At the end of 2023, the reporter came to the location of Qingyuan Water City, which is located in the core of Qingxu County, and walked along the East Lake, where workers are laying road bricks, and many buildings have completed structural capping, covering an area of more than 1,600 acres and a total investment of 2 billion yuan, the Qingyuan Water City landscape project and ancient building repair project have been basically completed. Recently, a seminar on the construction and development of Qingyuan Water City was held, and experts and scholars brainstormed and put forward constructive suggestions. The first batch of 20 intending enterprises such as Shanxi Sunshine Industrial Group, Xinjiang International Trade City, and Liuweizhai Industrial Co., Ltd. officially signed the contract.
Outside the city, Qingshan City, Inner Lake, lotus flowers, thousands of willows, Taifen scenery is less color, only Qingyuan into the drawing. Qingxu is a rare "Jiangnan water town" in the northern cities. In 2021, the Qingxu County Party Committee and the county will plan from a high starting point, with the development concept of "development in protection and protection in development", and decide to build Qingyuan Water City within the old city. After preliminary consultation, conception, planning, requisition and demolition, project bidding and other preparatory work, on June 9, 2022, the Qingyuan Water City project started in a centralized manner.
With the functional positioning of "waterfront commercial complex and water city that never sleeps", and the theme of "culture, business and tourism", the Qingyuan Water City project covers 7 types of business formats, including famous and high-quality catering, flavor snacks, special tasting, high-end entertainment, theme culture, leisure slow life and immersive experience, including Spring Commercial Block, European Town Commercial Block, Changluohou Silk Road Cultural Commercial Block, Shilou Water Street Commercial Block, Shilou North Street Intangible Cultural Heritage Time-honored Brand Block, Caishi Street High-tech Commercial Block, Fish Street Commercial Block, Theme Park Commercial Complex, Shanxi Cultural Tourism Vocational University Modern Cultural Tourism Industry College 9 sections. According to the relevant person in charge of the county, the project adopts the forms of arch bridges, simply supported stone slab bridges, oblique wooden bridges, covered bridges, pavilion bridges, etc., and realizes the connection of four lotus ponds and East Lake through the construction of five landscape bridges. The bridge is not only a landmark to guide tourists, but also a part of the landscape, where visitors can stand on the bridge and overlook the scenery and enjoy a different scenery of the water city.
The 136-meter-high sightseeing and entertainment Ferris wheel is a highlight of Qingyuan Water City, combining holographic projection, naked-eye 3D and other visual light and shadow technologies to present a spatial experience of "going to the sky and entering the sea", and is expected to become a check-in destination for young people in the future. Jia Yunfeng, one of the top ten communicators of China's smart economy and a well-known city brand planner, said that the youth market is becoming a "nuclear flashpoint" for new consumption, and the construction of youth-friendly cities is of great significance for the high-quality development of the cultural and tourism industry. To build the brand of Qingyuan Water City, we should focus on food, night economy, literature and art, cultural creativity, exhibition and performance and other fields to achieve high localization and a strong sense of experience. It is understood that a number of new consumption landmarks such as the urban cultural IP indoor theme park, the comprehensive aquarium, and the "eat all over Shanxi" commercial street have been included in the planning and construction. (Lu Wenyan) Shanxi**.