Beijing's urban development has foresight

On December 29, 2024, the Spanish newspaper website published an article by Andrean Fonsellas. The article praises Beijing's remarkable achievements in urban development in just 40 years. The article is compiled as follows:

Beijing is a city composed of historic neighborhoods, spacious avenues, and new residential areas. This is an order formed from the historical center as the origin, with a series of concentric circles resembling ripples caused by throwing a stone into a pond

Beijing city has been shaped by multiple historical periods. For centuries, the Forbidden City has been the core of Beijing, with red and yellow as the main colors, forming a sharp contrast with the surrounding residential buildings. Beijing is unique in the world because there are still many traditional houses in the hutongs. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Soviet experts came to Beijing to provide advice and strategies for urban development, which led to the city adopting some Soviet style urban planning styles. The 2008 Olympic Games provided an opportunity for Beijing to further modernize, as people improved the ring road and expanded the subway network. Mexican architect Isaac Landeros, who lived in Beijing for ten years, pointed out that the Olympics "changed the city's image and infrastructure"

No other country has experienced such a rapid urbanization process as China. Beijing is a big city, where Chinese people from all over the country gather. But this city avoids the painful scenes of slums or slums that are common in developing countries

And Beijing always has foresight. As early as 1993, Beijing proposed a plan to build a series of satellite cities, when China still lacked a strong public transportation network. But now, China's high-speed railway network has helped realize a great dream: a city cluster including Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei has been formed, and this region known as the "Beijing Tianjin Hebei" has hundreds of millions of residents

People realize that a city with a population of about 22 million will face challenges in transportation, air quality, and real estate. Mega regions or urban agglomerations seek to unite in terms of economy, politics, and labor to achieve synergy and efficiency. This is a way to address development challenges, which preserves the convenience of being nearby while reducing the drawbacks of congestion

Like many challenges faced by China, this process is also advancing through constant trial and error. In the suburbs of Beijing, you can not only find beautiful scenery, but also enjoy order. Randross pointed out, "No city can develop its subway as vigorously as Beijing. Like many other cities, the number of private cars still poses a challenge to Beijing, but considering its size and population, this city is already running very well. Few cities have achieved such great success in such a short period of time