Into today's Xuzhou City, thoroughfare, traffic, the famous Huaihai Road, Zhongshan Road on both sides of the stores, everywhere you can experience the feeling of a big city, the central, Suning, five-star, Sugo, Golden Eagle, Wangfujing ...... can be said to have Nanjing, Xuzhou, Xuzhou, basically have, and some of the Nanjing does not have, there is also here.
Xuzhou City Bureau of Commerce and Trade Director Wang Guangxian said, Xuzhou central business district in its neighboring cities is unique, there is no city comparable to it. "Go to Xuzhou to buy clothes!" "Go to Xuzhou to buy home appliances!" has become the mantra of the people of Suzhou, Huaibei and other neighboring cities. Xuzhou City Survey Team statistics used to show that Suqian, Lianyungang, Suzhou, Zaozhuang, Huaibei, Shangqiu and Jining and other places of consumers occupy half of Xuzhou consumption. Anhui, Shandong, Henan and other neighboring cities have "abandoned" Hefei, Jinan, Zhengzhou and other provincial capitals and "cast" Xuzhou. Wang Guangxian, director of the laugh: "Xuzhou is a soldier before, but now it is a businessman must fight ah!
In 2003, Jiangsu Province put forward the construction of three major metropolitan area concept, the south for the Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou metropolitan area, the center is the Nanjing metropolitan area, the north is the Xuzhou metropolitan area. Geographically, Xuzhou has unique conditions as a metropolis: 350 kilometers south of Nanjing, 320 kilometers north of Jinan, 380 kilometers west of Zhengzhou, 230 kilometers east of Lianyungang, and even the closest Huai'an, a distance of 220 kilometers. It is not an exaggeration to say that within a 200-kilometer radius around Xuzhou, there is a wide-open blank zone, and there are almost no decent big cities in this zone. This provides a strong geographical guarantee for the idea of Xuzhou metropolitan area.
Because across the four provinces of Suzhou, Henan and Anhui, Xuzhou to do the core city, naturally, some people are not convinced, especially Jining, Shandong Province, put forward the concept of "Jining metropolitan area", openly to Xuzhou called the board.
Facing the challenge of rivals, Xuzhou municipal government has a clear understanding. Zhao Jun, deputy director of the Xuzhou Development and Reform Commission, believes that the scope of the metropolitan area across four provinces, it is impossible to rely on administrative means to promote.
Therefore, when Xuzhou put forward its "metropolitan area" plan, it was not a tough-talking "build", but rather: "cultivate, develop and coordinate". That is: highlighting the industry, labor, policy environment and other elements of the development of orderly cultivation, merit cultivation and key cultivation, strengthen the planning of industrial development, guidance, deepen the town layout, transportation network, regional infrastructure and public **** facilities, tourism resources, ecological environment and other major issues of coordination.
According to Zhao Jun, Xuzhou, "Eleventh Five-Year" period will be in the old city of the southeast to create a new city, the new city east of the planned Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railroad, west of Dragons Hill, south of Lianhuo Expressway, the north of the ancient Yellow River Scenic Belt, the planning of 50 square kilometers of land, which will be able to accommodate the future of 500,000-800,000 people. The construction of the new city includes the following pieces: one is the administrative center, the municipal party committee and the municipal government have decided to move to the office there, relying on the administrative center of the south to pull the construction of the new city. Another is the business center, in addition, in the 50 square kilometers of the new city, but also the planning of industrial parks, this industrial park is mainly to high-tech industrial parks, in order to drive the city's economic development. After the completion of the new city, Xuzhou's urban scale will be further enlarged: at present, the population of Xuzhou's main city is 1.67 million, and in 2010, the population of the main city is expected to increase to 2 million.
While expanding the size of the city, Xuzhou is focusing its efforts on improving urban functions and services. "During the 11th Five-Year Plan period, Xuzhou's education, medical care, commerce, sports and recreation facilities will continue to improve.
It is because of the further improvement of urban functions, Xuzhou can be like a "magnet", attracting the flow of people from the surrounding areas, "to Xuzhou to study" has become the ideal of many students; "to Xuzhou To Xuzhou to see the doctor" has become a lot of patients *** knowledge; "to Xuzhou to see the two Han culture" has become a hobby of many tourists. Xuzhou has further developed the cohesion of a core city.
Building Xuzhou metropolitan area, Xuzhou people's determination is very strong. Xu Ming, secretary of the municipal party committee, listed three major benefits of building Xuzhou metropolitan area in an interview with a reporter: firstly, it is conducive to promoting regional urbanization and regional **** with the development of the region; secondly, it is a good opportunity for "bigger and stronger" Xuzhou to enhance Xuzhou's agglomeration capacity and improve its comprehensive competitiveness; thirdly, it is conducive to the leaps and bounds development of Xuzhou on a higher platform. Thirdly, it is conducive to Xuzhou's leapfrog development on a higher platform.
Xu Ming believes that in order to build a metropolitan area spanning four provinces, it is necessary to have a tolerant mind, Xuzhou in its own construction at the same time, but also actively strengthen the cooperation with neighboring cities.
Xu Ming finger told us that Xuzhou is now doing three things: First, with the neighboring provinces and cities together, to establish a Xuzhou metropolitan area of the transportation hub. "Eleventh Five-Year" period Xuzhou to Zhengzhou electrified railroad will be officially put into operation, Beijing-Shanghai Railway electrification will also be carried out, Xu Zheng, Beijing-Shanghai Railway Passenger Dedicated Line will no longer "on paper". In addition, Xu He Railway, Xu Zao (Zaozhuang), Xu Fengpei (Fengxian, Peixian), Xu Ji (Jining), Xu Su (Suzhou), Xu Huai (Huaibei) and a large number of regional highway construction will be completely close to the distance between Xuzhou and neighboring cities; Second, the **** enjoyment of tourism resources with the neighboring cities to strengthen cooperation, Xuzhou's two-Han cultural tourism, Lianyungang's seaside tourism, Shangqiu's ancient city tourism, military tourism of the Great War, etc. connected to the two Han Dynasty. The military tourism of the Great War, etc. connected into a tourism line to attract national tourists with the overall advantage of the tourism industry in Xuzhou metropolitan area; third, in the interpenetration of business investment to do further work to revitalize the economy of the entire Xuzhou metropolitan area.
Xu Ming also told us that in the first half of 2006, the Xuzhou Metropolitan Area Forum will be held in Xuzhou, at which time they will send invitations to neighboring cities such as Zaozhuang, Shangqiu, Lianyungang, and Suzhou to join the forum together and **** with the study of regional economic development. According to Secretary Xu's introduction, Xuzhou now has a lot of cooperation with neighboring cities: just last year and Suzhou signed a cooperation and exchange agreement, and will soon cooperate with the Anhui Department of Transportation, the launch of the Xuzhou metropolitan area of rapid transit planning, and Henan side of the Kui River governance project is also in full swing. It is these exchanges and cooperation, so that the neighboring cities and Xuzhou closer ties.
There is a lot of room for maneuver in Xuzhou! Xuzhou is now drawing a beautiful blueprint of "Xuzhou Metropolitan Area" with a tolerant attitude, a kingly posture and an open mind!