International Consulting for Strategic Planning and Conceptual Urban Design of Xiyanhu Ecological Science and Technology City in Wuxi

Recently, the International Consulting for Strategic Planning and Conceptual Urban Design of Xiyanhu Ecological Science and Technology City in Wuxi organized by UPSC came to a successful conclusion.

The Xiyanhu Ecological Science and Technology City （XESTC） is located to the north of Xiyi Expressway in Huishan District of Wuxi and to the west of the Grand Canal. The economic growth of XESTC has driven the industrial upgrading and innovative development of Wuxi. Since  UPSC announced the International Consulting in September 2021, it attracted the active participation of many design agencies. In order to ensure the quality of the participations, UPSC also organized a series of activities, such as task discussion, demonstration meeting, project press conference and medium-term communication meeting. Three schemes came into the final review after the preliminary review.

The final review targets at the three schemes of both the strategic planning and the conceptual urban design of XESTC. The strategic planning concerns an area of 38.1 square kilometers delimited by Xinchang Railway in the east, Zhihu Port in the west, the Grand Canal in the north and Xiyi Expressway in the south. The conceptual urban design concerns an area of 11.9 square kilometers delimited by Renmin Road in the east, Luoyang Road in the west, Yuanzhong Road-312 National Highway in the north and Luonan Avenue in the south.

Location of XESTC

Schematic diagram of planning and design scope

Final scheme review conference

Geng Hongbing

Chair of the final review, Deputy Secretary General of UPSC

Members of the final scheme review committee

Before the final scheme review conference, the scheme review committee conducted a survey at the important nodes of the water system of the Grand Canal and the Xiyan lake, as well as reviewed the texts, exhibition boards and models of the three schemes. On the conference, the committee listened to the oral presentations made by three applicants and voted for the ranking after a thorough discussion. The committee agreed that the three schemes, with an international vision and forward-looking thinking, put forward future visions on the development of XESTC and contributed high-level achievements to promote the development of the poetic "Watery Towns in Southern China" into an ecological science and technology new city integrating production, life and ecology.

The Committee observe exhibition boards and models

Programme overview

Scheme No.1

Scheme No.2

Scheme No.3

Source: <http://www.planning.org.cn>

Edited and translated by Chai Ning