The reporter learned from the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Commission that, as of now, a cumulative total of 117 projects have been launched in Chizhou's sponge city pilot construction, of which 78 are completed and 39 are under construction, with 4.479 billion yuan of investment completed, accounting for 85.51% of the investment completion ratio; the completed area in the pilot zone is 13.45 km2, and the area under construction is 5.05 km2. The completed area accounts for 72.7% of the pilot zone area, and the effects of the sponge city construction pilot are beginning to appear.
It is understood that the demonstration projects completed so far include Chizhou No. 1 Middle School, Qishan Avenue, Santaishan Park, etc. Black and odorous water bodies such as the Nanhu Ditch in Yianliu Garden, the Honghe River in Xincheng Mingzhu, and the pond at the Second Hospital have been thoroughly treated. The phenomenon of "watching the sea in the city" whenever it rains at the expressway entrance, the roads in the Yinglun Chengbang residential community in the station front area, and other places no longer exists. The effects of the sponge city—"no water accumulation during light rain, no waterlogging during heavy rain, no black and odorous water bodies, and alleviation of the heat island effect"—have initially emerged.