Shougang's broken copper and iron and grinning factory buildings are now priceless. The former industrial rust belt has become a life show belt, which is becoming a unique urban landscape in western Beijing
Once, the added value of Shougang industry accounted for more than 50% of the GDP of Shijingshan, and with the complete suspension of Shougang's steel-related industry, a transformation and entrepreneurship drama of releasing development potential and changing cages for birds was staged in Shijingshan
The Phoenix Nirvana in Shijingshan District is a vivid epitome of Beijing's urban construction paying more attention to reducing quantity and improving quality, shifting from gathering resources for growth to relieving functions for development
Wen | "Lookout" News Weekly reporter Xu Renjie Wu Wenxuan Yang Na
When the city of steel meets the Olympic festival, the old industry collides with the new fashion passion, and the former heavy industry base is transformed into a new industrial base such as finance, e-sports, cultural creation, science fiction, sports, etc., and the industrial "rust belt" is re-injected with vitality and releases the unique charm of urban development in the new era.
When the mother river of the city that has been cut off for decades is once again fully connected, the water and grass are abundant, the blue waves are rippling, the industrial heritage and natural scenery shine together, and the tourists who stroll through it sincerely sigh that "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains"...
70 years ago, Beijing's Shijingshan District flourished with the vigorous development of Shougang. 70 years later, in the more than ten years since Shougang implemented the unprecedented relocation, successive district committees and district governments in Shijingshan District have continued to exert efforts to implement the line, principles, policies and major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee on the development of the capital, focus on the strategic positioning of the capital city, accurately grasp the development opportunities, build a new landmark for the rejuvenation of the capital city in the new era at a high level, and build the western gate of the capital city with high standards.
The new Shougang Bridge across the Yongding River has become a beautiful scene at the western gate of the capital city Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of the Shijingshan District Cpc Committee
Industrial rust belt transforms into life ribbon
"Yongding River, out of the West Mountain, clear water surrounds Beijing Bay. Lu Gou ferry, ferry boat, ferry away spring and autumn to cross the Qin and Han..."
Millions of years ago, the Yongding River, which originated in the northern foothills of the Guanzhuo Mountains, ran to the Taihang Mountains, and the sediment of the Loess Plateau washed away and precipitated to form the Beijing Small Plain, and the Yongding River became the "mother river" that nourished Beijing. The yongding river in history has abundant water, repeatedly changed course, and floods are continuous. From harnessing water and using water to living in harmony with water, the rise and fall of the Yongding River has witnessed the development of Beijing.
In recent years, with the full restoration of the Yongding River's water system and coastal style, this "mother river" has regained its vitality, and the Shijingshan District in jingxi, which is located at the mouth of the Yongding River, has also ushered in a new "green rise".
During this year's National Day holiday, many marathon enthusiasts have gone to the newly built Beijing Winter Olympic Park in Shijingshan District to "punch in". Relying on the Yongding River Greenway slow-moving system, the designers carefully created a fully enclosed runway of the 42-kilometer riverfront standard marathon, connecting lianshihu Park, Yongdinghe Leisure Forest Park, Gaojinggou Estuary Park and Shougang Industrial Site.
"This is a running experience that has never been experienced before, and along the way you can enjoy the lake, mountains, birds and flowers, and you can also see the new cityscape of the capital such as the Ski Jump of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the New Shougang Bridge." Tourist Liu Wen said.
In 2016, with the strong support of the central government and the Beijing Municipality, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games Organizing Committee settled in the new Shougang Park. The remnants of the former repair workshop, coking plant, blast furnace and so on retain the "steel memory" here, and the newly reconstructed Winter Olympics and supporting facilities such as the ski jumping platform and the Shougang Winter Training Center have attracted much attention.
This year's 8 thematic exhibitions of the Beijing Service Trade Fair and its supporting forum meetings and side events were set up for the first time in the New Shougang Park. Walking in the new Shougang Park, the rich industrial heritage is integrated with modern exhibitions, creating a cluster-type exhibition space with urban park attributes. The audience can not only visit and communicate in the exhibition hall group, but also change the scenery step by step, and experience various forms of side events such as the business salon of the service trade fair, the dinner party and the cocktail party in the iconic landscapes such as Shijing Mountain, Xiuchi, Ski Jump, and Three Blast Furnaces.
To the surprise of many, Shougang's broken copper and iron and grinning factory buildings are now priceless. The former industrial rust belt has become a life show belt, which is becoming a unique urban landscape in western Beijing.
At the end of September, the first Beijing Xishan Yongdinghe Cultural Festival sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee opened in Xinshougang Park, and many well-known artists took the stage to perform, and staged a passionate collision of industrial relics and modern symphonies in Shougang's "three blast furnaces"; during the National Day, the Chinese Science Fiction Conference was brilliantly presented in Xinshougang Park, and the huge and peculiar shape of the steelmaking furnace transformed into a strange "science fiction show"; the Winter Olympic Cloud Broadcasting Center, art bookstore, large-scale VR theme park, Covering an area of about 7.8 square kilometers, the new Shougang Park is accelerating the creation of a new landmark for the revitalization of the capital city in the new era.
