有着近20年春季外出旅游习惯的王志全夫妇今年破例没有出去。老王原住在石家庄，每年春天都要外出旅游换换环境。去年随投资办厂的儿子住到威海经济技术开发区后，这里优美的环境让老两口生活得非常舒心。他们决定今年不去旅游了，“别处的环境还不如这里好，出去折腾什么？”
　　威海经济技术开发区的创业者们至今仍清楚地记得11年前开发区的面貌：区内没有自己的供水管网，只有两条通往市内的自来水管道；没有一条像样的柏油路，只有几条晴天尘土飞扬、雨天泥泞不堪的羊肠小道；没有污水管道，污水只能沿河海直流排放；没有一幢崭新的楼房，最高的建筑是两幢破旧的三层楼。
　　威海经济技术开发区成立后，坚持科学的发展观，走可持续发展战略，把环境保护和优化环境放在优先发展的位置，千方百计为投资者营造舒适的创业、居住环境。他们积极实施“中心起步，扇形辐射、滚动发展”的建设思路，实行“大配套一步到位，小配套围绕项目集中进行”的原则，把弹性规划理论和数学坐标系原理作为整个环境建设和基础设施的构想和总纲，将经纬分明、功能独立的多个小区的连接点作为中心点，集中力量呈扇形向外延伸。此举使得环境建设项目布点高度集中，且互为照应，有效避免了重复建设、滥铺摊子、战线漫长以及小而全、杂而乱的局面，威海开发区的环境建设走出了一条具有威海特色的路子。11年来，威海经济技术开发区先后建成交通、通讯、能源和污水处理等重点工程80多项,市区两级累计用于基础设施建设资金达120多亿元，修建主干道22条,路基全长120公里,油路面积150万平方米,铺设供水、污水、暖气等各种管线50万米，区内20平方公里实现了水、电、气、暖、通讯等“七通一平”，初步营造出了“山在海中，城在山中，楼在林中，人在绿中”的居住环境。
　　威海经济技术开发区对环境的保护几乎到了苛刻的地步。尽管开发区的招商引资任务很重，但开发区决策层有一条底线——坚持引进“高科技含量、高创汇、高附加值、无污染”的工业项目，绝不走“先污染后治理”的老路。11年来，威海开发区共拒绝高达3.5亿美元的污染项目进区。在防污染的同时，他们还积极美化、优化环境，先后建成公共绿地、居住绿地120多公顷，全区形成了以道路绿化为网络、以小区庭院绿化为依托、以公园广场绿化为点缀的点线面相结合的现代城市绿化格局。在环境保护上，累计投资3亿多元购置环保设施，使区内的工业废料和生活垃圾无害化处理率达100%，区内大气环境质量、地表水及近海海域水质一直保持在国家一级以上标准。
　　为进一步优化投资、居住环境，威海开发区投巨资兴建了占地200公顷的海上公园，美轮美奂的海上公园已成为威海市一道独具魅力的风景，旅游旺季每天接待游客上万人次，海上公园被评为全省新建三大优秀园林之一。建区以来，全区累计开发房地产面积330万平方米，仅皇冠社区内就拥有庆威花园、昆仑花园、芙蓉花园、明珠花园、金海湾花园等8个新颖别致的生活小区。皇冠花园生活小区先后被国家建设部评为“全国城市物业管理优秀住宅小区”和“全国城市物业管理优秀示范住宅小区”。2001年，皇冠生活小区又被中央文明办和国家民政部评为“全国创建文明社区示范点”。2002年，开发区又投巨资兴建了奇石苑，改造了九龙河，美化绿化青岛路，使开发区投资环境和居住环境进一步优化。今年3月，威海开发区又与香港联达国际投资有限公司达成合作意向，由香港联达国际投资有限公司投资18亿元，用3到5年时间，在区内建设一座占地20公顷的国际旅游风情购物乐园，该项目是威海市目前最大的外资商业项目，建成后将进一步提升威海市的商业和旅游品位及城市形象。
　　如今，漫步在威海开发区的黄金海岸，碧海蓝天的自然风光、白墙红瓦的林立楼群、花红柳绿的公园广场尽收眼底。这里已经初步形成了一个功能齐全、配套完整的现代化、生态化和海滨花园式的新城区。
　　


　　E Ever since it was established, the Weihai Economic and Technological Development Zone (WETDZ) has given priorities to the protection and improvement of the environment with a view to providing pleasant and comfortable working and living conditions for investors and their employees. Based on the independent quarters with its scope, WETDZ has tried its best to avoid repeated construction, which created a special way with its own characteristics in improving the environment.
　　While attaching great importance to attracting outside investment, WETDZ is very strict with its requirements concerning environmental protection. WETDZ welcomes investment projects with hi-tech features that can turn over high added-value returns. However, if it is projected that these projects would create too much pollution, WETDZ would absolutely reject their application. Over the past 12 years, WETDZ has rejected such projects worth some 350 million US dollars.
　　While preventing pollution on the one hand, WETDZ energetically strives to improve the environment through afforestation on the other. Thus far, throughout WETDZ, an area of 120 hectares of green land have been reclaimed, producing a garden-style place for people working and living here. Moreover, WETDZ has continuously invested more than 300 million yuan in purchasing environmental-protection equipment to safely process industrial waste materials and reduce airborne particulates through various treatment technologies. Within WETDZ, the quality of air, surface water, and offshore seawater can all rank according to “Grade One” national standards.
　　In order to improving the investment and living environment, WETDZ has invested large amounts of cash in constructing a coastal park, which covers an area of 200 hectares and has now become a major scenic and recreational spot in WETDZ. During the peak season for tourism, the park receives as many as 10,000 tourists daily. In addition, the coastal park has been chosen as one of the three most excellent new parks throughout Shandong Province.
　　Ever since it was established, WETDZ has also been involved in the development of real estate. Up to now, a total area of 3.3 million square meters of real estate has been developed. In 2002, WETDZ invested tremendous amounts of funds in transforming the Jiulong River and repaving the Qingdao Road, greatly improving the living environment and transportation facilities. In March this year, WETDZ concluded an inclination agreement with Hong Kong Lianda International Investment Co., Ltd., by which, in three to five years, Lianda will invest 1.8 billion yuan in constructing an international tourism and shopping park within WETDZ.