Since the beginning of this year, the city's economy has recovered steadily, and the potential of mass consumption has been gradually released. The picture shows that at the end of the year, there is an endless stream of citizens who come to shop in the downtown business district.
Photo by reporter Sun Boyu.
The "hard core" strength draws a business blueprint, and excellent enterprises help the industry develop steadily. On December 21, the results of the 2023 Xuzhou Business Billboard and the Annual Top Ten Consumption Promotion Contribution Shopping Malls (Stores) sponsored by Xuzhou Press Media Group and guided by the Xuzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce were released. Ten shopping malls (stores), including Xuzhou Shanshan Outlets Plaza and Xuzhou Golden Eagle Pengcheng Plaza Store, were awarded the top ten shopping malls (stores) for consumption promotion contribution of the year.
The selection activity is voted by consumers through the Internet, and then professionally evaluated by the expert review team, which is not only a grand event of Xuzhou's commercial industry, but also an annual business assessment.
Since the beginning of this year, the city's economy has recovered steadily, and the potential of mass consumption has been gradually released. Guided by the needs of the real economy and the requirements of high-quality development, the major shopping malls (stores) not only bring consumers a better shopping experience and atmosphere, but also create a good business environment for the overall improvement of the urban economy and high-quality development.
Through the selection results, it can be seen that the central business districts represented by Golden Eagle and Suning, the new forces represented by Shanshan Outlets and Xinsheng Hongyang Plaza, as well as the old commercial benchmarks such as Wanda Plaza and Huamei Commercial Building have all performed well, showing a commercial picture of a hundred flowers blooming.
The person in charge of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce said that since the beginning of this year, all shopping malls (stores) have made full use of major festival nodes to carry out diversified consumption promotion activities, develop new business models and new formats, actively introduce new stores and first stores, accelerate the release of consumption potential, greatly enhance the city's commercial influence and attractiveness, and contribute to the prosperity and activity of the city's economy. Through this selection, each shopping mall (store) should also combine its own situation to make up for shortcomings, elongate boards, and forge new boards, so as to further strengthen the commercial value of shopping malls (stores) and enhance market competitiveness.
For shopping malls, the selection activities cover six criteria: reputation, performance highlights, service reputation, innovation achievements, benchmarking and outstanding contributions, which is not only an assessment of whether it can effectively boost residents' consumer confidence and promote the development of the consumer market in a year, but also encourages and urges all commercial and trade enterprises to continue to provide consumers with better services in the new year and create better results in the industry.
It's a year of more possibilities for business. I believe that both consumers and shopping malls have more confidence and expectations for 2024. In the view of Meng Fanzhen, general manager of Xuzhou Shanshan Outlets Plaza, this selection is an overall summary of 2023 and a new impetus for the beginning of business in 2024, "The six standards in the selection present the core of the development of the industry, and also set the tone for our work next year. ”
In 2023, under the background of good business development, new commercial centers in our city will also continue to land. In the list of winners, there is no shortage of rising stars, including Xuzhou Xinsheng Hongyang Plaza, which just opened in November.
As a new commercial landmark that attracts the attention of the whole city, Xuzhou Xinsheng Hongyang Plaza has been renovated with the business model of "mall+block" since its opening, and new consumption scenarios and new commercial phenomena continue to emerge, injecting surging momentum into the city's "night economy" with diversified catering, food, life and entertainment methods. Here, new characteristics of consumption and new development trends are presented one after another, showing the new charm of urban commerce.
The holding of the 2023 Xuzhou Business Billboard and the annual top ten consumption promotion contribution shopping malls (stores) selection activities not only shows the "report card" of the city's commerce in this year, but also intuitively reflects that the commercial projects under the framework of urban renewal are injecting a steady stream of new momentum into urban development, and constantly shaping the "good temperament" of urban economic development with commercial "high value". (Reporter Liu Shuting).