(Economic Observation) Beijing Universal Resort officially opens: In addition to fun, what else will it bring?
China News Service, Beijing, September 20th. Title: Beijing Universal Resort officially opens: In addition to fun, what else will it bring?
China News Agency reporter Wei Xi
On September 20th, the largest Universal Studios project to date-Beijing Universal Resort officially opened.
After 20 years of preparation and construction, the officially opened Beijing Universal Resort brings full Chinese elements, carefully built seven themed scenic spots, 37 ride entertainment facilities and landmark attractions, and 24 entertainment performances...
In addition to fun, what else does Universal Beijing Resort bring?
Tom Williams, Chairman and CEO of Universal Theme Parks and Resorts, called the opening of the park on the 20th the moment of "dreams come true": "I have been looking forward to this day for more than 20 years." Song Yu, the representative of the main investor in the Beijing Universal Resort project, Party Secretary and Chairman of the Beijing Tourism Group, believes that in the process of deep integration of world cultures, the completion and opening of the Beijing Universal Resort will add a different charm to the ancient capital of Beijing. And the charm also allows the advantages of the city's sub-center to be brought into full play.
Most importantly, Beijing Universal Resort will directly promote regional economic development.
Yang Lei, deputy head of the People's Government of Tongzhou District, Beijing, said in an interview before the official opening of the park that the construction and operation of the Universal Resort project directly stimulated regional economic development.
The total investment of the first phase of the project is 35 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), which will drive an increase in GDP of 1.04 billion yuan, which will boost the GDP growth of the city's sub-centers by about 1% every year on average.
The opening of the Universal Resort will also drive the surrounding area to add more than 3,100 transportation, accommodation, catering, cultural, sports and entertainment, and drive 11,000 jobs.
"After the opening of the Universal Resort, the peripheral catering and accommodation areas are expected to generate about 2 billion yuan of overflow consumption each year."
Tongzhou District, Beijing, where Universal Resort is located, also has more commercial and industrial opportunities.
Beijing Universal Resort is currently the largest foreign investment project in the service industry in Beijing, and it is also an important supporting project for the cultural tourism function of Beijing's sub-center.
The Tongzhou Cultural Tourism Zone has completed 53 municipal infrastructure projects with a total investment of 53 billion yuan, including various municipal facilities such as water, electricity, gas, roads, heating, and communications; 33 new municipal roads have been opened and 21.4 kilometers of underground complexes have been built. The pipe corridor occupies nearly half of the city's total length.
Yang Lei said that the Universal Resort will form a strong influence zone with a radius of 5 to 10 kilometers and a joint influence zone of 30 kilometers.
Beijing will use this to accelerate the promotion of cooperation between cultural tourism areas and world-class cultural and technological enterprises and international associations, attracting and cultivating a number of domestic and foreign leading cultural enterprises such as cultural design, animation and games, performing arts and entertainment, film and television production, and accelerate their presence in Beijing. Form a national industrial cluster for integrated development of cultural, tourism and businessmen.
Under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, the resumption of work and production in China's domestic tourism and cultural industry has also been given a "boosting shot".
Dai Bin, director of the China Tourism Research Institute, said that currently 21 travel agencies and platforms have become the official authorized partners of Beijing Universal Resort's tourism channels.
Dai Bin believes that the implementation of Beijing Universal Resort has extended the tourism and leisure industry chain and made the industrial ecology more complete. It will greatly promote and stimulate the development of the entire tourism industry ecology.
With the iteration of Beijing's theme parks, it will also promote the development of the entire tourism industry and surrounding industries, and cultivate a large number of scientific and technological talents, cultural and creative talents, and commercial operation talents.
Miao Lewen, president and general manager of Beijing International Resort’s theme park and resort management branch, said: The Chinese government had anticipated many years ago that with the development of the Chinese economy and the continuous growth of middle-income people, the cultural and tourism industry will surely develop Further development.
It can be said that Beijing Universal Resort officially landed in Beijing and seized the opportunity of economic development.
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