover problems, let the masses jointly build and share, and better demonstrate the value of people." From the perspective of urban governance, this is a kind of "sincerity".
In the year 2022, fully demonstrating sincerity is not just a topic in the field of urban spatial governance.
On the afternoon of the opening of the Expo Cultural Park (North District), at the last Standing Committee meeting of the Municipal Party Committee in 2021, a major task for the New Year was set: to carry out a large visit and inspection of leading cadres at all levels to "promote development and ensure safety".
The meeting pointed out that this work will be carried out throughout the city at the beginning of 2022, "to carefully organize, to seek practical results, to go to the grass-roots level, into the village, into the enterprise, in-depth listening to opinions, comprehensively find problems, timely come up with measures, focus on solving a number of bottlenecks affecting development, effectively resolve a number of risks and hidden dangers affecting safety, and continue to promote economic development, improvement of people's livelihood, social harmony, and safe operation of the city."
On January 4, 2022, Li Qiang and other main leaders of the four sets of municipal teams went to Chinese and foreign enterprises and grass-roots communities on the first day of the new year to understand the opinions and suggestions of enterprises in Shanghai, and inspect the prevention and resolution of regional risks and hidden dangers and the work related to epidemic prevention and control.
Previously, Shanghai has had several similar "big visits" - the "big survey" launched in 2018, and the leading cadres launched in 2020 to visit enterprises, and developed into a normalized system that continues to this day.
The above-mentioned actions are not only to urge party and government organs and leading cadres at all levels to take the initiative to sink to the front line to discover problems and solve problems, but also to release positive signals to the social side, especially the main body of the market. In February 2020, shortly after the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and the severe impact on the economy, Li Qiang asked cadres at all levels to go to the side of the enterprise and effectively help solve the difficulties.
"When (the enterprise) is in difficulty, you can't be present, can you help, the feeling of the enterprise is different." He said.
Nowadays, the "big visit" plus the "big investigation" covers a wider range of fields, which is related to the economy, urban governance and public safety, but the core essence is still to understand the difficulties, blockages and pain points in the process of economic and social development to the greatest extent and solve them in a targeted manner. The aim, after all, is to boost the expectations, confidence and quality of development.
When visiting enterprises, Li Qiang said that Shanghai will actively implement national policies, let market players enjoy policy preferences in full and in a timely manner, and continue to create a world-class business environment, provide enterprises with more accurate and targeted quality services, and better help enterprises solve difficulties and boost confidence.
He also stressed that through visits and investigations, it is necessary to "really help solve the bottlenecks and difficulties in the development of enterprises, and better ensure the safety, harmony and stability of the city."
More than two weeks ago, the Economic Work Conference of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee specifically talked about the problems of insufficient confidence and unstable expectations faced by some enterprises at present, and called for effective relief through continuous and in-depth visits, research, and classified measures. At that time, Li Qiang listed a variety of problems that enterprises have reflected prominently, and said that leading cadres at all levels should go down as soon as possible and "really go, really go down, and really solve problems."
"The introduction of policies for common problems and the offline coordination of personality issues", he repeatedly stressed that party and government organs and leading cadres should fully demonstrate the sincerity of serving and supporting enterprises, so as to "work together in the same boat and share hardships and hardships".
Such sincerity can be fully realized and fully implemented, which can be transformed into relatively stable expectations and even reform dividends. It is also on this basis that people can feel the real "warmth", and then feel the "comfort" and even "poetry" - whether it is for the public or the main body of the market.
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