Architecture is the reflection of the times of the city's advancement. The city of trillions, the international manufacturing city, and the capital of trendy toys...... In front of the historical opportunity of the Greater Bay Area, under the goal of symbiosis, co-prosperity and deep integration of tens of millions of people and cities, the upgrading road of Dongguan city will continue to be surging upward.
In June 2024, Dongguan Guancheng Construction Engineering Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Dongguan Construction Company") ushered in the important node of its 10th anniversary, and ushered in the road of "upgrading" - Dongguan Construction Company closely focused on and actively integrated into the strategic deployment of the Dongguan Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government on promoting the municipal construction engineering group, and took the policy "fast train" to upgrade to Dongguan Urban Engineering Construction Group, making greater contributions to the improvement of Dongguan urban quality.
▲Aerial photography of C park (Citizen Service Center Phase III).
Cities are always changing. Outside is the change of form, is the improvement of the city's "appearance" and "temperament" in the young population, and the inside is the logical change of urban advancement, from "city people" to "people in the city", people-oriented city construction is becoming a trend.
Dongguan is changing, and Dongguan is promising.
The "Dongguan Land and Space Master Plan (2020-2035)" (draft) proposes that under the background opportunity of the construction of "dual zones", Dongguan will be deeply integrated into the regional development pattern of "one core, one belt and one district", work together to build the core engine of the Greater Bay Area, and jointly build a first-class bay area and a world-class city cluster with vitality and international competitiveness.
As a municipal state-owned enterprise, Dongguan Jiancheng has been deeply involved in urban changes, and has been deeply cultivated in Dongguan, a hot land of 2,460 square kilometers, for ten years, contributing to shaping the image of a modern city.
Behind the changes in Dongguan: keep improving, create a benchmark project for the city's image
▲Dongguan Citizen Service Center (Phase I and II)
In the Dongguan Citizen Service Center, the texture of "Dongguan grass weaving" is paved on the ground of the square, on which 6 blooming "magnolia flowers" are "planted" - Dongguan City Flower is "planted" in the Dongguan Citizen Service Center, and "planting" grass is in the hearts of Dongguan citizens.
In addition to providing government services of "entering one door and doing everything", the Dongguan Citizen Service Center has "grown" a food court full of fireworks in the world through several nodes such as sunken square design, overpasses, roads, etc., and used avant-garde fashion culture to create a variety of consumption scenes, so that the city can grow on the "aesthetics" of young people.
Architecture is the narrative language of the city. This well-known benchmark project is inseparable from the people of Dongguan to build brick by brick.
In the past year and a half, the Dongguan Construction Company has been in full swing in construction, hundreds of plans have been decided, from building roof plans, landscape design plans, to tile patterns, guide banner plans, and there are 5 plans behind each design on average...... In this tough battle, Dongguan Construction Company took out the determination and courage to break the kettle and sink the boat, and the determination and courage to deal with the difficulties at every turn, and to "check the pulse" and "accurately prescribe" the construction status of each site one by one, so as to help the project be delivered on time and with quality, and hand over a satisfactory answer sheet of "four-in-one" of high-standard planning, high-standard design, high-standard construction and high-standard operation, which has become a must-go place for national and provincial leaders to inspect Dongguan.
According to Deng Ran, deputy director of the office of the construction site headquarters of "one center, two axes and three districts" in the central urban area, "in terms of appearance, the project basically retains the roof shape of the original convention and exhibition center building, fully respects the cultural memory of the city, and in addition to meeting the needs of government services, the internal function has added food courts, citizen lecture halls, subway connections and other sections, which is a high-quality landmark place in Dongguan." ”
"As the general contractor of the project, Dongshi Group earnestly fulfills the responsibilities and responsibilities of state-owned enterprises, coordinates and integrates the first, second and third phases of the Citizen Service Center, and completes the project delivery with high standards and high quality, blooming the vitality and charm of a modern city!" Meng Jianmin, chief designer of the Citizen Service Center project and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, made such comments.
▲Dongshi parking building is located in the key core area of Dongguan's "one center and two axes".
Dongguan is changing, and Dongguan is promising.
In January 2022, Dongshi Parking Building, nicknamed "Little White Building" by netizens, was officially put into operation. This is the country's first inclined parking building, known as the domestic "parking industry".
Cities come alive because of people. "Little White Building" uses the model of "parking + business", and the rooftop CAR coffee ignites the enthusiasm of young people.
"This is the first parking building we have been involved in designing. After it was built, there was no one among car enthusiasts who didn't know about this parking building. Zhang Guowei, the chief architect of GWP Architects and the chief designer of GWP, told reporters.
According to Zhang Guowei, because of the design of this order, the company has received more than 20 parking building project design consultations, and is overwhelmed. The influence of "Little White Building" in the "parking industry" can be seen, and it has won 19 awards, including the Gold Nugget Award, one of the world's six major architectural awards.
