Future city sees the future
——One of the "Five Years of Xiong'an New Area"
In March, it is warm and cold.
The spring breeze blows, the Baiyang Lake sparkles, and the Xiongan New Area, which grows up against the spring breeze, is thriving.
It has been five years since the establishment of Xiongan New Area in Hebei Province since it was "born" on April 1, 2017.
In the past five years, from the blueprint drawn in a "one-page plan" to the gradual development of the "city of the future", the Xiongan New Area has been developing steadily and steadily.
In the past five years, from the sparse lights to the bright night sky, the annual growth rate of the total amount of satellite night light in Xiongan New Area has increased from 6.42% to 52.12%. By the end of last year, a total investment of more than 350 billion yuan was completed.
In the past five years, from the county seat of North China to the "city of the future", more than 200,000 construction troops have fought day and night here during the peak period. They used their wisdom to build their dreams of life, wrote the future of the new district with sweat, and witnessed the rapid change and vitality of Xiongan.
Dream Builder
Back on April 1, 2017, the "post-80s" Wang Shuai who just returned from Germany was still jet lag.
The news that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council decided to establish Hebei Xiongan New Area popped up on her mobile phone, which moved her heart: "This will be the place where dreams begin!"
"Everything is expected, but what really attracts me is the strong entrepreneurial atmosphere in this hot land. Talents from different fields gather together, and everyone is working hard for a common dream." Now it is the Xiongan New Area of Hebei. Wang Shuai, assistant secretary-general of the Smart City Innovation Federation, has participated in the preparations for the establishment of scientific and technological innovation R&D institutions such as the Xiongan Blockchain Laboratory and the Digital Transportation Laboratory in the past few years, and organized more than 100 units to set up 43 group standards. and preparation to provide support for the construction of intelligent Xiongan.
The "digital twin" is the hallmark of this innovation city.
"Every time a building is built in the new district, a digital building will be generated on the base of the digital Xiongan." Wang Shuai said that realizing the digitization of key elements of the city is the basis for the visualization of city management and operations. "For example, adjusting a certain city in a physical city. Some operating parameters cost a lot of time, manpower, and material resources, but if you adjust them first on the digital platform and simulate the effect through digital model calculations, it will be efficient and convenient.”
Doing things for the future is more difficult with passion.
Every day in Xiong'an New District, Hebei, Wang Shuai is moved by different people. They all have a common identity: a dream chaser.
Pursue your own dream of life and the development dream of Xiongan New Area.
Now, Hebei Xiong'an New District has entered the stage of large-scale construction and the simultaneous promotion of Beijing's non-capital functions, and the team of dream chasers is also expanding.
Up to now, Xiong'an New District has recruited more than 1,000 talents from "double first-class" universities, and introduced more than 100 talents in key fields of planning and construction through project cooperation; a total of nearly 300 temporary cadres have been selected by central ministries and commissions, Beijing and developed coastal areas; newly added There are more than 13,000 innovative and entrepreneurial talents of various types.
Enthusiastic entrepreneur
In September 2020, Li Guoqing, who has worked hard in Beijing for more than 10 years, moved the Wuwei Zhilian Technology Co., Ltd., which he co-founded, from Fangshan District, Beijing to Xiong'an New District, Hebei.
Hebei Xiongan New Area has a digital transportation laboratory, three major telecom operators and branches of China Tower, with a good industrial ecology.
As an entrepreneur of a technology-based enterprise, this is what Li Guoqing likes.
"The intelligent gateway product we developed is equivalent to the 'information valve' of autonomous driving, which can realize the data fusion of radar and video." Li Guoqing said that in 2019, the company's core products and the overall solution of intelligent networking will be autonomous driving in Fangshan, Beijing. The application of the test base has strengthened his confidence in expanding the business layout.
Walking on the road in the Rongdong area, you can see a light gray light pole with a simple shape every tens of meters.
This light pole, called "smart combined pole", is the basic hardware for realizing autonomous driving in the future.
It seems simple, but it has rich connotations: based on lighting, it integrates functions such as traffic sign poles, signal light poles, monitoring poles, public facility sign poles, and 5G base station functions.
Li Guoqing's company participated in the development and operation of the first autonomous driving supervision platform in Xiongan New Area, providing support services for road testing and demonstration applications of intelligent connected vehicles.
This year's autonomous vehicle-road collaborative test on digital roads is a big test for Li Guoqing and his company.
