Drive all the way to the southwest, through the bustling and exquisite downtown Shanghai, across the expanding Dahong bridge, and drive into Songjiang new city with green vegetation.
Due to the Spring Festival holiday, most students and migrant workers choose to return home. Songjiang University Town and Guangfulin road are wide and empty, and the air is fresh and cold. Guangfulin Ruins Park, directly opposite east China University of political science and law, is still visited by some tourists.
Obviously, this is not the norm of Songjiang new town. In this new town with a total area of about 158.4 square kilometers, the permanent resident population is more than 800000, and the whole Songjiang District will have more than 1.9 million in 2020; At the same time, during the 13th Five Year Plan period, Songjiang’s regional GDP increased by 10.2% annually, 8.8% year-on-year from January to September 2021, and local fiscal revenue has been growing for 70 consecutive months.
These figures show the achievements of this new city with rich agricultural civilization in building the G60 science and innovation corridor in the Yangtze River Delta and promoting high-quality development.
Songjiang new town will not stop there. At the beginning of 2022, 14 major projects in Songjiang new town were started (signed), with a total investment of more than 5 billion yuan, involving high-end industries, scientific and technological innovation, biomedicine, ecological construction and other key fields. In 2022, more than 140 major projects in Songjiang new town will be constructed and newly added, with a total investment of 19.928 billion yuan.
In fact, in the planning of the five new towns, the former suburban new towns or urban sub centers, including Songjiang, have a new positioning, that is, comprehensive node cities. This means that the new city should develop in an all-round way from industrial development to supporting living facilities, so as to realize the “internal circulation” of residents, rather than the “sleeping city” in the past. At this level, Songjiang new town has also made great progress.
has profound foundation and takes the lead in starting with obvious first mover advantage
Xu Lei, who has worked in Shanghai real estate we media for many years and has now become the owner of real estate video up, is active with the nickname “Yang Liuwa” on station B. In his series of videos with the theme of five new towns in Shanghai, Songjiang new town received 110000 broadcasts and more than 1100 bullet screens.
Xu Lei told the first financial reporter that each of the five new towns has its own merits, and the distinctive feature of Songjiang new town is the incomparable cultural accumulation in the local area.
Songjiang has always been known as the “root of Shanghai”. The ancient civilization of Shanghai was kicked off by the ancestors of Songjiang 6000 years ago. It was called “Huating” in ancient times. It was changed to “Songjiang mansion” in the Yuan Dynasty. It once ruled “Shanghai county”. After several changes, it formed the current organizational system. Today, whether it is the ancient lane and deep house in Cangcheng in the south, Du’s carved building, or the white walls and green tiles in Guangfulin in the north and the neolithic ruins, every historical trace tells the story and memory of Shanghai for thousands of years.
Relying on human resource endowment and historical and cultural relics, Songjiang has never relaxed its pursuit of contemporary civilization.
As early as 2001, Shanghai put forward the planning pilot of “one city and nine towns”, of which “one city” is Songjiang New Town, which has also become the first suburban New Town in Shanghai.
Since then, many changes have taken place in the planning of “one city and nine towns”, but Songjiang New Town, as the leader, has successfully taken advantage of the situation and established a first mover advantage at all levels such as urban construction supporting facilities. “Early development” has also become an advantage that many respondents must mention when talking about Songjiang new town.
Among them, line 9 connecting Songjiang with the main urban area of Shanghai was put into trial operation at the end of 2007, and Songjiang also has the first rail transit in the outer suburbs; At that time, only two subways were built and operated in Shanghai, and line 3 was still under construction.
The role of transportation is self-evident. Driven by line 9, industrial plants have been built everywhere in Songjiang area, and the population has been introduced rapidly. In 2000, the permanent resident population of Songjiang was 640000; In 2010, the permanent resident population of Songjiang District reached 1.58 million, an increase of nearly one million.
A didi driver who “earns pocket money” during the holiday is from Yangpu District, Shanghai. He works in Xuhui District and chooses to buy a home in Songjiang due to the problem of commuting distance. He told reporters, “I just got married in 2008. I queued up all night to buy a house and bought a set in Jiuting. At that time, the house price was only more than 7000 yuan”.
It was also during this period that Songjiang University Town rose from the ground, built university campuses separated by rivers and green belts on 8000 mu of land, and accommodated seven universities such as Shanghai Foreign Studies University, Donghua University and East China University of political science and law. It is the largest university town in Shanghai.
Some graduates who had spent their youth in the University City told China business that they returned to the University City after eight years. Although it was winter vacation, the vacancy rate of shops around the school decreased significantly, “there were many more milk tea shops”, and the roads were rebuilt and smoother.
The first financial reporter also felt the good greening rate around the university town. “The air is no less than that in the urban area, and it will not be crowded. The roads are very open.” The above graduates said. During the 14th Five Year Plan period, Songjiang new town is expected to build 88 kilometers of greenways, including about 58.8 kilometers of waterfront greenways.
Now, after 20 years of development, Shanghai has proposed five new town plans. As an important indicator to measure the quality of development, according to the plan, the permanent resident population of Songjiang new town will reach 950000 by 2025 and 1.1 million by 20 At present, the permanent resident population of Songjiang new town has reached about 820000, which is significantly higher than that of other new towns.
Not only the population, but also the five new towns written into the work report of Shanghai municipal government in 2021 are no longer suburban new towns or urban sub centers, but independent comprehensive node cities. This means that people should really stay in the new city, rather than the “sleeping city” or “tidal city” formed in the past “one city and nine towns”.
