Some events of The 15th National Games of the People’s Republic of China to be held in Longgang District of Shenzhen

06-06,2025

The 12th National Games for Persons with Disabilities & the 9th National Special Olympics Games, the People’s Republic of China, would begin the cycling event (track cycling and road cycling) at Longgang District International Cycling Field and Longkou Reservoir, located in Longgang District, which signifies the beginning of the events of The 15th National Games of the People’s Republic of China to be held in Shenzhen.105 golds are set for the cycling event to be held in Longgang District. Indeed, the district would see many sport events of The 15th National Games, as Shenzhen Universiade Center here has been chosen as a venue in Shenzhen for hosting the National Games.To speak specifically, the men’s football for the under 18 years old and men’s football for the under 20 years old are scheduled to take place, respectively from Oct. 14-25 and Nov. 01-12, at the stadium of Shenzhen Bao’an Sports Center, the stadium of Shenzhen Sports Center, Shenzhen Teen Football Training Base and the stadium of Shenzhen Universiade Center.The swimming events, including the freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly stroke, medlay of swimming, are scheduled for Nov. 10-17 at the natatorium of Shenzhen Universiade Center.The women’s basketball for the under 22 years old would be held from Nov. 08-16 at the stadium of Shenzhen Universiade Center and the stadium of Shenzhen Bay Sports Center.

The 21st ICIF ended on May 26

05-30,2025

The 21st China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (the 21st ICIF) came to an end on May 26. During the five-day event, over 120,000 cultural products were exhibited, with more than 4,000 cultural investment projects presented and negotiated. The 21st ICIF, together with the relevant activities, recorded more than 2.2 million visits in total.About 6,280 government units, cultural institutions and enterprises participated in the 21st ICIF, 265 more than the previous session. The exhibition section named “Cultural and Creative China”, as a major part of the event, occupied about 3,000 square meters, increasing from 1,300 square meters of the previous session. At the “Cultural and Creative China” exhibition, over 100 institutions, enterprises and famed IP units exhibited their cultural and creative products.The 21st ICIF saw the extensive international participation. It reached the historical high in the number of “Belt and Road” participants, global cooperation, and the product categories. It welcomed participants from 65 nations and regions all over the world, more than 50 ones of which were the nations along the Belt and Road. Nations, such as Poland, Austria, Romania, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Egypt, Ghana, Uganda, exhibited their characteristic cultural products at the 21st ICIF.The 21st ICIF featured the AI-themed exhibition section, where over 60 AI enterprises showcased their AI products and the application scenarios.The exhibitions and the relevant experience activities, during the 21st ICIF, stimulated the new momentum for cultural consumption. The 21st ICIF had the distinctive exhibitions, with the themes of intangible cultural heritage, cultural and creative products, game and e-sports, trendy culture, etc. These themed exhibitions helped unleash the consumption potential in the culture, tourism and sports sectors. It is the first time for the ICIFs to establish the international culture trade base of China -- Shenzhen globalization and introduction stage of performing arts. During the 5 days of the 21st ICIF, over 10 stage-art projects and over 50 premium performance projects were introduced and presented, to promote the globalization of the nation’s performing arts.

Results of the dragon boat racing held on May 24

05-29,2025

The dragon boat racing was held along Longgang River (the section from Huilong Bridge to Funing Bridge) on May 24. It attracted 16 teams from the countries like Singapore, Malaysia, and from Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA）and other cities and places of China. Eventually through the competitive races, Guangdong Huangpu Xianghe Dragon Boat Team won the championship, Macao Wuwei Kafei Dragon Boat Team took the second place, and Zhuhai Tianma Dragon Boat Team took the third place.

