Speaking of Tingzi Wharf, everyone in Old Nanning probably knows it. This old ferry, which has a history of more than 900 years, has now faded from its old appearance and changed into an "Internet celebrity outfit", attracting countless tourists and citizens to check in, and has become the "traffic responsibility" of Binjiang Cultural Tourism.
Yang Mulin, the captain of the "Yongjiang Night Tour" cruise ship at Tingzi Wharf, has been running a boat for a lifetime, and he has been running a boat since he was a teenager, and this year it is 40 years old. When Yang Mulin was young, he drove the "Feiyue" Xijiang passenger ship in the state-owned Nanning Shipping Bureau, and later drove a cargo ship to Hong Kong.
Yang Mulin said with a smile that he had never left the ship in his life, never left the Yongjiang River, and was not used to retiring and going ashore, so he came to apply for the captain of the cruise ship at Tingzi Wharf. Nowadays, Yang Mulin drives a cruise every night to take tourists to enjoy the beautiful night view of the Yongjiang River.
With the advancement of urban renewal, Tingzi Wharf, which once withdrew from the historical stage, has returned to the vision of Nanning people with a new attitude. Tingzi Wharf integrates the urban core, the Yongjiang River water system, and the city's historical context to create a leisure, entertainment and cultural gathering place for the old wharf. The renovated Tingzi Wharf not only inherits the traditional commercial culture of Tingzidu, but also innovatively introduces various new business formats, which drives the overall upgrading of Binjiang cultural tourism and becomes a successful case of comprehensive renovation and development and utilization of Yongjiang River in Nanning City.
Pang Yan, a water sports enthusiast, has three identities, and all of them are not simple - a university teacher, a surf club owner, and an extreme sports photographer. Pang Zhen's fate with water began when his father held him for a swim in the Yongjiang River when he was a child.
The yacht, which originally belonged to the entertainment project on the sea, was moved to the river, so that the citizens of Nanning could experience the yacht culture. The original design of the yacht dock at Tingzi Wharf was to allow more civilian and commercial boats to stop in and develop and operate in an orderly manner.
Tingzi Wharf is located in the deep water area of the Yongjiang River, with an excellent hydrophilic interface, which provides good conditions for the popularization of water sports. Tingzi Wharf makes full use of the water resources of the Yongjiang River and develops the water sports and leisure industry with the new concept of "sports + tourism", which promotes the in-depth integration and development of culture, sports and tourism.
The instant noodle couple is a post-90s entrepreneurial couple, the husband Wu Wenjun is from Chaoshan, and the wife Liang Xinyi is a native of Liuzhou. They transformed Chaoshan's traditional snack taro paste ice into a popular dessert on the Internet celebrity.
This young couple is the female protagonist and the male protagonist, and the husband is a person who works silently, so the whole production is handed over to him, and the wife has a lively personality and is handy in receiving guests.
Liang Xinyi has the habit of shooting short videos, and every day she will record the bits and pieces of the couple's stalls, some bitter and some happy, which has resonated with many fans and attracted waves of guests. Many guests watched their inspirational stories and came to eat ice.
The fireworks of the Tingzi Wharf have boosted the "night economy" on the banks of the Yongjiang River and injected new vitality and vitality into the old wharf. After several changes, the millennium ferry has long faded and rejuvenated, and now, "traditional cultural tourism + new format" has become the new label of the old wharf. The re-departure of the old wharf is a continuation of the commercial port culture and an upgrade of a cultural and tourism landmark.
On March 3, 2023, the urban renewal project of Wuzhou Qilou City Area was officially launched, and the designer team of Guangxi Urban and Rural Planning and Design Institute, under the leadership of Fan Hua, the general leader of the project, carried out the work of improving the urban style, urban infrastructure construction, and historical and cultural protection and inheritance of Qilou City Area.
In order to make the 100th anniversary of Wuzhou Qilou City open smoothly next year, the team was divided into three groups, from the renovation of the façade of the building to the transformation of the internal space structure, the refinement of the spirit and culture of the block into the creation of the scene atmosphere, and carried out urban renewal of the area.
The cultural heritage team began to conduct household surveys of residents in the arcade city, and the planners needed to understand the needs of the people in the living environment. At first, the research work of the cultural heritage team did not go well, and planner Liu Junyu said: "Urban renewal is a good thing, but when residents hear words such as 'planning' and 'transformation', they often don't understand it all at once, and we need to adjust the way we communicate." ”
After learning the reason, the architect believed that when optimizing the façade of the arcade city, it was necessary to use the historical buildings in the original arcade city as a model. Through the investigation of the exterior wall materials of the arcade city, the urban renewal team thought about how to use new materials and new processes to restore the original style of the arcade city. They asked the construction party to make brushed stone samples of different colors, compare the color and particle size, and try to restore the original style of the arcade. At this time, the problem reappeared, the existing materials to replace the gray carving lacked authenticity, and the urban renewal team needed to find a master who knew this craft to restore the elements of the arcade together.
In order to enhance the cultural atmosphere of the Wuzhou Qilou City area, the three designers of the atmosphere creation group wanted to use innovative technical means to use reality augmentation technology to build the Qilou City area into a metaverse and expand people's perception of physical space. With the blessing of virtual technology, the desk in front of me instantly becomes an animal world and a botanical garden.
At the same time, the urban renewal team is carrying out another important task, which is to implement the intangible culture in the area, as well as traditional living customs and time-honored brands. Fan Hua and the designers of the urban renewal team worked with Chen Bochang, the inheritor of Wuzhou Liubao tea making skills, to study the planning plan of the future "Liubao Tea Culture Living Room".
As the deadline for submission approached, the Cultural Heritage Team completed the household survey, and the residents gradually understood the future development direction of the arcade area and the social benefits of government-led urban renewal. The urban renewal team is about to draw the schematic design drawing, and the atmosphere creation team is about to finish the construction of the virtual scene.
The rebirth of Wuzhou Arcade City is not only the renewal of appearance, but also the revival of Wuzhou's commercial culture that has been activated again for a hundred years. On the new journey, planners will take planning and design as a foothold, use new technologies and new concepts, extend the field of planning and design more widely, contribute to urban construction and economic development in various places, and make our lives better.
Nowadays, Guangxi is strengthening the protection of history and culture and promoting the construction of a livable city. At present, there are 3 national historical and cultural cities, 17 historical and cultural towns in Guangxi, and 36 autonomous region-level historical and cultural blocks and 678 historical buildings have been announced. Among them, a total of 4,767 old urban communities have been renovated, benefiting 500,000 households and improving the living environment of nearly 1.5 million people.
Our new journey
The report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed: "From now on, the central task of the Communist Party of China is to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country to build a great modern socialist country in an all-round way, realize the second centenary goal, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization." ”
Focusing on the major theme of "Chinese-style modernization", the all-media documentary program "Our New Journey", jointly produced by the Radio and Television Bureau of the Autonomous Region and Guangxi Radio and Television Station, and produced by Guangxi Satellite TV, will be broadcast on Guangxi Satellite TV at 21:20 every Thursday night from January 26, 2023, with each episode lasting 30 minutes.
"Our New Journey" focuses on the name of "we", starting from the people's "first perspective", narrating in the "first person" of the people, using pure documentary character self-narration techniques, taking the observation, struggle, life and emotions of each "little self" as clues, focusing on the ordinary and real struggling individuals on the new journey, writing the image of the new era, new journey and new life, and building the same frequency resonance of "we" and "new journey".