Continuous Capital - Beijing New Century Development Strategy

Author: Yang Kaizhong et al.
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Publish Date: 2000-02-01
Features: Since the beginning of nations, there have been capitals. Beijing is a world-famous historical and cultural city and one of the cities with the longest history as the capital in China's history. Obviously, the reason for choosing Beijing as the capital is because it possesses some important objective conditions for becoming a capital, both historically and now. However, the historical factors that determined Beijing as the capital and many of the important factors contributing to its current prosperity still need to be thoroughly explored and understood. The book Sustainable Capital analyzes and studies the history of Beijing's construction and development in its introduction. The author believes: Since the founding of New China, the development and construction of the capital Beijing have been influenced for a long time by ideas and practices such as "large industry and large cities" and "fragmented administration and independent operations." As a result, Beijing quickly became an important emerging industrial base in China, achieving the transformation of the capital from a "consumption city" to a "production city," proposing the proportion of the working class in the population, and making significant contributions to the economic and social development of New China. However, this also brought a series of problems, affecting the further development of the capital's functions. It was not until 1980 that the guiding ideology of capital construction underwent an important transformation. After the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China listened to a report on the principles of capital construction, it issued the "Four Indications on Capital Construction Principles." In line with the spirit of the "Four Indications," in 1982, Beijing officially proposed the Beijing Urban Construction Master Plan, which determined that Beijing is the political and cultural center of the country. In 1983, the Central Committee and the State Council approved the plan in principle and made extremely important ten supplementary remarks, explicitly stating: Beijing is the political and cultural center of the country, and the development of all capital-related undertakings must conform to and fully reflect this nature; the scale of industry must be strictly controlled, and industrial development should rely primarily on technological progress. From then on, the idea of "large industry and large cities" was no longer the guiding ideology of capital construction. However, in practical work, the strategic awareness of "large industry" still severely affected the construction and development of the capital. In 1996, the Party Central Committee and the State Council once again emphasized that Beijing is the political and cultural center of the country, and the work of Beijing should serve the normal operations of the Party, government, and military leadership, the expanding international exchanges, education, science, technology, and culture, as well as the work and life of the citizens. This guidance played a major role in further clarifying the direction of capital construction. However, by the 1990s, the sustainable development of the capital's economy, society, and environment had become increasingly prominent. This is manifested in: 1. Increasing competition among economic activities, political activities, and science, education, and cultural activities for space, resources, and the environment, which has affected the healthy development of the capital's political, scientific, educational, and cultural activities; 2. The deterioration of the relationship between development and the environment, the severe water supply-demand situation in the city, serious environmental pollution, and declining environmental quality, which have affected economic development and the improvement of people's living standards; 3. In the fierce domestic and international competition among cities, traditional industries that do not suit the characteristics of the capital have gradually declined, while high-tech industries, advanced tertiary industries, and urban-type industries that suit the characteristics of the capital have not yet established the competitive advantages they should have, and some are even in decline. In response to these issues, the capital's development strategy underwent major adjustments in the 1990s. First, there was a transformation in the economic development strategy. Second, it was proposed to build the capital into a modern international metropolis. Third, there was a shift to a sustainable development strategy. The book Sustainable Capital the concept of sustainable development, exploring from multiple perspectives and dimensions the favorable and unfavorable conditions and development strategies for the sustainable development of the capital. The main content includes: Designing a new strategy for the capital's development based on the fundamental issues of sustainable development, opportunities and challenges, strategic principles, and approaches; Designing the global strategy for Sustainable Capital from the perspective of the city and its development, international cities in the context of globalization, and the development strategy for Beijing as an international city; Designing the regional development strategy for the capital ring from the perspective of the significance of building the capital ring, its concept and division, and its development strategy; Designing the economic strategy for Sustainable Capital from the perspective of the inevitable choice of knowledge economy and the development of the capital, as well as the development strategy for the Zhongguancun Innovation Demonstration Zone; Designing the ecological strategy for Sustainable Capital from the perspective of the theoretical foundation of the ecologicalization of the capital, the economy and population, lifestyles, and environmental design; Designing the institutional strategy for Sustainable Capital from the perspective of the relationship between marketization and sustainable development and its strategic design; Designing the "road" for Sustainable Capital from the perspective of the integrated design of the capital's transportation system; Designing the administrative strategy for Sustainable Capital from the perspective of the reform of the administrative division of the capital; Designing the lifeline of Sustainable Capital from the perspective of the analysis of water supply and demand in the capital.