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Longgang utilizes APEC platform to enhance industrial partnership with Indonesia

An industrial exchange and cooperation event was held on June 15 at the Longgang District Enterprise Internationalization Service Base in Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong province.This event was part of the district's efforts to capitalize on the opportunities created by the upcoming APEC Economic Leaders Meeting to promote cooperation between Guangdong and Indonesia in the fields of artificial intelligence, healthcare and new energy.Participants shake hands to greet each other at the event.This event, part of the APEC China Year initiative, aimed to leverage the complementary strengths of Guangdong and Indonesia to facilitate a long-term cooperation platform and help Longgang enterprises enter the Indonesian market.During the event, the Shenzhen office of the Guangdong Provincial Trade Promotion Association for Indonesia was officially inaugurated. The Indonesian side announced 49 procurement orders totaling 6 billion yuan ($8.9 billion) covering sectors such as security, energy, mining, fishery, and healthcare. Notably, Longgang's patented electric stove product secured an initial order of 50,000 units, with potential long-term orders reaching 5 million units, valued at approximately 4 billion yuan.Under the backdrop of APEC accelerating regional economic integration, China-Indonesia cooperation is entering a new phase. As a leading industrial district, Longgang is implementing the "All in AI" strategy, attracting numerous key enterprises and innovation platforms in AI, high-end medical devices, and new energy storage.This event successfully established an efficient government-business interface for Guangdong enterprises to explore the Indonesian market, showcasing the significant potential of China's intelligent manufacturing aligning with Indonesia's market needs.

06-16

Dragon boat race boosts cultural, commercial vitality in Longgang

The 2026 Longgang Dragon Boat Invitational kicked off on June 13 with fervor at the Longyuan demonstration section of Longgang River in Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong province. Amid the rain, over 300 athletes from 16 teams from across the globe competed fiercely.The 2026 Longgang Dragon Boat Invitational kicked off on June 13 with fervor at the Longyuan demonstration section of Longgang River in Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong province.The event, a blend of tradition, technology, cultural heritage and commercial activities, highlighted the vibrant urban development of Shenzhen's eastern center.The competition attracted seasoned teams from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and international teams from Singapore, Malaysia, and Russia, turning Longgang River into a distinctive window for cultural exchange during the Dragon Boat Festival. After several intense rounds, Zhuhai Tianma Dragon Boat Team claimed the championship.Zhuhai Tianma Dragon Boat Team claimed the championship.Longyuan Park hosted a unique Dragon Boat Festival market featuring traditional crafts like sugar painting, dough modeling, and tie-dyeing. Activities such as zongzi making and sachet crafting drew large crowds, while Hanfu-clad visitors added a fashionable flair.Technology enhanced the event experience with a new AI-powered smart tour app offering live streaming, intelligent guides, AI consultations, navigation, and shopping perks. This digital approach allowed broader participation and cultural engagement.The dragon boat race is in progress with fervor.The event effectively boosted local commerce by linking with major shopping hubs and providing dedicated shuttle services, transforming cultural and sports event into a driver of economic growth and invigorating the city's commercial landscape.

06-15

Intl talents in Shenzhen's Longgang district celebrate Dragon Boat Festival

More than 30 international talents working in universities, including Shenzhen MSU-BIT University and Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology located in Longgang district of Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong province, along with their families, were invited to Longceng sub-district for a get-together on June 13 to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.International talents experience traditional handicrafts.This event, organized by Longgang talent work bureau and other local authorities, is part of Longcheng's initiative to integrate international talents through traditional Chinese festivals, leveraging the upcoming APEC Economic Leaders Meeting in Shenzhen as an opportunity. It allows participants to explore Longgang's industrial ecosystem and development opportunities, fostering innovation and entrepreneurship among international talents.Longcheng is committed to creating an international talent community, enhancing service systems to provide a welcoming and enabling environment for talent development.International talents sew wormwood sachets stitch by stitch.The event featured visits to the Longgang district Party service center, a Song brocade collage workshop, a tour of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area product center, and traditional sachet making and zongzi tasting. These activities blended cultural experiences with industrial exchange, promoting an open and inclusive atmosphere ahead of the APEC Economic Leaders Meeting and building bridges for international communication.Participants expressed their appreciation for the cultural insights and opportunities for engagement, with many eager to return for future events, feeling a strong sense of belonging and integration in Longcheng.

