China Habitat Environment Award UN Habitat Award Declaration Material

I. Overview of Guangzhou

Guangzhou is a central city in South China, located on the northern edge of the Pearl River Delta, with a total area of ​​7434.4 square kilometers, of which the urban area is 3718.8 square kilometers. Since the reform and opening up in 1978, Guangzhou's economic, social and urban construction has developed at a high speed, and its GDP has grown at a double-digit rate for 20 consecutive years. At the end of 2000, the GDP reached 238.307 billion yuan, and the per capita GDP reached 34,500 yuan. According to the current exchange rate, it reached 4,175 US dollars. The city's population was 9,943,300, of which the city's registered population was 7,026,600. 2,944,000 people; the built-up area reached 430.7 square kilometers. Guangzhou is a cultural city with a long history of more than 2,200 years. It is now striding towards the development goal of building a modern regional central city.

Second, declare the "Habitat Award" category

Urban environment construction and management

------Comprehensive urban environment

● Construction of roads and municipal infrastructure Construct the main skeleton of urban roads, improve the urban traffic road network, and enhance the urban service function.

● Comprehensive improvement of city appearance and environmental sanitation Renovation of urban mess, standardization of urban management order, and improvement of urban environment.

● Air pollution control Control waste gas pollution, promote the use of clean cars, and develop green transportation.

● Water source pollution control Improve sewage treatment facilities, improve sewage treatment rate, and remediate industrial pollution sources.

●Improvement of urban ecological environment Improve urban landscaping system, build ecological parks and forest parks, and build a new pattern of modern ecological cities.

Third, the process of changing the living environment in Guangzhou

●The situation before the improvement of the environment was not implemented. In the past few years, with the development of economy, society and urban construction, the urban area of ​​Guangzhou City has expanded rapidly, and the surrounding rural areas have been greatly integrated into the urban area; the industrial structure and urban functions have been rapidly adjusted, and the carrying capacity of urban infrastructure to economic development has been increasing. Motor vehicles are growing rapidly, urban road construction is relatively lagging; rural population is rapidly spreading to urban areas, and urban management is becoming more and more complex. The problem of environmental turmoil and environmental pollution in Guangzhou is very prominent: the planning and construction of infrastructure cannot keep up with urban development. The need for traffic congestion is serious; the construction of commercial outlets and indoor market cannot keep up with the needs of market development, and the phenomenon of illegal construction has sprung up; the construction of sewage treatment facilities has not kept up with the sharp increase in water consumption, and the water pollution of the Pearl River and Liuxi River It is more serious; the pollution index of exhaust gas and dust rises sharply, the urban atmospheric environment is polluted; the urban greening cannot keep up with the pace of urban expansion, the urban “greenhouse effect” is increasing, and the urban living environment is deteriorating.

● The formation of goals and decisions. In August 1996, after Lin Shusen became the mayor of the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government, he was committed to the comprehensive improvement of the urban environment and the improvement of the urban environment in response to the problems facing urban development. He has successively proposed "to open up the urban structure, build in an orderly manner, and focus on east and southward development"; "architect the main skeleton of urban roads, improve the road transportation network system, and fundamentally improve the living environment"; Urban development strategies and goals such as “developing and living in a modern central city”; “Implementing the Qingshan Bishui Blue Sky Project” and building a modern ecological city, in accordance with the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, the Guangdong Provincial Government and the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the CPC The face of the request is "a small change in one year, a change in three years, a major change in 2019", transforming the development ideas of urban construction, fully promoting the urban infrastructure construction and environmental improvement in Guangzhou, and improving the urban appearance of Guangzhou. And the quality of the living environment of the people.

● Funding and resource allocation. In recent years, Guangzhou has continued to invest heavily in urban construction and environmental remediation. In 1998, it invested 14.018 billion yuan and invested 17.53 billion yuan in 1999. The investment for two years is equivalent to the city's urban infrastructure and environmental remediation investment in the previous 18 years. The sum totaled 14.701 billion yuan in 2000 and 14.262 billion yuan in 2001. This investment intensity is unprecedented. Mayor Lin Shusen used most of the urban construction tax revenue, government land transfer income and development funds raised from the market to urban infrastructure construction and environmental remediation.

● The implementation process of comprehensive urban environmental improvement in Guangzhou.

Improve roads and municipal infrastructure. Focusing on the main skeleton of urban roads and improving the road traffic network, we will invest in high-intensity roads and municipal infrastructure construction. It has successively built a number of urban expressways such as the Inner Ring Road and its connecting roads, the Huancheng Expressway, and the South China Expressway Guangyuan Road, built three cross-river bridges, built a number of three-dimensional transportation systems, and built a number of urban trunk roads to expand A number of urban trunk roads have been transformed. By the end of 2000, the length of urban roads in Guangzhou reached 2,887 kilometers, with a total area of ​​39.23 million square meters and a per capita road area of ​​9.76 square meters. At the same time, the construction of the urban rail transit system was accelerated, and the MRT Line 1, which has a total length of 18.48 kilometers and a total investment of 12.7 billion yuan, was built. Currently, the construction of the MRT Line 2 is being promoted, and the construction of Lines 3 and 4 is actively being prepared. And the city to the new Baiyun International Airport light rail, to provide more convenient and efficient urban transportation for the public.

