Qingdao will be built into a beautiful homeland as “a blue bay integrating mountains, the sea, the people and the city, a garden city featuring red tiles and green trees”. Qingdao will coordinate its efforts to advance the top 7 garden city construction strategies and take steps to build itself into a high-quality garden-style bay city that is suitable for living, working and travelling.

    In terms of the strategy of building an ecological bay city, Qingdao will take advantage of its abundant ecological resources including bays, shorelines, wetlands, rivers, mountains and croplands to build a beautiful garden city dotted with bays, mountains, corridors, belts and points. In terms of the strategy of building a garden city in all the territory, Qingdao will integrate gardens with the city and put in place a citywide garden system with Qingdao’s characteristics friendly to all ages that features balanced distribution, diversified types and favorable services.

In terms of the strategy of building a vigorous city, Qingdao will promote the integration of gardens and public urban services and cultivate novel consumption and innovation activities.

In terms of the strategy of building a city with charming scenery, Qingdao will build charming coastal belts with the most distinctive Qingdao’s characteristics and modern features of Qingdao, and prioritize improving its core ancient historically and culturally famous areas.

In terms of the strategy of building a nature-friendly city, Qingdao will ramp up the protection of biodiversity and strive to build a nature-friendly city.

In terms of the strategy of building a city with remarkable safety resilience, Qingdao will renovate and govern the ecology in a science-based manner and establish a successive and complete urban ecological infrastructure system.

In terms of the strategy of building a city with sound green governance, Qingdao will work hard to become a demonstration city featuring green development and high-efficiency governance in the pursuit of Chinese modernization.  (Liu Dong)

The Love of the Sea park along the coastal green lanes of Qingdao. By Liu Dong