06-11

Smart elderly care hub launched in Shenzhen's Longgang district

The Smart Senior Care Hub, the first comprehensive smart elderly care flagship space in Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong province, has officially opened in the robotics community in the city's Longgang district.The Smart Senior Care Hub boasts a neat and modern exterior.Jointly developed by the Longgang district civil affairs bureau and Shumyip Health Industry Investment Co, this innovative project integrates exhibition, product launches, and leasing services, marking a significant step in embedding technology-driven elderly care into everyday life.The hub includes four main functional areas: the Life Assistance Zone for everyday convenience, the Health Monitoring Zone for real-time health tracking, the Rehabilitation Zone equipped with professional rehabilitation devices, and the Intelligent Companionship Zone for emotional and entertainment needs.Open to the public without appointments, the hub features smart mobility aids, rehabilitation equipment, health monitoring devices, and age-friendly home products. Ms Yang, a local resident who lives a five-minute walk from the facility, noted a substantial improvement in access to professional elderly care solutions in her community.The interior features user-friendly furniture and smart devices.The hub also offers a platform for tech companies to engage with users. The world's first autonomous elderly care wheelchair made its debut here, featuring radar and high-definition cameras for obstacle avoidance and autonomous navigation.Company representatives highlighted the hub's role in increasing product exposure and gathering user feedback to support continuous product improvement.

06-10

Longgang launches city's 1st innovation consortium

The Shenzhen Low-Altitude Economy Industrial Integration & Innovation Consortium is established at the headquarters of Global Eagle UAV in Longgang district.The Shenzhen Low-Altitude Economy Industrial Integration & Innovation Consortium wasestablished at the headquarters of Global Eagle UAV in Longgang district. The launch marks the start of a new chapter for Shenzhen's low-altitude economy, featuring in-depth coordination between industrial and talent chains and integrated development across the whole industrial chain.Nine leading enterprises jointly set up the consortium to address major challenges such as fragmented industrial resources, a talent supply-demand mismatch and inadequate industry-education integration in the low-altitude economy sector. It will foster a new ecosystem combining manufacturing with human resource services and featuring a full-cycle model spanning manufacturing, vocational training, professional certification and employment.The consortium has rolled out a host of innovative initiatives. Leveraging Global Eagle as a core hub, it will establish databases for talent pools and enterprise recruitment demands and offer business incubation services. It will take the lead in compiling national textbooks and formulating competition standards forsurveying and mapping, fire protection and more. Partnering with universities to develop tailored curricula and opening practical training venues, the consortium will build a demonstration base focusing on both industrial development and employment.Clear quantitative development targets have also been set.The consortium will provide vocational training for over 10,000 low-altitude economy professionals and grant professional certifications to more than 2,000 personnel annually, with the employment rate of certified talent kept above 90 percent. It will also deliver over 1,000 skilled workers to enterprises each year. Moving forward, it will further improve cross-regional employment services, formulate industrial standards, and incubate startups in niche segments such as low-altitude logistics, cultural tourism and plant protection. Local authorities will continue to provide strong support to fuel the high-quality development of Shenzhen's low-altitude economy and advance the integrated growth of human resource services and manufacturing industries.

