The planning scope includes detailed urban design scope and conceptual research scope.

(1) Detailed urban design scope: defined by Zhuang Cun Lu on the north, Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway on the west, and Gan Lin Lu plus the existing construction boundary on the south and east. It is composed of the key urban renewal unit of East Xinqiao Area and the urban renewal unit of Kangda Industrial Base, covering an area of about 1.6km².

(2) Conceptual research scope: closely related peripheral areas including the detailed urban design scope; defined by Xin Yu Lu and Outer Ring Expressway on the north, Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway on the west, Fenghuang No.2 Industry Zone on the south and extensive mountains and reservoirs on the east, totaling a land area of about 10 km².

This Design Competition calls for forward-looking urban design from design firms around the globe. Participants should benchmark against high-end parks worldwide and aim to make the Project a world-class intelligent manufacturing park in the Greater Bay Area. It is expected to, on the basis of the existing planning achievements, provide systematic design for such urban design elements of the renewal unit as layout structure, publicspace, environmental landscape, spatial form, color and texture, so as to achieve the core objective of building an intensive and highly efficient intelligent manufacturing park with ecological and cultural heritage and outstanding features in East Xinqiao Area.

1. Domestic and international design firms are welcome to register for the Design Competition. Registration in the name of consortium is allowed, but that in the name of an individual or a team of individuals will not be accepted.

2. If a design firm or one member of a consortium has the Grade-A qualification for urban and rural planning, it only needs to provide documents of its reference projects and team composition; otherwise, it needs to the idea of conceptual proposal in addition to the aforesaid documents.

3. For a design firm that the Organizer intends to invite but has not finalized the invitation, only documents of its reference projects and team composition are needed.

The Design Competition adopts a hybrid approach of “invitation + open registration” to select the participants. It plans to invite 3 design firms to submit design proposal, and, through a prequalification process, select another 6 teams from the openly registered design firms to submit design proposals.

Schedule

Notes: All the time and dates are shown in Beijing Time. The Organizer reserves the right to adjust the schedule.

The proposal evaluation team will review the design proposals submitted by the 9 design firms according to the review procedures. Rewards will be given to the design firms as follows.

First place (1 winner): RMB Six Million Only (in figure: ￥6,000,000.00), including the fee of RMB Two Million Only (in figure: ￥2,000,000.00) for proposal consolidation;

Second place (2 winners): RMB Two Million Only (in figure: ￥2,000,000.00) each;

Finalists (6 finalists): RMB Eight Hundred Thousand each (in figure: ￥800,000.00).