Harmony bell tower

Harmony bell tower

Located in the south side of the east bank approach bridge of Ganzhou bridge, hugang village, Shuidong Town, Zhanggong District, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, the harmony bell tower is a comprehensive theme park integrating culture and openness, with a total area of 485 Mu and a total investment of 290 million yuan (including the construction of the tower bell) 20 million yuan). The harmony clock tower is 113 meters high, surpassing Big Ben in England. It is the largest mechanical clock tower in the world.

brief introduction

The harmony bell tower is located in the south side of the east bank approach bridge of Ganzhou bridge in hugang village, Shuidong Town, Zhanggong District, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province. Four clock faces with a diameter of 12.8 meters are exquisite and atmospheric. The world's largest mechanical clock is transported from Britain to Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province. It is installed on a 113 meter high "harmony bell tower" in the harmony park on the East Bank of Ganzhou bridge with a total investment of 290 million yuan It has replaced the Big Ben clock tower in the UK to become the largest mechanical clock tower in the world, setting a number of world firsts.

building structure

Ganzhou harmony bell tower is 113 meters high, with a 9-story appearance, facing Yuhong tower across the river. The facade adopts modern European style, with exhibition area, exhibition area, "time corridor", sightseeing platform, revolving restaurant, etc. The tower will be equipped with the world's largest mechanical tower clock, with a dial diameter of 12.8 meters, surpassing the world-famous British Big Ben clock. The theme park is divided into time zones to set up statues of famous scientists in time and astronomy at all times and in all over the world. The tower clock will report the time when the sun rises every day, the time every half an hour during the day, and the clock will ring on time. The harmonious bell tower was completed in 2012. It is a new landmark landscape in Ganzhou and the finishing touch to improve the urban quality of Ganzhou.

Main attractions

The project design of harmony bell tower theme park is divided into two parts: one part is European style theme park, which is designed with bell tower, supporting rooms, reception center, European style street, central square and green area; the other part is commercial and residential area. The total land area of the project is 485 mu, and the construction investment is estimated to be 290 million yuan.

1. Ganzhou harmony bell tower is a tourist bell tower as the core, including urban landscape green space, green space, green space, green space and so on

The historical and cultural exhibition area, European style street and reception center area are comprehensive theme parks integrating culture and openness.

2. Part of the project design is European style theme park, which includes clock tower, supporting rooms, reception center, European style street, central square and green area.

3. The other part is commercial and residential area. The total land area of the project is 485 mu, and the construction investment is estimated to be 290 million yuan.

4. Ganzhou harmony bell tower is 113 meters high, with a 9-story appearance, facing Yuhong tower across the river. The facade adopts modern European style, with exhibition area, exhibition area, "time corridor", sightseeing platform, revolving restaurant, etc.

Important events

Construction suspension

Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, recently suspended the construction of "harmony bell tower" theme park, which is known as the world's largest mechanical Bell Tower Park. The official positioning of the park is a popular project to benefit the people. The total investment of the project is planned to be 500 million yuan, with an estimated annual income of 13 million yuan. At present, 450 million yuan has been invested, with an actual annual income of 300000 yuan. In 2010, Ganzhou's per capita GDP was only 45% of that of the whole country. The project was once questioned as "image project".

Social evaluation

Netizens' response

On July 14, the "harmony clock tower" in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, replaced the British Big Ben clock tower and became the largest mechanical clock tower in the world. The world's largest mechanical clock, which arrived in Ganzhou from Britain, is installed on a 113 meter high "harmony bell tower" in the harmony park with a total investment of 290 million yuan in Ganzhou, with a clock face diameter of 12.8 meters.

Wang Ping, the mayor of Ganzhou, said that the "harmonious bell tower" will become a century old classic and thousand year old excellent building in Ganzhou, a new landmark landscape in Ganzhou in the future, and will further enhance the image of Ganzhou as a regional modern central city.

I'm afraid it will take years to prove whether the bell tower can become a centennial classic of Ganzhou, as described by Mayor Wang. But as a landmark landscape of Ganzhou in the future, I think there is no doubt. Because the 113 meter high bell tower is installed in the harmony park with an investment of nearly 300 million yuan, it is undoubtedly a landmark landscape for a small and medium-sized city. As for whether Ganzhou can improve its image as a regional modern central city, different people have different opinions, and I will not comment on it. What I'm interested in is that the comments of netizens on the Internet seem to be one-sided. Most netizens don't pay too much for the "No.1 in the world". Even some media reports that local netizens in Ganzhou also have some complaints about it. Why is the response of "harmony bell tower" not "harmonious" among netizens.

