City is the main carrier of economic and social development. Yichang promotes its green development based on post-modern theory and presents a scene of fascinating big city.
The city’s green space makes up a great picture of green mountains and clean waters
On December 4th, the reporter visited the newly-established Yichang Planning Exhibition Hall. With red flowers and green leaves decorated with the aid of thepeculiartechnology ofsound and light, people can learn the whole story of ecological Yichang.
Xia Wenhan, Yichang Planning Bureau secretary, said that Planning Exhibition Hall looks advanced and the materials are environmentally friendly. The sign boards are made by the discarded straw and the flower beds are made with wooden chips. With solar energy on the roof, people can enjoy nature light directly through the windows.
Standing in front of the about 1500 –square- meter cubic Yichang overall planning sand plate, Xia Wenhan introduces that Yichang persists in the post-modern theory of people orientation, ecology first, the prosperity of industry and city , smart and convenient policy, cultural city, opening- up and inclusion. Meanwhile, Yichang government insists on city designing schemes from the top institutes at home or abroad. The whole city should rely on its distinctive gorges terrain, which is illustrated in the idea “the city is surrounded by the rivers, the mountains and the green trees. The people live here, just like live in a stunning painting ” and “ups and downs, winding, jagged, continuous looming” landscapes.
The Qiusuo Square adjacent to the Planning hall was constructed three years ago. As one of the constructer, Yichang is familiar as well as strange to the technologist Yu Sanquan, “In the past, it was choked with weeds. To my delight, it becomes so beautiful due to the construction based on the natural landform.” He fell in love with Yichang and moved from Wuhan to Yichang. “Planning controls the green, construction creates the green, people plant the green, management protects the green, and therefore the green decides the life and death.” Zhou Qing, the head of Yichang District Promotion Office said. Each pace of city\'s development is permeated with green theory. Nowadays, Yichang\'s forest coverage rate reaches over 65% and ranks first in Hubei province with the urban per capita green area of more than 14 square meters and citizen can enjoy the green scenery whenever opening the door and entering into a garden 5 minutes later. The scene of city in the forest and people in the scene has primarily appeared.
The ecologically-sound industrial development ensures the new scenery of industry and city integration
City’s development can’t do without industrial support. Yichang regards green as the grounding and industry goes hand in hand with prosperity of the development of the city.
Yichang Fine Chemical Garden of Hing Fat chemical group is regarded as the Chinese magic system by the people in this field. The group general manager assistant Chen Xiaoqing introduces that nine companies have formed an economical industrial chain by taking use of symbiotic coupling process of the different products and craft improvement.
It is exploiting a new district, boosting a regional industry and establishing a new city to realize the integration of industry and city. Along the 100- kilometer-long sides of Yangte River, where Yichang New District, Yichang Hi- tech District, Three Gorges new Tourism District, and Three Gorges Ports District are located assembly, we focus on constructing modern industry cluster district and riverside cities and towns belt which is characterized by all necessary elements, distinct features and reasonable overall arrangement. At present, along the economical corridor, there are 885 projects with overall investment of over one hundred million under construction of Yichang with the actual fund of 137.1 billion, which increases by 22% compared with last year. The whole city’s urbanization rate has improved from 48% at the end of “the 11th five-year plan" to over 57%.
The city’s comprehensive strength ranks second among the similar cities in middle area, keeping the fourth among similar cities along the sides of Yangtze River and ascending to the top 60 of Chinese city. Meanwhile, the constructed urban area in Yichang center has increased from 103 to 180 square meters with the permanent resident population of over 1800 hundred, an increase from 1200 hundred.
The ecological -friendly living style
The improved people\'s living based people-oriented policy
Lu Cunyong and Zhu Xuying have lived in the slum-dweller of Xiba for several decades. Lately, they moved into Jiuanchen house estate in Wujiagang District. “I start to feel that I’m a citizen after moving into the new home." Lu Cunyong said with emotion. In the past, the whole family was crowed in the 50- square- meters small house, but now, they live in the flat with two bedrooms and one living room. “There are tap water, electricity, natural gas, broadband and cable television. The green space is very large and there is also the fitness place." 76 year-old Lu Cunyong is very satisfied with his living condition.
Wang Lingzhi, an official of Yichang Slum-Dweller Office, introduced that remodeling the shanty dwellers is like a “golden key” to people’s happiness. Up to now, the number of slum-dweller remodeling amounts to 25,841 and 52514 sets resettlement have been under construction, 10252 sets basically completed and 4686 assigned.
The house estate under the construction in the whole city can meet the demands of requirements for those people in the incoming 3 to 5 years, which makes the relocation residents very satisfied. “We can\'t image that the photos in Wechat are the scenes of Moji Hill.” On December 5th, standing in the viewing platform, the couple of Yang Zhong and Yang Yang who lived in Yichang urban area were touched by the urban prosperity when appreciating the autumn scene of hills and waters.
Moji Hill Park is one of the eight new parks established in Yichang. Previously, it almost became the business development area. Fortunately, the public park is established with the huge investment of Yichang municipal government.
The over-60-year-old couple Yang Zhong and Yang Yang are not native, actually they are from Wuhan. After their working and living in Yichang for over 40 years, they have witnessed the big change of Yichang. “Now Yichang is becoming more and more beautiful, I don’t want to go anywhere.” Yang Yang said.
(Reporter: Xia Jing, correspondent: CaiJunting. cited from Guangming Daily on December 10th)