With its advanced scientific and technological industries as well as pleasant ecological environment featuring beautiful parks and lakes, nowadays,Songshan Lake is increasingly attractive to high-end innovative resources.
In the early summer, on the lawn in front of Vankeli Square in the south of Songshan Lake, children are playing together and visitors come and go. This commercial complex, which just opened at the end of last year, has catering, leisure and entertainment facilities. Young scientists are often seen in itscoffee shops.
Model of Songshan Lake Science City
This is an epitome of the increasingly complete urban facilities inSongshan Lake Science City. Not far from the shopping mall, in the core innovation area of Songshan Lake Science City, a series of innovative supporting facilities will be built, such as a science hall, a conference center, a science and technology library, and a science museum, so as to match the first-class innovative services for scientific apparatus.
Beautiful ecological environment featuring city, mountain and lake
By building an urban service systemwith two centers, Songshan Lake Science City further promotes the harmonious integration of science and technology, humanities, and nature, forming a prominent "Depressions effect", and continues to increase its attractiveness to high-end innovativeresources.
Innovative resources are brought in the park city
Today's Songshan Lake is full of green grass and beautiful flowers. TheXiliubeipo villagefeatures small bridges and running water, red trainsand 12 classic European-style buildings.Visitors who come here enjoy the scenery so much that they do not want to leave.
Xiliubeipo Village
"It's very beautiful here. It's not a scenic spot, but it's better than a scenic spot," said Li Guojie, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He has been working and living in Dongguan for some time, and he is very satisfied with his life here.
With the concept of integrating the city into nature, Songshan Lake has formed a beautiful pattern in which mountains, waters, cities and scenery are integrated.
As the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area develops, the Dongguan Municipal Party Committee and its Municipal Government have put forward a new goal of building a “Quality Dongguan in theGreater Bay Area”. As a pioneer and benchmark area for high-quality development in Dongguan, Songshan Lake has "drawn overall plan, focused on key projects andpeople's livelihood, made up for shortcomings, andcreated models to drive growth" in the past three years. Songshan Lakeinitiated the construction of commercial supporting facilities, municipal public facilities and transportation facilitiesby mobilizing the participation of diversified market players.As a result, a number of high-quality demonstration projects have been completed.
Take the southern lakeside area as an example. The Taoyuan Park and Tailuge Park, with their beautiful scenery and pleasant ecology, have become good places for residents to relax and exercise; Songshan Lake No. 2 Primary School, Songshan Lake Experimental Primary School, and Beiqu School have offered more quality educational resources. Supporting road structures have improved traffic efficiency; thedrainage canal improvement project in Xiniubei Village and reservoir projectin Songmu mountain have improved the flood control capacityand the ecology of the regional water body.
"Lower buildings, make city greener and the public interface more humane!" In the recent science city developmentphilosophy, Songshan Lake proposed the "advanced version" of its goal. It aims to improve the quality of urban life and culture, build a new-generation urban center that is internationally oriented and represents the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
With its advanced scientific and technological industries as well as pleasant ecological environment featuring beautiful parks and lakes, nowadays,Songshan Lake is increasingly attractive to high-end innovative resources.
Accelerate the creation of an urban environment that is business-friendly, livable and innovative
Walking from the Songshan Lake Talent Public Rental Housing to the office only takes five minutes for Mo Jingjie, the founder of Dongguan Chuangleng Technology Co., Ltd. After work, employees from this company often team up to run by the lake to release stress.
Working from scratch, Mo Jingjie has now completed two rounds of financing and his company is valued at 200 million yuan. At first, there were only a few PhDs who had just returned from Japan in Mo Jingjie's team. They had nothing else but technologies. In the 2020 Songshan Lake Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the team made connections with many local resources, and finally realized industrialization. The total amount of orders from last year alone reached 100 million yuan.
A good business environment not only promotes industrial upgrading, but also attracts high-end talents from all over the world to settle down, which puts forward new requirements for urban facilities.
For this reason, Dongguan has accelerated the development of Songshan Lake Science City and its surrounding areas, including the infrastructure and supporting facilities, especially the transport.
An efficient road network plays an important role in attracting scientific and technological resources. Today, Dongguan is accelerating the construction of Songshan Lake Second Channel, cross-Dongguan Expressway Phase III, Metro Line 3 and other projects, focusing on the rail transit connection between Songshan Lake and Guangming District of Shenzhen, and at the same time establishes internal express road network and realizes interconnection with urban main roads in thewhole city.
The Songshan Lake Future School
Songshan Lake improves its supporting facilities to reassure talents. Songshan Lake is building the northern elementary school, the northern junior high school, and the future school in Taiwan Park. Songshan Lake School and the second phase of Songshan Lake Central Elementary School are being rebuilt and expanded; the building of high-level general hospitals, the children's hospital and new community hospitals is on the plan. In three years, about 5,000 sets of housing unitsfor talents will be built. Scientific research institutes and large enterprises that settled in Songshan Lake will be considered first when applying for talent housing and long-term rental apartments.
Housing units for talents
The beautiful ecological environment is integrated with modern workplaces; the beauty of science and technology, humanities and ecology complement each other. Songshan Lake is becoming more business-friendly, livable and creative, becoming a highlight in the Greater Bay Area.
Sitting on a cozy sofa, drinking a cup of fragrant coffee, talking face-to-face with the world’s top scientists-such scene will be seen more frequently in Songshan Lake in the future.
Embracing the new era of competition and cooperation in the Greater Bay Area, Songshan Lake tries to attract high-level innovative talents and young entrepreneurial talents at home and abroad, customizing and providing innovative services and facilities to make sure that talents can work at ease, concentrate on scientific research, and start businesses with no worries.
According to the plan, Songshan Lake is building anurban service system with two centers.
A quality platform for scientific and technological exchanges
The City Service Center provides comprehensive services such as administrative, cultural and commercial services for the Science City. It plans to build a number of high-level cultural venues to bring together headquarters of technology enterprises, technology finance and other business service industries, and cultural and creative industries. The Science Service Center provides scientific and technological services such as opportunities for scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation, device user services, scientific and technological information, intellectual property rights, as well as comprehensive services for the core area of scientific apparatus.
In addition, community centers will provide high-quality cultural, sports and commercial services or basic services that meet daily needs, which can be reached by cycling or walking for 15 minutes.
Songshan Lake promotesthe integration of "industry, city, and people" through its quality environment and mobilizes the resources in"one park and nine towns". These efforts will help it achieve a balanced supply of resources and elements in a wider range, and catch up with Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Macao and other advanced Regions. Its innovative urban environmental governance integrates the urban functions of the Songshan Lake functional zone with mountains and rivers, striving to become a highlight in the Greater Bay Area.
Songshan Lake’s international, high-standard technology, life, cultural facilities and public places will create a pleasant experience for people living there, making it an economic engine that drives high-quality growth of Dongguan and even the Greater Bay Area.