What do steel mills and movie magic have in common? In Wuxi, China, the answer is 🔥spectacular! The city’s former industrial giant – once its largest steel mill – now sparkles as the Wuxi National Digital Film Industrial Park, nicknamed 'Hualaiwood' by locals. 🌟
This isn’t your average studio lot. Over 1,200 films and TV series have rolled out of its futuristic soundstages, including global hits like The Wandering Earth (sci-fi fans, unite! 🚀) and the heroic Chinese Doctors. Reporter Zhu Zhu describes it as 'a playground for creatives, where cranes once lifted steel, they now hoist Hollywood-grade lighting rigs.'
💡 Tech alert: Hualaiwood boasts cutting-edge production tools like virtual volumetric capture (think Avatar-level effects 🧊) and AI-driven post-production systems. Next time you binge a historical drama, it might’ve been crafted in this eco-friendly reboot of industrial history!
