Qingdao recently printed and issued the Planning Outline for the Construction of a Beautiful Qingdao (2022-2035), which puts forward 39 construction indicators and is aimed at exploring the way to build a beautiful city, in which everybody cherishes his or her own culture, and the world will become a harmonious whole. With a focus on urban construction from six perspectives, the Planning Outline takes a holistic approach towards industrial restructuring, pollution abatement, ecological protection and response to climate change, calls for reducing carbon emissions and mitigating pollution in parallel with expanding green transition and promoting economic growth and prioritizes top eight tasks, namely green and low carbon, quality enthronement, harmonious ecology, health resilience, model of livability, ecological culture, modern institutions and a window of opening up.

Drawing on the experience of outstanding cities in sustainable development, the Planning Outline explores ways to build Qingdao into a beautiful megacity, lays out systematic planning on targets, tasks and implementation approaches in the beautiful Qingdao campaign, covers space, economy, environment, society, life, institutions and culture, among other aspects, comes up with 39 construction indicators from seven perspectives, including green and low carbon, quality enthronement, harmonious ecology, health resilience, model of livability, ecological culture, is aimed at seeking high-quality green and low-carbon development and high-level conservation of ecological environment, and makes overall arrangements in light of such deployments and work programs as Qingdao’s 14th Five-Year Plan. Among the 39 construction indicators, 31 of them are also included in the Beautiful China Initiative and the Beautiful Shandong Initiative, and the remaining eight embody Qingdao’s features and competitive strength in marine industry, the waste-free city initiative and the beautiful bay construction, highlighting the local color.  (Wu Shuai)

The beautiful scenery in Fushan, Qingdao.