China News Service, Lanzhou, September 27 (Ai Qinglong) Gao Xincai, president of Henan University of Economics and Law, stated in Lanzhou on the 26th that extensive expansion of the number of cities and towns in the construction of the Lanxi urban agglomeration will only lead to inefficient use of land capital. The urbanized areas are developed in clusters.
Gao Xincai said frankly that the ecological system in the western region is fragile, and many important ecological barrier areas undertake multiple ecological functions such as water conservation and biodiversity protection. In some areas, large-scale and high-intensity industrialization and urbanization development have been restricted or prohibited. Therefore, coordinating population, economy, resources and environment must strengthen the main function positioning.
The picture shows an aerial photograph of the Gansu (Lanzhou) International Dry Port.
(Data map) Gansu (Lanzhou) International Dry Port Courtesy
On the same day, the "2020 First Lanzhou-Xining Urban Agglomeration Seminar on High-quality Development" was held in Lanzhou. Many experts and scholars "opened a good prescription" on topics such as the construction of Lanxi urban agglomeration.
The Lanxi urban agglomeration was approved and established in 2018, with Lanzhou and Xining as the center, covering the economic zones of 22 prefectures and cities. It is the first inter-provincial urban agglomeration on the upper reaches of the Yellow River, an important ecological barrier on the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The only city cluster that defends national security.
Gao Xincai believes that although there are counties and cities in the two provinces that are not included in the urban agglomeration planning, the boundaries of economic activities and administrative divisions do not overlap. The economic integration development trend of urban agglomerations beyond administrative divisions will drive the overall coordinated development of the region.
"Infrastructure interconnection is the rigid condition and fundamental guarantee for the formation of the internal integrated system of the urban agglomeration and the expansion of the external radiation range." Gao Xincai said that the construction of the Lanxi urban agglomeration is guided by the cross-administrative planning and multi-channel funding support. We will jointly promote the construction of a comprehensive system covering transportation, information, networks, water conservancy, energy and other public services.
"Urban agglomerations are not equal to urban agglomerations. They have clear indicators for the total population, the level of urbanization, the proportion of non-agricultural industries, the degree of economic export, and the centrality of the development of central cities." Fang Chuanglin, academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, said that to promote "dual core" The two circles of the Lanxi urban agglomeration are facing each other to develop in a group, and it is necessary to innovate the system and mechanism. The Lanxi urban agglomeration integrated development office will be jointly established by Gansu and Qinghai to coordinate major issues.
Zhang Guohua, chief engineer of the Urban and Small Towns Reform and Development Center of the National Development and Reform Commission, said frankly that at present, the Lanxi urban agglomeration, Lanzhou and Xining metropolitan areas are not prominently ranked in the national urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas, and there is an urgent need for concerted development.
The picture shows experts and scholars giving keynote speeches.
Photo by Ai Qinglong
Zhang Guohua suggested that the Lanzhou-Baiyin metropolitan area should improve the level of inter-city interconnection, realize the central city and node cities, counties and districts and the main urban areas of the city within one hour, and support the construction of "satellite cities" in Gaolan and Yuzhong.
The Xining-Haidong metropolitan area should focus on creating a “New Haidong” for urban-rural coordination and new industrialization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization, so as to drive the coordinated and integrated development of the Lanxi urban agglomeration.
In response to the problem of exposed riverbeds caused by seasonal drought in the Lanzhou section of the Yellow River, Niu Xinqiang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, suggested that under the premise of not affecting flood control, backwater facilities should be used to protect the ecological landscape of the core section of the urban river during dry periods, and to optimize the reconstruction of the urban water cycle to create a flood control, The new water network integrating ecology and landscape forms a characteristic water system interconnected by rivers-flood ditch-wetlands-lakes-pipe networks in the Lanxi urban agglomeration.
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