On May 7, 1949, Jiaxing was liberated and the city was reborn. In the face of the dilapidated and scarred old city left by the old era, which covers an area of less than 4 square kilometers, the streets are narrow, the houses are low and humid, the citizens drink river water, burn firewood, and there are no sanitary facilities. Under the leadership of the Party committees and governments at all levels, the urban construction has been gradually carried out and steadily promoted, and the city has changed a lot.
On June 1, 1951, Jiaxing renovated Jianguo Road, which was completed on September 27 and presented a gift to the second anniversary of the National Day, becoming the first cement concrete road in Jiaxing City. In 1952, Beijing Road was rebuilt as cement concrete pavement. In 1956, under the auspices of Wu Xiaoshan, the mayor of Jiaxing at that time, the four small streets and alleys of Zhiqiao Street, Zhangjialong, Xueqian Street and Miaoqian Street in the east-west direction were demolished, built, widened and opened up on a large scale, and became the main road connecting the east and west of the city to the ring road, collectively known as the Diligent Road, with a total length of more than 1000 meters and a width of about 20 meters, becoming the widest and longest road in Jiaxing. At the same time, other roads in Jiaxing city were built, reconstructed, widened and straightened one by one. In 1964, Zhongshan Road was replaced with asphalt pavement. From 1971 to 1976, the Huancheng North Road was widened southward to Zhongshan Road, and a new Lixin Road (now the north section of Hexing Road) was built.
In 1951, the Children's Bridge was widened when Jianguo Road was built. In 1952, the Fangsheng Bridge was built on the side of Xiaonan Lake. In 1956, the Bodhisattva Bridge was rebuilt, renamed Jianshe Bridge, and several small bridges west of Zhangjialong were demolished. In 1958, Yancang Bridge, located in the southeast of Nanhu Ferry, was rebuilt into a stone arch flat bridge, and Wangwu Bridge was widened when the Huancheng North Road was expanded.
Since 1953, the drainage facilities in Jiaxing City have gradually developed into concrete underground pipes. Concrete circular pipes have been laid on Jianguo Road, Beijing Road and sections of Xiaonian Road, Jiefang Road and Xuanhua Road where residents are concentrated, changing the past state that there were only more than 10 rivers and brick open ditches in the urban drainage system.
In June 1956, Jiaxing built a waterworks in Talong, built the first deep well, and then completed the second deep burial in September, with a daily water supply capacity of 2400 tons, and laid the first 4000 meter long water supply pipeline.
In 1954, Jiaxing transformed a railway nursery in the railway station into People's Park, an open park with an area of 90.6 mu.
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By 1978, the appearance of Jiaxing City had been greatly improved, and the population of Jiaxing City had increased from 51400 in 1949 to 106700. However, due to the frequent merger and withdrawal of counties and cities, the system is not smooth. In particular, in 1958, Jiaxing District Administrative Office moved from Jiaxing to Huzhou. After Jiaxing became a county-level city, the size of the city has been limited to the basic pattern for thousands of years, and is limited to the "palm" big places within the ring road, so it is always difficult to take strong steps in urban construction. At that time, Jiaxing was only a medium-sized county even if it was a county.
The era of reform and opening up has opened the curtain of large-scale urban construction in Jiaxing. Especially in August 1983, Jiaxing's regional administrative office was abolished and Jiaxing became a prefecture level city again. After that, various infrastructures continued to develop, the scale of the city expanded rapidly, the urban functions were comprehensively enhanced, and all construction projects were advancing by leaps and bounds.
