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Pinggu to build 15-bln-yuan music valley
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Beijing's Pinggu District is building a 15-billion-yuan (US$2.2 billion) music valley to build itself into an international music mecca and become China's premiere base for the music industry. The district government also is offering favorable policies and top-notch facilities to famous domestic and foreign musicians and instrument makers to lure them to the region.
The 10-square-kilometer music valley, which is slated to be completed in 2020, will include instrument production facilities, an education zone and a wireless music base.
The Chinese, especially Beijingers, will have one more place to enjoy their musical life, at inexpensive prices but world-class taste, said Yan Weihong, a spokesperson for the Pinggu government.
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Spokesman Yan Weihong (1st right) of Pinggu District, Beijing. [By Guo Xiaohong / China.org.cn] |
Already boasting a musical background – Dongguancun is the world's largest exporter of violins, producing 300,000 violins annually – Pinggu District seems an appropriate place for a music valley that will aim to satiate Beijing's huge demand for musical consumption. Space in downtown Beijing is becoming increasingly scarce, while the Pinggu government will offer musicians free studio space for their first three years in the music valley, as well as subsidies for maintaining performance facilities.
Instrument makers will also get free office space and factories for their first three years in the music valley. And the government hopes that music academies and production companies will use the music valley for their headquarters.
The government estimates the music valley will create 50,000 jobs and generate between 30 billion and 50 billion yuan a year, Yan said.
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