Speaking of Guangdong Shunde, many people know that this is a city famous for its manufacturing industry. In just over 40 years, it has transformed from an agricultural county to a global manufacturing town.
But few people know that Shunde is still a city prospered by water, with a total area of only 806 square kilometers of land, densely covered with nearly 1,000 rivers, with an average of one river in one square kilometer, and the water area accounts for 32.6. %.
With the lingering charm of traditional water village civilization, Shunde has developed into a trillion industrial area with global influence. The total market value of listed companies has exceeded 1 trillion yuan, and the two "trillion-level" have laid the foundation for Shunde's economy.
But today, above the "Thousand Rivers" in Shunde, on both sides of the river, some places are messy, lacking the beauty of the Jiangnan water village, the degree of urban refinement is still lacking, and the problem of the mismatch between urban construction and economic development is prominent.
"For the current industrialization and urbanization problem of'one leg long and one leg short', Shunde insists on using water to make a beautiful city, gathering talents through the city, and rejuvenating the city with talents." said Liu Zhiyong, member of the Standing Committee of the Foshan Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Shunde District Party Committee.
On November 10th, Shunde District held the first meeting of the Seventeenth People's Congress. In this year's government work report, it was proposed to insist on "using water to make a city beautiful, using water to rejuvenate the city, and to create a Shunde demonstration of Lingnan water town."
Operation Clean Up
On December 6th, with the roar of the hook operation, an illegal building in the Nanhua dike section of Donghai Road, Xingtan Town, Shunde was torn down.
This is a scene where Shunde has carried out the "Water Control Battle" in the past two months.
The head of Shunde District, Qu Zhuming, presented the flag to the water control vanguard at the scene. The water control vanguard of ten towns and streets in the district was established simultaneously to jointly promote the "clear shore action."
Today's Shunde is one of the wealthiest districts and counties in the country. The living environment of the people's families has improved, but the people's sense of gain and happiness has been compromised by the adverse effects of the surrounding water environment.
How to build a first-class ecological environment in the Greater Bay Area during high-quality development?
Comprehensive management of water environment has been placed in a prominent position in development.
In October of this year, the Shunde District Party Congress proposed to win the battle of water environment improvement with the determination of the strong men to break their arms.
Taking the landscape and countryside as the landscape, the historical and cultural characteristics, and the park block as the scene, a 10-minute hydrophilic living circle is constructed throughout the whole area, recreating the water town style of seeing the water and embarking on a boat.
"Shunde still has the problem of'no water sees water and water sees no water'. The main reason is that some illegal constructions on both sides of rivers are outstanding." said Huang Zhijie, deputy head of Shunde District. The improvement of waterfront space quality is the quality of Shunde's urban and rural areas. The top priority of promotion.
Shunde’s “bank clearing operation” is aimed at the extensive construction of waterfront space, the occupation of river channels and river banks, and the fact that water sees no water. The illegal buildings and facilities along the banks are demolished along the water network, and waterfront land resources are reorganized. The city's waterfront is close to each other.
Iron-covered houses, asbestos tile sheds...all kinds of illegally constructed or simple or fastened buildings and facilities, or stand on the river or near the river bank, some people open restaurants for business operations, and others open small workshops. These scenes of invading and occupying river banks and "depriving" the public of water opportunities can be seen everywhere in Shunde.
Over the years, while Shunde has achieved considerable development in its industrial economy, the comprehensive urban and rural water environment has not improved much.
"Although we live on the edge of a river, we can't see the water, we can't walk to the river, and the surrounding environment is dirty and messy... Now that we demolish these buildings and clean up the clutter, we can live on the water again. The words of Chen Bing, a resident of Ronggui Street, Shunde, represent the aspirations of thousands of people in Shunde.
According to statistics, from November 6 to December 3, a total of 246 shore-clearing operations were carried out in ten towns and streets in Shunde District, with a construction area of approximately 128,000 square meters being demolished.
Quality improvement
“Linhe Park is under construction here. In the near future, you should be able to enjoy the riverside landscape and leisure.” Li Lingrong, a resident of Jinliang Community, Daliang Street, Shunde District, pointed to a plot of land that was being leveled by the Yinyong River not far from his door. “This On the river bank, a month ago, there were still a few residents in disorderly vegetable plots and shack built at will, and they have accumulated into sanitary black spots of garbage dumping."
