Program: 91 Hectares Manster Plan

Today China facing the shift in the economies of advanced economies, away from manufacturing and goods-handling and towards service production, particularly into advanced services that handle information. This also coincides with two key global trends: globalization and informationalization. All these trends demand a high degree of immediacy and face-to-face exchange of information, so that strong agglomeration forces operate; all are synergistic, with many key activities – hotels, conference centers and exhibition centers, museums and galleries, advertising – overlapping from one category to another and so operating critical interstitial spaces.

These synergistic requirements create a platform for Haiku New CBD as a multifunctional 21 century capital which should cover Culture, Entertainment and Tourism functions.