Congratulations: A college in Longgang District gains the approval to operate as university

05-23,2025

On May 22, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China approved of the promotion of 32 junior colleges to universities.3 colleges in Guangdong Province were permitted to operate as universities, which included the one located in Longgang District, named Shenzhen Institution of Information Technology.Profile of Shenzhen Institution of Information Technology:Shenzhen Institution of Information Technology was founded as a full-time and public college by the People’s Government of Shenzhen Municipality in 2002.It is introduced that it covers a land of about 1387.40 mu (approximately 924933.33 square meters) and boasts a floor area of about 538,700 square meters, with a faculty of 1,348. There are about 15,037 students studying on the campus.It has 54 information-relevant majors, including 20 national-level ones, offering education on integrated circuit, industrial software, artificial intelligence, intelligent manufacturing, unmanned aerial vehicle, etc.Picture of the school (source: the official website of the school)

Longgang District of Shenzhen held the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Development Conference

05-22,2025

Longgang District of Shenzhen held the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Development Conference on May 21. At the conference, Artificial Intelligence (Robotics) Office of Longgang District was inaugurated, which would be the first government office in China that keeps committed to the artificial intelligence and robotics sectors.Longgang District is one of the districts in Shenzhen that gathers various clusters of artificial intelligence enterprises. Over 300 enterprises in the industrial chain are located here, while over 28 artificial intelligence innovation platforms at national, provincial, municipal and district levels, are established here. The district boasts a mighty and solid foundation for the artificial intelligence development.Over the past year, the district establishes the factor-guaranteed mechanism covering the political support, funds, computing power, data, innovation, talents and industrial space, while making every effort to push the development of artificial intelligence industry.Longgang District would strive to carry out the “All in AI” strategy and try to become a birthplace and incubator of new-quality productive forces, with the efforts made to the various aspects, like the top-level design, scientific and technological innovation, scenario application, industrial ecology, talents selection and employment, basic education.The Artificial Intelligence (Robotics) Office of Longgang District inaugurated at the conference, would take charge of the development planning, ecological construction, investment promotion, enterprise services, scenario promotion, safety management, and other works regarding the artificial intelligence and robotics sectors. It would further enhance the guarantee mechanisms for the development of the artificial intelligence and robotics.Besides at the conference were Longgang District Three-Year Plan for Accelerating the Establishment of “AI Longgang” (2025-2027) and Longgang District Three-Year Plan for Developing into a Demonstration District Being Friendly to Embodied Intelligent Robots (2025-2027) released.The People’s Government of Longgang District plans to input 10-billion-yuan-worth orders into the government-invested sectors, such as hospitals, schools, state-owned enterprises, during the upcoming three years, so as to support enterprises’ new AI technologies, products and services through a market-oriented way.Longgang District would rely on Shenzhen (Eastern) Public Artificial Intelligence Service Platform to establish a distributed network of “local + introduced” computing power. And, the district would strive to guarantee commercial and quality computing power for the enterprises, by means of renting and purchasing computing power, seeking cooperation, etc.The district plans to achieve in-depth application of global AI technologies to over 80% of the major industries and establish a nation-level source-open AI community by 2027, carrying out 100 model projects of space-and time-thorough AI application, reaching a over 100 billion yuan’s worth of the industry, and bringing over 1000 robots into application. The district aims to be the nation’s advanced and robot-friendly place where human beings and robots could co-exist harmoniously.The district plans to build a pilot robots’ theater and a pilot robot-themed block, establish six public innovation-powered platforms, and create a variety of model application scenarios. It would accelerate to introduce embodied intelligent robots and the key technologies to the sectors, such as public security, city management, civil service.Longgang District would cooperate with CSDN-- China’s largest IT technology community and service platform, in establishing the “application scenario releasing platform”, to timely publicize Longgang District’s demands for application scenarios, the relevant activities, the application cases and the like , so as to more efficiently have exchanges on the demands and the supplies, and to more concisely match the application scenarios. Longgang District would also enhance the talent cultivation and development, through vigorously introducing world specialized and innovative talents and talent teams, supporting higher-education institutions in setting up embodied intelligent robot and the related majors, and encouraging the enterprises, universities and colleges, and scientific&research institutions to cooperatively develop embodied-intelligent-robot engineers.At the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Development Conference, Longgang District launched the global recruitment programme for hiring AI principals for the primary and secondary schools. “In the future, almost every industry and sector need being integrated with AI. The application of AI in the schools could help to sow the seeds of AI in the students’ heart. That benefits students’ further development.”In the next stage, Longgang District would continuously grasp every change and opportunity to develop artificial intelligence industry and robotic industry, to speed up the development towards a demonstration district for the space- and time-thorough artificial intelligence application, and to be a modern, interesting, business-favorable, livable and quality place.Reference: People Daily OnlineNotice: we respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here infringes any of your lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

