"Let some people get rich first and achieve common prosperity." This theory also applies to the development of new urbanization.
Characteristic towns are part of the first to get rich, and they will drive the comprehensive economic development of districts and counties.
Recently, the General Office of Shandong Province issued the "Notice on Publishing the List of Characteristic Towns in Shandong Province", which clearly includes 93 characteristic towns into the list of provincial characteristic towns for unified management.
Yantai has 8 characteristic towns selected for the list of provinces, they will become a new growth pole for the economic development of districts and counties, and they are the "bellwethers" of the development of other towns.
01 Let's take a look at our 8 characteristic towns in Yantai!
American Airlines Health Characteristic Town is located in Fushan District, south of the Ring Road section of the Rongwu Ring Expressway.
Covering an area of about 6 square kilometers, based on the main project of pension health, we strive to become a healthy and leisure town with a beautiful environment and novel landscape.
Two towns in Muping District were selected this time.
Longquan Health Characteristic Town is adjacent to the National Forest Park and the National Nature Reserve Kunming Mountain, based on tourism resources, highlighting the two characteristics of hot spring health and ecological leisure, and making every effort to create a "hot spring health town in northern China".
Green and healthy characteristic town is located in Dayao Street, Muping District, with green health as the main concept.
Zhaoyuan City also has two small towns selected.
One is the Jinling Fan Characteristic Town, which relies on the history of fans, and will be divided into three areas according to the industrial function of fan cultural inheritance and circular economy, biomedical industry and rural tourism within 3.45 square kilometers, to create a nationally famous "fan town".
The other is of course zhaoyuan's most prestigious gold, Luoshan golden culture town construction plan with a total investment of 5 billion yuan, through the deep integration of "cultural creativity + industry + tourism + finance", to create China's first-class gold culture theme tourism destination.
Relying on the two business cards of Luhua and Maocun, the characteristic town of Jiang Yan in Laiyang City takes the "comprehensive construction of an ecological livable town" as the starting point and the construction of the ecological industrial chain as the help to rise a "green industrial belt".
Located in the development zone, The characteristic town of Magnetic Hill Hot Spring, with the natural hot spring as the background, will form a pristine ecological and park-oriented characteristic industrial town integrating "health care, tourism and vacation, business conference and cultural services".
The new energy characteristic town is located in Qixia Tao Village.
Its characteristics are the latest, with the development of new energy industry as the core, supporting the eco-tourism industry, while promoting the marketization of new energy industry, and creating a modern new energy characteristic town with complete functions.
As can be seen from the above pictures and texts, these characteristic towns have beautiful scenery, rich cultural resources, special endowments, and characteristic industries...
To sum up, it is rich in resources, promising prospects, a certain industrial scale, and a certain population size.
Such a town is in the area where it is located is the golden sign of development, in the position of "bellwether".
Relying on various talents, they are good at attracting advanced elements such as talent, technology, and capital.
Combined with the development of the day after tomorrow, they also have the distinctive industrial characteristics of subdividing the high-end, the diversified functional characteristics of the humanistic integration of the industry and the city, and the characteristics of intensive and efficient space utilization.
02 Why should the 93 characteristic towns be managed uniformly?
Characteristic towns are like a batch of high-quality saplings, before growing into towering trees, the most worrying thing is that they grow crooked, or the branches grow too slowly.
It can be seen from the requirements of the "Notice", emphasizing the need to accurately grasp the development positioning of characteristic towns, rationally plan the spatial layout of characteristic towns, and do fine and strong characteristic towns to dominate the industry...
Simply put, you have to be clear about what the town will do in the future, and the land planning and utilization must be around the positioning, you can't hammer the hammer in the east, and you have to do a good job in making cattle for him.
It can be seen that the province attaches great importance to the characteristic town, afraid that it has taken the wrong road and worried that he is slow.
This kind of worry is very necessary for Shandong, which wants to quickly promote the development of new urbanization and push the economy of districts and counties to a new level.
Especially this year is a breakthrough year for the conversion of new and old kinetic energy in Shandong, and this worry is even more necessary.
To put it bluntly, this is determined by the characteristics and value of the characteristic town.
In 2015, Zhejiang launched the construction of a number of characteristic towns, which provided a powerful starting point for cracking the bottleneck of space resources, industrial transformation and upgrading, improving the living environment, and promoting new urbanization.
This has brought good enlightenment to all provinces and cities across the country.
Characteristic town is a development space platform that relies on the administrative area of town street and is different from administrative division units and industrial parks, and has a clear industrial positioning, cultural connotation, tourism characteristics and certain community functions.
