Happiness is the medallion of the city and the temperature of the individual.
If you ask what is "Chengdu-style happiness"? Du Fu would express his mind with "The window contains a thousand autumn snows in Xiling", and the members of the "Snow Mountains in Chengdu" group would use photos to appreciate and discuss the rolling snow mountains "floating" above the city skyline.
Let the line of sight spread from the snowy mountains, Longquan mountain urban forest park like a green heart beating, giant panda national park like green lung breathing, hundreds of municipal parks dotted with colorful life in the urban area, rivers, lakes, forests, fields are full of country parks, bridging the boundaries between the city and nature.
The whole city is a big park, with a unique ecological background into the Chengdu-style bashi life.
Chengdu, a park city under the snowy mountains
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during his inspection and investigation in Sichuan that Tianfu New Area is an important node in the construction of the "Belt and Road" and the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and it must be planned and built well, especially to highlight the characteristics of park cities, take ecological values into account, and strive to build a new growth pole and build an inland open economic highland.
Park City, first mentioned in Chengdu. Nowadays, Chengdu, as a megacity with a permanent population of 20.9378 million and a GDP of nearly 2 trillion yuan, looks back on the past 4 years, in the practice of park city construction practicing the new development concept, Chengdu has always taken the satisfaction of citizens' yearning for a better life as the fundamental starting point and foothold of urban development, and written an answer sheet that seeks the interests of people's livelihood and solves the worries of people's livelihood.
This is also a main line that gathers Chengdu to build a "people's city happiness sample": to promote high-quality development, create a high-quality life, and achieve high-efficiency governance.
▎ Sharing: The park is the value of the face, but also the foundation
For Chengdu, the park is not only the face of the ecological environment, but also the thick base of citizens' lives. Leisure sports, parent-child education, culture and entertainment, ecological science, life aesthetics... The complex functions of the park shape the lifestyle of the citizens.
Last year's National Day holiday was the busiest week in recent years for Jiang Zhiyou, head of the rural corridor of the nature education institution. He received nearly 200 visitors to bird watching, twice as many as in previous years, and most parents brought their children to experience parent-child wild fun.
Birds of prey migrate seasonally in both spring and autumn. Longquan Mountain is a transit and temporary habitat for birds of prey, and is also an excellent place to watch birds of prey in Chengdu in spring and autumn. During the National Day holiday, visitors to Longquan Mountain can observe nearly 400 birds of prey from more than 10 species, such as crested hummingbirds, black kites, short-toed eagles, kestrels, and sparrowhawks.
Children go bird watching at Alder River Wetland Park
"Bird watching is letting more people know in the form of popular science education and eco-tourism, and Longquanshan Urban Forest Park provides a carrier for science education." Jiang Zhiyou said. From "ecological barrier" to "urban green heart", Longquanshan Urban Forest Park has optimized the urban spatial structure and improved the regional forest coverage rate in the past four years, which has lit up a vibrant green heart for Chengdu.
The moment that makes Yifan look forward to it is the 100-kilometer first-class greenway in the New Year's Day Ecological Park this year.
The Ring City Ecological Park is a park system strung together by greenways. It includes 500 meters on both sides of the Chengdu Ring Expressway and 7 wedge-shaped plots around it, spanning 12 districts and involving 133 square kilometers of ecological land. When the Ring City Ecological Park was closed, Chengdu also wore a green "necklace".
"The 100-kilometer greenway is enough to ride for five or six hours, and there are no motor vehicles and traffic lights, so the slow driving experience is particularly good." Yifan is a product manager at a technology and fitness company, and every weekend, he likes to find a cycling path to explore the city. Cycling enthusiasts like Yifan can find a slow travel system of hundreds of kilometers in the city, which is unique in Chengdu.
Huancheng Ecological Park Yuedong Cailin Park
The "Chengdu Chengnan Rain God Running Group" focuses on small parks. He Liqun, the leader of the running group, said that when the running group was established in 2015, it took a lot of energy to find an activity venue, and at that time, there were not many suitable venues for running in the south of the city. Looking at Chengdu now, parks are everywhere, greenways are shuttled, and related supporting facilities are also very complete. "Now our group of runners can run wildly in the park and on the greenway, don't have to worry about running far away and can't go home, don't have to worry about long-distance no supplies, don't have to worry about traffic safety, put on the equipment and go out is the greenway, you can really empty yourself and enjoy the freedom of running."
From the chengdu local growth of the sports brand Gudong APP can be found that since the Gudong APP was just launched in 2010, the registered users in Chengdu are about tens of thousands, as of 2021, the total number of runners in Chengdu has reached nearly 10 million, accounting for about 5% of the total users of the APP. According to Shen Bo, CEO of Gudong, there are currently 6496 running groups in Chengdu, ranking 4th in the national city, and Qinglong Lake and Jincheng Lake have become the most popular running parks for Chengdu runners.
Large-scale, medium-scale, small-scale, dotted parks are written with stories of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, decorating the happy life of individuals.
