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Cultural Blocks
From: Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality
Updated: 2021-10-31 09:10

Huaqiangbei Technology Fashion Pedestrian Street 华强北科技时尚步行街

After careful planning and deployment, Futian District plans to build an innovative and entrepreneurship street with world influence by further integrating innovation resources, stimulating the vitality of business area and comprehensively improving the quality of Huaqiang North's humanistic environment, with focus on three major positioning of “innovation & entrepreneurship”, “technology & fashion” and “cultural tourism” and highlights on the brand effect of Huaqiangbei Road as “China's first electronic street.” The goal is to build a cultural characteristic block with technology and fashion as the theme elements by adopting such measures as constructing “one street, one museum, three cities,” “2D industries in 3D space”, “Ten Views of Huaqiang” and “Four Plans.”

Add: Huaqiangbei Pedestrian Street, Futian District, Shenzhen

Metro: Line 2 or 7 to Huaqiangbei Station

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Shekou Sea World 蛇口海上世界

With a total building area of 1 million square meters, Sea World is deeply rooted in the international fashion coastal culture. Relying on the “connecting spirit” symbolized by “Minghua Cruise” and the two landmarks, the Nyuwa Statue and the Sea World Culture & Arts Center, it is the masterpiece of China Merchants Group in the project of rebuilding a new Shekou with a total investment of 60 billion yuan, integrating the functions of business, leisure and entertainment, catering and shopping, hotel vacation, residence, culture and art. Among them, the Sea World Culture & Arts Center (world-class cultural landmark) was created by the Pritzker prize-winning Japanese designer Fumihiko Maki, selected as one of the 2018 World's Top 100 Destinations by Time Magazine.

The Sea World cultural block, which includes the Nine Landscapes, combines hydrophilic spaces and large-scale water show, the selection of global delicious food, highlighting freedom, tolerance and elegance to create the most creative and dynamic international coastal cultural commercial experience.Since its opening, it has won many industry awards such as the Most Experiential Commercial Real Estate Project, China's Most Influential Commercial Complex, and was named Shenzhen's Cultural Business Card in 2016.

Add: Nanshan District Merchants Street

Metro: Line 2 to Sea World Station 

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Gankeng Hakka Town 甘坑客家小镇

Modeled on ancient Gankeng villages, the OCT Gankeng Hakka Town, which covers an area of 180,000 square meters, explores Hakka culture and revitalizes the villages. By vigorously exploring the new path of “culture + tourism + urbanization” and applying the “IP+VR+AI” model, the OCT Group carries out innovative tech-based cultural business planning. The group has also innovated the “IP Town” model and implemented this model in its flagship Gankeng Hakka Town project. In 2017, the town was rated as a "cultural tourism integration pilot area (base)" by the Ministry of Culture with its “IP Town” model. In 2018, it became the only scenic spot in Shenzhen named as the Guangdong Province Cultural Tourism Integrated Development Demonstration Zone. On May 21, 2018, CCTV's "Focus Report" program featured a special report on the successful practices at Gankeng. In December 2018, it was upgraded to one of the Top 10 Distinctive Cultural Blocks for further development in Shenzhen. The Gankeng Hakka Town has developed into a famous Chinese Hakka cultural town at home and abroad.

Add: Ganli Road, Buji Jihua Street, Longgang District, Shenzhen

Bus: 980, m268, m269, m273, m346, m403, m414 Gankeng Hakka Town Station


Dafen Oil Painting Village 大芬油画村

Located in Dafen Community, Buji Subdistrict, Longgang District, Dafen Oil Painting Village has attracted over 1,800 galleries and art organizations, and about 8,000 workers in the oil painting industry in the core area of only about 0.4 square kilometer. Moreover, totally there are about 20,000 workers in the business if the surrounding communities are included. Dafen is known as a leading oil painting village in China, as well as one of the first “National Demonstration Base of Cultural Industry” in China. In the future, Dafen will continue to adhere to the oil painting industry as the main foundation, and introduce art blocks, tourist towns, art hotels, creative designs and other forms of business, so as to build Dafen into a sales center of national oil painting industry and a well-known international art community.

Add: Dafen Village, Buji Town, Longgang District, Shenzhen

Metro: Line 3 to Dafen Station

Bus: 306, 371, 376, 822, 836, b665, b741, e32, m183, m227, m265, m271, m301, m309, m329, m379, m385, m404, m417, m476, m508, peak line 32, high speed Bus 916, High Express Bus 917 Dafen Oil Painting Village Station


Dawan Ancestral Residence 大万世居 

The Dawan Ancestral Residence, built in 1791, is China’s largest and most completely preserved Hakka-style square compound. In 2002, it was classified as a provincial protected historical site. Over the past few years, the Pingshan District People’s Government has renovated Dawan Ancestral Residence into a cultural base featuring Hakka food, crafts, and cultural and creative products. In addition to existing exhibitions on Hakka culture, new modern art exhibitions have also occasionally been held at the residence, along with bazaars, light shows, workshops and concerts, to attract more visitors to experience Pingshan’s Hakka culture. In 2022, the Pingshan subvenue of the Ninth Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture was held at the Dawan Ancestral Residence

Venue: Dawan Ancestral Residence, 33 Dawan Road, Pingshan District

Metro: Line 14 to Jinlong Station, Exit B

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