On November 18, 2007, the governments of China and Singapore signed a framework agreement, and the Eco-City project was officially located in Tianjin. From the initial abandoned salt fields to the current green, ecologically livable smart city, the permanent population has reached about 80,000, and 6,400 registered enterprises have been cleared. The confusion of "what is an ecological city and how to build an ecological city" in the early stage has been clarified, and the "demonstration significance of building an ecological city under resource constraints" has been initially formed.
The initial dream: "Pickle jar" planted "flowers"
As the first pioneers here, Sun Xiaofeng from the Construction Bureau of the Management Committee of China New Tianjin Ecological City participated in the development of the past 10 years. Ten years ago, he just graduated from Tianjin University with a master's degree. Because of an internship, he met top experts from China and Singapore here. Although he had signed a contract with a design institute in Tianjin, Sun Xiaofeng did not want to give up the opportunity and dream of building a new city. He also realized that building a modern city on a land with barren resources is a glorious mission in life. He said, "Not everyone has such an opportunity", so he resolutely gave up his work in the design institute and chose this ecological city with a blueprint on paper.
In an important speech during his inspection of the South in 1992, Deng Xiaoping proposed: "We should learn from Singapore's experience." This sentence is like the seeds of dandelions, which is blowing into the land of China under the spring breeze of reform and opening up, and has opened the curtain of China-Singapore cooperation.
In April 2007, leaders of China and Singapore agreed to build an ecological city in China and create a brand new strategic cooperation project between the two countries. In November of the same year, the Prime Ministers of China and Singapore signed a framework agreement for cooperation, clarifying the construction of an ecological city that is resource-saving, environmentally friendly and socially harmonious in Tianjin Binhai New Area, China.
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Qu Baoxing, former deputy minister of the Ministry of Housing and Construction of China, who planned and participated in the construction and development of Tianjin Eco-city at that time, told Jinyun News reporter: "Building a brand new ecological city in the saline-alkali land in the north will be more promoted and replicated to the whole of China and even the world will be even higher. Here we are exploring how to achieve two major human issues: human modernization, urban modernization and climate change response."
plan and then move. At the beginning of construction, the Eco-City also invited more than 100 planning experts from China and Singapore to compile the world's first quantifiable ecological city indicator system as the quantitative goal and basic basis for urban planning and construction. This indicator system includes 22 control indicators and 4 guiding indicators in four aspects: ecological environment health, social harmony and progress, economic prosperity and efficiency, and regional coordination and integration, and is decomposed into 51 core elements, 129 key links, 275 control targets, and 723 specific control measures. Each indicator has clear digital requirements, and a clear "navigator" is equipped for the entire process of urban planning, construction, operation and management.
When construction started, 1/3 of them were abandoned salt fields, 1/3 of them were saline-alkali wastelands, and 1/3 of them were polluted water surfaces, freshwater was scarce, land was salted, and there was no arable land. "People say that if you want to carry out a green development project here, doesn't it mean to plant flowers in a pickle jar?"
Nowadays, in this "picked jar", "flowers" and a city where people, people and economy, and people and the environment coexist. In ecological restoration, environmental governance, resource conservation, energy conservation and emission reduction, public services, urban governance, etc., a miracle of mankind adapting to nature, restoring the ecology, and building a new city is demonstrated.
Sun Xiaofeng still remembers the situation when the first green building comprehensive service center of the Eco-City was completed. In 2008, it was completed in just 6 months.When he entered it, he felt that the air was particularly fresh and the temperature was particularly comfortable. The building was built completely according to green and energy-saving standards, and energy-saving equipment, fresh air systems, rainwater collection facilities, roof photovoltaics, etc. made him feel refreshed.
people and people: The city where you can think is full of school district houses
From one-stop community centers, electronic citizen centers, education branding and just opened libraries, to unmanned supermarkets and unmanned restaurants, in the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City, public soft services and the hard carriers of smart cities cooperate with each other.
"Don't let your children lose at the starting line" has made countless parents worried about school district housing, but the people living here have never had such troubles, because in the Sino-Singapore Tianjin ecosystem, "the whole district is a school district housing." As of the end of 2017, the Eco-city City has opened 8 primary and secondary schools (including 5 primary schools, 2 secondary schools, and 1 12-year school) and 13 kindergartens, achieving rapid development of various undertakings in the region and rapid population introduction. Famous schools such as Tianjin Foreign Language School Affiliated to Tianjin Foreign Language University , Nankai Middle School , Beijing Normal University Affiliated to China Huaxia Future have introduced eco-cities.
