Qingdao will roll out measures with focus on 11 key areas, including service consumption, cultural tourism consumption, sports consumption and MICE consumption, create a package of policies featuring “1+11” , look to foster stronger synergy among policies and move faster to build an international consumption central city, in accordance with the newly-released implementation plan for boosting consumption.

Qingdao will prioritize facilitating the upgrading of merchandise consumption, boosting online consumption, improving the quality of service consumption, stepping up the cultivation of new-type consumption, launching a broad range of new scenarios for consumption, making the consumption environment increasingly good, and shoring up consumption sentiment to roll out 30 key measures. Sports consumption can be taken for instance. Qingdao will host more quality sports events, do a better job in running professional sport games, including more than 80 Chinese Super League (CSL), Chinese Football League (CFL) and Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) games, in an aim to enhance the influence of sports economy in Qingdao and stimulate consumption among audiences watching games. Qingdao plans to scale up running events, and introduce fashionable sports and outdoor sports events. Furthermore, Qingdao will accelerate the construction of sports facilities, create new sports scenarios, and support the construction of low-altitude flight, motor-sport and camping sites in an effort to emerge as a preferred destination for outdoor sports in China.  (Ding Qianqian)

The Qingdao Taidong Tourism and Leisure Block, which boasts multiple scenarios for consumption, appeals to many tourists. By Wang Lei