Yujiapu Financial District
Yujiapu Financial District (Chinese: 于家堡金融区; pinyin: Yújiāpù Jīnróng Qū) is a skyscraper development in China's Tianjin Binhai New Area currently being built as a potential center of world finance.[1]
The district is being developed with a total investment of about 200 billion yuan, and is located on the Haihe River North Shore, with Xiangluowan Business District and TEDA. Also, the Yujiapu Financial District is an APEC low-carbon demonstration town.[2] The district was expected to open in June 2014,[3] but has suffered from a construction slowdown. [4]
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Location
Yujiapu is a peninsula, located in the core area of Tianjin Binhai New Area, the entire block east, west and south facing the Haihe River, covers an area of 3.86 square kilometers. The area is located 40 km from the Tianjin city centre and 150 kilometres (93 mi) from Beijing. The site is 10 km from the core district of the Tianjin Binhai New Area (TBNA), with the southern tip of the site only a 10-minute drive from the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA). From the air, the whole Yujiapu region is shaped like a "pocketbook", is the upper hand in Sheung Shui land. It is already under construction on the west side of Xiangluowan business district, south of the future will be planning the construction of ecological residential area, east of the island shaped like a whale. The coordinates are roughly 38°59′36″N 117°41′11″E / 38.9932°N 117.6864°ECoordinates: 38°59′36″N 117°41′11″E / 38.9932°N 117.6864°E.
To the west there is the Haihe Kaiqi Bridge, with the Yongtai Rd traveling east-west in the north, and Sanhuai Rd traversing the peninsula north-south.
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Buildings
There are a number of substantial buildings under construction on the peninsula, including:
- Liqin Hotel
- Yujiapu Administrative
- Shangbang Leasing Tower
- Shenglong International Finance Center
- Yujiapu Twin Tower I and II
Across the bridge in the Xiangluowan Business District there are a number of buildings, including:
- Binhai Cathay Tower
- AVIC International Plaza
- R and F Tower
- Zovie Plaza I and II
- Guangyao Dongfang Plaza Tower I and II
See also
- Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city
- Binhai New Area
- Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area
- Yujiapu Railway Station
- Ghost city Kangbashi New Area, a district of Ordos City
References
- ↑ Henry Sanderson, Michael Forsythe China's Superbank: Debt, Oil and Influence 2012 -- Page 24 "Yet there's a point where ambition and enthusiasm becomes recklessness and hubris, and Tianjin may have crossed that line. There's no better place to witness the physical manifestation of hubris than Yujiapu, Tianjin's planned Manhattan."
- ↑ APEC Low Carbon Model Town (LCMT) Project: Tianjin Yujiapu Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Organization), Nikken Sekkei Research Institute - 2011
- ↑ "天津于家堡有望成为北方区域金融中心". News.xinhuanet.com. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- ↑ "Few Signs of Construction at Yujiapu, China's Manhattan Replica". NBC News. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
External links
- China's Manhattan Knock-off, The China Chronicle