Looking back at 2025, this is how we excelled | Shijiazhuang: High-Quality District Development Ignites New Engine for Urban Growth. The Shijiazhuang High-Speed Rail District is currently under intensive construction. In the High-Speed Rail District, a kilometer-long Ruyi Rainbow aerial corridor winds gracefully, painting a vibrant arc of light and shadow. By the Taiping River, parks like Meiling Spring Dawn and Xiahua Garden have opened to the public, unfolding a lively waterfront panorama... In 2025, Shijiazhuang adhered to a systematic plan treating the city as an organic living entity and meticulously crafting it as a complete work of art, advancing urban renewal in a substantial and deep manner. Significant phased achievements have been made in the construction of six major districts, including the High-Speed Rail District and the Taiping River District, leading to a leap in urban quality and a continuous enhancement of development momentum.
Meticulous Crafting to Create the "City Living Room". In the area around Shijiazhuang Railway Station, the High-Speed Rail District, built to high standards, has now undergone a brilliant transformation. Bordered by Dongping Road to the north, Cangsheng Road to the south, Jianshe Street to the east, and Binhe Street to the west, the High-Speed Rail District comprises three parts: a business core area, a youth entrepreneurship park, and a commercial cluster. Covering a total area of 11,925 acres, it is planned and constructed as Shijiazhuang's "City Living Room," aiming to create a comprehensive district integrating multiple functions such as transportation hub, office space, cultural and sports leisure, and ecological residential areas.
"The sports facilities here are complete and functional, with constant updates to the equipment. Nowadays, it's not just locals who come to play ball here, but also many tourists from other cities. Everyone feels the experience is fantastic!" said Gao Xiaoliang, a citizen playing tennis at the Central Green Sports Park tennis hall in the High-Speed Rail District. He noted that this area was once dirty and disorderly, but the high-standard Central Green Sports Park has now become a popular spot for fitness and leisure. Every evening, the dazzling lights on the splendid Ruyi Rainbow Bridge harmonize with musical rhythms, making the bridge appear like a "Colorful Ruyi Scepter" suspended in the air, becoming a captivating landmark of Shijiazhuang. This 1,070-meter-long "aerial corridor" connects the four functional zones of the Central Green Sports Park into a cohesive whole, facilitating public access between various sports areas and offering panoramic views of the vibrant park scenery.
A Beautiful Scenery Unfolds Along the Taiping River. Strolling along the riverbank, the Taiping River District is breathtakingly beautiful, with a meticulously crafted grand blueprint gradually coming into focus. Located west of Tiyu North Street, north of Gucheng East Road, east of Shengli North Street, and south of the south bank of the Hutuo River, the Taiping River District has a total planned area of approximately 8,300 acres. Aligned with the goals of expanding the urban development framework and enhancing the city's developmental capacity, it is dedicated to building the starting zone, demonstration area, and leading area for Shijiazhuang's development along the river.
Citizen Li Jianhua was jogging with his daughter on the new fitness trail, enjoying the gentle breeze and lush greenery. "There wasn't such a pleasant track here before. Now, with the improved facilities and beautiful scenery, it has become our family's top choice for weekend relaxation," he told reporters with a smile. Ascending to the Lansheng Pavilion in Wohu Mountain Park, the highest point in the Taiping River District, one can take in the full view of the riverbank landscape, a scene of harmonious integration between mountains and water. The Lansheng Pavilion attraction is now fully open, becoming a popular destination for citizens and a网红打卡地 (online celebrity check-in spot) for tourists from elsewhere. As the sun sets, the river surface shimmers, the reflection of the distant Xuefu Bridge sways gently with the waves, and laughter flows along the riverbank, painting a vivid and pleasant picture of urban leisure.
District Construction Advances Forcefully with Audible Progress. Vigorously promoting the construction of six major districts—the High-Speed Rail District, Taiping River District, Liuying District, Heping East Road District, Longquan Lake District, and Southeast Third Ring Road District—is of great significance for better satisfying people's aspirations for a better life and driving high-quality economic and social development citywide. Currently, construction in the High-Speed Rail District is proceeding at a relentless pace. Forests of tower cranes and the roar of machinery are ubiquitous, presenting scenes of bustling construction activity. The "City Living Room" project on Plot 32 in the High-Speed Rail District has now completed the installation of its full glass curtain wall, as if clad in a sparkling "outer garment," gleaming in the sunlight and exuding a modern atmosphere. According to the plan, the hotel within this project is scheduled to open in 2026. Presently, among the 15 commercial plots under construction within the High-Speed Rail District, 12 projects have progressed to above-ground construction stages, with projects like the West Tower on Plot 35 and Plot 26 having already topped out. These projects, encompassing diverse formats such as headquarters economy, sci-tech innovation incubation, and high-end business services, are set to form a large-scale cluster of building economy in the future, injecting sustained developmental momentum into the district.
At the construction site of the Taiping River District Hopson Fortune project, engineering vehicles shuttle back and forth, and workers are busily engaged in their tasks. Plots 40-44 and 48 are undergoing intensive main structural work. "Currently, four buildings in plots 40-44 have achieved structural topping-out, and work on plot 48 has reached the 'ground level' stage," a responsible comrade at the site reported. The project, with a construction area of approximately 297,400 square meters, will include a hotel, serviced apartments, a shopping mall, and commercial streets. It plans to introduce various pan-entertainment experiential formats in the future, leveraging its waterfront geographical advantage to create a high-end, composite waterfront entertainment and leisure destination, thereby boosting the development of the Taiping River District.
Residential project development in the Taiping River District is also progressing efficiently and simultaneously. Progress on the 15 residential projects on the south bank is smooth, with over 150 residential buildings having completed structural topping-out. Among these, the first phase of the Shoukai high-quality residential project has been successfully delivered, accelerating the formation of a modern residential cluster along the Taiping River. Concurrently, construction is underway in an intense yet orderly manner in other districts: the Liuying District, implemented according to the principle of "commerce where suitable, residence where suitable, roads where suitable"; the Heping East Road District, deeply integrating industrial heritage with cultural tourism; the Southeast Third Ring Road District, focused on modern industry-city integration; and the Longquan Lake District, positioned as the city's "back garden."
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