A Loong Boat Race to take place along Longgang River (demonstrative reach) in Longgang District

05-13,2025

On May 24, a Loong Boat Race would take place along Longgang River (demonstrative reach), in Longgang District of Shenzhen. 16 teams have been invited to take part in the race. It is not only a sports race, but also a chance to experience the clear water and the pleasant surroundings along Longgang River.Pictures of the previous Loong Boat Races along Longgang RiverMeanwhile, a photography competition on the ecologically-revitalized Longgang River would also be held. Whether foreign or domestic, professional and amateur photographers are all eligible to participate in the photography competition, to record the new appearance of Longgang River and show the natural co-existence through their lens. The selected photographs are scheduled for exhibition from May 24 to 25, after going through the preceding phases: submission (occurring before May 14), primary appraisal (occurring on May 15), final appraisal (occurring from May 16 to 18) and result announcement (occurring on May 20).Pictures of ecologically-beautiful Longgang River and the surroundingsNotice:Some pictures and information above are sourced from the internet. 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.

The 137th China Import and Export Fair closed in Guangzhou

05-09,2025

The 137th China Import and Export Fair got the offline exhibitions terminated on May 05, in Guangzhou of South China’s Guangdong Province.It attracted about 288,900 inbound purchasers from 219 nations and regions and reached a negotiated export volume of 25.44 billion yuan, respectively increasing by 17.3% and 3% from the 135th session held in the previous year, according to the data as of May 04.It was introduced that the emerging markets were the major source of the purchasers of The 137th China Import and Export Fair, 64.9% of which was made up of about 187,500 purchasers from the countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, which presented an increase of 17.4% as compared with the 135th session of the previous year. Besides, about 72,400 purchasers from BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) were present at The 137th China Import and Export Fair, which surged by 24.1%, so were about 64,800 ones from RCEP member countries which surged by 6.9% and about 51,900 ones from Europe and America which surged by 3.4%, in comparison with the 135th session.And 140 industrial and commercial institutions also flocked to The 137th China Import and Export Fair, surging by 17.6% from the 135th session. So did 376 dominant multi-national enterprises, which reached the historical high.The countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative contributed to over 60% of the exports negotiated at The 137th China Import and Export Fair, while traditional markets kept a stable performance.4550,000 pieces of products were exhibited, including 1020,000 new products, 880,000 green and low-carbon products and 320,000 intelligent products.The service-robot-themed exhibitions appeared for the first time at China Import and Export Fairs and became a real hit. 46 advanced robot enterprises of the nation exhibited over 500 types of robots, involving about 60 sub-divisions of the sector. Averagely, the enterprises handled over 300 visits each day.Brief Introduction: China Import and Export Fair originated in 1957, two sessions respectively happening in each spring and autumn. The offline exhibitions of the 137th session closed, but the online exhibition is going on. It is scheduled that the 138th session would occur from Oct. 15 to Nov. 04, in Guangzhou.

Some figures about the May Day holiday

05-06,2025

During the 5-day May Day holiday, China recorded 314 million domestic trips, marking an increase of 6.4% from the previous year, with the tourism spending up 8.0% year on year to 180.269 billion yuan, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.Guangdong Province received estimated 46.082 million visitors during the holiday spanning from May 1 to 5, which increased by 18.7% year on year. The tourism revenue was estimated to hit 29.5 billion yuan, up 20.3% year on year.

2025 National Swimming Championships to take place in Longgang District of Shenzhen (05.17-05.24)

04-30,2025

2025 National Swimming Championships would take place from May 17 to 24, at the Swimming Pool of Shenzhen Universiade Center, in Longgang District of Shenzhen.National Swimming Championships could be said to be a highest-level swimming competition in China. 2025 National Swimming Championships would be hosted by Swimming Administrative Center of the General Administration of Sport of China and China Swimming Association (CSA), and organized by Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports. Shenzhen Municipal Professional Sports Administrative Center would serve as executor of the Championships.The Swimming Championships of this year would be a platform where the top swimming players of the nation compete for the honors, while providing significant references for choosing swimming players to participate in the swimming sport of The 15th National Games of the People’s Republic of China.Shenzhen would persist in the high standards and high-level principles to host the Championships of this year, so as to present an excellent swimming competition.