When you go to work, you don’t have to face a lot of cumbersome numbers, but the system intelligently processes and generates reports for you. After get off work, the smart home system has prepared delicious food and washed clothes for you. There is no need to worry about traffic jams, and intelligent transportation automatically plans your travel route. There is no need to run around to pay water, electricity, gas and heating fees. You can handle everything in one window; laundry, flowers delivery, shopping, haircut reservations, etc. can all be realized at home, as you like, convenient and fast. These experiences of smart life have gradually become the norm of life here...
Resident Lei Feng'e of the ecological city of Yuanxiong Lanyuan likes to check the bus operation status on the large screen of the bus stop with a futuristic sense, shop from the unmanned vending machines, and experience every day of green travel. "A pound of beef is 36 yuan, potatoes are 2 yuan..." When she connected to WIFI at the bus stop, she opened the "@Eco-City" App on her mobile phone, studied the price of vegetables, and knew it before buying vegetables. "Hello, this is the Eco-city smart lamp pole alarm system. Please tell me if there are any emergency situations." This is the alarm received by the Tianjin Eco-city Utilities Operation and Maintenance Center, which are all completed through the Eco-city roadside smart lamp poles.
Recently, there are always many unmanned delivery robots appearing on the roadside of the Eco-City, completing the last mile of logistics and distribution. Delivery robots keep attracting fans, and unmanned supermarkets are also very popular. There is no cashier, you can recommend smartly, you don’t need cash, you don’t need to queue... The unmanned supermarket located in the first floor of the Animation Park of Tianjin Eco-City Tianjin Eco-City has a 170-square-meter space, not only displays more than 800 items such as food, beverages, daily necessities, but also loads with black technologies such as facial recognition, behavioral grabbing, intelligent site selection, intelligent pricing, smart warehouses, and unmanned cash registers.
What is even more surprising is that the first smart restaurant in China that is participated by robots throughout the process is also opened here. After entering the restaurant, consumers can choose to order food on the desktop intelligent system and receive the information in the background, and automatically assign the cooking task to cooking robot . According to the standardized recipes set in advance, the cooking robot completes the dish production and hand it over to the restaurant's intelligent cooking delivery robot and deliver it to the consumer's table.
people and economy: Promote city with industry, mid-salvation with city, integration of industry and city
Peng Zhengyang, director of the Legal Affairs Bureau of China-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City, said: "The ecological city has always integrated industrial development into the entire process of urban construction and ecological construction, optimized spatial layout, reasonably divided the starting area, central area, and ecological island area of the cooperation zone, clarified the development timing, and simultaneously improved the urban functional supporting facilities to achieve "promote city with industry, mid-salvation with city, and integration of industry and city", forming a new model of vitality and continuous upward among industries, cities and people. Resolutely exclude high-energy-consuming and polluted industries."
In order to attract outstanding enterprises and outstanding talents to come here to start businesses and find jobs, China-Singapore Eco-City has put a lot of effort in industrial planning and investment promotion.In the early stage of construction, the Eco-city City took the lead in setting the "industry-city integration" indicator: the full-time equivalent of RD (research and development) scientists and engineers in every 10,000 labor force is no less than 50 people per year, and strives to introduce high-tech talents and emerging industries, so that more than 50% of the Eco-city residents can work in the area nearby. Cultural creativity, life sciences, intelligent technology, the Internet, big data and other related industries have become the focus of introduction.
2015 Tsinghua University cooperated with Tianjin Binhai New Area to establish the Tianjin Electronic Information Research Institute of Tsinghua University to land in the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City, so that more good technologies in laboratories can be industrialized and independent innovation of core technologies can be achieved. Among them, chip technology is the important sector. At the same time, three experimental centers including high-end optoelectronic chip innovation center, electronic comprehensive testing center, and artificial intelligence big data center have been officially launched and are open to the public.
, executive director of Tianjin Electronic Information Research Institute of Tsinghua University, Huang Zemin, told the Tianjin Yun News reporter: "The incubation of high-tech achievements in the field of electronic information requires an experimental environment composed of various instruments and equipment. These instruments and equipment are usually costly and require professional technical personnel to operate, which greatly increases the difficulty of the start-up period of the results transformation. Due to the policy support of the Eco-City, we have established a series of experimental centers created by the technical support experimental platform, which provides a comprehensive hardware and software experimental environment for the incubation of these results and also reduces the R&D costs."
