1. Urban Planning
Guided by the Outline of integrated development of Yangtze River Delta, Jing’an will adopt new concepts of development, giving full play to its strengths and promote the Four Brands in an effort to build Shanghai into “five centers”, an excellent global city, and a socialist modern metropolis with global influence.
Centered on the vision “International Jing’an, an Excellent District”, the district’s urbanization level, cultural charm, living quality, and environment will be highlighted to promote its role as a livable core district of an international cultural metropolis that provides services across the world. It will feature vitality of innovation, entrepreneurship and strong attractiveness, creativity and competitiveness. This modern international district will stand out in excellent services, outstanding culture strength and superior governance. Strategically, it is expected to be equipped with great international accessibility, strong cultural soft power, and inhabitable environment. Its powerful service functions, innovative industrial development, and smart urban governance will set a leading example. In this way, it will stand out as an icon of Shanghai and a demonstration of a socialist modern district with global influence.
The urban land use is benchmarked against the first-class international standards. Its land use performance is the best in China. It attaches great importance to productivity, energy consumption and the environment. Thus, it is further optimizing the structure and variety of land use, enhancing the unit economic output, for more intensive, more efficient, and more sustainable use. It will give full play to the interlinkage function of the “One Axis” and the supporting functions of “Three Belts”, and build the “One Axis and Three Belts” area into one that is the most diversified in industries, the most active in innovation and the best in management.
2. Environmental Protection
Jing’an has been striving to build an environmental protection and ecological civilization system that is consistent with the international urban area, implementing the three-year environmental protection and construction action plan, clean air action plan, water pollution prevention and treatment plan, and soil pollution control plan. Moreover, it has been strengthening supervision over the sources of pollution, carrying out environmental impact assessments in accordance with the laws, taking measures to reduce the impact of exhaust gas, lampblack, oil products, dust, energy consumption, solid wastes and medical wastes on the environment, and to improve environmental quality. It has been also trying to improve river water quality and optimize water environment management. The authorities have been strictly exercising supervision and control over radioactive substances and nuclear radiation to ensure ecological and environmental safety. Ecological and environmental monitoring is carried out in a scientific way, environmental supervision and law enforcement is strictly exercised, addressing environmental violations. Ecological and environmental protection promotion aims to popularize the concept of green development and raise public awareness of environmental protection.
3. Transportation
Boasting ideal location and convenient transportation, Jing’an District has formed the well-developed transportation network including railways, elevated roads, subway, and bus. It has long been honored as “Northern Gate of Shanghai by Land”. It has five long-distance passenger terminals such as Shanghai Railway Station, Shanghai Long-distance Bus Terminal, Hutai Long-distance Bus Terminal, and subway lines such as Line 1, Line 2, Line 3, Line 4, Line 7, Line 8, Line 12, and Line 13. In addition, the elevated roads such as Yan'an Elevated Road, North-South Elevated Road, Internal Ring, and Central Ring, the transportation hub of Jing’an Temple and the transportation hub of Gonghexin Road in Central Ring provide convenience for air travel and transfer.
4. Reconstruction of Old Area
Jing’an District takes the reconstruction of old area as an effective measure to promote urban renewal and improve livelihood, strictly implement policies of reconstruction of old areas, insist on the principles of “transparency, fairness and justice” and positively promote the requisition of houses. During the “13th Five-year Plan” period (2016-2020), about 26,000 households benefited from the reconstruction.
Driven by the strategy of “One Axis and Three Belts”, Jing’an District will make more space for development, improve living conditions, and further promote reconstruction of old area, enhancing people’s livelihood.
5. Urban Appearance Management
In Jing’an District, the urban appearance is fascinating, and landscape image and lighting design are classic and elegant. Owing to excellent urban appearance and quality, public satisfaction ranks the front level in Shanghai.
Since Shanghai launched the new round of household waste sorting, it has been executed in 791 communities, 169 schools, 35 vegetable markets, 10 parks, 73 public institutions, and 546 enterprises of Jing’an, covering 388,000 households. Through the classification of household garbage, kitchen wastes, wastes in vegetable market, and wastes produced in greening and decoration, all wastes are treated in a harmless and recycling manner, Jing’an has built 1,003 recycling service stations (792 fixed ones and 211 mobile ones) and 16 transfer stations and one hub for integration of two networks to ensure that all kinds of garbage can be treated in a minimal, harmless and recycling manner.
Jing’an District is Shanghai Demonstration District in Garbage Classification as rated in 2019, and one of the first-batch demonstration districts nationwide.
6. Landscaping
The landscaping in Jing’an features smallness, exquisiteness and high standard. In line with the requirements of greening, coloring, preciousness and benefit for the ecological environment, Jing’an has made vigorous efforts to develop public green land, perfected green space layout at various levels and improved the ecological environment. Jing’an District is the first in Shanghai to develop three-dimensional greening, such as roof greening, window sill and balcony greening, tracery wall and flower street to optimize urban landscapes and enhance the green looking ratio. By adhering to scientific greening, Jing’an District has established a plant waste recycling system, promoted ecological control of water in parks, improved green land soil and promoted application of new concepts and technologies such as garden machines, sponge city building technology, New bamboo and wood-made materials, new superior plant varieties, and smart park. In addition, Jing’an District has boosted economical use of land resources, tactfully shifted the shortcomings of such municipal facilities as pump station, power station and waste transfer station into high-quality green lands. Jing’an District has also built such brands as Jing’an International Sculpture Project to promote park cultural activities. Jing’an District is striving to create itself into a beautiful urban area featuring more superior ecological environment, better ecological quality and more delicate public services.
By the end of 2020, the greening area in Jing’an totaled 8.1314 million quare meters. In the District, there are 20 parks, including Jing’an Park, Jing’an Sculpture Park, Zhabei Park, Daning Park, Square Park, Xikang Park, Jiaotong Park, Pengpu Park, Lingnan Park, Sanquan Park, etc., totaling 1.311 million quare meters.
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