Wuhan Old City Freshmen: 500 Years Of Business Pulse Breeding New Kinetic Energy

On the South Bank of the Changjiang River, the longest commercial pedestrian street in China, the Chu River Han street, is integrating the commercial and cultural tourism into a new industry shaping mode. The north of the Yangtze River, with the origin of 500 years of business, is fading away from the scale of the old Hankou's commercial culture, forming a garment industrial cluster with a business scale of more than 100 million square meters and a scale of over 100 billion yuan. In the reincarnation of the old city's new manufacturing and new and old industries, the cultivation mode of Wuhan's emerging industries has been formed.

Around Wuhan on the Yangtze River, the big health industry represented by Optics Valley bio city is being built into trillions of industrial clusters. In addition, the Wuhan Municipal People's government is planning to build various international industrial parks with the United States, Germany, France and other national business groups. In the international planning of Wuhan, the advanced manufacturing industries and bio pharmaceutical industries and other emerging industries are eager to exert their strength.

This diversified industrial structure has also increased Wuhan's economic vitality. In the first three quarters of this year, Wuhan ranked the "trillion club" in 2019 with the total GDP of 1 trillion and 152 billion 840 million yuan. From the total and growth rate, Wuhan is also in the forefront of new front-line cities: in addition to Shanghai and Beijing GDP over 2 trillion yuan, Wuhan and Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Tianjin, Suzhou, Chengdu, Chengdu, Chengdu and other 9 cities GDP total 1 trillion yuan, the first three quarters of GDP growth outperformed the national average growth rate.

How did these beautiful blueprints come true step by step? Recently, in twenty-first Century, the economic news reporter followed the "news gathering and development" thematic news gathering organized by the Propaganda Department of the Wuhan municipal Party committee. The delegation visited Wuhan on behalf of various emerging industries and enterprises, and explored how Wuhan could cooperate with various combinations of policy guidance, government planning, landing and enterprise implementation to get out of its own industrial upgrading and high quality development mode.

The longest commercial pedestrian street can not be duplicated.

On the morning of December 5th, on the Han border of Chu River in Wuchang District of Wuhan, Yang Sheng Jun, general manager of Wuhan Madame Tussaud's, stopped at Han street, and reviewed the development mode of the new street and enterprise financing to the journalists.

In 2010, a subway station was built along the Hanjiang River in Wuhan. Under the appeals of local residents suffering from the disturbance of Shahu's mud, the community began planning the space from west to Shahu of East Lake, and plans to create another new business district for Wuhan.

Before and after 2011, Wuhan officially launched the transformation of the old city of Shahu. It plans to build a Chu River in Wuchang District, which is located in the traditional education and cultural center. On the Bank of Chu River, a pedestrian pedestrian street connecting two lakes was opened.

"Chu Han street is located in the core area of Wuchang North China road." Huang Qiuli, deputy director of Wuchang Commerce Bureau, said that in the "Wuchang District 13th Five-Year commercial network planning", it is clear that Chu Han street should be included in the North Central Business District, and let it occupy the most important position in the "three circles, two belts, four streets and many points" spatial layout in Wuchang district.

In terms of policy support, the Wuchang district government, through the role of capital guidance, increased the policy support of commercial blocks in the introduction of the first store brand, the gathering of old brands, the upgrading of formats and the nocturnal economy, and began to activate and optimize the commercial details of Chu Han street.

Huang Qiuli explained that the purpose of the move is to make full use of the advantages of natural environment, so that Chu Han Street will transform from traditional consumption oriented business to new culture with more humanistic characteristics, such as culture and tourism.

At the end of September 2011, Chu Han Street officially opened the street, and gradually became the hot tourist area in the forefront of Wuhan vacation crowd. In the meantime, the Han street of Chu River introduced into the Han Dynasty show theatre, known as Asia's first, the world class cultural tourism brand Madame Tussaud's, and Hubei's largest bookstore Wenhua bookstore and other distinctive business entities.

A group of statistics shows that the total length of 1.5 kilometers of Chu Han street, including shopping, catering, culture, tourism, leisure, entertainment and other comprehensive formats, in 2018, the total number of tourists received 29 million 540 thousand passengers, and realized sales revenue of 2 billion 850 million yuan.

Madame Tussaud's, which opened in September 28, 2013, caught up with the first dividend since Han Street opened the street. "In 2015, Han street traffic volume exceeded 20 million people, and Madame Tussaud's also welcomed the first opening bonus." Yang Shengjun told the twenty-first Century business news reporter that as a brand from London, they aim at the advantages of central Wuhan as an international communication center, transportation and humanities.

After adjusting the Han street in Chu River, the company gradually fused the brand of the wax museum and Han street, and pursued the short distance travel needs of the foreign experience and star aura as the goal. At present, the Wuhan pavilion has 60 wax statues, occupying 1000 square meters, and the area is ranked twentieth in the world, but the volume of people is twelfth. This year, the Madame Tussaud's of Wuhan ushered in the explosive growth after 2015, with a total turnover of 230 thousand people, which is equivalent to 1% conversion rate of the basic passenger flow on Han street.

Business continuity in Hanzheng Street

Across the river, Hanzheng Street, located on the North Bank of the Yangtze River, has the reputation of "the first street in the world" since ancient times. It has inherited the 500 years old Hankou business pulse.