Like Li Guoqing, there are many people who deeply integrate the company's strategy into the development of Hebei Xiong'an New District. In the Xiong'an Zhihui Future Technology Incubator, there are a number of scientific and technological innovation enterprises such as the new generation network laboratory, digital transportation laboratory, and eye technology. There are more than 600 scientific researchers in the gathering, and an industry-university-research chain of digital transportation innovation has been initially formed.
They have fire in their hearts and light in their eyes, and firmly believe that the future of the company is as bright as the future of Xiongan New Area in Hebei.
According to the report, 258 innovative technology companies settled in Xiong'an New Area last year, exceeding the total of the new area from the date of its establishment to the end of 2020.
A number of non-capital function relief projects have been accelerated, and some central enterprises, universities and hospitals such as China Star Network, Sinochem, China Huaneng, etc. have settled in one after another, and undertaking the relief work is effective, orderly and effective.
A batch of market-oriented relief projects such as the Xiong'an Innovation Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China Telecom's Xiong'an Internet Industrial Park have started construction, and more than 100 branches of central enterprises have been established in the new area.
happy new resident
Doing a small business, earning more than 10,000 yuan a month, and riding bicycles in leisure... This is Liu Jian's comfortable life before the age of 36.
But he prefers his current occupation more: community property maintenance worker, working overtime during busy hours, with a monthly salary of 4,000 yuan, and "five insurances and one housing fund".
Faced with the difference in income, Liu Jian just smiled: "It depends on the future."
What is Liu Jian's future in mind?
Before 2020, Liu Jian's family of four lived in Dahe Village, Dahe Town, Rongcheng County, Xiong'an New District, a village specialized in making shirts.
"In the past, earning money was for consumption and riding, but now the pursuit is different." In Liu Jian's eyes, 13-year-old and 4-year-old children are the biggest future, and the construction and development of Xiongan New Area can change the future of children .
The villagers became residents. At the beginning of this year, Liu Jian’s family moved to a new three-bedroom house in Danruoyuan Community, Dongxisun Community, Rongdong District.
In order to find a job nearby, last year Liu Jian went abroad to study property maintenance for 3 months.
This fall, Liu Jian's two children will be able to go to school at their doorstep.
The eldest's junior high school is a school aided by Beijing; the second is in the Yuerong Kindergarten in this community, with 4 teachers per class.
Liu Jian has visited both the junior high school and the kindergarten. The hardware and software facilities were unimaginable before.
The simple Liu Jian likes to share his joy with others, "What do you want in your life? Our greatest sense of gain is that the next generation can enjoy a good education. You said how much money did you need to earn in the past to allow your child to go to such a good school?"
Of course, Liu Jian also has his own happy experience.
Dahe Village is more than 20 kilometers away from Baiyang Lake. He used to get up at 5:30 every morning, ride his bicycle, and go outside for a circle. "A few years ago, there was little water in the lake, and the water quality was not good. In the past three or four years, the water has become clear. , There are dense forests along the road, and there are many parks around, so go for a ride in your spare time, not to mention more exciting.”
Planting green before building a city is a new concept in the construction of Xiongan New Area.
In the past five years, the "Millennium Beautiful Forest" project in Xiong'an has accumulated afforestation of 454,000 mu. A number of high-quality leisure facilities such as Xiong'an Country Park and Yuerong Park have been put into use. The forest coverage rate of Xiong'an New District has increased from 11% to 32%. The goal of "3 kilometers into the forest and 1 kilometer into the forest belt" is also accelerating.
The "four major systems" of urban construction in the Xiongan New Area consisting of peripheral roads around the city, internal backbone road network, urban ecological corridors and water systems have basically been formed, and the urban framework is being fully established.
The results of the treatment of Baiyangdian Lake, which has attracted much attention, are obvious: the water quality has changed from the inferior five categories before 2018 to the comprehensive four categories and the partial three categories in 2019, and then to the third category of the whole lake in 2021. The speed of improvement sets a national precedent.
The "Pearl of North China" has regained its brilliance, and Baiyangdian has entered the ranks of good lakes in the country.
Such changes have made countless new residents like Liu Jian imagine a better future.
Five years at your fingertips.
Driving on the streets of Xiongan New District, the night view of tower cranes is shocking.
Whether they are dream chasers, migrants or new residents, they are all witnesses and builders of this vibrant "city of the future". They write about the future of Xiongan and look forward to their own future.
Our reporter Wang Shengqiang and Chen Fafang