Foshan Creative Industrial Park: hot spot for night tourism
Foshan China 2021-11-01 10:56

Recently, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced the first batch of National Night Culture and Tourism Consumption Cluster Areas. Foshan Creative Industrial Park Chancheng District was selected, which is the only park selected in Foshan.

 

 

Located in the central urban area, Chancheng District is a hot spot of Foshan’s night economy. Foshan Creative Industrial Park has incubated numerous brands, and Lingnan Tiandi was selected as the first provincial demonstration characteristic pedestrian zones (business circle) in Guangdong Province. More and more Internet-famous landmarks and well-known brands at home and abroad appeared in Chancheng.

 

Despite the affect brought by COVID-19, the “25-hour Sleepless City” project, which started last year, has been increasing in popularity. At present, Foshan Creative Industrial Park has attracted more than 300 brands, with an average daily passenger flow of 45,000 people, and the night consumption volume and passenger flow accounted for more than 60% of the whole day. During this National Day Holiday, the park received a total of 420,000 people, and the peak passenger flow reached 126,000 after 10 p.m.

 

Night economy has become one of the priorities for boosting consumption under the pandemic. To this end, Chancheng set up a workgroup for night economic development, and issued the Implementation Plan of Chancheng Boosting Night Economy Development, aiming to create 2 municipal high-quality night economy cluster areas and 20 district-level night economy demonstration sites.Night economy is driving the strong recovery of Chancheng business and service industry. Data shows that from January to September this year, the total retail sales of consumer goods in Chancheng reached 61.004 billion yuan, up 11.8% over the same period last year.

 

Centering on the integrated consumption forms such as food, shopping, entertainment, tourism, health etc., Chancheng will make efforts to build an urban landmark, business circle and night economy IP with Lingnan style, to further release the consumption potential and inject strong impetus into the construction of high-quality urban areas.

 

Author | Eleanor

Revisor | Jersey

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