The Report to the 20th National Congress points out that it is necessary to thoroughly implement the new urbanization strategy. In recent years, Jingzhou has insisted on leading the development of its counties with the central city, supporting the development of the central city with the rise of the counties, and speeding up the construction of the new urbanization system led by the central city, supported by counties and radiating the nodes of small towns.
The citizenization of agricultural population transfer is the primary task of new urbanization. In accelerating the new urbanization with people as the core and the county as the carrier, Gongan County has issued 22 supporting policies for migrant workers covering seven aspects: household registration, housing security, entrepreneurship and employment, social security and medical care, and children's schooling. Mrs. Li, from Shizikou Town, Gongan County, came to Douhudi and started to work in the sales business several years ago. When she learned that there are such favorable policies for settling in the city, she bought a commercial apartment in the county last year.
The Report to the 20th National Congress points out that it is necessary to speed up the establishment of a housing system featuring multi-subject supply, multi-channel guarantee, and rent-purchase equilibrium. In the past ten years, 168,000 new commercial apartments have been built in Jingzhou, and the real estate investment has reached RMB 205 billion, with a per capita living area of 50 square meters. At the same time, Jingzhou has gradually improved its housing security system and continuously enhanced its housing security capacity. The city has built a total of 123,000 affordable apartments of various types with a total area of 11.7 million square meters and shantytown renovation and resettlement houses, so as to ensure the minimum living allowance of low-income urban families.
In the new urbanization system, if the county is the backbone support, then the central city is the leader. In the past ten years, the urbanization rate of Jingzhou has increased from 46.5% in 2012 to 56.5% in 2021, and the urban built-up area has increased from 203 square kilometers in 2012 to 226 square kilometers in 2021, with a cumulative increase of 11.3%. Specifically, the central urban built-up area has increased from 69 square kilometers in 2012 to 100 square kilometers in 2021, with a cumulative increase of 44.9%.
The Report to the 20th National Congress points out that it is necessary to build a regional economic layout and land space system featuring complementary advantages and high-quality development. Currently, Jingzhou is making efforts to promote the project of urban renewal in the central city and the construction of ten key functional areas, constantly improving the energy level of the central city. From Fuxing Avenue, the first expressway in Jingzhou, which was completed at the end of 2020 and runs from east to west, to the six roads in the central city which were officially opened before the National Day this year, the density of the road network in the built-up area of the central city has reached 8.4km/km2, the road network has become more perfect and the traffic more convenient. From the prohibition of straw burning to water environment treatment, from the Yangtze River protection to the integrated protection and restoration of landscape, forest, field, lake, grass and sand, Jingzhou's ecological environment has been improving, making it more livable and suitable for business.
In the past ten years, the urban water supply rate has reached 99.87% and the gas penetration rate has reached 99.86% in the central city of Jingzhou. In 2020, the city was named a national water-saving city. In April 2022, the city was successfully selected into the second batch of cities in the "14th Five-Year Plan" period to systematically promote the construction of sponge city as a provincial demonstration city. The level of public facilities in the city has been significantly improved, and the construction of sponge city has embarked on a new journey. People's cities are built by the people and people's cities are built to serve the people. The Report to the 20th National Congress points out that it is necessary to improve people's livelihood and well-being, enhance people's quality of life, take more measures to do things that benefit the people, and focus on solving urgent problems for them. Jingzhou will keep pace with the new trend of urban development and speed up the transformation of urban development mode so as to create high-quality living space for the people.