In the golden autumn, the forest is gradually dyed. The Beijing Bank insurance industrial park under the foothills of the eight major mountains in Shijingshan District is surrounded by mountains and waters, the Lingguang Temple Buddha Tooth Relic is within easy reach, and the Yongding River diversion canal is surrounded by it. "The Beijing Banking and Insurance Industrial Park is led by the government, developed as a whole, and operated by itself, which not only strictly controls land prices, implements planning requirements, but also ensures the overall control of imported industries." Chen Xin, secretary of the party committee and chairman of the board of directors of Beijing Bank insurance industrial park investment holding co., LTD., said.
Li Wenhua, director of the Development and Reform Commission of Shijingshan District, said that in the past ten years since the relocation and adjustment of Shougang, the steel city of Shijingshan District has stepped out of the impact of Shougang's relocation, and the transformation and development results are obvious, and the evaluation results of the 2020 West Beijing Industrial Transformation and Upgrading Demonstration Zone are excellent. In the first half of 2021, the GDP of Shijingshan District reached 85.55 billion yuan, an increase of 4.7% year-on-year; the "1+3+1" high-tech industry achieved revenue of 111.32 billion yuan, an increase of 21.4% year-on-year, of which the modern financial industry accounted for more than 40% of the total income of high-tech industries; Zhongguancun Shijingshan Park was rated as the second batch of national-level "industrial transformation and upgrading demonstration parks", and the park achieved revenue of 165.415 billion yuan, and the leading role of the financial and technological industries was further highlighted.
Seize the opportunity to integrate into the new pattern of development of the capital
Located in the western extension of Chang'an Avenue, only 14 kilometers away from Tiananmen, the Shijingshan District of Beijing with an area of 84.38 square kilometers has long been an important pillar of economic growth, and the added value of Shougang industry has accounted for more than 50% of the GDP of Shijingshan area. Due to the transformation of social and economic development mode and the functional positioning of the capital city, at the end of 2010, the Shougang steel-related industry in Shijingshan District was completely shut down, ending its 91-year history of steel production in Beijing.
The major challenges facing Shijingshan District have followed: the total economic volume and fiscal revenue have fallen sharply, the hollowing out of pillar industries is imminent, and the employment pressure of Shougang's surplus personnel continues to increase. In addition, land resources in Shijingshan District are scarce, the carrier of industrial development is insufficient, and the comprehensive strength of the regional economy is difficult to improve rapidly in the short term.
After in-depth investigation, the party and government leading bodies in Shijingshan District at that time proposed that we should see both the crisis and the opportunity. The relocation adjustment of Shougang will expand the regional development space, improve the ecological environment, make the economic and social development of Shijingshan more in line with functional positioning, and the industrial structure will become more reasonable. The future will be a period of strategic transformation of Shijingshan's economic and social development, a critical period of industrial restructuring and the cultivation of emerging industries, and a period of opportunity for the construction of a demonstration zone for industrial transformation in western Beijing.
Since then, a transformation and entrepreneurship drama that releases the development potential and changes cages for birds has begun. With the strong support of the central government and the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, Shijingshan District integrates policy advantages, actively integrates into the overall situation of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development, deeply promotes the construction of the national service industry comprehensive reform pilot area and the national sustainable development experimental zone, and fully promotes regional transformation and upgrading.
It is understood that through the relief and rectification to promote upgrading, Shijingshan District demolished 12,000 illegal constructions according to law, the city's "scars and chaos points" were basically removed, and the renewable resource recycling market and other formats were all vacated. At the same time, the scientific use of vacated land, the construction of 33,000 new parking spaces, the construction and upgrading of 288 convenient commercial service outlets, the appearance of the urban environment and comprehensive service functions have been greatly improved; the red line of industrial access and the industrial field that encourages development have been clarified, and the stock has been promoted and the increment of high-end; and the major events and exhibition activities such as the Winter Olympics and the Service Trade Fair have been fully prepared, and Shijingshan District has taken advantage of the situation to get rid of difficulties and greatly improve the urban infrastructure and ecological environment.
Entrepreneurship has not been smooth sailing.
When the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee chose to settle in the new Shougang Park in Shijingshan, it was questioned by many people - whether Shijingshan District has the ability to undertake the mission of this country.
The facts and effects are stunning.
Samaranch, Chairman of the Coordination Committee of the International Olympic Committee Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, said that the legacy and sustainable work of the Beijing Olympic Games have achieved remarkable results, the transformation of the new Shougang Park is a living example, and the huge and complex industrial complex has become a sports park and supporting facilities, which have become a highlight of Beijing's urban development after being opened to the public.
Practice shows that Shijingshan District has fought a beautiful turnaround battle for more than ten years: the proportion of secondary and tertiary industries has achieved a successful reversal from 7:3 to 2:8, the tertiary industry has contributed more than 90% to economic growth, and it has won the Commendation of the State Council for "Cities with Obvious Results in The Adjustment and Transformation of Old Industrial Bases" for three times.
