"After the renovation of Zhonglou Street, we moved back to the original site, continuing the model of front store and back factory, tailor-made, and also launched some new Chinese clothing, which attracted many repeat customers. Walking into the century-old brand "Huatai Hou" in Zhonglou Pedestrian Street, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, I saw that customers were carefully selecting cheongsam styles, and the store manager Feng Yue was very confident in the future operation.
The first batch of people to live upstairs were already very happy; Now I have caught up with the renovation of the old community, and I am happy again! Ms. Lou, 65 years old this year, lives in the old military camp community, and has not moved since the community was built in the 80s of the last century. When it came to the changes in the community environment, she suddenly opened the conversation.
During the Spring Festival, the author walked in the streets and alleys of Yingze District, the central urban area of Taiyuan, and felt the pulse of urban development. For the old town of a famous historical and cultural city, in the process of urban renewal, how to continue the historical context and do a good job in protecting and utilizing the article? How to make the city more warm, so that the people can enjoy benefits and convenience? As the visit deepened, the answer became clearer.
Run the city with culture and prosper with culture, highlighting the characteristics and charm of the city. Chinese modernization is inseparable from the inheritance and promotion of excellent traditional culture. Yingze District has a profound historical and cultural heritage and many cultural monuments. "A Bell Tower Street, Half of the History of the City", the history of Bell Tower Street can be traced back to the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is a landmark historical commercial district in Shanxi Province. The quality improvement and renovation project of the Zhonglou Street area launched in 2020 will strive to create a "Taiyuan Old Town Meeting Room" on the basis of fully respecting and maintaining the texture and architectural style of the streets. On September 19, 2021, the restored and reconstructed Zhonglou Street was opened, and Ms. Zhu, a citizen, still remembers the scene of that day vividly: "It was very lively, and neighbors, relatives and friends all went. It is thanks to the deep excavation of cultural connotation that a thousand-year-old street has been reborn and has become an Internet celebrity check-in place and a new business card of the city.
Make good use of innovative methods to create value increments for historical and cultural districts. Wandering in Zhonglou Street, the combination of Chinese and Western, clear and calm architectural style is harmonious and unified, the beauty and display installations, the green landscape is exquisite and diverse, and the traditional style and fashion elements go hand in hand. More than 10 time-honored enterprises cover catering, retail, clothing, medicine and other formats, the first store brand agglomeration leads the consumption trend, all kinds of cultural and creative trendy toy stores enhance the interest, intangible cultural heritage experience, Chinese herbal medicine stamp check-in, light show and other creative theme activities attract people to stop and ......Since its opening, Zhonglou Street has received a total of 29 million citizens and tourists, and has been selected as a "National Night Culture and Tourism Consumption Cluster" and "National Tourism and Leisure Block". The neighborhood has gathered popularity, fireworks, and driven the surrounding traditional business districts to diversify and develop with quality, and prospered regional commerce and night economy. Li Hui, Secretary of the Yingze District Party Committee, sighed: "Making good use of innovative thinking and innovative methods to promote the integration of traditional culture and modern consumption can activate the vitality of the old neighborhood." ”
Focus on "urgency, hardship and hope", and make precise efforts to solve people's livelihood problems. Urban construction must put the people's livability and security in the first place, and leave the best resources to the people. Taking the renovation of old communities as an example, Yingze District strengthens systematic thinking, not only to do a good job in the transformation and upgrading of current hardware and improve the living environment of residents, but also to focus on the long-term, improve community functions, and do a good job in long-term management in the later stage. In the old military camp street branch of Yingze District Library, readers only need to follow the prompts on the touch screen and scan the code with their mobile phones to easily complete the borrowing and returning of books, and enjoy the city's public cultural resources at their doorstep. From protecting the city's historical and cultural relics to updating aging pipelines such as gas, water supply, and drainageFrom the construction of pocket parks, to the promotion of digital, networked, and intelligent service ......In Taiyuan, projects benefiting the people and vivid scenes have carved a solid footprint of urban renewal actions, and continued to improve the people's sense of gain, happiness and security.
Renewing the city, living a better life. Practicing the people-centered development philosophy, actively implementing urban renewal actions, enhancing development potential, optimizing development space, promoting the continuous improvement of urban formats, functions and quality, and further highlighting cultural characteristics and spiritual temperament, cities will be more attractive and dynamic.
The author is the editor of the commentary department of this newspaper).
People** 2024-02-27 05 Edition).
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