Jimu News reporter Hu Changxing
Correspondent Zhang Xizhi
During the May Day holiday not long ago, Wuhan was on fire, and Optics Valley was hot. Qunar.com’s big data analysis shows that the number of guests arriving in Wuhan increased by 139% year-on-year, ranking second among the top ten popular tourist cities. There is a constant flow of people in scenic spots, streets and business districts.
The big data on “check-in” of tourists across the country is evidence that Wuhan has become one of the “top cities” in China. During the same period, major business districts and parks in Wuhan Optics Valley were also bustling with activity. For example, from May 1st to 5th, Wuhan Joy City's total traffic reached 475,800, and sales increased by more than 30% compared with the same period last year. The same is true for other large shopping malls. In shopping malls, consumers are bustling, and in parks, citizens have set up tents and canopies to enjoy the "freedom of lawn" at their doorsteps. Behind the booming business district of
and the "free lawn" is the fact that Optics Valley is making every effort to build Wuhan New City. The infrastructure is improved and functional, and public services are improved to attract popularity. "People, city and industry" complement each other and promote each other. "Landscape City, Home City, The construction of "Smart City" has achieved phased results and continues to attract talents from all over the world to work as both innovators and life-makers.
How popular is Optics Valley on May Day? This well-known singer "knows"
html On the night of May 5th, during the encore stage of Eason Chan's world tour concert, Eason Chan sang "House of Flying Daggers" and "Pompous" and other classic songs, several more than other cities, which made fans from other places Envy, the Optics Valley International Tennis Center was full of spectators.He came to the concert location in advance, and was a spectator at Optics Valley. He checked in at the China Architecture and Technology Museum, visited the "Gaudi: Moment is Eternity" themed exhibition, and happily took photos and posted them on Weibo. He seriously posted on Weibo It is said that even the more exciting and interesting ideas really need someone to appreciate them and support them with practical actions before they can be successful.
During those few days in Optics Valley, Eason Chan World Tour Concert Wuhan Station, Strawberry Music Festival, Optics Valley E-Sports Festival, CGF Animation and Game Festival, China Architecture Science and Technology Museum Spanish Architect Theme Exhibition... various activities were exciting, each The big business district is bustling with activity.
html From May 1st to 5th, the total number of visitors to Wuhan Joy City was close to 500,000, and sales increased by more than 30% year-on-year. Eagle-eyed shopping residents discovered that Eason Chan also went to "join in the fun." From May 1st to 4th, Wuhan Poly Plaza’s traffic volume increased by 39.2% year-on-year, and sales increased by 47.8% year-on-year. The data from several major shopping malls all reflect a common feature: foreign tourists are increasing and local residents’ consumption is still strong.Yes, the current resident population of Optics Valley is about 1.2 million. If you include the working population, the population here is close to 2 million, and people under the age of 37 account for about 70%. According to the Optics Valley Consumption Index released at the end of last year, the proportion of consumers under the age of 30 in Optics Valley exceeds the average level in Wuhan, and the overall characteristics are young, highly educated, and with high spending power.
While the industry is booming and the population is flowing in, Optics Valley's business has grown from scratch and has become more and more brilliant, adding color to the "home city". The Optics Valley business district surrounding the "Galaxy" Plaza has become a city-level commercial and consumption center, the Guanshan Avenue business district interprets the prosperity of the "100-billion-dollar industry avenue", and the Optics Valley Central City business district has become an important growth driver for the development of regional business and service industries. pole.
There are 29 shopping malls, 20 large supermarkets, 4 large specialty stores and 1 warehouse membership store. The shopping outlets are booming; there will be more than 6,000 new catering merchants opened in 2023, accounting for more than 16% of the city, and sports and fitness consumption will account for The city's total exceeds 20%; streets such as Jiufeng Street use expropriated and unused land to build "15-minute living circle" community commercial service facilities such as "Xinyi Fresh Market"... Optics Valley has basically formed a "1+1+n" The three-level commercial network system has a total construction area of approximately 1.8 million square meters of large and medium-sized commercial facilities, and the per capita area is approximately 1.5 square meters, reaching the advanced level of domestic cities.
serves as a public wardrobe, a public canteen, a shared gathering hall, and a gathering area for family consumption... The increasing number of commercial service facilities are gradually taking over the food, drink, entertainment and shopping of Optics Valley people.
The construction of "Home City" adds fireworks to Optics Valley
"Home City" is a new goal proposed by relevant departments when the Optics Valley region started planning and building Wuhan New Town.
In February last year, Hubei officially released the "Wuhan New City Plan". According to this plan, Wuhan New City is located in the geographical center of Huanghuang, Wu'e, with a planned area of about 710 square kilometers. More than 50% of the planned area of Wuhan New City is in Optics Valley, and 70% of the area of Optics Valley will be included in Wuhan New City.
What will Optics Valley do when it takes on a new responsibility? The person in charge of Wuhan East Lake High-tech Zone has publicly stated that Optics Valley will give full play to its role as an engine of innovative development and fully promote Wuhan New City to build a "landscape city, home city, and smart city".
