(MENAFN- TimesNewswire ) Drive through the Jiluo Road Tunnel of the Yellow River, which is known as the“No.1 Tunnel of the Yellow River”, and visitors can get to Jinan Start-up Area on the north bank from the main urban area of Jinan City on the south bank of the Yellow River in China in 5 minutes. Looking around, there are many construction sites, tower cranes, and busy equipment here.
At present, Jinan Start-up Area has signed a total of 137 high-end and high-quality projects with a total investment of more than 330 billion yuan, including 43 projects for Fortune 500 companies in the world and Fortune 500 companies in China.
In the new economic science and technology park of Zhongke, three branches of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and several industrialization projects, including the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have landed; Jinan Advanced Technology Research Institute completed the R&D and manufacture of 20 MW gas turbines to fill the technical gap.
Bin Sun, a member of the Standing Committee of Jinan Municipal Committee and director of the Management Committee of Jinan Start-up Area, said that Jinan Start-up Area is committed to building a modern industrial system with new-generation information technology, intelligent manufacturing, and high-end equipment, new energy and new materials and other strategic emerging industries and advanced manufacturing industries as the main body, high-end service industry, and modern high-efficiency agriculture as the support.
In 1855, the Yellow River diverted through Jinan, Shandong Province, and became a natural barrier in the north of Jinan city. After many vicissitudes, the main urban area of Jinan has formed a belt pattern with Daming Lake as the center, long and narrow from east to west and short from south to north, and the urban development space is increasingly limited.
In October 2020, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the Outline of the Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection and High-quality Development Plan, clearly proposing to“support Jinan to build a Start-up Area”. In April last year, the State Council approved the Implementation Plan of Jinan Start-up Area Construction. Jinan ushered in a new opportunity from the“Daming Lake Era” to the“Yellow River Era”.
“The planned area of the Start-up Area is equivalent to the existing built-up area in Jinan, and it is positioned as the main position of urban space expansion in Jinan. The construction of the Start-up Area will transform the Yellow River from a barrier that restricts development into an ecological link that integrates the two sides of the strait.” Li Guoxiang, full-time deputy secretary of the Jinan Start-up Area Party Working Committee, said.
In the future, Jinan Start-up Area will be an industrial new city, a green new city, and a livable new city.
Green new city area, harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. In the early winter season, swans from Siberia to spend the winter here are playing leisurely and foraging in the grit chamber of Queshan Reservoir in the Jinan Start-up Area. Zhou Keqi, secretary of Nanfan Village CPC Branch, Daqiao Street, told the reporter:“The natural environment is better. The number of swans that have come here for the winter has increased from less than 10 a few years ago to more than 80 now.”
Li Guoxiang said that in Jinan Start-up Area, water-green spaces such as water wetlands, park green spaces, and farmland forest land account for more than 70%, and every project embodies the green concept. Every building is an energy-saving and environment-friendly green building, and ecology is the most striking background here.
Living in a new city, everyone lives in a proper place. The Jinan Start-up Area under construction is located in the west, and there are fitness trails, all-age activity venues, and outdoor fitness venues in the community. Nearby, hospitals, primary and secondary schools, daycare centers for the elderly, and other facilities will be built to create a 15-minute living circle for residents.
In Sungeng Street Smart City Operation Command Sub-center, the information of 14,000 houses and 52,000 people in the jurisdiction is synchronized to the system platform, and the 12345 citizen service hotline work order disposal, fire alarm information monitoring and grid staff management can all be“intelligent”.
Yue Guangfei, Economic Development Department of Jinan Start-up Area Management Committee, said that“building a livable, resilient and smart city” is the goal and direction of the Jinan Start-up Area. Jinan Start-up Area builds a digital twin city by building urban digital public infrastructure and a CIM platform.“In the future, information such as the daily water consumption and power consumption of each building, as well as various social and livelihood information such as transportation and fire protection, can be linked to the 'city brain', so as to realize quick perception, quick scheduling, and quick disposal.”
The Yellow River rushes eastward, reluctant day and night, vigorously and seizing the day. On the banks of the Yellow River in Jinan, China, the high-quality development of the Jinan Start-up Area is accelerating its rise.
(Li Xiaotong; Hou Yawen; Louxinyu; Hua Shan)