"In recent years, many experts have paid attention to Chengdu, which is extremely rich in biodiversity and has a population of 21 million, and Chengdu has achieved a harmonious balance between the two," said Chen Mingkun, president of the Chengdu Municipal Park Urban Construction and Development Research Institute. In his view, Chengdu has explored the global park system, the Tianfu greenway system, and the ecological construction project of Wulurun City, coordinating the relationship between the city and nature in the whole region, so that the city-green synergy and the city-park integration have interpreted the demonstration significance of the park city demonstration area.
In January 2022, the Guangming Daily research team recently went to Chengdu to conduct in-depth research. The construction of park cities should be based on the basis of harmonious coexistence between man and nature - the research team believes that the first enlightenment given by Chengdu in the process of promoting the construction of park cities with high quality is the integration of man and nature. Resolutely implement the "one respect and five overall planning" proposed by the Central Urban Work Conference, Chengdu plans economic and social development from the height of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and makes green a clear background for high-quality development.
Wintering waterbird flocks According to the Chengdu Bird Watching Fair
▎ Co-construction: our park, our works
At the beginning of the Year of the Tiger, the Chengdu Municipal Park City Construction Administration Bureau was busy. They received voices from different sources of citizens, and citizens had a keen desire to express themselves on how to build a park city and what kind of park city they wanted. Among them, there are not only the suggestions and proposals of the deputies and members collected during the "two sessions" in Chengdu, but also the expectations given by ordinary citizens through the 12345 network governance platform.
"Let art intervene in the community, take the 15-minute living circle as the carrier, and through art installations, sculptures, space displays, etc., let the people, architecture and environment of the 15-minute living circle be more integrated, and create our third space." Wu Pingli, member of the Chengdu Municipal CPPCC Committee and chairman of Chengdu Chanson Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., suggested.
"I hope that the parks in the suburban counties can be as high-quality as the parks in the central urban area, with more sports facilities and more convenience stores." Netizen Xiao Lizi wrote a message.
"We must respond to the voices of the citizens, and we must do our best to meet the needs of the citizens." The relevant person in charge of the Chengdu Park City Construction Administration Bureau said that the construction of park cities is an important starting point for implementing the new development concept and creating a high-quality life, and it is also a practical action to deeply practice the important concept of "people's city built by the people, people's city for the people". To build a people's city is to make the city shared by the people, shared by the people, and governed by the people.
The people's will is expected, and the people's strength is gathered. In fact, in the past four years, the construction of Chengdu's park city has always been connected to the people's hearts and close to the voice of the people.
In urban renewal, those "pocket parks" in Phnom Penh and Silver Horn listen to the demands of the masses. "In the past, the community was changed to a community, which should carry public service functions, and Chengdu took the lead in promoting the model of continuous transformation, creating public service facilities in pocket parks to concentrate on the presentation of contiguous films, party building, leisure and entertainment, old-age care and childcare, and greening are covered, and the function of doing a good job of this piece is perfect." Ou Jin, director of the Urban Renewal Department of Chengdu Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, introduced that in the process of renovation of old residential areas, relevant staff often bring designers into the community and residents to open dams and dams, listen to residents say what functions are needed, and then turn over and over to change the plan, "Arrange! ”
"Pocket Park" on the banks of the Phoenix River in Chengdu
The Xiajiangou community in Chenghua District once lost many old residents due to dirty and messy. The team of community planners of community organizations, together with the leaders of the resident group, grid members, council members, building chiefs, etc., distributed more than 2,600 questionnaires before and after, and based on the opinions and suggestions of more than 2,000 residents collected online, they were finally organically updated, adding sports, business, leisure and cultural functions, attracting the return of old residents. "When I visited, I heard my aunt say that she wanted to move back in, and the happiness on her face was overflowing!"
"Shantytowns turned into high-intensity developments or green parks? Chengdu leaves its most valuable resources to its citizens. Chen Mingkun said that chengdu's choice stems from the value of the people's city, which objectively activates the value of the region, and is an exploration practice of the "Two Mountains Theory" in the city. "Landfills have a neighbor-avoidance effect, parks are attractive, and we believe that green ecological spaces can spill out economic benefits and realize the transformation of ecological values."
On February 10, the Chinese government website released the news that the State Council officially approved the construction of a park city demonstration zone in Chengdu with a new development concept. The construction of Chengdu's park city has thus stood at a new starting point, which also means that Chengdu will be the first to try, providing replicable and reference experience for the construction of park cities across the country.
Chengdu
The park is still a small incision for Guan To peek into Chengdu to explore first.
Greener and less low carbon. For example, Chengdu is building a zero-carbon park system to help Chengdu establish a global carbon sink ecosystem, enhance the civilization of a green and low-carbon city, shape the brand of the park city demonstration area, and embark on a new path of green, low-carbon and high-quality development.
More accessible and perceptible. For example, community gardens and micro-green spaces will be the focus of Chengdu's color. "This year's park construction will be more people-centered, with the needs of the masses as the foothold, so that the greenway connects the pocket park and enriches the citizens' way home." The relevant person in charge of the Chengdu Park City Construction Administration Bureau said that the construction of the park comes from the suggestions of the people and makes the people feel happy.
The snow-capped mountains are close to each other, and the ten thousand gardens are connected. Park City has thus packed the "little happiness" of 21 million Chengdu people.
Red Star News Chief Reporter Zhong Xini
Edited by Yixi Chen
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