Xiong'an New Area can build one or more high-level universities
As a new state-level area following the Shenzhen Special Administrative Region and the Shanghai Pudong New Area, Xiong'an New Area has been tasked with "concentrating on relieving Beijing's non-capital functions, exploring a new model for optimizing the development of densely populated and economically dense areas, and adjusting and optimizing the urban layout and spatial structure of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, as well as cultivating a new engine for innovation-driven development" since the date of its birth. As an important part of the strategy of relieving Beijing's non-capital functions and implementing innovative development, the relocation of colleges and universities and research institutes in Beijing to the new district has been a focus of public attention.
As early as the inception of Xiong'an New Area, the National Development and Reform Commission director He Lifeng said in an interview with reporters that one of the key tasks in the planning and construction of the Xiong'an New Area is to take the innovation drive as the fundamental impetus for the development of the new area, and to guide the innovation factors to the new area to gather. Support the new area from the innovation carrier, operation mechanism, development environment and other aspects of the creation of a good innovation atmosphere, to attract high-end innovation talents and teams, and strive to create a highland of innovation and science and technology new city.
A new science and education innovation center will have what planning? How will the universities and research institutions layout in Xiongan? The new area was established half a year, with the promotion of the relevant work, more and more people also began to look forward to.
Colleges and universities, scientific research institutions: have thrown an olive branch
August 23, 2015, "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Cooperative Development Plan Outline" issued by the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei three provinces and municipalities of the city's strategic positioning was officially announced. Among them, the capital city of Beijing is positioned as the political center, cultural center, international communication center, science and technology innovation center of the country.
According to the plan, Beijing will focus on the development of these four core functions in the future, to ease the other non-core functions. And "part of the education, medical, training institutions and other social public **** service function" is clearly to be relieved of one of the non-capital core functions.
In September 2016, the Beijing Municipal "13th Five-Year Plan" for Education Reform and Development (2016-2020) proposed that, in order to implement the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Cooperative Development Strategy, it will promote the orderly relocation of undergraduate education of some of the ordinary schools of higher education in Beijing, and support the higher education institutions in Beijing. In the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, cooperation in school running, discipline *** building, the establishment of school alliances, and the promotion of high-quality teaching and research resources *** building **** enjoyment. The National Development and Reform Commission also said at a previous press conference that in the future, a number of Beijing and Tianjin universities will open branch campuses and branch hospitals in Hebei.
As a "centralized carrier of Beijing's non-capital functions", Xiong'an New Area's planning in the field of education is based on this idea and started to develop.
Up to now, through the leadership of mutual visits, in-depth communication and other forms, the new area **** and more than 20 colleges and universities in Beijing reached a preliminary intention: the colleges and universities hope that, depending on the situation, the whole relocation, part of the relocation, the new campus, or in the form of preparation for the scientific research, teaching and research consortia, in Xiong'an landing. According to the central "steady and steady, plan and then move" requirements, now the relevant work is still in the preliminary stage of communication.
Although the specific evacuation, planning route is not yet clear, but some universities, research institutions in Xiong'an layout has been seen. Public reports show that on May 11, Peking University Party Secretary Hao Ping and his entourage on the planning and construction of Xiong'an New Area, and Hebei Provincial Party Secretary, Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee Director Zhao Kezhi, Deputy Secretary of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, Governor Xu Qin had a discussion. Hao Ping said, Peking University will make full use of the school's resources, in the medical, education and training and other aspects of active docking with the Xiong'an New Area; in the professional deployment, the quality of cutting-edge disciplines to the Xiong'an New Area tilt.
After the meeting, Peking University and Hebei Province on the support of the planning and construction of Xiong'an New Area reached a five-point *** knowledge: First, Peking University to play the advantages of medical resources in Xiong'an New Area planning to establish a complete range of disciplines, scientific research, talent training, medical services in one of the first-class medical centers; Second, the Guanghua School of Management of Peking University intends to set up a training center in Xiong'an New Area to carry out business personnel, management personnel High-end training; Third, Peking University and the relevant state departments to establish a PPP center, focusing on serving the construction of Xiong'an New Area; Fourth, in accordance with the unified deployment of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, together with other renowned universities, *** with the deployment of high-quality educational resources in the Xiong'an New Area; Fifth, Peking University and the province of Hebei to continue to strengthen the cooperation, for the development of Hebei and the planning and construction of Xiong'an New Area to deliver more talent.
Also according to the relevant person in charge of the Bureau of Reform and Development, including Renmin University of China, Beijing Forestry University, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Agricultural University of China, Beijing Sports University and many other colleges and universities visited Xiong'an New Area to approach. Among them, Renmin University of China proposed in the new area planning and construction of inheritance and promotion of traditional Chinese medicine culture "national medical school", China Agricultural University put forward the construction of "China's life science and technology university" idea.