Industrial agglomeration provides employment opportunities, supporting construction ensures the quality of life, and medical treatment, education and Commerce have been developed accordingly. It is the key to retain people and form an independent node city.
industrial upgrading and complete supporting facilities adsorption capacity
Songjiang has also moved very early in promoting industrial development. In 2016, Songjiang District proposed to build an industry city integration park along the 40km Songjiang section of G60 Expressway and layout “one corridor and nine districts” to promote the industrial transformation and upgrading of Songjiang District. Since then, after many expansion, it has developed from the planning of one city to the regional strategy of the Yangtze River Delta.
This has also become an important driving force for Songjiang’s own transformation and development. According to the data, as the source of G60 science and technology innovation corridor in the Yangtze River Delta, during the 13th Five Year Plan period, the regional GDP increased by 10.2% annually and 8.8% from January to September 2021. The local fiscal revenue has been growing for 70 consecutive months, and the total amount has rushed to the forefront of Shanghai.
In accordance with the strategic positioning of “one core and two corridors” in the future, Songjiang will be built around the “one core and two corridors” in the period of “one core and two corridors”.
It is understood that a number of 10 billion new infrastructure major industrial projects such as Tencent AI Supercomputing Center, G60 brain intelligence science and innovation base and AST super silicon semiconductor have been successively launched in Songjiang.
Cheng Xiangmin, Secretary of Shanghai Songjiang District Party committee, once disclosed that Songjiang has gathered 254 industrial Internet leading enterprises.
The construction and development of G60 science and technology innovation corridor in the Yangtze River Delta has also become a “sharp weapon” to attract talents. According to relevant reports, in 2021, the number of applicants for Songjiang reserve talent recruitment reached more than 3300, and 80 people were employed. Both the number of applicants and the number of employees reached several times that of previous years, and candidates generally mentioned the G60 science and innovation corridor in the Yangtze River Delta.
After the industry attracts talents to Songjiang New City, the improvement of urban function and quality, the optimization of living environment and the completion of supporting facilities are necessary measures to improve people’s livelihood. It is more likely to further retain talents for a long time and form the effect of “attracting people to the city”.
“Songjiang new town should be built into a modern new town that people yearn for. Therefore, a series of ‘shortcomings’ of people’s livelihood need to be supplemented. At the same time, more poetic’ new town business cards’ should be created.” Cheng Xiangmin once expressed such expectations.
Songjiang has also made significant efforts in various supporting facilities. At the level of education, in recent years, Songjiang District’s annual budget for educational resources accounts for more than 1 / 6. During the 13th Five Year Plan period, Songjiang built and started the construction of 67 schools, and continued to build and expand 62 new schools. “Schools different from Zhangjiang are driven by parents and students year by year,” said a person from an East China real estate enterprise with project layout in Shanghai, while Songjiang new town directly introduces high-quality educational resources.
In terms of transportation, in addition to line 9, the unique rail electric vehicle of Songjiang new town is planned to be up to 100 kilometers, which enables the rapid connection in the huge Songjiang new town; In the future, Songjiang hub will also be equipped with 9 sets and 23 lines, and the scale of platform lines will rank third in Shanghai.
In terms of medical treatment, Songjiang new town has the South Hospital of Shanghai First People’s Hospital, which is the first class III comprehensive hospital settled in the outer suburbs; There is also a class III class B hospital. In terms of commercial supporting facilities, Songjiang impression city, which opened at the end of 2021, has finally changed the situation that Songjiang new town has only two large commercial entities, Kaiyuan Mediterranean and Wanda Plaza.
“Just take Guangfulin street as an example, the surrounding supporting facilities are very mature. For example, educational resources have covered kindergartens, primary schools, junior middle schools and senior high schools,” the above-mentioned real estate enterprises said. There is a newly opened impression city nearby, a botanical garden and Guangfulin ruins are not far away. From the perspective of life, the basic needs can be met.
Fortunately, after years of accumulation and vigorous development, today’s Songjiang new town has begun to show adsorption, and the potential energy accumulated in the past has begun to be released. According to the observation of the above-mentioned real estate enterprises, “half of the population of the new town can be regarded as’ internal circulation ‘.”
“In fact, Songjiang new town is a good choice for small and medium-sized enterprises.” Xu Lei told reporters that the financial strength of start-up small and micro enterprises is limited, and the atmosphere of Songjiang new town is good. There is a creative park for small and medium-sized enterprises and young entrepreneurs. “The two up owners I know have studios over there and a small team of several people. In fact, this is the prototype of future enterprises.”
Insiders who operate the industrial park in Songjiang told first finance that they have clearly felt that the recruitment of enterprises in the park is improving in the past two years.
“Many small, medium-sized and micro enterprises are in the R & D stage. One of the characteristics of these enterprises is that they have a particularly large demand for high-end talents. In previous years, there was a very obvious pain point for enterprises in our park, which could not recruit or retain people, because there was no corresponding living support, unless they offered a very high salary,” the above-mentioned person said, “But in the past two years, I obviously feel that the level of talents recruited by enterprises, especially those living in Songjiang New Town, has improved.”
The trend of house prices may also explain the strength of Songjiang new town to a certain extent. According to the data provided by Zhongyuan Real estate, the average transaction price of new houses in Songjiang new town has increased steadily in the past five years, from 39311 yuan / m2 in 2017 to 48709 yuan / m2 in 2021, which has significantly exceeded that of other new towns.