Chang Wei, secretary of the Shijingshan District CPC Committee, said that as the central urban area of the capital, Shijingshan adheres to the principle of "drawing a blueprint to the end", the whole district strives to work together and continue to struggle, focusing on the functional positioning given by Beijing's urban master plan, actively integrating into the new development pattern of the capital, regional ecological environment governance, the cultivation of emerging industries, and the organic renewal of the city have achieved remarkable results, the economic development is changing with each passing day, the traffic road network is convenient and efficient, and the agglomeration effect of "one axis and four parks" is gradually emerging, and the "1+3+1" high-tech industrial system is constantly improving. The beautiful gesture of "half landscape and half city" is blooming gorgeously.
Create a new landmark for the revitalization of the capital city in the new era
The outline of the "14th Five-Year Plan" of Beijing Municipality points out that it will accelerate the development of the new Shougang high-end industrial comprehensive service area, complete the construction of the north and southeast districts of Shougang with high quality, accelerate the development of the south district of Shougang, comprehensively improve the functional quality of regional cities, realize regional cultural rejuvenation, ecological rejuvenation, industrial rejuvenation and vitality rejuvenation, and create a new landmark for the rejuvenation of the capital city in the new era.
Walking on the road of high-quality development in Shijingshan District, there are still many shortcomings that need to be filled. As the former cradle of the capital's industry, the problems of "four old and four young" such as old residential areas, old houses and old factories occupy a large area, the proportion of the elderly population is high, and high-quality educational facilities, medical facilities, cultural facilities and high-level talents are prominent, which is extremely incompatible with regional development needs.
With the service guarantee of the Winter Olympics as the starting point, Shijingshan District has successfully created the country's first demonstration area of "driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports". Li Jinting, director of the Shijingshan District Sports Bureau, introduced that the whole district will follow the "one-two-fifty" construction goal, that is, set up a new business card of "Shijingshan on Ice", build two ice and snow talent bases, and the proportion of people participating in ice and snow activities in the whole district will reach 50%, forming a "billion" ice and snow and related industry scale.
High-tech industrial agglomeration is an inevitable choice for the high-quality development of Shijingshan District in the future. In accordance with the requirements of Beijing's construction of a global digital economy benchmark city, Shijingshan will focus on the construction of "two districts" and the linkage of "five sons" to cultivate and expand the "1+3+1" high-tech industry. At present, the fast-growing enterprises represented by Le Elements, a bit of science and technology, fast running information, and Bairong Yunchuang have become a new driving force for economic development with leading technology, model innovation, and rapid development speed.
In-depth promotion of the transformation of old residential areas, accelerating the adjustment and transformation of old factories and improving the quality and efficiency of inefficient buildings are still the focus of the next step. Cao Shihui, director of the Shijingshan District Housing and Urban Construction Committee, said that through the full use of market mechanisms and innovative policies, we will promote the new efficiency of existing space resources such as old factories, old residential areas, bungalow areas, and inefficient buildings. With the experience of Shougang, we will drive the protection, utilization and transformation and upgrading of other old factories, study the introduction of intelligent manufacturing, science and technology, culture and other industries, achieve better utility, and promote the overall rejuvenation of the eight major factories in west Beijing.
The creation of a livable ecological environment still needs a long time. Mao Xuan, director of the Shijingshan District Landscaping Bureau, said: "Based on the urban green coverage rate of 52.42% in Shijingshan District, we decided to increase investment in the infrastructure field. "Shijingshan District will promote the development focus from landscaping to ecological construction upgrades, plans to implement greening construction of 54.12 hectares around the Chuangsen plan, continue to consolidate the results of the 500-meter service radius coverage of park green space to achieve full coverage, continue to implement the greening of boulevards, all-age park transformation, greenway construction and pocket park construction, and plan to take the lead in successfully creating a "national forest city" in the central urban area of the capital."
The "Mill Stone Mouth" of the Jingxi Ancient Road has been a camel bell for hundreds of years. On the eve of the National Day, in the midst of a lively music performance and cultural and creative market, the radiant millennium ancient road after renovation was officially opened. In order to enhance people's sense of happiness and sense of gain, and let citizens feel the benefits of urban development, Shijingshan District has worked hard to strengthen urban service functions in recent years. For example, optimize the allocation of educational resources, accelerate the construction of Shijingshan School and Jinding Street Primary School of Beijing Eleventh School, implement a three-year action plan for old-age care services, build 10 new sports activity venues, and create a "quarter of an hour fitness circle"...
The thousand-year-old capital is undergoing a profound transformation, and Beijing has become the first mega-city in the country to reduce its development. The phoenix nirvana in Shijingshan District has become a vivid epitome of Beijing's urban construction paying more attention to reducing quantity and improving quality, shifting from gathering resources for growth to relieving functions and seeking development. ■
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