A "Zhuzhou Sample" of an old industrial zone transformation

 Every day, the photos of the Qingshuitang Bridge after its completion will be refilled by Liu Zhaohui: the Xiangjiang River is rushing and clear, hundreds of rivers vying for the current, green grass on both sides of the bank; occasionally, swarms of egrets pass by. The red double-layer steel truss arch bridge is lying on the river, and the reflection, a realm of "a misty flying bridge spanning the air", rushes to the face.

The west of the bridge is the main urban area of Zhuzhou City; the east of the bridge is the old industrial zone of Qingshuitang.

In mid-June, the most beautiful bridge on the Xiangjiang River that Liu Zhaohui was looking forward to has already begun to show its glory. "The total length is 2,175 meters, and the main span is 408 meters. The closure of the main arch will be completed by the end of the year." said Huo Zhendong, head of the bridge work area of the Zhuzhou Qingshuitang Project Department of the China Communications Third Navigation Bureau.

Qingshuitang Old Industrial Zone, the name card of Zhuzhou City, was also a pain.

More than 500 chimneys are emitting black smoke and heavy metal pollutants are leaking across the Xiangjiang River, which was once a portrayal of this place. "Today, a brand-new ecological, cultural and technological city is taking its place. On July 1, the newly built Qingshuitang City Park covering an area of ​​400 acres will open soon." As a retired employee of a closed company in Qingshuitang, this year is 80 years old. Liu Zhaohui has witnessed the whole process of this old industrial area from its birth, glory, heavy pollution, to its current remodeling.

In June 2014, the National Development and Reform Commission decided to pilot the relocation and renovation of 21 urban old industrial zones across the country. Seven years have passed. As one of them, the Qingshuitang Old Industrial Zone is considered to be the most representative. It has successfully completed the relocation and pollution control, and the transformation and development has also emerged. 'Zhuzhou sample'".

The sun in the sky at that time was like a red light bulb

"Even if the windows are closed tightly, I am still woken up at night. The pollution is too heavy and the stainless steel anti-theft net is rusty. It must be replaced every three or four years. On weekdays, the sky is gray and the sun is like a red light bulb." For Li Wenming of Tang, looking at the stars and moon a few years ago seemed out of reach.

Zhuzhou City is located in the southeastern part of Hunan Province and neighbors Changsha, the provincial capital to the north. The Beijing-Guangzhou and Shanghai-Kunming railways intersect here. It is an important "cross-shaped" railway hub in China and one of the three cores of the Chang-Zhu-Tan urban agglomeration.

Qingshuitang, with a total area of ​​15 square kilometers, is surrounded by three mountains and faces Xiangjiang River in the south.

During the "First Five-Year Plan" and the "Second Five-Year Plan" period, the state will focus on smelting and chemical industries in Qingshuitang. There are many enterprises in the area, including Zhuzhou Smelting Co., Ltd. (Zhuzhou Metallurgical Co., Ltd.) and China Salt Hunan Zhuzhou Chemical Group Co., Ltd. Zhuhua) Such a large central enterprise has a total of more than 50,000 workers, an annual output value of nearly 30 billion, and a cumulative tax payment of nearly 50 billion, creating more than 160 national firsts.

Behind the splendor is the environmental pollution caused by extensive development. Qingshuitang’s “three wastes” emissions once accounted for 2/3 of Zhuzhou’s total emissions, making it the largest “environmentally sensitive area” in the Xiangjiang River Basin.

At the end of the 1950s, Zhuye erected a 133-meter-high chimney, which was known as the “first chimney in Asia” at that time. This chimney, together with the densely packed chimneys of Zhuzhou City, dominates the "skyline" of the city.

"When I was young, the chimney was the glory of the city." Zhang Xiangdong, a photographer who loves photography, recalled that the denser the chimney and the more smoke, the more prosperous a company and a place are. In his lens, "Asia's first chimney" is a landmark in Zhuzhou, just like today's Internet celebrity attractions.

The location of "Asia's No. 1 Chimney" is the Zinc Roasting Branch of Zhuhai Smelter. Chen Zemin has worked under the chimney for 20 years. "White masks at get off work and black masks at work" have been working conditions for a long time.

At that time, the Qingshuitang area was gray even on sunny days, the smell of the air was sour, the canal water was yellow and green mottled, and the soil became rust red, black slag, and yellow tailings from time to time... To look good in the photos, Zhang Xiangdong would be in the darkroom. The inside carefully smeared out the smoke from the film.

Xiawan Port, which is 4.06 kilometers in length, flows through Qingshuitang District, and merges into Xiangjiang River 100 meters downstream of the gravel wharf of Jianshe Village, Qingshui Township.

"Everyone in Zhuzhou knows that this was once the largest industrial sewage outlet in Hunan." Li Wenming said.

Since the 1950s, the industrial wastewater of Xiawan Port has been colorful, flowing continuously to the Xiangjiang River. Sometimes it is muddy like milk and emits a pungent odor. It has been satirized as "Colorful Port" and "Milk Port". Due to excessive emissions and other reasons, after years of accumulation and precipitation, the heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium, lead, and arsenic in the sediments of Xiawan Port have seriously exceeded the national soil pollution standards.

From November 3 to 5, 2013, Xi Jinping came to Xiangxi, Changsha and other places to go to rural areas, enterprises, and universities to investigate economic and social development. He hopes that Hunan will take advantage of the location advantages of the junction of the Yangtze River Open Economic Zone and the coastal open economic zone to accelerate the formation of a new pattern of development.

To comprehensively manage the Xiangjiang River Basin, the "shortcut key" was pressed.

In September 2013, a meeting of the Xiangjiang River Basin Protection and Rehabilitation Committee was held. The Hunan Provincial Party Committee clearly proposed that the protection and remediation of the Xiangjiang River should be listed as the province’s “No.