Beijing Sports University proposed the construction of a sports medicine and rehabilitation college, give full play to its advantages in education, training, scientific research, combined with the Xiong'an New Area in the rehabilitation of medical needs at the same time, for the construction and development of the new area of the sports industry to provide manpower, intelligence and professional support.
At the end of August, Cao Xuetao, President of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Li Guoqin, Secretary of the Party Committee, and his party visited Xiong'an New Area, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Xiong'an Branch and Graduate School of Planning and Construction. Through the construction of the graduate school, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences hopes to cultivate and attract high-end medical talents, and to build a training base for innovative medical talents in the new area with the integration of "medical education, research, production and defense". At the same time, it will also take advantage of medical information resources and services to build a health big data research center, and rely on the resources and advantages of many research institutes to build a high-end platform for biological research and development innovation around drug development, biotechnology transformation and other fields.
Basic education and healthcare: "build four" "help four"
On August 17th, Beijing and Hebei Province signed a "strategic cooperation agreement on *** with the advancement of the planning and construction of Xiong'an New Area in Hebei" (later referred to as the "Agreement"). According to the Agreement, Beijing will closely around the overall requirements of the construction and development of Xiong'an New Area, in the synergistic innovation, infrastructure, ecological governance, industrial upgrading, public **** services, urban planning, talent exchanges, and other seven aspects of strategic cooperation with Hebei Province, focusing on the advantages of the resources, full support for the construction of the Xiong'an New Area opening start.
Among them, in order to promote the development of high-quality education, health care and other resources to the layout of Xiong'an New Area, to enhance the level of public **** services in the new area, to create a good living environment for the construction of the new city of science and education to attract more talent, Beijing finalized a series of advance support for the construction of the Xiong'an New Area project. The project is mainly divided into "build four" "help four" two parts.
"Build four" refers to the Beijing Municipality to "turnkey project" form, in Xiong'an New Area to invest in the construction of high-level kindergartens, elementary school, complete secondary schools, comprehensive hospitals, each one. Beijing is responsible for the investment and construction, and after completion, it will be handed over to Xiongan New Area, which will entrust Beijing's first-class education group and medical group to manage them. The three new schools and one hospital are proposed to be supported by Beijing Beihai Kindergarten, Shijiahutong Primary School, Beijing No. 4 Middle School, and Xuanwu Hospital for schooling and medical care respectively.
On the other hand, "help four" refers to the selection of existing kindergartens, elementary school, complete secondary schools, comprehensive hospitals in Xiong'an New Area by Hebei Province, each one (****4), by the Beijing Municipal Government combined with the schools, hospitals, school-running, medical characteristics and needs, to take the hosting, group running, the establishment of medical consortiums and other ways, through the sending of excellent management team, teachers mutual support. Through the sending of excellent management team, teachers mutual assignments, curriculum *** enjoy, talent training, technical assistance and other forms, to provide school running medical support, improve the level of operation and management.
In addition to the three schools mentioned above, a number of schools in Beijing, including NPC, Tsinghua University, Peking University and other schools, have expressed their intention to provide counterpart support in the field of basic education in Xiong'an New District, to assist in the construction. Among them, Beijing Normal University also put forward the idea that an education group can be established.
"The field of public ****services needs a high degree of synergy, one between resources, and the other also with the characteristics of the local population. For example, the local are mainly young people, to moderately increase the proportion of kindergartens and elementary school to build, because as the 'City of Youth', this aspect of the demand is certainly great. So this piece we are also in the overall layout, including with urban and rural planning, population planning department policy in communication, specific has not been particularly clear conclusion." Relevant research experts said that, at present, the focus of basic education construction in Xiongan New Area, on kindergartens, elementary school and junior high schools, "we are also conducting research, including docking with the Ministry of Education as well as some famous research institutions, to deepen our public **** service system planning."
It is understood that the three counties of Xiong'an New Area (i.e., Xiong County, Anxin County, Rongcheng County) have now each selected three schools to declare to the new area, to be determined to finalize the final help schools. "For this part of the public **** service, we must take the lead to layout and development. Including the specific helping schools implemented in the 8-17 Agreement, we hope to open on September 1 next year." The person in charge told China News Weekly.
In mid-to-late August, relevant people in the field of basic education in the three counties of Xiong'an New Area traveled to Beijing to exchange and discuss with their counterpart schools on specific help programs, which are currently in the grinding stage. Gao Jichen, deputy director of the Rongcheng County Education Bureau, told China News Weekly that although there is no clear program in place yet, the schools have already begun to work on basic preparations. "The simplest thing is for teachers to read more books and improve their cultural literacy; more training, more going out, and more internal exchanges." In his view, due to the different educational fundamentals and regional cultures between Beijing and Hebei, the docking between schools is not simply a matter of improving the standard of hardware and facilities, but more importantly, there is also the integration of educational concepts and the improvement of quality. He said, "This is a long-term project, not overnight."
