Beijing Daxing International Airport is a major landmark project in the capital that the general secretary cares about, personally promotes, and personally attends the commissioning ceremony. On September 25, 2019, with the official operation of the airport, Daxing gradually became known to the world. As the world's largest international consumption hub, it is also the only airport in Beijing with both cargo and passenger runways, with a long-term planning and construction area of 68 square kilometers, an annual passenger volume of more than 100 million person-times, and an annual cargo and mail volume of 4 million tons.
This paper will analyze the role of Beijing Daxing International Airport in the economic and social development of Daxing District from the following three aspects:
Daxing Airport Economic Zone is the only area in the country with the advantage of the Beijing and Hebei provinces and cities free pilot zone policy and the comprehensive bonded zone across the Beijing and Hebei provinces and cities. The airport economic zone will make full use of the development opportunities and advantages of Daxing International Airport, play the role of a hub node connecting domestic and international dual circulation, maximize the release of policy dividends, and promote the coupling development of the "three zones" of the airport zone, free trade zone and comprehensive bonded zone.
The airport economic zone is positioned as a functional carrying area for international exchanges, a leading area for national aviation science and technology innovation, and a demonstration area for the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. By 2025, the production and living facilities that directly serve Daxing International Airport will be built, and a modern green airport economic zone with Beijing-Hebei co-construction and co-management, economic and social stability, high-end industry, convenient transportation and beautiful ecology will be initially formed.
The airport economic zone will focus on the development of aviation logistics, aviation services, aviation science and technology, aviation culture and other four major industries, to build an international aviation logistics hub, an international aviation service center, an international aviation science and technology innovation base, an international aviation cultural exchange platform, the formation of aviation as the core of the industrial cluster, enhance the international competitiveness and influence of Daxing region.
The airport economic zone will strengthen the coordinated development with Hebei Province to achieve resource sharing, complementary advantages and win-win cooperation. In terms of policy coordination, planning docking, project cooperation, infrastructure, ecological environment, public services, etc., we will promote integrated development and build an important part of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei one-hour economic circle.
As the largest plain new city in the city, Daxing District has unique advantages in terms of location and industrial space. Daxing District will take Daxing Airport as an opportunity to accelerate industrial transformation and upgrading, build a national aviation science and technology innovation leading area, and provide strong support for the economic and social development of the capital.
Daxing District will take the three major industrial bases of biomedicine, new industry and new energy as the leader, take the airport economic zone as the platform, take the free trade zone and the comprehensive bonded zone as the carrier, and take scientific and technological innovation as the guide, cultivate and expand strategic emerging industries, and create an international, high-end, and intelligent modern industrial system.
Daxing District will strengthen the capacity building of scientific and technological innovation, introduce and cultivate a number of innovative subjects with international influence, create a number of internationally competitive innovation platforms, form a number of innovative achievements with international standards, and build an innovation system with enterprises as the main body, market-oriented, and collaborative production, education, research and application.
Daxing District will deepen cooperation with Zhongguancun, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Tsinghua University and other well-known scientific research institutes and universities at home and abroad, accelerate the construction of Zhongguancun Pharmaceutical Valley Biological Industry Research Institute, National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for New Vaccine Development Technology, Beijing China-Japan Innovation Cooperation Demonstration Zone, Daxing International Hydrogen Energy Demonstration Zone and a number of major scientific and technological innovation platforms, so as to create a highland for international scientific and technological innovation cooperation.
Daxing District will use Daxing Airport as a window to show the image of the capital city, improve the quality of the city and people's livelihood and well-being, build an international exchange center functional carrying area, and provide a better living environment for the people of the capital.
Daxing District will adhere to the concept of green development, strengthen the protection and construction of ecological environment, and create a green ecological barrier. Daxing District will completely eliminate black and odorous water bodies, build a number of high-quality parks, increase afforestation area, improve urban green coverage, win the battle of air pollution control, and achieve PM25. The concentration continues to decline, improving the quality of the ecological environment.
Daxing District will adhere to the people-centered development philosophy, strengthen public services and infrastructure construction, and improve people's livelihood and well-being. Daxing District will add new compulsory education degrees, introduce high-quality educational resources, improve the quality of education, and build a learning city demonstration areaIncrease medical and health institutions, improve the medical service network, improve the level of medical services, and build a healthy city demonstration areaIncrease the number of pension service institutions, improve the pension service system, improve the quality of pension services, and build a demonstration area for pension citiesIncrease cultural and sports facilities, enrich cultural and sports activities, improve the level of cultural and sports services, and build a cultural city demonstration area.
Daxing District will adhere to the requirements of high-quality development, strengthen urban planning and construction management, improve the quality of the city and people's livelihood and well-being, build a functional carrying area for international exchanges, and provide a better living environment for the people of the capital.
In short, the construction and operation of Beijing Daxing International Airport has brought a rare historical opportunity for the economic and social development of Daxing District, and also put forward higher development requirements. Daxing District will be guided by the socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era, closely focus on the strategic positioning of the capital, give full play to the radiation and driving role of Daxing Airport, promote the construction of the airport economic zone, promote industrial transformation and upgrading, improve the quality of the city and people's livelihood and well-being, and strive to build an international exchange center functional carrying area, a national aviation science and technology innovation leading area, and a Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development demonstration area, and make new contributions to the construction of a socialist modern international metropolis.