Remediation of urban mess. Comprehensively rectify the messy phenomenon on both sides of the urban road, around the farmer's market, along the urban railway line, between the urban and rural areas, on the banks of the Pearl River, and on the import and export of the city. According to the Lingnan architectural style, the façade roof of the old buildings in the city is carried out. Renovation and decoration, “dressing and wearing a hat” to beautify the cityscape. Comprehensively demolish illegal construction and temporary buildings, and strengthen urban planning and management. In the past three years, a total of 8.7 million square meters of illegal construction and temporary buildings have been cleared. Renovating outdoor advertising and regulating the management of outdoor advertising. In 1999, all outdoor tobacco advertisements were cleared, making Guangzhou a city without outdoor tobacco advertising. Standardized management of environmental sanitation, urban roads implement a 16-hour cleaning system, and all municipal waste and manure are treated in a harmless manner to create a good environmental order.

Control air pollution. Implement "air purification project" to control the exhaust pollution of motor vehicles, forcibly install exhaust gas purification devices for motor vehicles; widely promote the use of fuel additives and unleaded gasoline; widely promote the use of liquefied petroleum gas in taxis and buses; The car will not be produced, imported, sold or sold. Promote the use of clean energy such as liquefied petroleum gas or electric energy in the food service industry. More than 80 waste-contaminated factory enterprises have been moved out of the central city; for 76 small-scale waste gas-contaminated cement plants, 48 ​​were closed and 28 were closed.

Control water pollution. Accelerate the construction of sewage treatment infrastructure. It is planned to build 11 sewage treatment plants by 2019. At present, 3 of them have been put into operation. The daily sewage treatment capacity of the city has reached 630,000 tons, and the domestic sewage treatment rate has reached 31.49%. Four of them are under construction. By 2019, the industrial wastewater treatment rate in Guangzhou will reach 95%, and the domestic sewage treatment rate will reach 70%. Since 1998, it has invested more than 1.1 billion yuan to clean up and rectify the rivers in the city. The industrial pollution sources will be rectified, the product structure will be adjusted, the production process will be improved, and the sewage outlets of the factory will be rectified. The 127 washing and bleaching enterprises will be controlled for a limited period of 81, 21 will be closed, 25 will be relocated, and the sewage discharge of 2941 industrial enterprises in the city will be eliminated. Meet national standards.

Accelerate the construction of landscaping. Focusing on the construction of landscape-type eco-city, perfecting the urban landscaping system, making full use of Guangzhou's subtropical zone, evergreen seasons, backing Baiyun Mountain, facing the South China Sea, embracing the natural environment of the Pearl River, and strengthening the protection of water sources, pushing the city Greening construction, building a new pattern of landscape cities. A large number of urban parks have been built and renovated. By the end of 2000, the total number of urban parks in the city reached 125, with a total area of ​​3,075 hectares. A large number of urban greening plazas have been built; the city's traffic road greening supporting projects have been improved. By the end of 2000, the green area rate and green coverage rate of the built-up areas of the city reached 24.98% and 30.26%, respectively, and the per capita public green area had reached 10.36 square meters. A number of ecological parks and forest parks have been planned and constructed. The forestry land in the city has reached more than 300,000 hectares and the forest coverage rate has reached 41.5%.

Strengthen the protection of history and culture. Focusing on the protection of the historic city of Guangzhou, Guangzhou has strengthened the protection of ancient buildings and historical and cultural sites in the process of comprehensively rectifying the urban environment. It has successfully protected a large number of precious ancient buildings and historical and cultural monuments such as the Western Han Dynasty Nanyue Palace Royal Garden, Nanyue Wang Tomb Site, Zhenhai Tower, Nylon Hall, and modern houses. It has repaired Xiguan Dawu, Shangjie Street, Xiajiu Road Commercial Pedestrian Street and A large number of cultural landscapes with the characteristics of Lingnan, such as the Wong Tai Sin Temple, have given these precious historical cultures a new brilliance.

