Guangzhou's Tianhe district recently launched a plan to help build Guangzhou into an international consumption center city in the period by 2025.

According to the plan, Tianhe will optimize and upgrade the facilities in key business circles and introduce first stores, flagship stores and customized stores of domestic and foreign leading brands, making efforts to build Tianhe Road-Zhujiang New Town business circle into a world-class business center.

Available commercial resources in the district's Guangdong Olympic Sports Center business circle, the South China National Botanical Garden-Longdong area, and the core area of the Tianhe Smart City will be integrated to build a new-type characteristic business circle.

Construction of the quarter-hour convenient living circles will also be boosted in the district, introducing time-honored brands and emerging business service brands into communities, which is expected to improve people's lives and boost consumption.

Dynamic Tianhe at night. [Photo/Guangzhou Daily]

A gradient cultivation database will be established for high-quality small and medium-sized enterprises, increasing support for specialized, elaborative, characteristic and innovative enterprises.

Brand activities such as the Guangzhou International Shopping Festival, the Guangzhou International Food Festival, and the Guangzhou Live E-commerce Festival will be carried out to a high standard to boost consumption in the district.

Moreover, Tianhe will cultivate and recognize a number of city-level and district-level night fair pilot areas to create a night consumption gathering area.

The district will further promote the construction of intelligent business circles and smart shops and support the commercial use of new digital technologies in traditional business areas and department stores, boosting the upgrading of consumption.

A bazaar in Tianhe attracts many visitors. [Photo/Guangzhou Daily]