With Livat Shanghai achieving nearly full occupancy, Cloud Nine Shopping Center maintaining its "evergreen" popularity for over two decades, and The Place frequently going viral for its "quality companionship" concept, Changning's commercial complexes are firing on all cylinders in the age of e-commerce. Behind the robust performance of the physical economy lies a synergistic "two-way commitment" between high-quality commercial operations and dedicated government services.

 Tapping into the pulse of consumption 

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Since opening over a year ago, Livat Shanghai has demonstrated strong momentum in its "first-store economy," which continues to evolve. First stores and concept stores now account for 71 percent of its tenants. Rooted in its positioning of deep integration across the culture, commerce, sports, and exhibition spectrum, the mall hosts year-round immersive and highly interactive IP special exhibitions, creative pop-up stores, and seasonal themed events. It has created spaces like the "Create Hub" and the rooftop playground—open, welcoming, and participatory venues that continuously offer consumers fresh experiences. With child-friendly amenities like the Livat baby care service, dedicated children's restrooms, accessibility features, wheelchair rental, and smart parking, every visitor feels meticulous care, respect, and inclusion. A special highlight is the "Que Yi Qiang Qiang" charity café, which provides employment support for people with special needs, creating a point of connection with customers and fostering shared values and emotional resonance.

Actively practicing sustainable development, Livat Shanghai has launched the "Livat Green Power" mini-program, using green rewards to encourage customers to adopt eco-friendly lifestyles. The mall already operates on 100 percent renewable energy and has implemented sustainable projects like rainwater harvesting and rooftop greening. With Nordic roots firmly planted in local soil, Livat Shanghai consistently stays attuned to the pulse of public consumption. Adhering to a people-oriented philosophy, it collaborates with IKEA to build a sustainable development platform, jointly launching a dual-membership system. To date, Livat Shanghai has amassed over 900,000 members, and the mall's overall occupancy rate is nearing full capacity—impressive figures that tell a compelling growth story.

 Deepening experiential innovation 

As consumer demands become increasingly diverse, deepening experiential innovation is imperative. Leveraging their distinct positioning and characteristics, major commercial hubs in Changning are embarking on paths of transformation, ensuring residents always find something new to explore.

Located in the Zhongshan Park commercial circle, Cloud Nine has evolved from its early days as a city landmark into an integrated urban life center combining shopping, trendy entertainment, dining, and leisure. It embodies the warmth of coexisting with the city while brimming with continuously renewed vitality. Notably, Cloud Nine has completely revamped its facade, expanded and upgraded its IP trendsetter play area, presenting a fresh face that keeps pace with the city. It deeply explores nearby popular tourist attractions, encouraging visitors to stay longer, book accommodations, and explore. It has introduced a dual-drive model of online traffic conversion plus offline scene experience, building a multi-level, interconnected traffic attraction system. It promotes consumption conversion through attracting customers with dining and driving purchases with meals, creating all-day consumption scenes for nightlife leisure. It focuses on trending sectors such as artificial intelligence, IP trendsetter economy, and pet economy, continuously increasing the proportion of related business formats.

Since its opening in 2005, Cloud Nine Shopping Center has been affectionately called the "evergreen mall" by residents. Currently, Cloud Nine hosts over 600 brands covering all categories, with average daily foot traffic exceeding 200,000. The mall's store occupancy rate has consistently remained above 98 percent year after year, and its annual number of newly introduced first stores ranks among the highest in the city. In 2025, Cloud Nine achieved annual sales of 13.5 billion yuan (US$1.95 billion).

Turning attention to The Place, located in the heart of the Hongqiao-Gubei commercial hub, this international urban complex developed by Hong Kong's Nan Fung Group centers on the concept of "quality companionship," precisely serving urban elites and young families. Furthermore, based on its "SEWIT" sustainability framework, it actively fulfills social responsibilities by partnering with charitable organizations and environmental pioneers, continuously advancing the quality of urban life.

In 2025, a pivotal year marking its tenth anniversary, The Place completed a conceptual upgrade. While deepening its "quality companionship" commerce foundation, it introduced a "family playground" spatial concept, further strengthening its scene proposition of "playful new experiences, companionship without limits." It continuously strives to create warmer, more interesting, and growth-oriented urban living spaces.

Today, The Place brings together over 320 internationally renowned brands, offering a rich and diverse mix of business formats. This includes curated international fashion retail brands, over 100 global dining options to satisfy every palate, more than 20 specialized children's play and early education centers fostering parent-child growth spaces, as well as cutting-edge 3C digital products, new energy vehicles, a premium supermarket, a cinema and entertainment, home aesthetics, and beauty and fitness—a curated selection of lifestyle brands.

 Consolidating the foundation, shaping the future 

The robust development of the physical economy owes much to the speed and warmth of Changning's business services. Before the opening of Livat Shanghai, Changning issued the nation's first comprehensive license for a wholly foreign-owned shopping center, integrating permits for public venue health safety, fire safety inspection for occupancy and operation, and other items. This gave Livat Shanghai greater confidence in its local development. Simultaneously, representative enterprises in the cinema, gaming, entertainment, and dining sectors also received consolidated industry licenses.

To precisely empower Cloud Nine's business development, Changning has opened a green channel with concierge services and streamlined licensing for new brands, providing full-cycle policy guidance and resource connections. It offers one-on-one dedicated services to tenants eligible for policy subsidies. Concurrently, it assists the commercial district in planning distinctive new events, conducting comprehensive media promotion through diverse online and offline channels to achieve full coverage. Through meticulous business services, it revitalizes the commercial district, continuously driving up consumption capacity.

Currently, The Place is continuously strengthening the symbiotic connection between people, space, city, and nature, joining hands with consumers to build a new paradigm of quality living. Changning actively explores pathways for government-enterprise collaboration by building platforms and integrating resources, forming a synergy with corporate investment and operation efforts, ensuring that when enterprises call, services respond.

Where refinement meets vibrant local life, Changning continues to revitalize new drivers of consumption. Several upcoming new commercial-office complexes are set to inject new scenes and connotations into community convenience and quality consumption. Among them, Crystal Bridge, built on the core concepts of green, smart, and interconnected, seamlessly integrates Grade A office space, quality commercial areas, sky gardens, and an open-air theater. Shanghai A.F.A is committed to creating a "city of arts and enjoyment," blending lifestyle shopping, business office space, arts and cultural activities, and a green park. Its pioneering ROJO Arts and Culture Space has become a favorite among residents, and the A.F.A shopping center is also slated to open subsequently.

The 15th Five-Year Plan period is crucial for Changning to fundamentally build itself into an internationally influential premium urban district. Moving forward, Changning will further expand domestic demand and boost consumption. This includes enriching the supply of self-fulfillment consumption, cultural consumption, and digital consumption; cultivating and developing event-driven economy, youth economy, and silver economy; optimizing the implementation of policies for trading in old consumer goods for new ones; deepening the linkage between culture, tourism, commerce, sports, exhibitions, and green spaces to activate ticket-based economy; and implementing plans to promote inbound tourism, creating inbound consumption-friendly business districts.