There will be mainly two levels included in this International Consultation:

Overall design level: put forward the overall urban design concept, including the resilience and safety strategy for the areas along the river, ecological landscape strategy and tourism development strategy, etc.

Detailed design level: select 2-3 key sections to carry out detailed design, including key sections of about 150ha for conceptual landscape design and key sections of 50ha for detailed urban design.

Planning and Design Scope

Note: The planning and design scope in the overall design level is about 50km², in which, the northern ecological suburban section shall extend about 200m outwards from the toe line of the dikes in both sides of the river in combination with the characteristics of each firm's proposal on the basis of protecting its biodiversity as well as its original natural and ecological environment, while the central urban section shall extend an urban block outwards from the riverfront area in both sides of the river based on the road network determined in the central area's urban design scheme and combine with the extension of key landscape elements such as important mountains, farmland and tributaries, etc. for parts of its area. The scope of comprehensive consideration can be taken into account when doing the overall design.

The International Consultation will be open for registration by design firms or consortiums at home or abroad. Priority will be given to design firms with following similar project experience in last 5 years:

（1）Planning and design experience in international waterfront cities;

（2）Comprehensive research capability and practical design experience of prominent urban areas;

（3）Profound experience in creating public landscape and environment;

（4）Design and control capability on the overall urban space.

Designers involved in the International Consultation should be the current staff of the registered design firm. The chief planner must have experience of directing a number of similar planning and design projects, and must directly participate in the whole process of the International Consultation. The project team should include at least one member who is proficient in the Chinese language to ensure the accurate understanding of the project background and relevant requirements of the International Consultation.

The International Consultation will accept the registration of design firms or consortiums that meet above requirements. Registration by individuals will not be accepted.

Schedule (Provisional)

Note: All the time and date above are applied in Beijing Time. The Host reserves the right to amend the schedule.

After the comprehensive evaluation result of this International Consultation announced, the 6 shortlisted design firms, who have passed prequalification and whose submittals have been evaluated as qualified, can win corresponding fees according to their ranking. The prizes are provisionally set as follows:

1stprize: RMB Five Million Yuan (￥5,000,000) with bonus and design compensation in total;

2nd prize: RMB Two Million Yuan (￥2,000,000) with bonus and design compensation in total;

3rd prize: RMB One Million Five Hundred Thousand Yuan (￥1,500,000) with bonus and design compensation in total.

For the other three design firms that are not ranked top three, each can receive RMB One Million Yuan (￥1,000,000) as design compensation.

预报名

The commercial documents and a concept proposal (within 10 pages in A3 size) shall be submitted by applicants in the official registration stage. Design firms that intend to sign up are welcome to send us the pre-registration form by chishiriver@qq.com for pre-registration and related background information. We will notify those design firms in time when the official announcement is released. Whether the registration is successful or not depends on the formal registration.

* The specific content is subject to the subsequent official announcement, and the final right to interpret the working rules of this International Consultation resides in the Host and Organizer.