Old Bund to be built as cultural fashion block

During the National Day holiday, a series of evening cultural activities drew a lot of citizens to the Old Bund. The "24-hour bookstore", converted from a container, provided the tourists with books, the World Movie Area showed open-air movies twice a week, and the handmade leather items and jewelries made by students from home and abroad were displayed on five colorful carts.

With the opportunity of the moonlight economic construction, Jiangbei District will make good use of the consumption hotspots in cultural innovation and fashion leisure to build the Old Bund area as an "urban living room", "cultural saloon" and "fashionable business circle" with rich imagination, great attractiveness and unique cultural features. With the opening of the "World Street" in June, the area has accelerated its introduction of the high-scale, high-quality and high-end cultural and innovative industries and the construction of the fashion industry, to demonstration the fashion and innovative ideas of Ningbo. Meanwhile, to improve the business during the day, it has established such display platforms as the cultural evening market, the public welfare fair and the creative markets.

Before long, the Baisha Wharf will be connected with the Old Bund block to realize the docking of the moonlight economy in the two places. Currently, the northward expansion project of the Old bund is under construction, which will be built as a "modern high-end business and cultural corridor" to provide broader space and stronger support for the development of the leisure culture and industry at the Old Bund area. Meanwhile, with the completion of the Greenland Center and the expansion projects of the Old Bund, the business circle covering the Old Bund, the Raffles Plaza and the Greenland Center will take shape soon.

LINK:	http://en.nbwh.gov.cn/art/2015/10/12/art_1325_75162.html...
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