Peninsula all-media reporter Liu Xiaoxiao
On the morning of October 26th, the Qingdao Historic District Investment Promotion Conference was held in the conference hall on the 3rd floor of Building 6 of Qingdao New Financial Industrial Park, hosted by Qingdao Historic District Protection and Renewal Headquarters, undertaken by Qingdao North Construction Investment Group Co., Ltd., and co-organized by Shinan District Historic District Protection and Renewal Sub-Headquarters, International Cruise Port District Renovation and Renewal and Shibei District Historic District Protection and Renewal Sub-Command. Focusing on the theme of "Centennial Qingdao Vitality and Renewal", the promotion meeting aims to release the achievements of investment promotion in the historic city and promote enterprises and projects to enter the historic city.
Qingdao Historic City Investment Promotion Conference was held.
<h4>The next 13 historic districts will work together to promote urban renewal</h4>
In recent years, Qingdao attaches great importance to the protection and renewal of historical urban areas, and renewing the vitality of the city has become a sustainable proposition in Qingdao, and this investment promotion meeting can be described as opportune.
At the scene of the event, Zhang Jun, vice mayor of Qingdao Municipal People's Government and executive commander of Qingdao Historic City Protection and Renewal Headquarters, delivered an opening speech. He said that "urban renewal" and improving infrastructure have become one of the core themes of Qingdao's "invigorating a city" at a higher level during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period and accelerating the construction of a modern international metropolis, and it is also the main source of power for improving the city's energy level and maintaining the vitality of innovation. In the future, the 13 historical districts should coordinate to promote urban renewal, expand industrial space in dislocation, continuously improve the basic functions of the city, open up the blockage point of industrial development in the old city, accelerate the gathering of new technologies, new industries, new formats and new models, and strive to make the century-old city rejuvenated.
Chen Weihua, deputy director of the Office of the Qingdao Historic City Protection and Renewal Headquarters, said in his speech that the historic city has witnessed the development process of Qingdao, and the rejuvenation of the historic city will surely become a new engine of Qingdao's economic prosperity, which will be integrated into the regional economic layout with a comprehensive and open attitude, gather industrial resource elements, and build a modern industrial system. The Historic District is now looking for "city partners" in the broadest dimension, looking forward to like-minded people joining.
Zhang Xitao, deputy director of the Qingdao International Cruise Port Area Service Administration Bureau and director of the Industrial Development Special Class Office of the core area, and He Xin, deputy secretary of the Working Committee for the Protection and Development of the Historic City Area of Shinan District, made a promotion of investment. Han Bin, deputy general manager of Shangjieli Commercial Operation Co., Ltd., and Lin Changzhi, general manager of Nanjing Chengge Cultural Tourism Co., Ltd., shared their achievements as project representatives.
Subsequently, the signing ceremony of qingdao historical city representative enterprises and projects was held on the spot, and the historic city will welcome a group of like-minded "city partners". Taking the promotion meeting as an opportunity will not only enhance the brand influence of the historic city, but also provide a resource gathering platform for the historic city and realize the continuous introduction of high-quality formats.
The signing ceremony of qingdao historical city representative enterprises and projects was held.
<h4>About 100,000 square meters of preservation and renewal of the historic city have been completed</h4>
Qingdao has a historical urban area of 28 square kilometers, of which in the core area of 6.9 square kilometers, 85 cultural relics protection units at all levels are gathered, and nearly 1,000 cultural relics buildings are gathered.
In 2021, Qingdao City set up the Historic City Protection and Renewal Command, the rejuvenation of the old city was written into the Qingdao Municipal Government Work Report, the command and all relevant units adhere to the city, district linkage, the use of "government + platform company + social resources" method, with building repair and industrial introduction to empower the rejuvenation of the old city, to create a model of organic renewal of the historic city, to explore the Qingdao model of the rejuvenation of the old city. At present, about 100,000 square meters of historical area protection and renewal have been completed, and 130,000 square meters of projects are under construction, which are scheduled to be fully completed in 2023.
