公告进程时间：2023-07-29

The International Consultation on Urban Design for Central Waterfront Area of Maozhou River, Guangming District, Shenzhen, hosted by Guangming District People’s Government of Shenzhen Municipality and organized by Guangming Administration of Planning and Natural Resources Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality, is about to kick off, which calls for highly innovative, site-specific, and feasible urban design proposals from prestigious design institutions at home and abroad to draw an “attainable beautiful blueprint” and build the central waterfront area of the Maozhou River into “a new urban parlor of Guangming District and a new business card of the waterfront in the Greater Bay Area”. The pre-registration now opens to interested design teams all around the globe.

Background

Located in the northwest of Shenzhen, Guangming District now serves as the core node of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao Science and Technology Innovation Corridor following a historic transformation from a state-owned farm to a science city.

Shouldering the mission of the country, the Greater Bay Area and Shenzhen, Guangming District aims to create “a core carrier of Comprehensive National Science Center, a technology-led modern industrial cluster area, a demonstration urban area for green development, and an international cultural and livable city”. It will adhere to the development principle of “ecological base, generous framework, people-centered concept, and distinctive features”, and make itself a world-class science city with remarkable competitiveness and influence, an important functional subcenter of Shenzhen, and an exemplary urban area of the great modern socialist country.

In response to the goal of creating a world-class science city and the northern subcenter of Shenzhen with high-quality development and city image, new requirements are also put forward to develop the central waterfront area of the Maozhou River into an economic belt along both banks of the river and a new urban parlor of Guangming District.

In June 2021, the district government issued the Outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for National Economic and Social Development and Vision 2035 of Guangming District, Shenzhen, proposing to build an economic belt along both banks of the Maozhou River to accelerate the activation of the riverbanks and the construction of waterfront spaces, and transform the riverbanks from a closed industrial waterfront area to a complex and dynamic waterfront area.

In April 2022, Guangming District proposed to build the central waterfront area of the Maozhou River into a new urban parlor of Guangming District.

In December 2022, six major development areas of Guangming District were officially released at the district’s Forum on High-quality Urban Development and Image, and listed among them was the central waterfront area of the Maozhou River.

In January 2023, the second Party Congress of Guangming District proposed to launch an international consultation on the central waterfront area of the Maozhou River, with focus on such functions as the commercial belt, enterprise headquarters, cultural district, and science and innovation district along both banks of the Maozhou River, striving to establish a base for the district to accomplish its goal to become “an initiator of original innovation, a leader of research and economy, and a hub of innovative talents”.

In this context, the district government launches the International Consultation on Urban Design for Central Waterfront Area of Maozhou River, Guangming District, Shenzhen as measures to fully realize the strategic value of the central waterfront area of the Maozhou River and implement the requirements for its high-standard and high-quality development.

Development Positioning

In the future, with the goal of creating “a new urban parlor of Guangming District and a new business card of the waterfront in the Greater Bay Area”, the central waterfront area of the Maozhou River will accommodate the new functions of  innovative life services for the district, create a new business card of S&T and landscape experience in future Shenzhen, and offer another habitat for talents of the Greater Bay Area.