A model for cities of the future
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WORK is underway on the Lingang Songjiang Tech City, which will combine business, entrepreneurship, residential and cultural amenities in a pioneering site that stresses innovative approaches to urban development.
Groundbreaking at the 82-hectare site occurred last year.
“There will be no wall between the industrial park and residential neighborhoods,” said Ding Guikang, director of the site. “It’s a workplace and also a living city.”
The city is considered a 4.0 version hub. The traditional 1.0 version of industrial parks comprised only factory buildings. The 2.0 version expanded that to include one-stop services for companies doing business in a park.
The 3.0 version focused on creating incubators for entrepreneurial start-up companies and stressed a work environment that was both human-oriented and environmentally friendly.
The 4.0 version, Ding said, will be seamless connection between industries and living communities — more like a cozy, livable satellite city than a cold manufacturing base.
Lingang Songjiang Tech City will boast the world’s longest corridor at 1.5 kilometers.
Designed by award-winning Uruguayan architect Rafael Vinoly, the corridor will feature 26 80-meter-high office buildings, upmarket hotels, restaurants, a shopping mall and a conference center. They will mix along the meandering corridor with outdoor cafes, fountains and greenbelts.
In addition, the city will have a robot-themed park and a wetland resort.
“One of the biggest highlights of the project is the application of the latest energy-saving technologies, like solar energy storage plus micro power grid,” said Bi Zhenggen, the tech city’s general engineer.
Another environmental feature is called “sponge city,” a water-saving system that will channel and store rainwater. The photovoltaic energy storage plus micro grid system is a self-controlled management system making full use of solar power.
The city will also feature a smart information system, an ice storage energy center and rooftop gardens.
The project kicked off last September. By the end of this year, construction on basic structures is scheduled to be completed. The development timetable for the Lingang Songjiang Tech City is the fastest among all of Shanghai’s 104 industrial zones.
However, no completion date of the whole project has yet been made public.
The development of the project has also won plaudits as among the best in Shanghai in terms of land resource utilization, tax revenue generation and generation of fixed-asset investment.
Standing in line to make the new city home are Swiss Pavilion from the World Expo Shanghai 2010 and the China Corporation United Pavilion from the 2015 Milan Expo.
The Tech Oasis project located in Jiuting Town is considered part of the first phase of Tech City. Already operation, it is home to almost 20 companies in sectors such as clean energy, 3D printing and e-commerce.
Nearby, new units of public rental housing will open this month, providing 2,200 apartments for talented young people who work in the oasis. At the same time, a bilingual kindergarten and other public facilities are also under construction.
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