Chinese Officials to Restructure Beijing to Ease Strains on City Center
Beijing will undertake a major restructuring of the capital government as part of a broader plan to create a giant urban corridor in northern China, officials said Saturday.
At the end of a Communist Party meeting, city officials said on the evening news that hospitals, wholesale markets and some of the city’s administrative offices would move outside the city center. Beijing is to limit its population to 23 million, slightly more than its current estimated population of 22 million, and reduce the population of its six core districts by 15 percent. Many important services will move to suburbs or neighboring Hebei Province, officials said.
The centerpiece of the plan will be an administrative center in the Beijing suburb of Tongzhou, a historic move that reverses decades of urban planning that wedged government offices into the imperial city center. The move will begin by 2017 at the latest, the Beijing party secretary, Guo Jinlong, said in a speech.
In addition, city officials said, 50 city hospitals will begin cooperating with hospitals in Hebei Province, and some will move important facilities to surrounding communities. The neurological unit in Tiantan Hospital, for example, will move to another suburb, Fengtai, by 2017, they said.
The city also said it would move 1,200 pollution-causing businesses out of the urban center.
The moves are part of the creation of a major new urban area called Jing-Jin-Ji, after the three districts it encompasses. The city is trying to develop industries like tourism in poorer mountain areas surrounding the capital, with one area bidding to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
The plan has been debated for decades, but only began to be implemented in recent months as part of an effort by President Xi Jinping to reform the Chinese economy. The idea is to reduce the sort of duplicative, polluting enterprises like coking and steel that dominate the greater Beijing area and other large urban centers, and in their place create a more modern economic structure.
Jing-Jin-Ji would have more than 100 million residents and be about the size of Kansas, with high-speed rail lines making most cities in the corridor reachable within an hour.
北京市宣告市當局外遷籌劃
官員在周六表現，北京將對首都會當局舉行大範圍重組，此舉屬於在北方樹立一條都會走廊的雄偉籌劃的一部門。
在晚間消息中，市當局官員在一場黨內集會的末了表現，病院、批發市場和北京市的部門行政機構將搬出市中間。北京將把生齒掌握在2300萬，略高於當前的2200萬。北京還將把城六區的常住生齒削減15%。官員稱，許多主要的辦事舉措措施都將搬至郊區或是臨近的河北省。
該計劃的焦點是在北京的郊區通州樹立一個行政中間。這一汗青性舉動一反曩昔幾十年讓當局機構往皇城中間擠的都會計劃。北京市委布告郭金龍在談話中表現，籌劃最晚將於2017年開端實行。
別的，市當局官員表現，市內50家病院將開端同河北省的病院互助，個中一些將把主要舉措措施搬至周邊地域。好比，他們稱天壇病院的神經科將在2017年曩昔搬至豐台區。
北京市還表現將把1200家汙染企業搬出市中間。
這些舉動是創立京津翼大型都會新區的一部門。北京市正試圖在周邊較貧苦的山區成長旅行等家當，個中一個地域正在申辦2022年的冬奧會。
該計劃已評論辯論了數十年，但比來幾個月才開端實行。這是國度主席習近平動員的經濟改造行為的一部門。其目標是削減反復性的汙染企業，如在北京地域占主導位置的焦化廠和鋼鐵廠，代之以更當代的經濟構造。
京津翼新區將席卷1億多生齒，面積與堪薩斯州大抵相稱，並將建成高鐵路線，讓人們在一個小時之內抵達該走廊內的多半都會。
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