City colors record the gradual traces of urban development, and more importantly, they document people's pursuit of enhancing their quality of life. In this grand discussion on urban colors, our newspaper collaborated with the Municipal Planning Bureau to launch a city color survey questionnaire starting from April 25th, which received enthusiastic participation from the citizens.
By 5 PM on May 3rd, we had collected a total of 187 valid questionnaires through online responses and street random surveys. Among the participants, 37.5% were male and 62.5% were female, covering all age groups, with about 72% born in the 1980s. The proportion of locals and outsiders was roughly equal, and the majority of participants had a bachelor's degree.
In the questionnaire, when asked whether Wenzhou needed to set a dominant tone, 67% of the respondents believed it was necessary, with 36% suggesting green tones and 33% suggesting warm gray tones.
Relevant personnel from the Municipal Planning Bureau analyzed that the simultaneous prominence of green tones and warm gray tones as the preferred colors for urban impressions in the minds of citizens could be attributed to two main reasons: First, our city is located amidst lush green mountains and waters, and in recent years, we have continuously increased our efforts in greening to build a livable green environment, resulting in an annual increase in urban green space. This has made the originally "concrete jungle"-dwelling urbanites have a more direct impression of green. Second, the warm gray tones give urbanites a sense of stability and harmony, echoing the blue tiles and white walls of traditional Wenzhou residential houses, expressing the inner longing of citizens for a harmonious city. Additionally, the surveyed individuals also hoped that public facilities in the city would be green (26%) and light blue (11%), and buses would be light blue (24%) and green (19%). Such preferences clearly complement their psychological attachment to the city's color impressions.