Through the treatment of "scattered pollution", the restoration of "fine and beautiful", and the implantation of "new economy",
In today's Pingwang section of the Taipu River, an ecological green corridor integrating landscape, culture, flood control and other functions comes into view——
The blue waves on both sides of the strait are green, and the scenery of Taipu is new
The 57.6-kilometer-long Taipu River stretches out of the lake to Huangpu in the east. This arm bends slightly, pulls up the ancient canal, the new canal, and the Ditang River, and draws a "tic-tac-toe" in the ancient town of Pingwang in Wujiang, outlining the hydrological scene where the four rivers converge.
In the past, the four rivers converged, and Pingwangxing. From the famous canal town to the famous textile and weaving town in China, water is the foundation of this land's prosperity.
At the moment, Ping Wangxing, Taipu Qing. From the industrial rust belt to the ecological show belt of life and production, Pingwang has done a good job in water articles, and explored a new path for the co-prosperity of the water city.
Through the treatment of "scattered pollution", the restoration of "fine and beautiful", and the implantation of "new economy", in the Pingwang section of the Taipu River, an ecological green corridor integrating ecology, landscape, culture and flood control has come into view. Spring to explore the river, Taipu is as quiet and beautiful as a tree, and the way of water control of "returning the shore to the people and benefiting the people" is looking at the blessings of the sparkling water.
Get rid of the "burden" of water control
There are ideas for industrial development, and there is a way out
Industrial production is inseparable from water, both of which are the lifeblood of cities. Clarifying and properly handling the relationship between economic development and ecological protection is the first step in Pingwang's efforts to control water.
Xinda Printing and Dyeing, located on the Taipu River in Meiyan Community, is not only a representative of Pingwang's old printing and dyeing enterprises, but also a major contributor to local tax revenue. While the enterprise is booming, it has also brought great pressure to the water environment of the Taipu River.
Last year, the company resolutely made a decision to move out of the Taipu River and move to the printing and dyeing function cluster area of Pingwang Town as a whole. According to the person in charge of the company, the new company will build 4 multi-storey high-quality and high-standard workshops and build a digital printing and dyeing workshop. Although the company will invest a lot of money in the relocation, it will not only bring the company's average tax revenue per mu from the original 478,000 yuan to 600,000 yuan growth expectation, but also contribute to the "river protection movement" in Pingwang Town.
Overall relocation, cluster development, industrial upstairs...... Along the Pingwang Taipu River, there are not a few enterprises like Xinda Printing and Dyeing that choose to move factories into the park.
"Moving factories to protect the river" depends not only on the willingness of enterprises, but also on the good behavior of the government.
Take the remediation of water jet looms as an example. Since the launch of the water jet loom remediation action in 2023, two smaller, backward village-level sewage treatment stations along the Taipu River have been shut down, and the water jet weaving enterprises south of the Taipu River have gathered in the two major industrial concentration areas of Pingwang Town, further optimizing the industrial structure, improving the degree of industrial agglomeration, and injecting new impetus into the sustainable and healthy development of the local economy.
Looking at the water control, it is not only "sparse", but also "blocked".
Since 2017, Pingwang Town has taken advantage of the favorable opportunity to systematically promote the comprehensive environmental improvement of the Grand Canal, Taipu River and G318 and G524 "two rivers and two roads", and has taken the remediation of "violations, pollution and hidden dangers" as the starting point, not only to grasp the "scattered pollution" remediation, but also to grasp the "fine and beautiful" restoration.
Focusing on the construction of Yunpu Bay District, Pingwang Town has demarcated the key renovation area of the 2-kilometer section from Pingwang Bridge to Jiangcheng Avenue. At present, 530 million yuan has been invested in the renovation of Taipu River, 256 scattered and polluted enterprises (workshops) have been remediated, 16 wharves have been banned, a total of 299,500 square meters of construction area have been demolished, and 1,123 acres of land have been reclaimed, so as to truly return the shore to the people.
"Through the remediation, the two banks of the Taipu River have a new look, and the river and lake management is a systematic project, and the next step is to make the water clear, the bank green, and the scenery beautiful through long-term work and global improvement. Deng Yunhua, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and mayor of Pingwang Town, said. The combination of dredging and blocking, the water is clear and the shore is new. Today's Pingwang section of the Taipu River, there is no shelter on both sides of the river, and the villagers who used to be near the river but did not see the river can finally "open the door to see the water"; the industrial development has found a way out, and the diversified co-prosperity of water, industry and city has been effectively guaranteed.
Reconstruct the style of Taipu
The cultural and ecological corridor spreads along the river
After the valley rain, the wheat fields on the north bank of the Taipu River are full of green, and the wheat ears are full and swaying in the wind, as if nodding to the tourists. Under the camphor tree, two old cyclists stopped to enjoy the water view. On the Taipu River, ships come and go endlessly, occasionally blowing whistles, resounding on both banks.
This is the scenery inside Yunpu Bay in spring.
Yunpu Bay is the eternal memory of Pingwang - it records the glorious years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and several generations spent half a century digging the Taipu River, which not only connects Taihu Lake and the Huangpu River, but also protects Pingwang, the land of fish and rice.
In the past, it was blocked by a fence, and inside were crane docks, sand and gravel factories, etc., and the environment was dirty and the water quality was yellow. Nowadays, Yunpu Bay, as the key area of the "Pingwang Four Rivers Convergence" project, has been completely cleaned up of the "scattered pollution" in the area, which has made Yunpu pick up light.
To reconstruct the style of Taipu, it is necessary to "dismantle", but also to "stay" - to leave the mark of history, so that the old and the new time meet.