What is "Home City"? Some analysts pointed out that its connotation is to promote the urban development model to return from industrial logic to humanistic logic, from production orientation to life orientation, break the original model of "industry, city, people", and explore the development path of "people, city, industry", especially While developing the industry, we will strengthen the ability to optimize the supply of supporting public services such as education, medical care, culture and sports.
Optics Valley has already taken action. In terms of education, Optics Valley implements the strategy of "new schools are famous schools" and builds the Wuhan New City education system from a high starting point. On April 23, East Lake High-tech Zone and Wuhan Foreign Languages School signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly run schools in the Optics Valley area of Wuhan New Town, covering high school, junior high school, primary school and international school projects (the construction of the Wuhan New Town campus started that month). The international school is planned to be in School will officially start in the fall of 2025. At this point, Hubei's high-quality basic education resources have been gathered in Wuhan New City.
Today, there are 55 primary and secondary schools in Optics Valley. Among them, there are 2 schools for children of foreigners, and 14 cooperative schools including Chinese Normal University, Chinese Science Department, and Yucai Department in Wuhan Xincheng area. Optics Valley has initially built a matrix of prestigious schools, and the quality of education has improved year after year, gradually advancing into the first square of Wuhan.
In terms of medical services, Tongji Hospital, Hubei Provincial People's Hospital, Hubei Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Wuhan University Stomatology Hospital, Wuhan Third Hospital, Wuhan Children's Hospital's Optics Valley Campus, and Guanggu People's Hospital and other top tertiary hospitals have been put into use. It may be under construction, and high-quality medical resources will be gathered here at an accelerated pace.
In terms of transportation, Optics Valley has successfully opened 22 microcirculation roads, making the total urban road mileage exceed 1,000 kilometers, ranking first in the city. The country's first urban sky rail, subway line 19 and tram line 13 have also been newly opened here, making travel more convenient for citizens.
The improvement and upgrading of infrastructure and public service resources such as commerce, education, medical care, transportation, etc. will empower Optics Valley’s good life and environment, making the City of Science more splendid and becoming the aspiration and body of talents from all over the world. A livable home wherever you go.
Optics Valley Happiness Index includes "Freedom of Lawn" and more
During holidays when the weather is nice, the shared green space on the southern slope of Optics Valley Erfeishan Park welcomes many citizens to come here to get close to nature. In the tent, on the floor mats, and under the canopy, people were lying or sitting in a daze, reading books, chatting, relaxing, and enjoying the beauty of "poetry and distance".
In Erfeishan Park, in the Optics Valley Ecological Corridor, in Lanting Park, in Yunhu Park, and in Changjiashan Sports Park, the lawns and green spaces activate citizens’ enthusiasm for “micro vacations” and also constitute the “landscape city” of Optics Valley. "Home City" must match the background color.
As of 2023, Optics Valley has built 99 hectares of green space, 45 hectares of flower fields, 12.8 kilometers of greenways, and 10 kilometers of tree-lined roads. The land of Optics Valley is full of green and flowers bloom all year round.
Mr. Zhang, a citizen who often takes his family to "camp" in Erfeishan Park, has worked and settled in Optics Valley for many years. He said that when he has free time, he likes to take his relatives and friends, find a green space, set up a tent and set up a table of delicious food, and everyone sits around the stove and makes tea. It is so comfortable. This is the "freedom of the lawn" at his doorstep that he admires, and it is also part of the happiness index of Optics Valley that he understands.
Optics Valley Happiness Index, in addition to "freedom of lawn", also includes the supply of public services such as commerce, education, medical care, transportation, and culture, as well as the advantages of booming industrial development and a friendly living environment. In other words, if the happiness index is high, it means that there are good jobs, a good environment, a good life, and a good house here.
It is reported that Optics Valley is also creating a friendly living environment, vigorously building rental housing such as talent apartments and youth communities, and new commercial housing, and building a demand-oriented housing development and supply system. Here, graduates who have just started working can choose to rent cozy apartments, people in Optics Valley who have already established a career can buy high-quality commercial housing, and more aborigines can live in modern rebuilt communities.
On March 30, China Resources Land's Guanggu Runfu project opened for the first time, and all 150 units were sold out on the same day. It was the first "sunday sale" in Wuhan's real estate market this year. Because of the matching of supply and demand, this high-quality residence in Optics Valley’s “Home City” has become popular.
The person in charge of the East Lake High-tech Zone said that the strategic position of Wuhan New City and the "World Optics Valley" and the unique, trendy and vigorous development advantages of the East Lake High-tech Zone provide unlimited and broad space for the healthy development of the real estate market.
Advantageous industries introduce more people, and comprehensive and high-quality public services work together to attract more outstanding talents to enter Optics Valley to find employment, start a business, settle down, and stay. They are both innovators and life-savers, realizing "This place of peace of mind is my hometown" ".
(Photo provided by Optics Valley Media Center)
(Source: Jimu News)
