石家庄市空间发展战略规划(中规院)

Introduction

As the capital city of Hebei, the development & planning of Shijiazhuang has received great attention of the provincial government of Hebei and municipal government. In order to promote city’s status they decided to start Shijiazhuang Urban Space Strategic Planning.

In July 2003 China Academy of Urban Planning & Design was invited to take the planning research. After necessary preparation, the planning group began to analyze data and related circumstances in order to get what situation the city might be in. With one month’s hard work the group raised primary planning draft and made a mid-term report in Shijiazhuang on 8th September during which related authorities and expert put forward many constructive suggestions. Based on those advices the members of group made further research to perfect the research, and reached final conclusions at the end of September.

This planning research comprises five parts:

(1)Where is Shijiazhuang?

Analyze Shijiazhuang’s current situation to make clear what role it plays in the region, what competences it has, and what problems it meets.

A city with short history and great success;

An inland metro in the coastal area;

A city that can only plays supporting role in the capital economic zone;

A center in puzzles of having inadequate power to be regional increase-pole.

A place with potentials to be the focus of investment;

A region of abundant resources and insufficient water;

Shijiazhuang: A city of hope and puzzles.

(2)Why?

Try to find out explanations for the puzzles and problems through history review, comparison, reasoning, etc.

New power needed;

Traffic axle and industry axle misplace;

The uncertainty of urban space developing direction;

Orientation does not fit;

The lock-in effect in industry;

Huge imbalance between urban and rural area;

Siphon effect of Beijing and Tianjin.

(3)Where to go?

Raise directions Shijiazhuang should followed in the future including the direction for space,

economy, population, traffic, culture and so on.

Make rapid increase to win the competition with surrounding central cities;

Make quick shift in industry structure; make progress in modern manufacture and service industry actively;

Cultivate the travel industry energetically; construct a complete travel system;

Excavate the urban culture characteristics; promote the cultural taste of Shijiazhuang;

Form a cubic traffic system that comprehends railway, road, urban street, & airlines;

Protect the city’s ecological environment, Set up ecological sensitizing range;

(4)What to do?

Put forward strategic measures to support the directions above, and then reach two pattern for Shijiazhuang’s urban space development in the case of mid-speed and high-speed economic increase respectively.

In the regional space:

Incorporate itself into the global value chain actively;

Improve and broaden Shijiazhuang’shinterland;

Construct “Shjiazhuang Metropolitan Area”--- the addition of spatial structure;

Wait for the right timing to integrate with Beijing and Tianjin.

City orientation:

Important fulcrum in the third engin e of china’s economic increase;

The third in Capital economic zone;

The economic development center of Middle-South economic zone in Hebei;

The capital of Hebei; The center of china’s medical industry.

Traffic system:

Complete traffic system by stage; orient the development of city;

Build a system of quickness, convenience, safety, comfort and harmony.

Urban spatial development:

The choice of lowest cross cost: east;

The excavation of potential;

Two spatial pattern based on different economic increase speed: In the case of mid-speed, the pattern changes from “1+6” to “1+4” , then from “1+4” to “1+3” ; In the case of high-speed , the pattern changes from “1+4” to “1+3” , then from “1+3” to “1+2” .

Urban system:

Form a spatial structure like fingers that takes main city area as the center and radiates along main traffic arterial highway.