In fact, in response to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Cooperative Development Strategy, to accelerate the undertaking of the transfer of functions from Beijing, and at the same time to improve the quality of teaching and learning in basic education in Baoding, the Beijing Bayi School signed an agreement as early as July 2015 with the Administrative Committee of Baoding National Hi-Tech Zone and Hebei Fudu Investment Company Limited, and the tripartite cooperation has created the Baoding Branch of the Beijing Bayi School.
On September 1, 2016, the Baoding branch of Beijing Bayi School officially opened. The branch school invested 450 million yuan, in addition to classrooms, there are sky gardens, glass room-style swimming pools, theaters, gymnasiums and so on. The school is a nine-year system, the school's management, teachers, teaching, are synchronized with the Beijing Bayi School to achieve seamless docking. The management team and the leaders of each subject are selected by Beijing Bayi School. At the same time, the municipal government gives part of the establishment, financial expenditure, and efforts to converge to create the most competitive teaching force in the country.
In terms of medical care, according to the "Agreement", the Beijing Maternity Hospital, the city's Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the city's Health and Family Planning Supervision and other health institutions will also provide counterpart support for the relevant institutions in Xiongan New Area. The two provinces and cities will also *** together to accelerate the cross-regional transfer and docking of social insurance, promote the instant settlement of medical treatment in different places, mutual recognition of clinical test results in medical institutions, medical imaging examination data *** enjoy, as well as improve the pension security service system.
The main task at hand is to focus on the improvement of basic medical care in the three counties and the construction of the overall capacity of the health system, the relevant person in charge said.
Innovation and Technology Transformation: Creating a Global Innovation Highland
As the country's "millennium plan", the goal of Xiong'an New Area is to build a green ecological livable new city, innovation-driven development leading area, coordinated development demonstration area, open development pioneer area, and strive to create an innovative development demonstration area for the implementation of the new development concept. The new area is a model development area.
Xu Kuangdi, head of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Synergistic Development Expert Advisory Committee and honorary chairman of the Presidium of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, made it clear in an interview with Xinhua News Agency that the undertaking of non-capital function evacuation is the top priority for the establishment of the new zone. "The evacuated functions to be undertaken should meet the development requirements of the new zone, focusing on keeping up with the world's development trend, targeting the cultivation and development of science and technology innovation enterprises, the development of high-end high-tech industries, actively absorbing and gathering innovation factor resources, cultivating new kinetic energy, and creating a new engine of innovation-driven development of great significance in the country."
A number of experts pointed out that the Xiongan New Area, part of Beijing's scientific and educational functions to undertake, first of all, should be to serve the needs of the development of local industry, and the new area of industry is highly relevant to the institutions is the focus of the object of the undertaking.
In fact, in recent years, in order to undertake Beijing's non-capital functions, especially in education, Hebei Province and Baoding City have been laid out, and a series of related modes of exploration.
Take Rongcheng County as an example. As the largest apparel industry cluster in the north, Rongcheng has more than 900 apparel enterprises above the scale, and the total number of employees of apparel enterprises in the county has reached more than 70,000, accounting for more than a quarter of the total population of the county. As early as June 2015, based on the background of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei collaborative development, Beijing Institute of Fashion officially launched cooperation with Rongcheng County, and established off-campus internship bases in large-scale enterprises in the four categories of outdoor sportswear, suits, shirts and casual wear.
In June 2017, the Beijing Fashion Institute Rongcheng Fashion Industrial Park, built by Beijing Fashion Institute and Rongcheng County Government School-Local Cooperation***, was officially put into operation, which is also the first official project of the university after the central government announced the establishment of Xiong'an New Area.
It is reported that the park covers an area of 20 acres, with a construction area of 4460 square meters, using a market-oriented mode of operation, by the Beijing Institute of Apparel side of the team responsible for management, operation. The park office building *** has four floors, mainly including the central version of the room, the public *** open area, the designer buyers, the central showroom, professional studio, digital service center, coffee bar and other plate composition, is a set of design services, technology transformation, display sales, fashion promotion, communication experience and industrial training in one of the open *** enjoyment of the innovation platform. The park will rely on the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology and Zhongguancun North Fashion Industry Innovation Park quality intellectual resources and industry influence, gathering a large number of high-end innovative talents, integrating all kinds of industrial elements, and providing complete supporting services for entrepreneurs and local enterprises.