On December 31, 2019, the official opening of the 1.5-level development project in Dongguan, the construction work of the first project to implement 1.5 level development also came from the handwriting of Dongguan Construction Company. In December 2021, Dongguan Jianren kept improving and ingenuity in the renovation and expansion project of Dongguan State Guest House, and Dongguan showed another business card of the city; In June 2024, Dongguan's first national sports-themed museum, the China Weightlifting Museum, will be opened......
Each building represents a new face of the city, and many urban public buildings with different forms and functions present more and richer urban connotations and more possibilities for the future.
▲C park (Dongguan Citizen Service Center Phase III) project set up a party member commando
"Watching the buildings become Internet celebrity check-in places for citizens and destinations for the industry to visit, I feel sincerely proud to be a member of Dongguan Construction. This is not only the best testimony of the 10-year development process of Dongguan Construction, but also the greatest praise for Dongguan Construction as a municipal state-owned enterprise, participating in urban construction, practicing the original mission, and highlighting the responsibility of state-owned enterprises, and it is also a solid foundation and the greatest confidence for the future. Yang Fengping, chief engineer of Dongshi Group (former general manager of Dongguan Construction Company), who witnessed and participated in the construction of many major projects, was deeply touched.
Enterprise ingenuity: 10 years of growth, towards the integrated development of "investment, construction and operation".
Behind the face of the city is the advanced road of ten years of growth and butterfly change of Dongguan Construction Company.
The construction industry is a highly mature industry that has existed since ancient times. The maturity of the industry brings resource agglomeration and scale effect, which means that the competition is more fierce and there are many participants.
It's hard to get started. For a small team of only 13 people when it was established in 2014, it is not easy to break out of its own way and create a world under the general trend of competition among leading enterprises such as central enterprises and real estate.
"If you look back at the development process of Dongguan Construction Company in the past 10 years, under the condition of taking into account social and economic benefits, Dongguan Construction Company has embarked on a road of growth of modern enterprises starting from scratch, breaking the barriers of system and mechanism, actively enterprising, having the courage to open up, and moving towards market-oriented competition." Yang Fengping said.
The first project of Dongguan Construction Company undertook the construction of the municipal engineering Donghong Building, which solved the problem of "survival" through the renovation project of old buildings, which was conducive to the newly established Dongguan Construction Company to accumulate construction management experience and improve the level of project management.
▲Donghong Building Renovation Project
Starting from the Donghong Building, Dongguan Construction Company has successively undertaken a number of renovation and renovation projects with an investment of tens of millions of yuan, such as the No. 2 Compound of the Municipal Government and the Municipal Public Resources Trading Center, which has opened up a practical path to solve the problem of tight office space in government departments and demonstrated the responsibility of state-owned enterprises.
In 2015, Dongguan Construction Company advanced into Shaoguan with the help of "Dongfeng". Through the establishment of the consortium, it has successfully expanded 10 construction projects such as the first and second phases of Dongguan Shao Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship (Equipment) Center, Xiangzhang Yaju, and Yinxue Hotel, and has become an important force in Dongguan counterpart to help Shaoguan.
▲Shaoguan Yinxue Hotel project
Those who do often come, and those who do often succeed. In the following years, Dongguan Construction Company seized a number of opportunities, grew rapidly, and successively undertook a number of key projects such as Yuzhou, Dongguan Citizen Service Center, and "Xiaobailou", providing assistance for the activation and utilization of Dongguan's industrial heritage, creating a world-class business environment, and enriching the city's business formats, demonstrating the responsibility of state-owned enterprises, and handing over a benchmark project that reassures the government, satisfies the public, and follows the industry.
▲The No. 2 bridge of the three-dimensional slow traffic system in the central city of Dongguan
There is no road in vain in the world, every step counts. Every step forward is the efforts of a group of people in Guanjian Company, the cohesion of team strength and the tempering of technical strength.
▲BOX Basketball Printing Lane Project
Iron also needs to be hard. Dongguan Construction Company knows that if an enterprise wants to be stable and far-reaching, it can only enhance its core competitiveness in the construction industry.
Expand the market externally and practice kung fu internally. Since May 2016, Dongguan Construction Company has embarked on a self-reform with a knife edge inward, promoted a number of measures such as enterprise organizational structure and post optimization, and gradually formed an enterprise ecology of the superior, mediocre and inferior, providing a strong source of power for the enterprise to jump out of the "comfort zone" and participate in market competition.
What the city needs, Dongguan can build.
At that time, in the face of the substantial increase in the number of children with household registration and the increasingly strong demand for public places, the Dongguan Education Expansion and Quality Improvement Action launched in March 2020 brought new policy opportunities to Dongguan Construction Company, and 2021 was an important node for the company to fully participate in market-oriented competition. In this year, Dongguan Construction Company opened up the path for municipal state-owned enterprises to participate in the construction of schools, expanded the construction or agency construction management business of the first primary school in Huangjiang Town, Shipai Central Primary School and other schools, and cut into the education and people's livelihood project; Winning the bid for the first phase of the China Weightlifting Museum (reinforcement and reconstruction of Shilong Old Sports School) project has become an important milestone towards market-oriented competition.