In order to improve the living environment in Guangzhou, Lin Shusen, as the mayor, made unremitting efforts for the city's urban infrastructure construction and environmental remediation. He personally invited famous experts at home and abroad to carry out the "concept planning" study of urban construction and development in Guangzhou, the functional orientation, development goals, overall layout, spatial form, traffic network, environmental protection, ecological construction and development strategies of Guangzhou, etc. In-depth study and discussion of important issues, the development of the "Guangzhou City Overall Development Strategic Plan", scientifically established the development direction of Guangzhou's future urban construction. He personally organized important documents and policies and regulations for urban construction management and environmental remediation. He has been in charge for more than four years and has presided over the formulation of more than 50 urban construction management and environmental remediation policy files; promulgated and implemented more than 110 urban construction management and environmental remediation regulations. He personally raised construction funds for urban construction and environmental remediation projects, guided the competent departments to explore funding channels, and coordinated commercial bank loans for urban construction and environmental remediation projects, ensuring the funding needs of the project. He conducted in-depth investigation and research, timely decision-making on the implementation of important tasks in urban construction and environmental remediation; insisted on tracking and guiding key projects, and implemented them one by one; strict requirements on the quality of urban construction and environmental remediation projects, and guided construction units to create projects Project quality; communication and coordination of the central, provincial and military units in support of Guangzhou's urban construction and environmental remediation work.

Fourth, Guangzhou urban living environment improvement results

After several years of hard work, Guangzhou City has achieved the goal of “a small change in one year, three years and one change” proposed by Guangdong Province. The level of urban infrastructure and environmental construction has been significantly improved, and the urban appearance and living environment are obvious. Improvement, the status of modern regional central cities has been significantly enhanced. The urban traffic road network has been further improved, forming a well-defined and well-defined road traffic network system consisting of three road network systems: high-speed road network, express road network and urban trunk road network, which fundamentally solves the problem of urban traffic congestion. . The urban mess has been completely rectified, and the cityscape has been further beautified, which has fundamentally changed the dirty environment of the city. It has curbed the pollution of the atmosphere and water sources, fundamentally protected the urban environment, and made the water source and air indicators of the environmental function zones all meet the national standards. The Pearl River water became clear and the fish and shrimps migrated in large numbers. The level of urban greening has been greatly improved, and the forest besieged city has been gradually realized. The city is in the forest; the Pearl River, the long flowing green water, and the goal of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. Mayor Lin Shusen made an indelible contribution to the improvement of Guangzhou's urban appearance and living environment.

V. Sustainable urban development

The improvement of Guangzhou's urban appearance and living environment has pushed the economic and social development of Guangzhou to a higher platform and laid a more solid foundation for the future development of Guangzhou. The improvement of urban traffic road network and municipal facilities provides a good external environment for economic growth and civic life, and reduces the pollution of automobile exhaust to urban environment due to traffic congestion. The improvement of the urban environment has further enhanced Guangzhou's status as a central city in southern China and enhanced Guangzhou's radiation power and driving force. The effective treatment of atmospheric and water pollution and the improvement of landscaping systems have further improved the ecological environment quality of Guangzhou. Some large enterprises in South China and even across the country have moved their headquarters to Guangzhou. In recent years, the number of large foreign companies investing in Guangzhou has increased significantly. A large number of high-quality talents from home and abroad have volunteered to settle in Guangzhou, and even some long-lost migratory birds have come back to Guangzhou for the winter. The improvement of the city's appearance has enhanced the cultural taste of Guangzhou, enriched tourism resources and promoted the development of tourism. Many tourists said that today's Pearl River is comparable to the Saina River.

6. Experience and influence of Guangzhou's comprehensive improvement of urban environment

Guangzhou has explored successful experiences in the comprehensive rectification of urban environment: urban development must be people-oriented, starting from improving people's quality of life, and unremittingly improving people's living environment. To improve the overall level of civilization of the city, we must focus on improving the living environment and adapting the urban environmental order to the development of the economy and society. To improve the status of the city, we must focus on optimizing the urban environment and shaping the new image of a modern city. To improve the quality of the city's environment, it is necessary to combine the improvement of infrastructure with the pollution of the environment, and to achieve a two-pronged approach. To comprehensively rectify the urban environment and improve the living environment, it must be organized and promoted by the government to create spiritual civilization activities as a carrier, fully mobilize the enthusiasm of all aspects, and widely mobilize the participation of the people.

The city's appearance and living environment have improved significantly, and the level of social civilization in Guangzhou has been raised. The public has become more passionate about the city and is proud to be able to work and live in the city and contribute more to the economic and social development of Guangzhou. The government's prestige in the minds of the people has been raised. According to a survey conducted by the Guangzhou Social Situation and Public Opinion Survey Center, the satisfaction of the citizens of Guangzhou has remained above 98% in the past three years, which has promoted social stability and economic prosperity in Guangzhou. The popularity of Guangzhou in China and abroad has been raised. In October 2000, the annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the World Metropolitan Association was held in Guangzhou. The delegates were all surprised by the tremendous changes in the face and living environment of Guangzhou. In the past two years, more than 210 delegations from China have visited Guangzhou to study and learn from Guangzhou's comprehensive improvement of the urban environment and the improvement of human settlements.