In recent years, Chengde City, Hebei Province has based on its "four major advantages" of location, resources, ecology, and culture, conscientiously implemented the scientific concept of development, and innovated the development model, starting from "strengthening ecological construction, developing cultural resources, and improving Starting from "urban functions and creating a leisure platform", we will accelerate the transformation of development methods, strive to build an international tourism city, strive to move from summer tourism to four-season tourism, from a tourist resort to a leisure tourism highland, and promote the coordinated and sustainable development of economy, society and ecology. Chengde City has made every effort to build leisure tourism strategic supporting industries, further improve urban functions, improve the urban environment, and enhance the city's taste. The city's leisure tourism industry has increased by more than 20% annually. Today, when the transformation of economic development mode is accelerating, Chengde City’s approach has reference significance.
Strengthening ecological construction to show its charm
Chengde City, Hebei Province, a national pilot area for ecological civilization construction, has profoundly changed the appearance of cities and towns by advocating green rise and building ecological civilization. , creating an ecological, livable and touristy landscape garden city. At present, the city has 33.1 million acres of forest land, 68 million cubic meters of standing trees, and a forest coverage rate of 55.8%. It is moving towards becoming "the best in North China and nationally renowned", a vibrant and charming eco-tourism city.
Chengde is located in the northeast of Hebei Province. It is a water conservation area for Beijing and Tianjin and a green barrier against wind and sand. It has a good ecological environment and is the result of the people of Chengde strengthening the construction of ecological civilization. Over the years, Chengde has relied on the construction of the "Three Norths" protective forest system to implement key forestry projects such as returning farmland to forest and controlling sandstorm sources in Beijing and Tianjin, focusing on ecologically fragile areas around the reservoir area, sandstorm fronts, river sources, and ecologically sensitive areas around cities and towns. As the focus, comprehensive management was carried out, and an "ecological barrier" consisting of five major protective forests including the water conservation forest in the upper reaches of the Luan River, the windbreak and sand-fixing forest along the edge dam, and the economic forest for water conservation in low hills and mountains was initially built.
The Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm, the largest artificial forest farm in the country, located in Weichang Manchu and Mongolian Autonomous County, can be called a perfect work of friendship and harmony between man and nature. This is a green miracle created by the Saihanba people who worked hard to plant trees in the quicksand and build houses on the desert, turning the wasteland into a forest and the desert into an oasis. At present, there are more than 1.1 million acres of forest land, more than 8 million cubic meters of living tree stock, and a forest coverage rate of more than 80%. It has become "the source of rivers, the hometown of clouds, the world of flowers, the ocean of forests, and the home of rare birds and animals." Heaven". Jia Zhibang, deputy director of the National Greening Committee and director of the State Forestry Administration, said: "The Saihanba Forest Farm has become a banner for the national forestry front. It is a model for recreating beautiful mountains and rivers and improving the ecological environment. It is a very remarkable and great initiative."
It is necessary to not only build an "ecological barrier" for Beijing and Tianjin, but also build a "green bank" for the local area. This is the core connotation of Chengde City's ecological construction. Chengde City has divided its jurisdiction into 2 ecological zones, 6 ecological sub-zones and 27 ecological function zones based on the ecological functions undertaken by the area. The restricted development area has reached 40% of the jurisdiction area, with a total investment of 31.3 billion yuan,** *Including 256 key projects including ecological governance, ecological industry, ecological agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry, ecological tourism and ecological culture.
At present, Chengde City has built 5 national-level and 8 provincial-level nature reserves, 9 national-level forest parks, and 8 provincial-level forest parks, and 5 counties have been awarded the "National Nature Reserve". "Level Ecological Demonstration Zone" title. Chengde City has been listed as a national ecological civilization construction pilot area by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and is known as the "Green Lung of North China" and "Natural Oxygen Bar". In early 2010, Chengde City was selected as a "National Garden City" by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. With its good ecological advantages, it hosted the widely influential 4th "International Ecological City Construction Forum". During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, Chengde will build another "three Saihan dams" and make every effort to move towards a "forest city".
According to statistical data, the total assets of Chengde’s forest resources are 121.6 billion yuan, and the annual value of products and services is 69.1 billion yuan. The city has built six forest and fruit bases for high-quality fruits, apricots, sericulture, sea buckthorn, poplar fast-growing and high-yielding forests, and locust raw material forests. The total scale of the forest and fruit industry base has grown to 10.9 million acres. Not only does the total output value of the forestry industry reach 7.4 billion yuan every year, The per capita income of farmers from forest fruits exceeds 1,000 yuan, and it also drives "farm tourism". At present, the city has developed 72 tourist towns and 282 tourist villages. The number of farmers engaged in rural tourism has reached 3,267. It receives more than 450,000 tourists annually and has tourism revenue of more than 200 million yuan.
Improve urban functions and enhance effectiveness
“In the process of urban development, we must respect history, respect culture, respect nature, respect public opinion, and accelerate the pace of urban construction. It will be basically completed by 2015 The task of "central sparseness" in the old city and the construction of the new city is to achieve connected roads, water connections, integrated urban areas, complete functional supporting facilities, and improved carrying capacity, and initially build a strip-shaped, clustered, multi-center "five districts and three belts" The total area of ??a modern central city has increased from 38.27 square kilometers to 120 square kilometers." Yang Rui, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, said that Chengde City has closely focused on the core positioning of building an international tourist city, with higher standards, greater motivation, and more practical measures. Seizing time, ensuring quality, focusing on key points, and overcoming difficulties will make the historical and cultural city glow with greater vitality.