"Special and strong" in industry, "new and alive" in mechanism, "gathering and combining" in function, and "fine and beautiful" in form are the comprehensive characteristics of characteristic towns.
It is precisely because of these characteristics that the characteristic town has the potential to become a highland for innovation and entrepreneurship, an industrial investment depression, a leisure and health resort, a tourist attraction, and eventually grow into a new growth pole of the regional economy.
Shandong defines characteristic towns as a new platform for high-quality economic development, a new carrier for new urbanization construction, and a new fulcrum for the integration of urban and rural development.
This time, 93 characteristic towns will be included in the unified management of the list, hoping to cultivate them into a solid support for smart, green, balanced and two-way new towns.
The layout intent is clear and clear, and experts believe that such a layout is feasible.
Li Tiegang, a professor at the School of Economics of Shandong University, said in an interview with the media that the construction of characteristic towns plays an important role in the high-quality improvement of the entire regional industrial ecological chain in Shandong.
03 Characteristic towns herald the development direction of the regional economy
So what are the benefits of being selected for the list of provinces for characteristic towns?
Of course, there are many advantages, and we take the example of yantai city-level characteristic towns.
In 2017, Yantai issued the "Implementation Opinions on the Creation of Characteristic Towns in Yantai City", which was compiled after going to Zhejiang to study and combined with the actual situation in Yantai.
Not only has the creation goals, contents, and procedures been clarified, but the most important thing is that a series of supportive policies have been introduced, covering land, capital, finance and other aspects.
Therefore, selected into the provincial list, these 93 characteristic towns have become the province's fragrant food, will become the key direction of investment, policy support key direction, as well as the advantages of owning land, talent, finance and so on.
On the one hand, these preferential treatments are to promote the development of characteristic towns and let them give play to the various values mentioned above in urbanization construction and regional economic guidance.
On the other hand, it is subtly affecting the industrial layout of the entire Shandong Province.
This can be learned from the list of industries in this characteristic town.
Industrial dominance is the core element of characteristic towns, and looking at the industrial layout of characteristic towns in the province, we can roughly depict the industrial portrait of the regional economy of the province.
From the perspective of industry, most towns are still closely related to their natural resources, such as cultural tourism and agricultural idyllic characteristic towns.
In addition, it is related to the leading industries of the local city, such as manufacturing and science and technology innovation characteristic towns.
From the perspective of industrial positioning, the positioning of characteristic towns is "elevated" a lot, and the trend of agglomeration to high-end industries and high-end links of the industrial chain is very obvious.
Many characteristic towns focus on high-end equipment manufacturing, intelligent manufacturing and other fields.
For example, Jinan's high-tech zone Sino-European equipment manufacturing characteristic town, Shanghe County Jiazhuang high-end worsted textile characteristic town, Qingdao's EMU characteristic town, Jiangshan new energy vehicle characteristic town, Pingdu intelligent manufacturing (home appliance) characteristic town, SCO smart logistics characteristic town, Weifang's Qilu Chuangzhi characteristic town, etc.
As a new platform for new urbanization, the development of characteristic towns has inspired other towns; in the region, they are the leaders of development, leading other towns to embark on new roads.
Therefore, the industrial layout of quasi-characteristic towns, that is, the layout of future regional economic leading industries.
Although the drop is small, the layout is large.
04 Yantai's characteristic towns should also be more "special"
As mentioned above, Yantai made early efforts in the construction of characteristic towns.
In 2017, a development plan for characteristic towns was compiled and introduced, and the results were remarkable.
In 2017, Yantai's national and provincial characteristic towns ranked first in the province.
However, the provincial list was announced, Weifang won the first place, 9 towns were selected, and Yantai ranked second with Qingdao and Weihai.
It should be noted that in terms of industrial layout, there is a certain degree of repetition in Yantai's characteristic towns, such as hot springs, such as the pension health industry.
At the same time, in terms of industrial positioning, in addition to the new energy characteristic town, it is also too much concentrated in the fields of culture, tourism, and leisure vacation.
The lack of "special" may affect the yantai characteristic town to go further and better.
Moreover, the "special" nature is not enough, the guidance for the regional economy is not enough, and too much reliance on natural resources cannot provide better reference significance for other towns.
Yantai is a county-level economically strong city, and this year is another year of great economic development in Yantai District and County.
How to make good use of the "bellwether" of the characteristic town, how to achieve a better industrial layout through the characteristic town, highlight the characteristic quality, and continue to innovate and improve are the directions that Yantai should think about and focus on.