Night dining, night shopping, night entertainment, and night tours—the night economy has stirred up a rich, vibrant "hustle and bustle" in Shenyang during the summer of the Year of the Dragon.

Shenbei New District focuses on issues of public concern and the concerns of residents, actively exploring effective regulatory models for night market food safety. It took the lead in launching a pilot demonstration project for night market food safety at the Shenyang Huaqiang Xingshun Night Market, building consensus among merchants on honest and civilized business practices, combining "regulation + service," and safeguarding the healthy development of the city's "night economy" through food safety and honest operations.

　People-Oriented: Food Safety in the "C Position"

Food is the first necessity of the people, and safety is the first priority of food. Since the Shenyang Huaqiang Xingshun Night Market opened for business, Shenbei New District has continuously strengthened food safety risk prevention and control,压实 the primary responsibility of night market organizers for food safety, and cultivated among vendors the "habit of self-discipline" in honest operations and food safety. On the one hand, the night market has appointed dedicated food safety administrators to conduct daily inspections of key items such as food traceability and certificate/invoice verification, processing area hygiene, and food storage containers, ensuring separation of raw and cooked foods and of dry and wet items, with no sale of expired, spoiled, or counterfeit and inferior food. On the other hand, it has signed food safety commitment letters with each night market catering business entity, formulated and improved emergency response plans for food safety incidents, and strengthened standardized management of night market operators through multiple measures to effectively safeguard consumer safety.

In line with the characteristics of the nighttime economy, a system of "off-hours supervision + key inspections + irregular spot checks" is applied to night market stalls. During important time nodes such as holidays and the summer vacation, as well as during important events such as "PhDs Travel to Shenyang" and marathon races, regulatory resources, frequency, and time periods are scientifically allocated.

Relying on rapid food safety testing technology and third-party rapid testing institutions, Shenbei New District has established a rapid food safety testing room at the Xingshun Night Market to conduct regular rapid testing of high-risk foods. Testing is guaranteed to be completed within 30 minutes with results publicly posted on site, and non-compliant ingredients are immediately sealed and handled to prevent them from re-entering the dining table.

　　Night Market Operations: Honest and Civilized Business as the "Standard"

In night market operations, the worst thing is a "one-off deal." Strengthening the integrity system of the night market food industry and promoting both the self-disciplined management of business entities and the supervisory standardization of market regulation have become the winning formula for ensuring the Xingshun Night Market's booming business and strong supply and demand.

Shenyang Huaqiang Xingshun Night Market continues to intensify inspections related to clear pricing and measurement, achieving scientific pricing, clear price labeling, genuine goods at fair prices, and civilized operations, effectively safeguarding consumer rights. Focusing on creating a complaint-resolution environment that is conversational and accessible, it works to smooth consumer complaint channels. In addition to the 12315 and 12345 platforms and the 24-hour online "Chief Responsibility Officer" of Shenbei market regulation, it has also established a "tripartite mediation" mechanism for night economy consumer disputes involving preliminary mediation by the night market organizer, people's mediation by the food association, and mediation by market regulation. Conflicts and disputes arising from night market consumption are handled immediately and resolved on the spot, comprehensively strengthening consumer rights protection.

Taking the lead in the city to launch the creation of night market demonstration sites, it has formulated the work plan for the food safety demonstration pilot at the Xingshun Night Market in Shenbei New District, defined the "five major measures," and built a night market brand of food safety and honest operations.

　　Cultural and Tourism Integration: Creating a New Xingshun "Landmark"

Safe "eating and drinking" and worry-free "fun and play" are the common pursuits of many tourists visiting Shenyang. Shenbei New District fully leverages the functional roles of departments such as publicity, market regulation, and commerce to assist the night market organizer in in-depth research on product structure, business formats, and cultural background, striving to build the Xingshun Night Market into a "landmark" calling card. In operations, in line with Shenbei New District's positioning as a "youth-friendly block," the night market is developed into an immersive, high-quality, landmark, and themed fashionable friendly block. At the same time, various functional departments provide standardized guidance throughout the process to safeguard the healthy development of Shenbei's night economy.

Shenyang Huaqiang Xingshun Night Market takes the launch of the food safety "You and I Inspect Together" initiative as an important vehicle and questionnaire surveys and random interviews as important means, broadly accepting supervision from district people's congress representatives, CPPCC members, news media, "internet celebrities," and other groups, forming a night market food safety atmosphere of shared concern and co-governance and sharing, boosting the civilized and orderly development of night market operations, and comprehensively painting a beautiful picture of the vigorous development of Shenyang's night economy.