Source: Beijing Daily
Original title: Chinese and foreign media praised the urban landscape of ancient and modern co-brightness and water city integration “I will bring back the experience of the sub-center”
On February 19, the city image interview activity of “New Weather in the City of Double Olympics – 2022 Chinese and Foreign Media Trip to Beijing” hosted by the 2022 Beijing News Center invited more than 50 Chinese and foreign reporters from 42 media from Cambodia and other countries to the city’s deputy center. Visit the Interchange of Five Rivers, Grand Canal Forest Park, Beijing International Wealth Center, Zhangjiawan Design Town, and feel the vitality and high-quality development of Beijing’s urban sub-center.
The first stop of the trip to the sub-center of the city, the reporters came to the Xinguangda Center in the Canal Business District. Standing at an altitude of 180 meters on the top floor, looking east, you can see the intersection of Wenyu River, Xiaozhong River, Yunchaojian River, North Canal and Tonghui River. “Recited so far; Beiguan, the tallest building in the city’s sub-center is in full swing…
“I came from Hainan to report on the Winter Olympics. Today, I have the opportunity to come to the east of Beijing and stand at a high altitude overlooking the hotly-constructed Canal Business District, the quiet and quaint lighthouse, and the urban landscape where the ancient and the modern, and the water city blends together. It feels very shocking.” Shi Shaopeng, the host of Sansha Satellite TV, said with emotion, “Seeing that the Canal Business District is a part of the Beijing Free Trade Zone, the construction and development are booming, which reminds me of the Hainan Free Trade Port, which is in full swing. The fruitful achievements and experience in the field of free trade here have been passed on to Hainan.”
As a pilot area and a demonstration area for the construction of the sub-center of the city, the Canal Business District is making every effort to build a wealth management center and a green financial center around the three functional positioning of wealth management, green finance, and financial technology and the needs of technological innovation and development. Lin Zhenghang, director of the Canal Business District Management Committee, said that by the end of 2021, there were 15,863 registered companies in the Canal Business District. By the end of the “14th Five-Year Plan”, the core start-up area of the Canal Business District will be completed. It is expected to gather more than 150 wealth management institutions, more than 5 green financial institutions, and more than 110 financial technology companies, and strive to build a “headquarters economy” by 2025. “Wealth Management”, the two major industrial clusters with the level of 100 billion, will gradually improve the quality, efficiency and sustainable development capabilities of investment projects in Beijing’s urban sub-center.
The reporters came to the Yuedao viewing platform of the Grand Canal Forest Park on the second stop, overlooking the newly built administrative office area and the ancient waterway wharf, and felt the livable ecology of the city sub-center where blue and green interweave and the water city integrates.
“About 15 years ago, I came to Tongzhou to visit a friend. At that time, I thought it was far away and the traffic was inconvenient. After many years, Tongzhou has not only become a modern metropolis, but the natural environment has also changed a lot. , there are trees and water, and the scenery is very beautiful.” Xie Long, a reporter from Xinjiang Daily said.
Continuing south, Zhangjiawan Design Town, located on the west side of the Grand Canal, has transformed from an industrial park in the past into a vibrant design town today. The important designer of the town – Beijing Institute of Architectural Design and Research has undertaken the venues of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics, including the National Gymnasium, National Speed Skating Stadium, National Swimming Center, Capital Gymnasium, Wukesong Major designs including the Ice Sports Center and Wukesong Sports Center. During the interview, the intelligent architectural design and user-friendly office experience of Zhangjiawan Design Town were refreshing to Chinese and foreign media reporters.
“The interview started at the intersection of the five rivers and ended in Zhangjiawan Design Town. I saw the perfect fusion of industrial heritage and modern design, and felt the interaction between ‘Yizhita Yingzhitongzhou’ and modern architecture, and the experience of urban development here. It is very meaningful for Cambodia, and I will bring back the experience of the city’s sub-center and introduce it to the Cambodian people,” said Dai Zhigang, a reporter from Khmer Daily. (Sun Yunke)