First of all, and in recent years, some local leaders are keen to engage in image projects, with huge investment scale, but the final effect is not satisfactory. There are even a lot of half pull projects that waste people and money, or "burden projects" that make the local government finance tight. The result is that after creating a short-term false and lively scene, the attraction of local tourism and urban landscape is rapid Decline, and finally become a joke in the mouth of the people. Such image engineering news used to be full of local news reports for a certain period of time. It was often named "the world's first", "the world's largest" or "the world's longest so and so Avenue square". Although the government described the beautiful vision with lofty sentiments, the people often made a lot of bad comments on it. Why? Because of many similar projects before, the people did not learn from it I get benefits from it, but it's because of the burden on my back.

Another important reason for the indifference or indifference of the people and the Internet to this kind of urban landmark building project is that the huge or even huge amount of investment in many cities lacks the right to participate in the decision-making process, and the people can only passively act as spectators. Today, many livelihood projects and popular projects are far from reaching the standard, hundreds of millions of investment projects have really stimulated the demand for housing loans and children In the middle and lower levels of society, these groups applaud such projects. Unless such landmark buildings can bring them intuitive economic or environmental benefits, most social groups can only applaud such official actions.

Many city government has the remarkable achievements in the short time, so the marketing city has become a fast and safe way. But the scientific nature of this marketing, the democratic nature of financial decision and the strict accountability after the event are in the context of the extensive "has the final say". How to make marketing more responsive to public opinion and benefit the public and how to make financial decisions? More transparent, how to make the accountability mechanism more rigorous and effective, straighten out these key nodes, in order to truly arouse the interaction between the people and the government, and the harmonious voice can be truly reflected in the clock.

Official response

On the afternoon of July 19, 2010, the Information Office of Ganzhou Municipal People's Government of Jiangxi Province held an online news conference on the market-oriented operation of the harmonious bell tower on ganzhou.com.cn. The person in charge of Ganzhou Expressway Co., Ltd., the Construction Party of the bell tower, introduced the construction of the bell tower and communicated with netizens.

According to Luo Wei, spokesman of Ganzhou Expressway Co., Ltd., Ganzhou harmony bell tower project is located in the south side of the east bank approach bridge of Ganzhou bridge in hugang village, Shuidong Town, Zhanggong district. It is a comprehensive theme park with sightseeing bell tower as the core, including urban landscape green space, historical and cultural exhibition area, European style street and reception center area, integrating culture and openness. One of the landmark buildings of the project is the 113 meter high world's largest mechanical clock tower named harmony clock tower. "The investment of the whole project is 290 million yuan, while the capital spent on the mechanical clock tower is 20 million yuan." "The construction fund of the project is co-ordinated by Ganzhou Expressway Co., Ltd.. On the one hand, it does not raise construction funds from the society; on the other hand, it does not accept relevant donations; on the other hand, it does not need municipal financial expenditure. It will completely solve the fund problem through market-oriented operation." Luo Wei responded to the query and misunderstanding of some previous netizens that "the government spent 290 million yuan to build a clock tower".

Before the construction of this theme park in the central urban area, Ganzhou municipal government has widely solicited opinions by issuing opinions and other forms, and the park design scheme has also been issued to the public, who will choose the most satisfactory scheme. "This theme park is a popular project." Luo Wei said that on the one hand, the project can provide citizens with a good place for leisure, but also enhance the city's image and drive the development of tourism economy.

With a total investment of 290 million yuan, the project of Ganzhou "harmony bell tower" theme park, the world's largest mechanical bell tower, which has been "tangled with disputes" from construction to operation, has been suspended. On April 28, 2014, an article published on the official website of Ganzhou municipal government of Jiangxi Province confirmed the above news.

Four years later, on April 28, Ganzhou municipal government website published an article in response to "recent concerns of netizens" to announce that the construction of the world's largest mechanical clock tower "harmony clock tower" theme park project has stopped!

"The construction of the harmony bell tower theme park project started in August 2009. Since the project was completed and put into operation, there have been few tourists, and the expected economic and social benefits have not been achieved. The input-output level is low," the circular said

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