Huo Maochang, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Daliang Sub-district, introduced that Daliang Sub-district will systematically sort out the water system and the waterfront, and hit the "water control + clear shore + beautiful shore" combination fist to build a high quality of clean water and green shore. Waterfront living area.
Ronggui Street, located on the south bank of Desheng River, has Magang Peninsula, Shunfeng Island and Dashan Island. There are 36 rivers in its jurisdiction, dense river networks and high-quality water resources.
In recent years, Ronggui has taken advantage of the "East Wind" in the transformation of the village-level industrial park to demolish the dilapidated factory buildings and buildings constructed illegally along the river embankment, recreating the scenery of the river bank.
Ronggui is a town street that tasted the sweetness of water treatment earlier.
In Ronggui Street, Shunde, the first "three to one supplement" enterprise after my country's reform and opening up was born here, and it became a "hundred-billion-dollar town" of industrial output value as early as ten years ago.
How to further improve the "water article" relying on high-quality water resources?
Ouyang Xue, director of the Urban Construction and Water Conservancy Office of Ronggui Street, said that Ronggui will continue to use the 42-kilometer-long river bank to create a "round the island jade chain" and connect Ronggui's industrial, cultural and tourist attractions with water veins.
Shunde Jun’an Town is connected to water. There are 81 rivers in the town with a length of 210 kilometers. The water area accounts for nearly 50% of the total area of the town. Demolition of the freed land space, plans to build a number of water parks, water platforms, green roads and public facilities to beautify the riverside environment.
Plank roads, green roads, sports facilities, riverside book bars... Create an ecologically beautiful shared public space, reproduce the beautiful scenery of clear waters, green banks, and shallow fishes, and truly return water to people and shore to people, realizing "production, The trinity of ecology and life, and the "most beautiful coastline" is extending on both sides of the 756-kilometer river in Shunde.
Hit the "hidden pain"
No good company would choose an industrial area accompanied by black and smelly rivers when deciding an investment area; nor would a good talent choose to come to a living area where sewage is directly discharged from the river.
Behind the Shunde "Water Control Battle" is the "hidden pain" of the city.
In recent years, the effect of talents gathering in high-quality cities has become more obvious.
Shunde, which is close to the first-tier city of Guangzhou and not far from the first-tier city of Shenzhen, has been "struck" by the two "giants". In the early years, it benefited from the talent dividend obtained by being close to the megacities, but now it has been "siphoned".
The talent attraction of Shunde has decreased.
"In the past, Shunde was able to attract high-end talents, talents from all over the country flowed to Shunde, and a steady stream of university graduates flew to Shunde. Today this situation is significantly reduced." Shunde District Party Committee Propaganda Department Executive Deputy Director, District Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau Director Huang Yuheng said.
Shunde, which is in a critical period of high-quality development and transformation and upgrading, set up its first "Talent Day" on September 19 this year, and issued a recruitment order to expand the recruitment of talents.
Shunde people clearly realize that if first-class talents cannot be attracted to settle down, first-class industrial clusters cannot be formed, and first-class urban competitiveness will be lacking.
Whether talents will come depends on whether the city of Shunde is beautiful or not.
"Through water governance to promote the butterfly change of Shunde city", Liu Zhiyong believes that only by doing a good job in the great article of using water to make a beautiful city, using the city to gather talents, and using talents to rejuvenate the city, and build a high-quality modern and charming city, can it attract talents and realize the prosperity of the city.
The Shunde Party Congress clearly stated that it is necessary to scientifically plan the spatial pattern of the future city and carry out urban reshaping with water as the pulse.
For first-tier cities such as Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Shunde is determined to be lofty.
"The environment is better, education and medical care are improved, talents are also willing to come, companies are also willing to come, can the development of this place be good?" Liu Zhiyong asked rhetorically.
The urban pattern that originally consisted of multiple "main roads" connected in series and divided into blocks has been transformed into a new pattern with multiple "main rivers" as the context.
In terms of natural resources and urban and rural landscapes, Shunde uses water as a medium to chain and link ecological resources such as mountains, forests, water bodies, pastoral, wetlands, green roads, etc., to build four ecological continuous belts that run through the east and the west, creating a "pastoral pastoral style". "A beautiful view of the city.
The strategic concept of "rejuvenating cities with water" has been placed in a prominent position in the construction of high-quality development pilot demonstration zones by Shunde.
This is also a major turning point in the concept of Shunde's urban development.
(Economic Daily reporter Zhang Jianjun)