At the executive meeting of the State Council chaired by Premier Li Keqiang, it was proposed to build a comprehensive three-dimensional transport corridors relying on golden waterway and to accelerate the construction of the Yangtze River economic belt, providing an important support for the sustainable development of China\'s economy. This strategic plan once again highlights the importance and urgency of the construction of a modern megacity of Yichang.
The Yangtze River, as the largest inland river in China, has provided China with 36.5% of water resource, 48% of exploitable hydropower resources and 52.5% of the inland navigable mileage. Its trunk cargo has been ranking first in the world for 9 consecutive years and the Three Gorges hydropower project on the artery has made Yichang a "world hydropower capital."
Yichang, located between Chongqing and Wuhan which are heavyweight megacities on the Yangtze River economic belt, whose geography, resources and other peculiarities among all cities on the Yangtze River economic belt, is strung by the world-class "golden waterway". It has to assume the historical responsibility entrusted by the state, to seize the golden opportunity for development, and to build a new modern megacity, making it not only a "world hydropower capital" but also an" economic hub ", a "transport hub", a "logistics hub", a "tourism hub", and a "cultural hub" for connecting center region with west region, and it will become an important pole on the Yangtze River economic echoing with Chongqing, Wuhan and other large cities.
At the Tenth Congress of the Communist Party in Hubei Province, as Li Hongzhong, the Hubei Provincial Party Secretary said, "We will support Yichang to accelerate the construction of provincial sub-central city, Yangtze River hydroelectric regional central city on upper and middle Yangtze river and world hydroelectric tourist destinations, so that it will become a modern megacity."
The construction of megacity of Yichang is not empty talk. People are surprised to find that the "west fort of Chu country" with 2,000 years of history is now beginning to present as a modern megacity in just one or two years.
Yichang has formed a large three-dimensional pattern with sea, land, air and water. Several highways pass through the city and seven bridges cross over the north and south of the Yangtze River, in which baiyang, Wujiagang, Bailizhou, Honghuatao, Xiangxi Yangtze River Bridges were included in the national planning; Fanba highway, from Yichang to the Three Gorges dam area, has not only opened the southern segment but also kicked off the construction of northern segment; Yichang to the national high-speed rail and to the national and international air routes, has been ahead of other same level cities on the Yangtze River economic belt; the relevant departments are studying to build a navigable gate in order to break the current 150 million tons of annual shipping capacity; At the same time, only Badong to Yichang segment of the Yichang to Chongqing expressway is under construction and Yichang to Chongqing high-speed rail has just been opened, and the new freight railway construction has been included in the agenda .
The Yangtze River economic belt is called as "economic belt" so that the emphasis should be put on economy. In this regard, the Hubei Provincial People\'s Government in the "Hubei Yangtze River economic belt open and development overall Plan (2009-2020)" clearly indicated that the gross domestic product is going to reach around 1.36 trillion RMB at the end of "the twelfth five plan".
It is noted that Yichang pressurized itself and assumed the critical responsibilities. Its goal is that the gross production value is going to exceed 500 billion RMB in 2016, keeping ahead in the equivalent cities along the Yangtze River while it continues and retains the current third place to strive for the second and first place among the same cities in the central region.
To this end, Yichang is focusing on building "trillion economic corridor along the river", which is the breakthrough and extension along the river and development across the river, promoting the construction of national high-tech zones "a zone of six parks" in Yichang, and development of various development zones and parks, striving to make the industrial output value of four large gardens such as Xiaoting Park, Shenzhen Industrial Park, Bai Yang Industrial Park, and bio-industry park to exceed over 10 billion RMB, and that of development zones in Yidu, Yiling, Dangyang, Zhijiang and other counties to exceed 50 billion RMB, 20 professional park over 10 billion RMB, building equipment manufacturing, chemical, food and pharmaceutical three large billion industries, promoting bio-materials, nano-materials, magnetic electronic three big industries to be one hundred billion industry.
Today, overlooking Yichang, its east is to Xiaoting of Baiyang, west to the Three Gorges Dam, South to Chexi of Dianjun, and north to Huanghua of Yanjiahe , a radius of 200 square kilometers of land is full of moving cars, busy construction sites, erecting skyscrapers and completed factories. "Yichang New District" assumes the important responsibility and strives to promote the milestone which is to invest 100 billion RMB to complete the urban construction, to achieve 100 square kilometers of infrastructure covering, and to build 160 kilometers of main roads, 6 square kilometers of public green space and 10 million square meters of housing.
The rapid economic construction of Yichang is the ever-changing cultural construction.
As a national model city, the National Sanitary City, the National Support Model City, the National Excellent Tourism City, and Advanced National Science and Technology City, its ancient civilization and culture are well known since ancient times. "Changyang people", Qu Yuan, Wang Zhaojun, Lei Zu, Ouyang Xiu, Lu Yu, three trips in Tang and Song Dynasty, characters of Three Kingdoms, etc., are renowned worldwide Yang Shoujing, the famous Great Masters in the late Qing dynasty, Wang Guoxin, the master known as "the first person drawing Guan Gong in China", Shi Ke, who obtained the movie queen of Romanian Film Festival, Tai Lihua, who served as head of the China Disabled Persons\' Federation Troup, Hu Yanglin, who is a famous singer poplar on the internet, Liu Defang who was awarded the title of Chinese folk storyteller and more than 120 Intangible Cultural Heritage etc, and they are all from Yichang. Yichang plays an important role in literary art scene and the high ground of folk art. Fortunately, the novel Battle for Shipai created by Du Hong the secretary of Yichang Literary Federation attracted the attention from Chinese film circle and inspection from the famous filmmaker recently.
Yichang experiences the gradual recovery of the old cultural style. Ba and Chu style featuring painting, calligraphy, art venues, collections etc. became popular in the north and south of China. Under this influence of culture and civilization, an Yichang spirit with "open and inclusive, pragmatism and innovation, integrity and civilization" is emerging and is becoming the model of spirit and civilization on the Yangtze River economic belt.
"Seize the day and work hard for public", "big and strong, outstanding and super beautiful," is the style and objectives for promoting the construction of modern megacity by all Party members and officers, which is asked by Huang Chuping, the standing committee of Hubei Provincial Committee and the secretary of Yichang Municipal Committee. As a Yichang citizen away from home, I, felt that "a pleasant city and prosperous land" is getting better and more powerful and desirable. (July 17 China Economic News Network published. Written by Long Jun, the Secretary-General of association of Chinese newspaper industry.)