TenPay Global, Tencent’s cross-border payment platform, has achieved interoperability with PayPal World. This means PayPal users from around the world can now make seamless payments in China, whether by scanning a merchant’s QR code or presenting their own payment code to be scanned. The service will initially launch for U.S. users, with additional markets to be rolled out in phases. On May 26, Brad Krae, a Shenzhen-based American content creator with more than 200,000 followers on TikTok, tested the feature at Melania Town inside Window of the World in Nanshan District. Using his PayPal wallet, he scanned Weixin Pay QR codes at several merchants — and every transaction went through successfully.

On May 15, the event Discover the Beauty of China · Embrace Dynamic Guangdong kicked off in Shenzhen. Diplomats from eight countries visited Shenzhen Bay Culture Square, Talent Park, Tencent Binhai Mansion and Reform and Opening-up Exhibition Hall. They experienced local scenery, advanced technology, and profound development achievements.

On the afternoon of May 12th, Oliver Coppard, Mayor of South Yorkshire, UK, led a 19-member business delegation consisting of government and industry representatives to visit Qianhai, Shenzhen.

Swiss national treasure Muriel Zeiter and Fabian Bloch, known as DUO GIOVIVO, can play eight instruments in a single performance, from piano to the towering 3-to-4-meter alphorn. In 2026, the duo makes their China debut, starting in Shenzhen. On May 13 and 14, they’ll give three concerts in Futian CBD. The tour continues through May 29, with stops in Guangzhou, Foshan, Shanghai, and Beijing.

On May 9, dozens of young poets, sinologists, and writers from 13 Arab countries gathered in Guangzhou for the opening ceremony of the 2026 International Youth Poetry Festival (China-Arab States Session). They then traveled to Shenzhen on May 11 to seek further creative inspiration.

On April 28, the Shenzhen Global City of Design Roundtable Dialogue and Global Designers Conference was held. Representatives from "City of Design" in the Asia-Pacific region, industry experts and designers from Detroit in the U.S., Montreal in Canada, Whangarei in New Zealand, Seoul in South Korea, attended the event. They shared urban design policies and development strategies in the AI era, aiming to form reference paths in multiple dimensions.

Oliver Völckers, a former computer scientist from Germany, now runs BeST Berliner Sensortechnik GmbH, a hardware company focused on developing tactile sensing for robots. Not long ago, Völckers made his first visit to Shenzhen and volunteered to participate in a networking event hosted by the city’s international maker community in Huaqiangbei. He spoke highly of Shenzhen’s innovation ecosystem, noting that it is a city that constantly reinvents itself.

On April 24, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen held its third International Undergraduate Admissions Open Day. Government representatives, principals and teachers from prestigious schools, as well as some international students and their parents from 18 countries attended the event.

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