In the process of renovating Yunpu Bay, some of the industrial relics such as cranes, oil tanks and factories that have been retained have been creatively renovated and embedded with the railway heritage culture and the historical imprint of the Taipu River...... Through design remodeling, Pingwang Town has transformed Yunpu Bay from a production shoreline dominated by factories and warehouses to a high-value cultural and ecological corridor integrating Yunpu cultural display, flower garden sightseeing, and ecological leisure. Today, landmark projects such as Yunpu Garden, Yunpu Pick-up, Ecological Corridor, and Lighthouse Garden have been completed and opened one after another.
The beauty of the Taipu River lies not only in reshaping the scenery, but also in benefiting the people.
——As one of the key livelihood projects of "Pingwang Four Rivers Convergence", the Pingwang Huanzhen Trail has a total length of 9,932 meters, surrounding the four-way water system of Pingwang Old Town. Relying on the existing road system, waterfront green network structure and existing waterfront parks and cultural monuments in the old town area, the trail is connected by the greenway to play the functions of leading greenery, connecting water and surrounding the city.
——In recent years, with the transformation and improvement of the environment along the Taipu River, a series of parent-child activities such as parent-child poetry club, baking DIY, anchor experience, grassland and starry sky camping, as well as a series of new era civilization practice activities such as our festival and Spring Festival garden party and "zongzi" love Dragon Boat Festival have been brilliant, providing a cultural feast for villagers and tourists.
With water as the medium, this year, Pingwang will also implement a new round of practical projects for people's livelihood, including projects such as Yuqiao Fengdeng Yinghu Market, Lan Wangwang Cultural Tourism Industrial Park, Canal Time and other projects that thrive on the water, string beads into a chain, improve the functional quality of Pingwang Town, and further show the modern Pingwang appearance of the integration of scenery and society, the symbiosis of sojourn and residence, and the sharing of hosts and guests.
Introduce new business forms
Build the Taipu River waterfront economic belt
The waves of the Taipu River have brought new opportunities for industrial development to Pingwang.
It is still Yunpu Bay, and among the many cases of industrial relics preservation and utilization, the butterfly transformation of the office building of the sand yard is the most eye-catching - this three-story building, the façade is wrapped in an elaborate steel structure, and it looks like a sailboat sailing on the Taipu River from a distance. It has become a Yunpu Shiguang maker space, and a riverside "incubator" for small and micro enterprises in Pingwang and the surrounding areas.
"Yunpu Shiguang is the first comprehensive digital cultural industry sharing platform in the region created by Pingwang and Himalaya, and is a comprehensive new cultural tourism format integrating Yunpu cultural exhibition hall, maker space, digital cultural experience center, live broadcast e-commerce base, and camping group camp. The relevant person in charge of Yunpu Shiguang said.
In May 2021, "Yunpu Pick-up" butterfly became a creative maker space with a modern industrial style. After more than two years of operation, it has landed a digital cultural experience center, a live broadcast e-commerce platform for canal good things, a local brand camping base and a youth maker platform. The 20 offices have attracted more than 10 entrepreneurial teams to settle in, from live broadcast e-commerce to cultural and creative operations, almost all of them are "post-90s". Even Lu Hong, who moved China's Person of the Year, moved his live broadcast room of Yuanyue Paper Products here.
On the banks of the Taipu River, the water is clear not only to attract "gulls", but also to make "old trees" send "new branches".
"Pingwang Sauce Garden moved from the ancient canal to the Taipu River, and has been associated with water for a long time. Sauce production and transportation are also inseparable from water, the earliest to bring fire Pingwang hot sauce is still walking the canal of the Suzhou and Hangzhou team, it can be said that there is no four rivers convergence, there is no Pingwang hot sauce. Wang Wei, general manager of Pingwang Sauce Co., Ltd., introduced that after more than 150 years of ups and downs, this time-honored Chinese brand is opening its new industrial path - building Pingwang Hot Sauce Cultural Park, and further launching the golden sign of Pingwang Hot Sauce by shaping the IP of sauce culture.
The first and second phases of the project cover an area of nearly 10,000 square meters and will be completed in two months. In addition to displaying the development history of Pingwang hot sauce and the comparison of new and old sauce making techniques, the Cultural Park also set up a research exhibition hall to invite visitors to participate in sauce making and immerse themselves in the unique charm of Pingwang hot sauce and peripheral products. After the official opening of the park, it will further revitalize the "new economy" of industrial tourism along the Taipu River.
Embedding the new economy where there is a view. From Yunpu Shiguang to Pingwang Hot Sauce Cultural Park, there are also the Dalongdang dragon boat race economy, the fishing economy of the notosaurus park, and the camping economy of the light and outdoor areas...... A series of new forms of "small bonsai" have accelerated the gathering of Taipu River, building a waterfront economic belt with unlimited scenery.
"People live up to Taipu, and Taipu will live up to people. Pingwang will continue to use water as a medium to fully activate the symbiotic effect of 'water, shore, city, village and people', so that the modern style of 'New Fish and Rice Town' and 'New Jiangnan Space' will gradually appear along the Taipu River, so that more residents, tourists, investors and entrepreneurs will get closer to the Taipu River and be more optimistic about Pingwang Town. It is hoped that the way out of Pingwang water control will provide a useful reference for the co-prosperity of water cities in waterfront towns. Zhao Wei, Secretary of the Party Committee of Pingwang Town, said. (Su Bao reporter in Wujiang District, Wang Ying, Zhou Yuelei)