"Xiong'an New Area carries the mission of innovation, and in the future it will become China's 'Silicon Valley', the heart of the region where China becomes an innovative and modernized country." Zhang Yansheng, secretary-general of the Academic Committee of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and chief researcher of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CIEX), pointed out in an interview with the media that Beijing has China's best universities, scientific research institutes, and scientific research talents, but it lacks space for transformation. The establishment of Xiong'an New Area will activate Beijing and the entire Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, "gathering Beijing's strengths in science and technology, culture, talent and internationalization, and forming an innovation center, high-end manufacturing center, and modern service center in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei."
And in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Industrial Economics researcher, vice president of the China Society of Regional Economics Chen Yao, Xiongan to build a future science and innovation center, universities, research institutes is a necessary part of the entire science and technology innovation system. In addition to some universities and research institutes will be relocated from Beijing to Xiongan in the form of overall relocation, opening branch campuses, etc., a number of national laboratories, engineering centers, research and development centers and other scientific research institutions should also be gradually constructed in the future, to form a combination of the "industry, academia and research" model. "As we often say, without Stanford University, there is no development of Silicon Valley. Stanford University not only for the Silicon Valley to train, transport a lot of scientific and technological talent, but also build a number of innovation and entrepreneurship platforms, incubation bases, there are a number of young science and technology enterprises ...... these we will certainly have in the future."
"According to the requirements of the central government on Xiongan, to create a new engine of innovation-driven development, the development of high-tech and high-end industries, the general direction is clear, but how to promote, how to differentiate with the capital function of Beijing as a science and technology innovation center to achieve the differentiation of the development of the capital, and here there is a focus. Overall, there is a division of labor between Beijing and Xiongan in terms of innovation functions." Chen Yao told China Newsweek, the current parties **** the same understanding is that the future of Beijing's central city will be mainly located in high-tech R & D and part of the advanced manufacturing-based innovation source, while the transformation of these scientific and technological R & D results are placed in the Xiongan New Area.
This idea is also clearly reflected in the Agreement signed on August 17: Beijing will give full play to the role of the radiation drive of the science and technology innovation center, guiding the Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park as the representative of the scientific and technological innovation elements of the resources to the Xiongan New Area, and promoting scientific and technological achievements to the park incubation and transformation.
And in the view of Li Guoping, director of the Capital Development Research Institute of Peking University, due to the serious uneven distribution of science and education resources in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Xiong'an New Area in the construction process, should not simply Beijing's innovation resources to migrate to the past, but should also consider how to improve the regional innovation system, to create a system of innovation **** the same body.
Li Guoping suggests that Xiongan New Area itself can prepare for the construction of one or even more high-level universities, and introduce a number of high-level teaching and research personnel from home and abroad. Beijing's colleges and universities can also focus on supporting one of Xiong'an's colleges and universities based on their own strengths and experience in the form of ****building. This not only "adjust the stock", but also "from the incremental solution" program, not only conducive to the cultivation of talent, but also will change the level of higher education and scientific research in Hebei Province.
Speaking of the timetable for the construction of a new city of science and education, innovation center, Chen Yao believes that, compared with the high concentration of higher education resources in Beijing, Hebei Province, the current scientific and technological foundation, demographic structure, high-quality human resources and other basic conditions there is still a large gap, but with the establishment of Xiong'an New Area, will break the original pattern. With the foundation of Beijing's decongesting non-capital functions, strong implantation of high-end industries, through the play of the government's power in mobilizing innovative elements and resources, Xiong'an New Area has the potential to achieve the initial goal in a not too long time.
"Now that the country has proposed an innovation strategy, everywhere is shifting to this, which is the fundamental requirement for the transformation of our national development. Many cities across the country are competing for such innovation resources, including the transformation of high-tech achievements, scientific and technological talents. Various preferential conditions have been introduced everywhere in terms of treatment and mechanism. But the status of Xiongan New Area is not quite the same, as a national key construction of the 'Millennium Project', because of its strategic position, it will be more attractive in many conditions (settings), career will be more space for development, the institutional mechanism will be more dynamic, but also more able to attract national and international young talent. " Chen Yao said.
Since the inception of Xiongan New Area, one of the public's concerns has centered on whether it will be able to replicate the success of the Shenzhen Special Administrative Region and the Pudong New Area. In fact, the latter two have also vigorously developed and introduced universities and technological resources in their construction. In this regard, Li Guoping pointed out to China News Weekly that due to the different backgrounds of the times and different stages of development, the development plan of each new zone or special area has its own uniqueness. "China is now in a new normal of economic development, and we have shifted from the original factor-driven to innovation-driven in the whole development process. The construction of Shenzhen in the past may require a large number of innovative elements and overall resources of the country to rush in in a brain, which will result in a large number of markets, a large amount of development, and a large scale of production, but Xiongan is certainly not that kind of operation mode at this time." He said, "It must be considered that Xiongan should be developed precisely and exquisitely, and the pursuit of big is not the goal of Xiongan, but more importantly, the pursuit of intrinsic quality."