▲The main entrance of the China Weightlifting Museum
In the construction industry, qualification has always been an important credential for enterprises to participate in market competition. On October 24, 2022, Dongguan Construction reached a new level of development: it was successfully approved as a first-class enterprise qualification for housing construction, and it is currently the only first-class construction enterprise among state-owned enterprises in Dongguan City, and has entered the first echelon of construction enterprises in Dongguan.
After 10 years of growth, Dongguan Construction Company has become a municipal state-owned enterprise with a technical management team of 140 people, one of the top 50 advanced units of construction enterprises in Dongguan City, an annual GDP of more than 1.3 billion yuan, and a first-class qualification for construction general contracting, forming a business pattern of "general contracting + self-investment and self-construction + agency construction management", and gradually forming a competitive advantage of "investment, construction and operation" (investment, construction and operation) integration.
▲The lobby of Dongguan State Guest House
Looking back on the past ten years, Dongguan Construction Company started from undertaking government property decoration projects, to undertake the construction tasks of a number of public facilities such as Yuzhou, Dongguan Citizen Service Center, China Weightlifting Museum, etc., bravely picking up key project beams, winning the battle of engineering construction, overcoming difficulties, and participating in the construction of more than 1 million square meters.
What the city needs, Dongguan can build.
Looking to the future. As Dongguan enters the historic node of the "double thousand" city of "tens of millions of people and trillions of GDP" in 2021, the narrative logic of Dongguan is advancing in a higher dimension, and a series of deeper urban development needs such as the symbiosis and co-prosperity of the city and tens of millions of people, and the creation of "scientific and technological innovation + advanced manufacturing" positioning call for more people to participate in the improvement of urban quality, and call for a higher energy and higher-level "Dongguan construction company".
After 10 years of forging ahead, Dongguan Construction has become a "city" with the trend: seize the policy opportunity of the Dongguan Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government on promoting the municipal construction engineering group, and will be upgraded to Dongguan Urban Engineering Construction Group in the near future, bringing together more small partners and contributing more to the improvement of the quality of Dongguan city.
Start a new journey: a group of people go together
But regardless of the way it came, the sky was wide and green. From its establishment 10 years ago to today's landmark buildings all over the city's towns and streets, what makes countless Dongguan people sigh is not that time is like sand passing, but that they seize the time and fight in it every year, every month, and every day.
"Every time I walk on the streets of the central city of Dongguan, there are projects developed and constructed by our Dongguan Construction Company everywhere, as Dongguan Construction people, as a participant in urban construction, I have a strong sense of pride and belonging in my heart. That's what we're all about! Huang Haoyao, project manager of C park of Dongguan Construction Company, said.
In Guanjian, growth is endowed with multiple meanings and special significance, which is not only the "growth" of employees, but also the "growth" of the team, and the "growth" of the city. Huang Haoyao has worked in Dongguan Construction for six years, from a newcomer to an independent leader, witnessed his own growth, and became a new force that integrates into the team family, helps the team "grow", and then contributes wisdom and sweat to the "growth" of Dongguan city.
"I have been in Dongguan for six years and have accumulated experience in various types of project construction" "I am fortunate to grow up with Dongguan Construction, witness and participate in every leap of the company's revenue from one million to more than one billion, and the construction qualification from the second level to the first level" "With the active encouragement and support of the company, I have obtained the construction engineer qualification certificate, laying a more solid theoretical foundation for future work and drawing tomorrow with the company"......
Or there is a short-term helplessness when urgent, difficult, dangerous, and heavy tasks fall on you, or there are emergencies and a group of people who stick to it all night, or there is a hard work and progress that can withstand huge pressure and hardness. Growth is always accompanied by labor pains, but growth means responsibility, it means that the sand is blown away, and then looking back at the calm and calm of "seeing the mountains at a glance".
From the start-up team of 13 people when it was established in 2014 to the big family of 140 people today, it is not only the "addition" of the increase in the number of personnel, but also the "multiplication" of team spirit.
▲Group photo of the successive general managers of Dongguan Construction Company, from right to left, Yang Fengping, Zou Tong, Xu Bin, and Liu Wennian
Behind the personal growth and the cohesion of team strength is the high-quality party building of Dongguan Construction Company leading high-efficiency governance and working hard. Whether it is the front line of engineering construction or the main battlefield of production and operation, there are party organizations stationed in time, party members and cadres hanging points to tackle tough problems, and party member commandos charging ahead. The valuable spiritual wealth accumulated by Dongguan Jianren for ten years of pragmatic struggle and positive progress is the strongest driving force to promote the development of the enterprise, and has created the image of the "Iron Army" in Dongguan's construction industry.
▲Dongguan Sam's Club project (under construction)
Ten years is a person's youth without regrets; Ten years is the accumulation of an enterprise; Ten years is a new starting point to start a new journey - from "Dongguan Construction" to "Dongguan City Engineering Construction Group", what has changed is the name, what has not changed is the mission of state-owned enterprises, and it is a group of people who go together.
What Dongguan needs, we have for!
Text: Senior journalist Zhang Huaqiao
Picture: Reporter Chen Dong Courtesy of Dongguan Construction Company
Video: Courtesy of Guanjian Company