On April 7, 1981, Wan Li, then Vice Premier of the State Council, inspected Jiaxing and decided to build Jiaxing Flyover of Shanghai Hangzhou Double Track Railway in the east section of the city. In 1983, the Ministry of Railways approved the bridge construction plan. At the same time, in 1982, the widening project of Zhongshan Road in the city began to break ground. Taking advantage of the strong east wind of land withdrawal to build the city, from September 1984, the battle of key projects called "Two Bridges and One Road" (Jiaxing Flyover, Zhongshan West Road Bridge and Zhongshan Road of Shanghai Hangzhou Double Track Railway) was launched in an all-round way and vigorously promoted. The main leaders of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government took the lead in person, gathered the strength of the whole city, and implemented the responsibility system in the way of "who holds the child". In just over a year, Zhongshan Road was widened from 8 meters wide to less than 1000 meters long, and the dilapidated brick side roads on both sides, mainly residential neighborhoods, (asphalt pavement surface treatment was done in 1964) to 40 meters wide and 3140 meters long, The three slab urban trunk road runs through the east and west of the city, winning the reputation of "the first road in northern Zhejiang". More importantly, the widening of Zhongshan Road and the completion of Zhongshan Shanxi Road and Bridge have crossed the Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal at one stroke and expanded to the west of the city. In the winter of 1984, four residential areas including Jishui, Zhayan, Culture and Education, and Electronic Industrial Zone broke ground, opening the prelude to the development and construction of Hexi New Area. The newly built area is 4.5 square kilometers, which is equivalent to the construction of another new city. Since then, Jiaxing has broken through the old pattern of the city surrounded by rivers for thousands of years, starting to stride from the "era of Jianguo Road" to the "era of Zhongshan Road".
Since the autumn of 1983, Jiaxing has accelerated the construction of "three supplies" (water supply, power supply and gas supply), post and telecommunications, transportation and other public utilities and service facilities in the city in accordance with the principle of "overall deployment, step-by-step implementation and capacity". In August 1983, Nanmen No.2 Water Plant, one of the ten key construction projects in Jiaxing, was completed and put into operation. The second phase expansion project was completed and put into operation in May 1987, making the daily water supply capacity of Jiaxing urban area reach 91000 tons/day. In August 1988, Jiaxing started the construction of Shijiuyang Water Plant again.
In December 1985, Jiaxing introduced Wanmen S1240 program-controlled telephone switching equipment. In December 1988, IDD service was opened, as well as wireless paging, facsimile and international telegraph services.
In January 1984, Jiaxing Public Transport Company was established. On September 29, the first bus in the urban area was put into operation. Then, nine bus lines from the inner city and the city to the suburban villages (towns) were successively opened. In 1985, Jiaxing Taxi Company was established, which opened taxis and tourist buses in the city and to surrounding cities.
By 1990, Jiaxing's urban built-up area had reached 19.8 square kilometers, more than double that of 1978; The urban population has reached 169800, an increase of 59.1% over the end of 1978. It has become an important city in the Taihu Lake basin with developed economy, prosperous market, popular culture, complete functions and convenient transportation.
In the 1990s, Jiaxing took another solid step in urban construction, and the city was undergoing tremendous changes at an unprecedented speed. In 1998, Jiaxing's urban construction set a record in the history of Jiaxing's urban construction, including the number of old city reconstruction, demolition, construction and road and bridge construction. In 1999, the pace of urban construction in Jiaxing continued to accelerate, and in 2000, it reached a new historical high. A large number of road and bridge projects, such as Zhonghuan East Road, Luli Street, Jianguo North Road, Jiefang Road, and Zhayan Road, have been started. The environmental demolition and comprehensive renovation projects on both sides of the Huancheng River and around the South Lake Scenic Area have been successively implemented. The land plots on both sides of the Huancheng River are 3.3 kilometers long, with a renovation area of 75000 square meters, an investment of 120 million yuan, and a demolition building area of 330000 square meters, 2650 relocated households. By 1999, the urban built-up area of Jiaxing had increased to 40.07 square kilometers, accounting for 29.5% of the city's built-up area, with an average annual increase of 2.25 square kilometers.
The crowded and disordered shantytowns in the past have become patches of green land, and the green tree lined residential areas are full of vitality to convey the harmonious life notes of human and nature. The green river around the city has brought the city a "green necklace", and the Chengnan Park, Hongbo Park, Sanshuiwan Park, and Santa Park have also put a green coat on Jiaxing City. By the end of 2000, the urban green space rate, green coverage rate and per capita public green space area in Jiaxing had reached 25.6%, 30.4% and 7 square meters respectively, and the greening level had reached the middle and upper levels from the original lower reaches of the province. At the same time, the large-scale reconstruction of the old city covering an area of nearly 1 million square meters not only makes the city take on a new look, but also enables many residents to bid farewell to the low and dilapidated shacks and move into the community with sunshine and green, and live in spacious and bright new houses. By the end of 2000, the per capita living area had reached 11 square meters, an increase of 16.2% over 1997.
