Text: Yangcheng Evening News, reporter Fu Chang, correspondent Yun Hexuan.
Figure provided by the correspondent.
In response to the founding declaration of design empowering rural revitalization, the Guangzhou Baiyun District Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, Helong Street and the Guangzhou Design City Promotion Association officially launched and organized the "Baiyun District Jianggaoxia Stone Village Research Activity" and "Design Empowerment Rural Revitalization Seminar". Through in-depth field research and closed-door meetings with experts, we will deepen our understanding of rural revitalization, lay the foundation for subsequent design empowerment work, promote the deep integration of design and rural revitalization, and help the high-quality development of the "Millions and Thousands of Projects".
Guangzhou Creative Week and Guangzhou City of Design "Shuangguang Platform" have joined forces to gather high-end design resources at home and abroad, as well as experts and scholars in the field of urban and rural planning, to set up a design empowerment high-quality development investigation and research group. On the morning of December 23, Zeng Yonghao, Xing Chunyang, Pang Yujuan, Wen Xuehao and other well-known rural revitalization experts were accompanied by Hu Xiao, president of the Guangzhou Design City Promotion Association, to carry out field research in Xiashi Village, Jianggao Town, Baiyun District.
Xiashi Village is listed as the first batch of typical villages in Guangdong Province's "Millions and Thousands of Projects", with beautiful environment, simple folk customs, rich natural resources, and profound historical and cultural heritage. The research team went to the front line to visit the Xiashi Ancient Ferry Comprehensive Cultural Park, Baiyun Phalaenopsis Industrial Park, Youth Smart Farm and other places, appreciated the development status of the new village demonstration belt of Huatian in the water town on the bank of the Bajiang River, and had an in-depth understanding of the natural environment, history and culture, social economy, and the needs and expectations of the villagers in Xiashi Village.
After the field investigation, the research team returned to the Guangzhou City of Design Design Hall to conduct the "Design Empowerment Rural Revitalization Seminar". The experts at the meeting made exchange speeches on the overall arrangement of the investigation, the problems found, the countermeasures and suggestions and the transformation of the results, and went deep into the combination of design and rural revitalization.
The shortcomings of urban-rural integration development are in the countryside, and the greatest potential and stamina are also in the countryside. Xiashi Village is close to the Airport New Area, and is one of the gateways of the Guangzhou-Foshan city, with superior location, convenient transportation and good development heritage. Hu Xiao, president of the Guangzhou Design City Promotion Association, said at the meeting.
Luo Chengpeng, executive president of the Guangdong Provincial Urban Architecture Society, suggested that Xiashi Village should make full use of the advantages of more than 870 acres of land in the jurisdiction of Xiashi Village, continue to connect ancient villages, educated youth culture, ornamental fish breeding and wetland natural landscapes, etc., and take the new road of "industry-university-research-tourism" integration of "farming culture + Lingnan water town humanities", so as to drive the economic and social development of Xiashi Village.
Zhou Lie, Chief of the Rural Section of the Baiyun District Agriculture and Rural Bureau, interpreted the current "High-quality Development Project of 100 Counties, Thousands of Towns and Thousands of Villages" and the policy of rural revitalization, and the district is building 6 typical villages of the "Hundreds of Thousands of Projects". It is expected that Helong Street, Jianggao Town, and Guangzhou City of Design Promotion Association will work together to explore the formation of a new development pattern of rural revitalization.
Ye Ying, director of the Helong Sub-district Office, believes that now is the window period for rural revitalization and development, and Kipshi Village can strive for more resources to promote the collective development of the village, and suggests that Kipshi Village promote the development of all aspects through the introduction of state-owned enterprise cooperation, centralized land circulation, orchid industrialization development, building a student practice base, and revitalizing hollow ancient villages. In the next step, Helong Street will rely on the major platform of Guangzhou City of Design to make full use of the resources of the design industry and make design more empowering rural revitalization.
On December 21, the opening ceremony of the 2023 Guangzhou Creative Week was held at the Guangzhou City of Design. At the event, the Organizing Committee of Guangzhou Creative Week officially announced that Guangzhou Creative Week will permanently settle in Guangzhou Design Capital, and the two will work together to achieve a win-win situation, and the "Shuangguang Platform" will realize the superposition of resources and complement each other's advantages, and change the "addition effect" to the "multiplication effect", thereby boosting Guangzhou's creative design industry to achieve a leading position in the Bay Area, the country and even the global map, and driving the creative design industry to high-end, high-quality upgrading and butterfly change.
Innovative design has become the starting point and source of the innovation chain and value chain, which is not only an important driving force for the high-quality development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, but also a new vitality for the urban development of the Bay Area. At the opening ceremony of the "2023 Guangzhou Creative Week", the Organizing Committee of the Creative Week released the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Design Declaration" to the world, clearly proposing the strategic action of "jointly building the 'Belt and Road' design going overseas and design empowering rural revitalization". Use creative design to empower the "High-quality Development Project of 100 Counties, Thousands of Towns and Thousands of Villages", and contribute to the coordinated development of urban and rural areas vigorously promoted by Guangdong Province.
The relevant person in charge of the leading group for the construction of international blocks in Guangzhou City of Design said that the investigation and research activities of Xiashi Village, Jianggao Town, aimed to help explore the multiple values of the countryside, promote the inheritance of rural culture and industrial empowerment, put forward more suggestions and guidance, and empower rural revitalization with the beauty of design. In the future, the "Shuangguang Platform" will give full play to its design leadership, lead the industry to accelerate iteration with design, empower urban upgrading and development with design, play the "Endeavor Song" of rural revitalization, and write a new chapter in the journey of vigorously promoting the "Millions and Millions of Projects" in the province.