Beijing makes progress on integration
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BEIJING has been making progress in cooperation with its neighbors, according to a city official, and is taking action to restrict population growth.
Liu Bozheng, deputy director of the capital’s Commission of Development and Reform, was speaking at a meeting with the press on Friday to review progress over the past three years in the integration of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Province.
Liu said Beijing will meet its annual targets of restricting population growth and moving non-capital functions away from the city. This year, it will continue to relocate wholesale markets, factories, universities and hospitals to suburban areas and Hebei, he said.
In 2016, Beijing’s population was 21.7 million, with the number of permanent residents in its six urban districts falling by 3 percent year on year, Liu said.
“The changes are unprecedented. Before, the mode of growth was to congregate resources, but now we must delegate and move out resources to achieve more planned and sustainable development,” he said.
From 2013 to 2016, Beijing closed 1,341 general manufacturing and polluting enterprises. This year, 372 manufacturers have already been relocated, 74.4 percent of the annual target.
Manufacturing and agriculture dropped by 72.75 percent and 26.42 percent, while, industries such as finance, culture and technology grew as much as 22 percent. “Industrial restructuring is the key. It is like peeling away the outer layers of a cabbage, and cooking its core, which is of better quality,” said Liu.
This year, a total of 255 construction projects will get under way in Tongzhou, the subsidiary administrative center.
“We invited some of the world’s top designers to build Tongzhou, which covers 155 square kilometers,” said Liu.
By the end of this year, several government buildings will be finished and staff ready to move.
Liu said Beijing will support the Xiongan New Area.
“Whatever Xiongan needs, Beijing will provide its support. The two wings of Tongzhou and Xiongan will develop in tandem,” he said.
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