Good Drive Animation is the first batch of enterprises to settle in the National Animation Park in the Eco-City. From initially relying on various support policies such as rent and office space provided by the Management Committee to now reaching more than 40 million yuan in annual income, we have planned and launched well-known animation works such as " Great Protective Laws ". "Our motion capture, dubbing, sound effects and other production programs rely on the public service platform of the animation park. When we recruit talents, we will receive policy support from the Eco-City, so that our development can be more stable and faster." Shang Hao, the founder of the company, said. Today, Haochuan Animation has more than 200 employees, and more than 60% live in the Eco-city.
people and environment: Let nature become the energy source here
Ecological City is adjacent to Ji Canal , the western and southern section is adjacent to Yongding Xinhe , and the southern side is less than 1 kilometer away from the coast of Bohai , and the old road of Ji Canal in the area is surrounded by the Ji Canal. Before the development, the southern part of the area was mainly the salt-drying pond of the Bayi Salt Field, the local part was the fish farming pond, and the central part was the Hangu sewage reservoir and the Yingcheng reservoir area of the abandoned section of the Ji Canal. It can be seen that land development is difficult.
Ma Shuai, Land Department of Tianjin Eco-City Investment Company, said: "The Eco-City adopts vertical planning, and the elevation of the plot is planned, and the land storage resources are used in a refined manner." In the early stage of construction, due to the low-lying terrain of the ecological city, vertical planning was adopted, and the filling elevation of the entire area was raised to more than 4.5 meters above Dagu elevation. In terms of land storage, a plan was formulated with blow filling as the main and soil transportation as the auxiliary, and waste soil dumping was used to pile up all year round in the mud dumping yard west of the Ji Canal to increase the earth resources, silt and fill ponds, avoiding the construction of new mud discharge yards and repeated silting problems.
How to build a brand new city on this land? It also tests the wisdom of everyone here, so the power of nature, such as water, light, wind, and sun, becomes the source of energy here.
Walking on the streets of the Eco-City, all the surrounding facilities are actually an energy collection system. From the "Rainbow Bridge" to enter the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City, several groups of wind turbines are constantly rotating, and have become the most obvious sign of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City. On the side near the coast, several groups of sun panels constantly absorb light energy like sunflowers, and continuously convert them into electricity, concentrated in the smart grid, and then transported to surrounding communities and all public facilities. There are also facilities on the roof of each building that absorbs renewable energy, and after being absorbed, the heat energy becomes a source of hot water energy for each household.
Let’s take a look at the underground world of the Eco-City. Under the calm underground of China-Singapore Eco-City, domestic waste "flying" to the central garbage collection station at a speed of 25 meters per second under the negative pressure formed by the exhaust fan of the central garbage collection station.After sorting, processing and compression, these domestic wastes will be used to generate electricity, manufacture fertilizers and soap powders respectively. Kitchen waste with large oil content can be purified to produce biodiesel. In the ecological city, there is no garbage transport truck or the odor emitted by garbage bags.
Ms. Guo lives in Jinlu Community, Tianjin Ecological City, Zhongxin. Every day, she will place the garbage in a uniformly distributed garbage bag according to dry and wet types, and then put it at the pneumatic disposal port in the corridor. The garbage bag falls into the memory along the vertical pipe in the building, and finally passes through the underground pneumatic conveying pipeline to reach the central collection station. The transportation is completed underground and does not require any form of manual handling.
Not only that, the ecological city also fully considered the utilization of water resources at the beginning of its construction, and became a breathable sponge city . Through the key sponge cities technology of "seepage-stagnation-storage-purification-use-discharge" sponge urban stagnation facilities, a level 6 sponge urban stagnation facilities will be built in urban road green belts, slow-moving systems permeable paving, green spaces, depressions, seasonal rainwater wetlands, and brackish river and lake wetlands. During the rainy season, the roads and green spaces of the eco-city are transformed into water storage equipment one by one.
Walking in the ecological city, not only is there full of green vegetation and green industries, but the surrounding buildings are all storage batteries, turning the wind blowing across the cheeks and the warm sun on the back into electricity; the land that can breathe under your feet can become reservoirs one by one during the rainy season; there is also a pipeline hidden underground, which transports garbage back and forth by wind. Where you can see and invisible is hidden, there is a wisdom under the concept of green ecological. And this city is still writing all kinds of miracles. (Jinyun News reporter Li Zeya)
