A video created by Veronica Muraveva from Russia fetched the second prize in the 2023 ICIF Expats Short Video Contest, which was aimed to present the cultural feast to overseas audience via social media platforms and boost its influence.

Priyasha Sharma of India won the third prize in the 2023 ICIF Expats Short Video Contest for a creative video showing her love for Chinese and foreign culture, art and technology to overseas audience on social media platform.

Louay Ali Dib from Syria, with guidance of inheritor of Meiqian paper cutting Wang Ning, created his own paper-cutting works for the first time at a workshop conducted by Wang at Mission Hills Maker in Longhua District on June 3.

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The Italian scientist Matteo Convertino is an expert on ecosystems. He is doing some research on corals in the waters of Shenzhen. He was invited to the livestreaming and observed the spawning with the online audience.

For over two decades, Josh Phillips has been working out for two to three hours a day, mostly at a gym, to stay fit and healthy. When people ask him how he manages to keep up such a routine for so long, he simply says: "That's what I'm used to." "Not only my body is adapted to that, my mind too," the South African explained.

Thanks to a job offer, Iván Arroyo del Castillo came to Shenzhen in 2021. Raised in Mexico after being born in Spain, he has been living in China for 12 years and is currently a chef at the Mandarin Oriental Shenzhen in Futian.