Source: People's Daily - Hebei Channel Original article
People's Daily Baoding, February 27 (Zhang Jihang) The magpies are getting warmer in spring. On the 26th, Baoding City held a concentrated start-up of the construction of the city of quality life in the main urban area and an on-site observation activity. In 2021, the city will build 97 new municipal basic projects and schools, medical care, elderly care and other projects, with a total investment of more than 48.5 billion yuan.

Baoding Municipal Party Committee Secretary Dang Xiaolong announced the start of the project. People's Daily Photo by Zhang Jihang
The projects started in centralized construction involve municipal road network, water supply and drainage, landscaping, urban renewal and other sectors in municipal infrastructure, medical care, education, cultural heritage, ecological optimization and other sectors in urban functional supporting areas, infrastructure renewal, old community renovation and other sectors in urban renewal, as well as urban village renovation in the main urban area. Focus on filling in urban shortcomings, improving urban functions, enhancing urban image, and enriching urban connotation.
It is understood that the city will continue to build 10 rectification and upgrading roads such as Great Wall Street and 11 dead-end roads such as Longxing West Road, and 16 rectification and improvement roads such as Shuangsheng Street . 13 external extension lines such as the east branch of Xinxiu School and the west branch of Bangfantang School, and the northern extension of the West Second Ring Road and the eastern extension of Yuhua Road will be launched to further strengthen the integration of the six districts and strengthen the backbone road network.

Participants visited the urban reconstruction exhibition board. People's Daily Photo by Zhang Jihang
At the same time, eight projects have been built, including the main body of the second phase of Lugang Sewage Treatment Plant and the renovation of water accumulation points during the flood season in the main urban area, and seven projects have been promoted, including the construction and renovation of the second surface water plant and the construction and renovation of the water supply pipeline network, solving the dilemma of "in the city".
has been newly built and continued to build 5 medical projects, namely the new comprehensive building of the Municipal Children's Hospital, the new surgical building of the Municipal Second Central Hospital, the Hebei University Affiliated Hospital, the construction of a major epidemic treatment base, the construction of the ophthalmology hospital of the Municipal First Central Hospital, and the construction of a new campus of the Municipal First Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. Continue to build elderly care services such as Dongli Manor and Jitai Senior Apartment to improve the level of medical and nursing services.
In order to improve the level of education, 8 new and expanded schools will be built in the main urban area, including the city’s newly built high school project, Jingxiu District High School, the High-tech Zone First Central School Project, Jingxiu District Nine-Year School, Yangcun Kindergarten, Shenzhen Garden Resettlement Area Primary School, Shenzhen Garden Resettlement Area Junior High School, Shenzhen Garden Primary School (Shenzhen Garden Branch of Baoshi Affiliated School), Great Wall School Wuyao Branch, and Jiying Junior High School.
At the same time, Baoding City launched the preparation of a new version of the protection plan for historical and cultural cities, and planned the renovation and upgrading of Chinese Ancient Zodiac Museum, intangible cultural heritage town, and West Street East Street to further enrich the cultural connotation of the city.