The streets of Mandalay will soon be alight with thousands of new lights, and marked with new signs, city officials said.

U Zaw Win, of the Mandalay City Development Committee (MCDC), said the city will install around 10,000 new street lights, which will cost MMK 1.7 billion. MMK 1 billion of that has come from donations by individuals and corporations, according to the Myanmar Times. This statement comes shortly after U Ye Lwin announced the installation of 15,000 new street signs, paid for with MMK 900 million in donations. Around 7200 lamp posts of the proposed 10,000 have already been installed, said MCDC. “Because of the lamp posts, the city has become more beautiful at night, generating more activity and livelihood opportunities for people,” U Kyaw San Myint, another MCDC official, told the Myanmar Times.

The new lights and signs are the latest in a series of infrastructure improvements. In September, years of improvements in digitization and IT infrastructure helped Mandalay win the 2019 Smart City Award from the Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organization. These improvements seem to be boosting the economy. Property values in the city are on the rise, and this year the city saw more tourists than ever, most of them from China.