Yangzhou's ancient gardens had their heyday for a while, and Slender West Lake, a garden, He Garden and so on were once the hallmarks of this famous historical and cultural city. Reporters recently to Yangzhou interview, from the grass-roots people, community cadres to the municipal party secretary, coincidentally solemn recommendation of the local park construction.

Pollution control and increase "green", see the seams inserted "garden"

East of Yangzhou City, Wanfu Bridge overlooking the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and other seven rivers washed out eight islands, forming a "seven river eight islands "51.5 square kilometers, ten miles of corridor ecological wonders. Into the park, basketball courts, soccer fields, swing area facilities; along the top of the embankment highway to the north, from time to time, there are cycling and running fitness of the public passed by; further north, one after another through the deep-diving rowing base, Wanfang data and other resident enterprises.

"In the past, you couldn't marry a man in Liaojiagou, but now the new environment brings a new economy." Huang Juan, deputy general manager of Wanfang Science and Technology Academy, told reporters that this place was once remote and poor, shipyards, gravel factories, cattle farms gathered, and the water pollution is serious; in 2011, the administrative division was adjusted to the new center, which has also become the focus of the developers' pursuit; today, this place has become an ecological science and technology new city, and the core area was built into the central park of Liaojiagou City with 10.7 square kilometers.

The ecological pushback, not only the cattle ranch forced out of the big data industry, but also the demolition of resettlement areas forced into high-quality residential areas.

In the evening, the reporter came to the former Xiaomao Mountain landfill - now Huaduhui Park. Coincidentally ran into the nearby community residents Liu Wanfen, she told reporters that in the past there is a black smelly river here, a large amount of mud produced during the construction of the Leaning Lake Tunnel in 2011 was also transported here, sun and wind drying to form a mountain of loess. Today, the waste disposal machinery transformed industrial landscape, water system green echo, also equipped with fitness trails, rain porch, chairs and so on. Every day at sunset, the neighborhood residents to this walk, exercise.

"This was once a depression in housing prices, and now high-grade neighborhoods are clustered." Liu Wanfen pointed to a nearby elementary school and said proudly, "This is the best elementary school in the city."

Woody, who works in Shanghai, found that a dilapidated tennis court next to his neighborhood had been transformed into a beautifully constructed and well-equipped "pocket park" when he returned home in the Spring Festival. "Although the park is small, but the layout of the grass and trees with care, fitness equipment and fitness trails are available, and more importantly, right at home." Wu Di said.

"If gardens were once the symbol of the ancient city of Yangzhou, parks are the standard of modern Yangzhou." In 2015, "making ecology a permanent benefit for citizens" was written into the Yangzhou municipal government's work report, and so far the city has built thousands of new urban parks of all sizes, covering a total area of more than 11 square kilometers, equivalent to the area of 10 core scenic spots of the Lean West Lake, said Xie Zhengjie, secretary of Yangzhou Municipal Party Committee.

"The three give and take" to explore the ecological benefits

The demolition of the old stadium at the end of 2012 once triggered a storm of letters and petitions. Xie justice told reporters that at that time do not understand the demolition of the city center caused traffic congestion in an old stadium, to the outskirts of the city to build a more modern, why triggered so much resentment from the people. "Listening y to public opinion found that what the people cared about was not the stadium, but the sports and leisure venues around them."

Listening to the voice of the people from the people's grievances. 2013 Yangzhou will be adjacent to the Thin West Lake scenic area of thousands of acres of land to build the Songjiaocheng Sports and Leisure Park. Taking out prime land and investing another 1.3 billion yuan to build the park had also triggered disbelief among cadres and masses. Until 2014, the park is free to open, in the crowd and the masses praise under the doubts into nothing, so far has received more than 6 million people.

"Did you go to Songjiaocheng today? It is not an exaggeration to say that this park has changed the lives of the residents in the neighborhood, and even the greeting of meeting has changed." Retiree Yang Yonglan said.

How to measure the construction of the park is livelihood not image engineering? Yangzhou's standard is - can we do three give up: give up the best place to take out, give up the money to invest in supporting, give up the heart to invest in planning and construction.

Each region to build an ecological center, the population concentration area to build ecological sports and leisure parks, the old city to build "pocket parks". 2015, Yangzhou each year from the land grant to take out 5% for afforestation and landscaping, to ensure that the ecological investment increase is higher than the increase in GDP and fiscal revenue. Municipal finance in greening and park maintenance and other aspects of the cumulative investment of nearly 6.5 billion yuan, the municipal land bank from 5,700 acres in 2009 to the current 10,138.73 acres, per capita green space from 17.18 square meters to 18.58 square meters.

Changing the city's "face value", enhance the value of the city

In the interview with a number of cadres and the public with data, with the feeling, directly or indirectly proved that the construction of parks is a "good" people's livelihood account.

Mingyue Lake Park into a 24-hour urban library, Huaduhui Park superimposed flowers and agricultural experience business, community parks become the doorstep of the stadium, "ecological +" drive the livelihood of the environment, the city's image and business environment butterfly. Yangzhou Zhitu Technology Company is the largest service provider of Gaode map, Baidu map, Tencent map, with branches in many provinces and cities. "Frankly speaking, the natural environment of open door and green, people-oriented development environment is an important reason for us to settle our headquarters." Chairman He Xiaojun said.

Yangzhou's gross regional product jumped to a new level of 500 billion yuan in 2017, up about 8 percent, ranking No. 4 in Jiangsu province in terms of growth, according to the Jiangsu Provincial Bureau of Statistics. Xia Zhengdong, deputy secretary of the party working committee of the ecological science and technology new town, said with emotion: "Is there any contradiction between ecology and wealth? Short-term look there must be, practice has proved that in the long run GDP, ecology, culture can be synchronized accumulation."

Environmental "value" enhancement is also subtle change in the city temperament. Citizen Wang Yonghua retired every day on time to the Song Jiecheng Sports and Leisure Park "work", he walks with a plastic bag, encountered cigarette butts, peels on the hand to pick up, "the beginning can pick up a lot, now almost can not see." Since 2015, the city's chess room reduced by 30 percent, the proportion of the population of year-round physical exercise reached 38.2 percent, health insurance funds have savings.

Yangzhou City has not only won the honorary title of National Civilized City for three consecutive years, but also achieved a net inflow of talent for three consecutive years.