As the main bearers of the historical urban area, Shibei District and Shinan District combine their own resource endowments to vigorously promote investment promotion.
Since the end of last year, it proposed to build the RCEP Qingdao Economic and Trade Cooperation Pioneering Innovation Pilot Base, Shibei District has "industrial repositioning" of the historical urban area, aimed at the "four new" economy, put forward the operation mode of "government + platform company + head enterprise + social capital", and used industrial upgrading, cultural leadership, and urban quality optimization to change the "core" for the development space of the historical urban area, and realize the industrial "cage for birds". In order to strive to break out of the new way of high-quality development in the historic city and create a new growth pole on the east bank of Jiaozhou Bay, shibei district comprehensively sounded the core district office of the innovation center and entered the historic city to grasp the industry, diversion flow, solve problems, and grasp the implementation in the front line of the project, enhance market and enterprise confidence, and promote the improvement of the regional development environment.
Shinan District adheres to planning and guidance, protection priority, culture first, and industrial upgrading, highlights the integration of industry and city, strengthens the continuation of cultural context, closely combines the protection of historical buildings, the reshaping of business formats, and the improvement of the environment, based on reshaping the cultural axis function of Zhongshan Road, enhancing the development power with cultural power, and playing a good "cultural card" in the old city of the west.
Under the top-level design, the historic city takes investment promotion as an important entry point to highlight the development potential.
<h4>A number of historic districts have emerged in a new capacity and rejuvenated</h4>
Nowadays, a number of mature carriers in the historical city are becoming a hot land for investment and development.
Sifang Road Block is the most concentrated block of qingdao courtyard buildings, has been fully protected, repaired and renovated, and through the industrial introduction of subdivision to increase investment promotion, the southern area has successfully introduced 15 industrial projects. In the future, Sifang Road Block plans to build an RCEP industrial design block, a youth culture block, and a national tide characteristic theme commercial block in Liyuan Memory and Monk Street, so as to realize the symbiosis and integration of fireworks and industrial vitality, and become a new model for the rejuvenation of Qingdao's old city.
Wuding Road, as a well-preserved road in Qingdao's historical and cultural heritage, is the former site of the Villa Group of Qingdao's wealthy merchants Liu Zishan composed of 19 European-style single-family buildings on the west side, and No. 5-7 on the east side is Qingdao's longest courtyard Yiqingli. In September 2018, Shibei District launched the expropriation of the Shanghai Road-Wuding Road area. After the signing of the RCEP agreement, Shibei District, relying on the renovated LiuZishan villa group, set up the RCEP International Business and Commercial Center to serve the RCEP international trade cooperation negotiations, and Yiqingli will also appear as the new identity of the RCEP Commercial Office Center.
"Qingdao Wall Street", which has been infiltrated by financial culture for a hundred years, is positioned as a financial-themed historical district and a historical and cultural tourism tourism area, with 50% of the planned financial industry and supporting and historical and cultural tourism formats. In the future, the target customer group will be for the "in-depth tour" tourist group, the historical and cultural education base of secondary schools and universities, the Sino-German cultural exchange scholars and local literary and artistic youth.
In the history of Ningyang Road, merchants and officials and eunuchs gathered. Last year, Shinan District began the transformation of Yinyu Lane on Ningyang Road, actively explored the dual-drive urban renewal path of "new culture + new model" and "good theme + good design", successfully held the first "Summer Market • Art Construction Festival" activity, and made every effort to create the brand image of "Old Town Chao Street" in Yinyu Lane Block.
A series of achievements confirm the importance and necessity of the preservation and renewal of historic areas. Facing the future, Qingdao will continue to introduce high-quality formats according to local conditions and further revitalize the development potential of the historical urban area. At the same time, relevant districts, cities and departments will continue to go deep into the front line, take industrial upgrading and project landing as the starting point, solidly promote related work, and help Qingdao build a modern international metropolis.