Lu Huiling, member of the party group and deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, explained at the “Beijing Cultivating and Building an International Consumer Center City” press conference on December 18 that Beijing has continued to unleash its initial economic potential. Since 2019, Beijing has attracted more than 5,000 first-time stores and cultivated 12 global launch centers. According to monitoring by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics, the overall index of cities cultivating and building international consumer centers in 2024 was 109.9, up 19.6 from the end of 2020. The five dimensional indices of commercial activity, consumer comfort, convenience of access, consumer prosperity, and international popularity index all exceeded 100. Among them, many indicators such as the total number of the world's top 500 enterprises, domestic tourism revenue, total distance of urban rail transit operation, and direct domestic and international flight cities ranked among the top domestic cities. “Beijing accounts for 24 of the top 100 MCN institutions in the country, ranking first in the country in number. The city has nearly 1,600 tax refund stores for overseas travelers to buy and leave the country, with 24 buy-and-return stores. It pioneered the 'City-wide Tax Refund, Multi-Point Operation' model, and set up 6 centralized refund points.” Lo Wai-ling said. Lu Huiling further stated that, standing at the new starting point of the “15th Five-Year Plan”, Beijing will continue to make efforts in five major directions. The first is service quality improvement actions, deepening the construction of a “performing arts capital” and “museum city” to expand new cultural tourism consumption scenarios; second, product renewal actions to support the digital transformation of old brands and constructing a new initial economic matrix; third, business integration actions to develop the silver hair economy and promote the deep integration of cultural, commercial, tourism and sports exhibitions; fourth, carrier upgrading actions to promote key projects such as Universal Studios Phase II to enhance the “dual hub” consumption level; the fifth is ecological optimization actions to improve the foreign-related payment environment and create a safe and convenient consumption atmosphere.

Lu Huiling, member of the party group and deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, explained at the “Beijing Cultivating and Building an International Consumer Center City” press conference on December 18 that Beijing has continued to unleash its initial economic potential. Since 2019, Beijing has attracted more than 5,000 first-time stores and cultivated 12 global launch centers. According to monitoring by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics, the overall index of cities cultivating and building international consumer centers in 2024 was 109.9, up 19.6 from the end of 2020. The five dimensional indices of commercial activity, consumer comfort, convenience of access, consumer prosperity, and international popularity index all exceeded 100. Among them, many indicators such as the total number of the world's top 500 enterprises, domestic tourism revenue, total distance of urban rail transit operation, and direct domestic and international flight cities ranked among the top domestic cities. “Beijing accounts for 24 of the top 100 MCN institutions in the country, ranking first in the country in number. The city has nearly 1,600 tax refund stores for overseas travelers to buy and leave the country, with 24 buy-and-return stores. It pioneered the 'City-wide Tax Refund, Multi-Point Operation' model, and set up 6 centralized refund points.” Lo Wai-ling said. Lu Huiling further stated that, standing at the new starting point of the “15th Five-Year Plan”, Beijing will continue to make efforts in five major directions. The first is service quality improvement actions, deepening the construction of a “performing arts capital” and “museum city” to expand new cultural tourism consumption scenarios; second, product renewal actions to support the digital transformation of old brands and constructing a new initial economic matrix; third, business integration actions to develop the silver hair economy and promote the deep integration of cultural, commercial, tourism and sports exhibitions; fourth, carrier upgrading actions to promote key projects such as Universal Studios Phase II to enhance the “dual hub” consumption level; the fifth is ecological optimization actions to improve the foreign-related payment environment and create a safe and convenient consumption atmosphere.