On the afternoon of Oct. 14, the 5th Season of “Discover Nanshan” event series, organized by Nanshan District Foreign Affairs Bureau, was officially launched along with the Technology Trip to Nanshan iPark, Konka, Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base Exhibition Hall and SIC (Shenzhen Bay Intelligence Center). The trip attracted more than 50 international representatives of high-level talents, enterprise senior managers and residents.

Participants pose for a group photo. Photos courtesy of the organizer

In the launching ceremony, participants reviewed the former four seasons of “Discover Nanshan” activities, and three trips of the 5th season were brought out. The 5th season of “Discover Nanshan” is more featured with different themes that help foreigners know more about Nanshan’s beauty in technology, culture and ecology. After the ceremony, the Technology Trip started.

The first destination was Lumi United Technology Co., Ltd, located at Nanshan iPark - the first international knowledge innovation village in China. Participants tried the intelligent products and learned the achievements of the Nanshan’s enterprise on IoT and smart home.

Mohammad Shariful Islam, a researcher of AI from Bangladesh, was interested in Lumi’s products and service. He said his profession was relevant to the technology of Lumi and he learned about this company before this trip. After visiting Lumi, he thought it was really an unicorn company of smart home. During the trip, he got in contact with the company’s staff. He hoped he would have more exchange and cooperation with Lumi in the future.

The participants then visited Konka, the first Sino-foreign joint venture electronic enterprise upon China’s reform and opening up. They learned that with its strategic transformation, it developed four large business groups including the consumer electronics, the industrial park, the PaaS and financial investment. They recognized Konka’s research and development in the high-tech area such as Micro LED, and Semiconductor Optoelectronics.

At the end of the trip, the participants visited Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base Exhibition Hall and knew more about Nanshan’s development, achievements and urban construction. They also went to SIC and overlooked the urban area from the building. Deeply impressed by Nanshan’s international vision, forward thinking and innovative design, participants snapped the amazing skyline vista from SIC.

Bhargav Joshi, a technology company’s staff from India, said: “It was a very insightful tour today. We got to know many innovative and unique products with superior R&D and came to know about the new investments in Shenzhen Bay Area. Thank you very much everyone for organizing this trip and we anticipate for similar trips in the future as well.”

The brand activities of Nanshan - “Discover Nanshan” activities aim to help foreign friends know more about Nanshan, show Nanshan’s new image as an international urban area and attract more international talents. Besides the first event - the Technology Trip which was quite popular with foreigners, Nanshan will organize the Culture Trip and the Green Trip present the charm of culture and ecology.