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Improved Urban FunctionalityLonggang District has significantly accelerated the development of its transportation infrastructure. Phase IV of Metro Line 3 is operational, while Phase II of Line 16 has been fully electrified. Four Phase V metro lines, including the highly anticipated Phase I of Line 17, have been under construction. The surface-level section of the Huizhou–Shenzhen Expressway expansion has been largely completed, greatly enhancing regional connectivity. In addition, 91.7 kilometers of non-motor lanes have been established, and 48 feeder transit routes have been added or upgraded to improve access to the metro network.Public utilities and urban infrastructure see steady improvement. The expansion and advanced treatment upgrade of the Longgang Central Water Plant has been successfully completed. The Siming Substation has been completed and put into operation, and an additional 12 square kilometers of urban area has been up to national sponge-city standards.Longgang District has made remarkable progress in building a smart city. A new model has been launched to integrate district-level data infrastructure with unified data asset. The district's City Information Modeling (CIM) platform has been constructed initially. The "Longzhengtu" mobile app, part of the information management system, has been officially rolled out to improve urban governance efficiency. Longgang District also introduces the “LongXiao-i” AI application matrix and pioneers the establishment of an AI algorithm training base, which is recognized as a model scenario for AI application in Guangdong Province.Longgang continues to lay a solid foundation for public safety and social stability. The district ranks second across Shenzhen in the city’s safety performance. More efforts have been made to have safety inspections in the high-risk sectors, involving the traffic and transportation, construction, and fire prevention. The newly established District Dispute Mediation and Service Center enhances grassroots conflict resolution capabilities. Notably, Longgang District’s innovative case that applies an integrated “Four-Governance” model to address difficulties in resolving marital and family disputes has been recognized as a national model case under the “Fengqiao Experience” of the new era.

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Robot-run restaurant in Longgang turns dining into tech experience

A restaurant where robots handle everything from greeting guests to cooking and serving has become Shenzhen's newest attraction since opening during the May Day holiday in Longgang district.The three welcoming robots at the "WALL-E and EVA" human-robot collaborative restaurant.The "WALL-E and EVA" human-robot collaborative restaurant, located in the world's first robot 6S store, deploys over a dozen robots performing distinct roles.Humanoid robots welcome diners at the entrance and even dance on request, while a robotic chef stir-fries dishes on a programmed routine as human assistants prepare ingredients. Wheeled robots then transport meals to tables, where server robots deliver them to customers."The food tastes especially good because a robot made it," said Shell, a tourist visiting from the United Kingdom.A robot at the "WALL-E and EVA" human-robot collaborative restaurant serves dishes to customers.The restaurant is part of Longgang's broader push to build China's first "embodied intelligent robot demonstration block" in the Bantian GALAXY WORLD area.The district has already established the world's first AI 6S store and robot 6S store, alongside robot retail and unmanned food delivery services, forming an integrated tech-driven consumption ecosystem.The restaurant has been operating at full capacity since its launch. Operators say they aim to develop fully autonomous robot-run dining establishments in the future as the technology matures.

Five “Shenzhen ‘City Walk’ Routes” have been released, two stops of which are located in Longgang District

