Nakasu Island is a very special place. It appears in almost every short photographic film about Fuzhou, but most of the time it is shown on the outside or on the outside, rather than on the inside.
It is said that it isA wealthy businessman spent 200 million Hong Kong dollars to build the "Oriental City That Never Sleeps"., once the scenery was infinite, but now it has become a regrettable unfinished building in the mouth, with a ruined posture, lonely standing in the Minjiang River**.
The fall of the "Venice of the East".
In September 2001, Mr. Zhang, an overseas Chinese in the UK, spent 200 million Hong Kong dollars to build a huge building imitating European classical buildings on Zhongzhou Island, and the architectural shape of the whole island is like a advancing luxury passenger ship.
In the original conception, it wasAn "Oriental Venice" integrating tourism, shopping, food, entertainment and leisure。After the opening of Zhongzhou Island, Zhongzhou Island once attracted tax-free investment around leisure and entertainment, catering and other projects, but in the end, it was all gone.
Until 2006, the "Strait International Garment Wholesale City" settled in. In 2007, it was repositioned as a wholesale market for small commodities, clothing, and curtains, and it took shape and continues to this day, but it is still 108,000 miles away from the original fantasy.
The launch of these projects, the holding of food festivals and other events, and the introduction of entertainment facilities only brought a brief excitement to Nakazu Island, which soon fell silent.
All the shops in this shopping street are closed, and it is very empty. On the other side, the Taijiang CBD proudly stands by the river with a light show, while Zhongzhou Island is like an empty shell, lonely and prosperous in a world of difference, only separated by a river.
Nowadays,Zhongzhou Island is known as "the largest unfinished building in Fuzhou" by the citizens, and the developer Zhang Lixing has long faded out of people's field of vision.
The renovation and upgrading of Zhongzhou Island has been launched
Not so long ago,The implementation map of the overall improvement plan of the core area of the "Heart of the Minjiang River" is on the Internet**, among which, the node construction of the sleepless city on Zhongzhou Island has attracted much attention.
According to the overall improvement plan of the previous **,It has revealed the light show of the sleepless city on Zhongzhou Island, the water feature show above the Min River, and the water curtain show of the Liberation Bridgeand many other node information.
Implementation map of the overall improvement plan for the core area of the "Heart of the Minjiang River" (click to enlarge).
This also made Zhongzhou Island, which had been silent for many years, finally usher in new hope.
Renderings of the renovation and upgrading of Zhongzhou Island.
On January 4, 2022, Cangshan District** announced the 2022 annual work plan, which mentionedThis year, we will promote the construction of major projects such as the city that never sleeps on Zhongzhou Island
2022 Lantern Festival Zhongzhou Island Light Show.
The dilapidated island of Nakasu is about to usher in a new life
In recent years, Fuzhou has focused on the "Heart of the Minjiang River" business upgrading plan, and has been positioned as a provincial capital city meeting room and a national city landmarkThe leading formats include performing arts and entertainment, digital animation, and riverside tourism.
According to the plan, the carrying area of the "Heart of the Minjiang River" is 300 hectares, of which,Zhongzhou Island, which has the reputation of "Pearl of Nantai", is an important node in the construction of the core area of "Heart of the Minjiang River".
In August 2023, the latest "Action Plan for Building Fuzhou Cultural and Creative Corridor to Promote the High-quality Development of Cultural Industries" issued by Fuzhou City also mentions"Intelligently transform the existing business formats of Zhongzhou Island, promote the introduction of digital terminal experience, e-sports industry, etc., and create the country's first 'future digital intelligence new life' model. ”
January 30, 2024The Fuzhou Municipal Resource Planning Bureau publicized the planning and architectural landscape design scheme of the Zhongzhou Island Renovation and Upgrading Project, so that this "Venice of the East", which has been trapped for decades, sees the hope of a new life.
Renderings. The project plans to build a commercial floor, with the main functions of large-scale public performing arts and commerce. On the basis of retention, renovation and demolition, Zhongzhou Island is upright and innovative, adopting the collage design strategy of "symbiosis between the old and the new, harmony and difference", and the design takes the eastern "European style" building and the core element of the Jiefang Bridge "arch" as the prototype, shaping the western creative building of the modern semicircular arch, and forming a civic cultural and leisure square between the new buildings in the west and the reserved buildings in the east with the beams and plates on the upper part of the bridge crossing the island.
This time, Zhongzhou Island once again sorted out the format and rebuilt it, can it rebuild its glory? We'll see.
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