In early 2011, a big fire changed the trajectory of Hanzheng Street's development. The traditional market relocation and transformation started, closing down 43 traditional markets such as "rat Street", "Thirteen lines" and so on, and completed the demolition of nearly 1 million square meters.

For the Hanzheng Street after the "rebirth", how to grasp the position of "Hankou's root, Wuhan's heart and the window of the world" has become a top priority on the traditional commercial basis.

In the space vacant by Hanzheng Street, Wuhan has successively introduced a number of industrial benchmark projects such as Wuhan international fashion center, Fosun financial island and Heng Long square. Behind the newly born Hanzheng Street, a complete garment industry chain has been formed, which has stimulated more than 30 industrial parks, more than 4000 garment enterprises and hundreds of thousands of industrial workers.

Its specific mode is manufacturing, warehousing and logistics in the surrounding cities of Wuhan, and the product R & D, brand marketing and trading trade are launched in Hanzheng Street. Through this division of labor and cooperation, resources complement each other, initially formed a pattern of trans regional economic cooperation, with an industrial scale of over 100 billion yuan, forming a tripartite confrontation with Hangzhou clothing and Guangdong clothing. According to insiders, the supporting capacity of clothing production in Hanzheng Street has even surpassed that of Guangzhou and Hangzhou.

But Hanzheng Street still has a short board, that is, the lack of original design brand is the biggest problem facing the rebirth of the old business center. In the face of this short board, Wuhan speeded up its compensation. At the beginning of this year, the six plenary session of the thirteen Municipal Committee of Wuhan proposed that Hanzheng Street and other traditional blocks should be revived so as to enhance Wuhan's "buying the world and selling the world". The work report of the Wuhan municipal government has also been clearly put forward to promote the high quality development of Hanzheng Street. In view of the introduction of original design brand, Hanzheng Street introduced the Yun Shang Wuhan International Fashion Center last year, not only for businessmen to hatch original design talents, but also provide supporting logistics and sales consultants. And through the original Star program and Shenzhen's 60 original designer brand signing, will bring nearly 2 billion yuan annual output value for Hanzheng Street.

In the course of nearly 10 years of landing, Hanzheng Street is experiencing a new round of transformation and upgrading, which is compatible with the urban functions. Through market orientation and Industrial Synergy, Wuhan has realized the drive to the county economy of the city circle and even the whole province.

Smart manufacturing and great health

The radiation of business in cities is the overall economic vitality of the city, and in the shaping of this model, it is also used in various high-tech industries.

At the beginning of this year, after the two trillion industrial clusters of Wuhan's Guang Guang electronics and automobile industry, the next trillion industrial clusters were focused on the big health industry. In April, Wuhan officially released the "Wuhan big health industry development plan (2019-2035)" and "Wuhan's opinions on supporting the development of big health industry". According to the plan, by 2035, the total income of Wuhan's big health industry exceeded 2 trillion yuan, becoming an important node in the global biological medicine and medical device industry chain and innovation chain.

Under the policy support, the new pharmaceutical industry cluster is also forming. At present, the biopharmaceutical and medical devices industry in Wuhan has basically built more than 20 sub sectors of life and health, forming a new pattern with Optics Valley bio city as the representative, Optics Valley NANDA Health Industry Park, Hanyang big health industry development zone, Tongji Tongyi national medical service area and Yangtze River New City International Medical Innovation Zone as the core.

After 10 years of development, the bio city of Optics Valley has gathered more than 2000 kinds of biological enterprises. The total income of the industry has exceeded 100 billion. There are more than 400 new drugs being studied, of which 26 new drugs have entered the clinical field. The Optics Valley NANDA health industry park will introduce 100 large scale health enterprises over the next 10 years to build 100 billion industrial clusters of biomedicine, medical devices and health services, and absorb more than 50 thousand people.

On the other hand, in the Caidian Economic Development Zone, the advanced manufacturing industry is rising, and is located in the economic geography center, which is located at the intersection of Beijing, Hong Kong, Macao, Shanghai and Chongqing, and the 318 national highway. The Sino German Industrial Park focuses on new energy vehicles and intelligent network, automobile manufacturing, intelligent manufacturing, electronic information technology, modern logistics and other industries, and plans to build an advanced manufacturing gathering area with R & D, design, production and service. In the first 9 months of this year, the industrial park location area has successively settled in more than 10 world-renowned foreign industrial enterprises such as Berg Warner, Buddha, attire, Makino and Cobb.

Huangpi District of Wuhan also intends to build a Sino Japanese Industrial Park focusing on intelligent manufacturing with the help of 5 direct flights to Japan by Tianhe Airport. According to the plan, the Sino Japanese Industrial Park area in Wuhan is about 20 square kilometers, focusing on aviation manufacturing, intelligent equipment, financial creation, information service and intelligent logistics. The first domestic aircraft dismantling company founded by drow aerospace and Japan's second largest company, Marubeni Co., will probably be born in the near future.

Wuhan, known as "the thoroughfare of nine provinces", is located in Central China and connects the whole country. Thanks to this, Wuhan's industrial gene seems to emphasize integration and development. Business inheritance and new models are iterated here, and traditional industries and emerging industries are also flourishing here.