On January 14, Xi'an Gaoke Group Co., Ltd. held a party-government joint meeting to implement the significant strategy of accelerating the construction and development of Liangjiatan area in Xi'an Hi-Tech Industries Development Zone (XHTZ), and decided to establish Xi'an Gaoke International Community Construction &Development Co., Ltd. with a registered capital of 300 million yuan running as special funds for the construction of Liangjiatan Eco-park and its surrounding area, which was funded by Xi'an Gaoke Group Co., Ltd.
On July 4, the 12th director's office meeting held by the Xi'an Hi-Tech Industries Development Zone Management Committee decided to set up Xi'an International Community leading group in XHTZ at the Management Committee level.
On January 20, Xi'an Hi-Tech Industries Development Zone Management Committee and the Chang'an District People's Government signed a framework agreement on cooperation and co- construction of Xi'an International Community Project.
On April 2, the Construction and Operation Plan of Xi'an International Community Smart Park in Xi'an Hi-Tech Industries Development Zone was jointly reviewed and approved by domestic authoritative communication experts, operator specialists, leaders of Gaoke International Community Construction Development Co., Ltd. and relevant staffs. The plan will become the blueprint for the construction of "Smart City".
On June 3, Shaanxi Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-rural Development submitted the request for the Recommendation of Declaring Xi'an International Community as the Ecological Pilot Zone and related materials to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-rural Development of the People’s Republic of China (MOHURD).
On October 26, 2015, the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-rural Development and the Financial Department of Shaanxi Province approved the application report of Conducting Xi'an International Community as the Green Ecological Zone (low carbon ecological pilot zone) in Shaanxi Province, marking the completion of the application of the national level "green ecological zone (low carbon ecological pilot zone)".
On November 5, the construction of Xi'an Liangjiatan International School, a municipal key project, officially began. Located on the East Bank of Feng River, the school is an international education project supported by Shaanxi Provincial People's government, Xi'an Municipal People’s Government and the Xi'an Hi-Tech Industries Development Zone Management Committee, which is also the first authorized IB World School approved by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) in Northwest China. The school provides international education training for foreign personnel and high-end talents in Shaanxi Province which further promotes the education internationalization pace of Xi'an.
On August 19, Xi'an International Community was approved as the 2016 “green ecological pilot demonstration project" in Shaanxi Province and gained the provincial building energy-saving special fund of the same year, marking that the International Community has become the first and only one to be approved for the project in Xi'an.
In November, 16 municipal road projects undertaken by Gaoke International Community Company started the construction one after another.
20 km in length, 20-60 meters in width, the road projects were aimed to break down barriers of the current road network, and further release the traffic pressure of the surrounding area, which are the strong actions of facilitating the construction of road network and the integration of urban and rural area so as to address the most acute bottlenecks and resolve pressing difficulties confronting the daily lives of our people.
The PPP project of utility tunnel (International Community section) in Xi'an started the construction on March 27. The project belongs to large-scale comprehensive municipal infrastructure construction of Xi'an, which is also a significant part of the main line and branches construction of comprehensive drainage systems featured with "one ring, six forks, and multiple groups". The completion of the project will effectively improve the construction level of utility tunnel network, greatly improve the outlook of the city, help solve the problems of "road zippers" and "overhead spider webs", further make the city more orderly, more aesthetically pleasing, and cleaner.
On April 12, Xi'an International Community Fashion Town has been officially approved. As one of the 35 creation mode signature towns and the first batch of key demonstration project.The Fashion Town is a signature town with fashion industry as the guide and fashion consumption as the support. It will build an international fashion industry cluster integrating fashion incubation, fashion release and fashion consumption.
On November 12, an economic and trade delegation composed of Fondazione Italia Cina, Mondadori group, dynamic architecture, representatives from Sardinia government and other Italian enterprises arrived in Xi'an to conduct a two-day field visit and make communication on the International Community Fashion Town project, and finally signed a memorandum of cooperation.
On March 18, the 1st Sino-Italia Fashion Industry Innovation Development Forum was successfully held in Milan, Italy.During the forum, Xi'an International Community Construction Development Co., Ltd. reached cooperation intentions with several Italian fashion industry institutions and signed a number of framework cooperation agreements to continuously deepen the Sino-Italian economic and cultural exchange and cooperation mechanism and build a broader win-win platform in the fields of fashion, culture, R & D, design, education, etc.
On November 5, Xi'an Gaoke GroupCo., Ltd. and Chic Swiss Holdings Co., Ltd. successfully signed a contract on the second phase investment cooperation project of Xi'an International Fashion Town at the Shaanxi Provincial procurement and investment briefing meeting, marking that the fashion town project has been recognized and valued at the provincial and national levels. The project aims to build five international fashion industry plates by docking with Italian fashion industry resources, which can further enrich and improve the development of fashion industry both in Xi'an High-Tech Industries Development Zone, Xi'an city and Shaanxi Province.
On June 30, Gaoke International Community Company signed an investment cooperation agreement with Returnees Town Development Co., Ltd. to specify that the Returnees Town project will locate in the International Community, and set up a joint venture "Returnees Town Construction and Development Co., Ltd." to carry out the development and construction of projects in the town.The Returnees Town is an industrial base focusing on bringing in overseas talents, IT specialists and incubating businesses. After the completion of the project, the town will form a trinity of high-end talents gathering, basic information industry introducing and R&D achievements transformation.
On July 27, the first phase of the sewage treatment plant on the East Bank of the International Community officially started construction.As the first garden-style underground sewage treatment plant in Northwest China, the project serves the sewage treatment demand of Xi'an International Community and surrounding projects.The project is an important part of the supporting construction in Xi'an High-Tech Industries Development Zone, which is also an important infrastructure guarantee for the goal of "constructing the optimum zone by working hard together in the coming three years".
On September 30, Feng River Liangjiatan Wetland Park opened officially.With a total length of 4.5 km, the park is one of the key construction projects of Xi'an International Community and an important part of the planning and construction of "three rivers and one mountain" Greenway in Xi'an.The completion of the park is an important node for Gaoke International Community Company in the construction of supporting infrastructure in the International Community, which basically improves the supporting infrastructure construction on the east bank and lays a solid foundation for the later development of the area.
On November 28, G1 road of Xi'an High-Tech Industries Development Zone was officially opened to traffic.The formal opening of G1 road has opened up the connection between the International Community and the urban trunk road of the Central Innovation Zone, improved the road network system of the International Community, and further enlarged the urban framework of Xi'an High-Tech Industries Development Zone.So far, 11 of the 16 municipal roads undertaken by the company have been fully completed and opened to traffic, the regional internal road network has been basically formed, and the greening and lighting projects have been basically completed.