National Day is just around the corner, together with a 7-day holiday. The National Day holiday is always a hot tourism season in China.Toady, the “Electric Map of Shenzhen ‘City Walk’ Routes” is launched. The Shenzhen ‘City Walk’ Routes are five travelling routes in Shenzhen, each characterized by a certain theme. And, each route consists of ten stops. Through the Electric Map, users could get detailed information and relative travelling guide about the 5 routes.It’s introduced that starting from March 20, a 20-day online event was host by the Cyberspace Administration Office of Shenzhen Municipal Committee of CPC and Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports, and undertaken by Shenzhen Evening News Press, to select the hot tourism sites in Shenzhen. Through the over 12.81 million votes cast by over 11.22 million netizens and the relative specialists’ appraisal , 50 hottest tourism sites were chosen for the 5 themed routes.Five Shenzhen ‘City Walk’ Routes: “Glamorous City” RouteLianhua Hill and Shenzhen Civil Center → Ping An International Finance Centre CBD → Shenzhen Festival Avenue → Civil Study Room → “Two New Cultural Centers” of Shenzhen (New Shenzhen Art Museum and Shenzhen Library -- North Branch) → Window of the World → OCT Harbor → China Resources Tower (nicknamed “Bamboo Shoot”) → Sea World → OH Bay“Mountain - River” RouteShenzhen Dapeng Peninsula International Geological Park → Xi Chong Coastal Tourism Resort → Shenzhen Observatory → the Seaside Walkway along Daxiao Meisha → Wutong Mountain Scenic Area → Shenzhen Futian Mangrove Ecological Park → the Cluster of the “Five Parks” (including Meilinshan Park, Yinhushan Park, Bijiashan Park, Central Park, Lianhua Hill Park) → Tanglang Mountain - Dasha River - Shenzhen Bay Corridor → Shenzhen Talent Park → West Coast Sightseeing Belt“Cyber Shenzhen” RouteHuaqiangbei Walking Street → Gangxia North Hub → Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning → Shenzhen Industrial Exhibition Hall → DJI·“City of Sky” Building → Tencent Building of Binhai → Shenzhen Nanshan Energy Ecological Park → Marisfrolg Building → Jinpifang Art Block → Global Headquarters of BYD“City Exploration” RouteDapeng Ancient Town → Baguang Silver Leaf Tree Wetland Park → Dawan Shiju (Hakka enclosed residence) → Shenzhen Dongmen Old Street → Fishermen Village → Shenzhen Museum → the Great Rescue Memorial Hall of Chinese Cultural Celebrities → Guanlan Ancient Site → Fenghuang Ancient Village → Nantou Ancient Town“City Wandering” RouteHongqiao Park → Shenzhen Futian Seaside Ecological and Sports Park → Xiangmi Park → Shenzhen Women’s and Children’s Building → Mountaintop Restroom in Lianhua Hill Park → Lichi Park → Dafen Oil Painting Village → Longgang Children’s Park → Jiaochangwei → Zhongying StreetDafen Oil Painting Village and Longgang Children’s Park, recommended as two stops of the above routes, are both located in Longgang District of Shenzhen.Detailed address:Dafen Oil Painting Village (being a China’s largest oil painting manufacture and trading base) : Dafen Village, Buji Subdistrict, Longgang District of ShenzhenLonggang Children’s Park (a new children’s park) : in the north side of the intersection of Yanlong Avenue and Aixin Road, in Longcheng Subdistrict, Longgang District of ShenzhenSource of the Chinese-version materials: Shenzhen Evening NewsSome of the pictures are from the internet.Notice:Here, we respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here violates your lawful right, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

Ne-Zha-2-themed graffiti wall in Dafen Oil Painting Village of Longgang District

Ne Zha 2, a Chinese animated film based on China traditional myth, has been a hit since its premiere on Jan. 29 of 2025. As a box-office success, Ne Zha 2 has rocketed to a high place on All-time Global Box Office Chart. Nezha, Aobing, Shen Gongbao, and many other vivid spirits of the animation, are favored by the audience.With great affection, people become keen on the recreation, like painting the figures on walls. Ne-Zha-2-themed graffiti walls appear in many places of the society, including Longgang District of Shenzhen.In Dafen Oil Painting Village, a tourism attraction in Longgang District of Shenzhen, a 3-meter-high wall, on which certain figures of the animation are painted, becomes hot online and attracts a great number of people to take photographs.Address: near Sentry Box No. 4 in Dafen Oil Painting Village or the northern gate of Dafen Oil Painting VillageThe picture is sourced from the internet.Notice: we respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here violates any of your lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

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The district ranks number one among the districts of Shenzhen in terms of the quantity of class-A tertiary hospitals (the hospitals ranked in the first tier of the nation’s medical system), with 7 class-A tertiary hospitals totally, including 4 district-level ones.