A New Year Party, jointly organized by EyeShenzhen and the city of Shenzhen, was held at Lang Lang Music World in Futian District on Jan. 27, to welcome the upcoming Spring Festival and the Year of the Dragon. At the event, Shenzhen Global Communication Ambassadors and other expatriates joined locals in performing piano pieces, singing songs, reciting poetry, and participating in games. Here, we present a video recap of this unforgettable event.

Three Russian artists and seven international students from the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) were treated to a sneak peek of the festive atmosphere ahead of the upcoming Spring Festival holiday through a visit to Mission Hills Resort in Guanlan Subdistrict, Longhua District on Jan. 26. During the tour, participants experienced cultural activities including arranging festive flowers, making dumplings, traditional paper-cutting, tie-dyeing and having a Cantonese-style family reunion dinner.

Political and business representatives from China and Uzbekistan gathered together for in-depth economic and trade exchanges, promoting bilateral investment, and expanding opening up at the Uzbekistan-China Investment Forum in Shenzhen yesterday.

Shenzhen, despite being a young and modern city, boasts its own intangible cultural heritage, some of which dates back more than 1,000 years. With distinctive local features, its intangible cultural heritage, which ranks on either the national, provincial or city level, is a common treasure of Shenzhen residents as well as of humanity. To gain a closer and deeper understanding of Shenzhen's intangible cultural heritage as well as its culture development and transformation, we have produced this "Shifu" series, a series of Chinese-English documentaries that feature Rafael Antonio Saavedra Molina from Venezuela visiting Shenzhen's intangible cultural heritage inheritors who he adores as “师傅” (pronounced "shī fu", skilled craftsmen) and “师父” (also pronounced "shī fu", teachers or mentors).

After spending four and a half years as the project manager of Phase 2 of the Biomedical Enterprise Accelerator project in Pingshan District, José Antonio Vigara Álvarez de Perea was pleasantly surprised by the project’s execution speed and efficiency.

On Jan. 16, students and teachers from the Xinjiang class of Wendeng Normal School in Shandong Province visited the School of Media and Communication at Shenzhen University (SZU). They participated in a practical course on new media literacy at SZU's national-level experimental teaching center for media, where they learned about and experienced basic techniques, equipment, and applications of livestreaming and virtual broadcasting.

A delegation comprising young elites from Indonesia’s political parties and representatives from various sectors, invited by the International Department of the Central Committee of the CPC, arrived in Shenzhen on Friday to start a tour that runs until today. For many members of the delegation, this is their inaugural visit to Shenzhen, and they couldn’t help but be impressed by the city’s achievements in such a short span.

From the novella’s first publication in 1982 to its adaption in 1994 as one of the most classic films in history, “The Shawshank Redemption” has left an indelible impact on countless moviegoers with its insightful portrayal of authority, interests, freedom and hope. The Chinese adaptation of the play “The Shawshank Redemption” had its premiere at Pingshan Theater on Jan. 4 and has begun its nationwide tour.

The Brazil China Meeting, an innovative meeting between leaders, investors and brilliant minds from Brazil and China, was held in Shenzhen on Jan. 10.