The 20th China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (ICIF) was held in Shenzhen from May 23rd to May 27th. 12 culture-oriented companies from Qingdao made their appearance in the Shandong exhibition area, and more than 20 demonstration businesses for copyright protection from Qingdao attended the exhibition themed “Copyright Facilitates High-quality Urban Development”.

In the Shandong exhibition area, the 12 culture-oriented companies from Qingdao put on display a number of items, embodying the comprehensive strength of Shandong Province’s cultural sector. In the booth of Goldon, a Qingdao-company specialized in digital innovation, Wei Xiao, its product manager, operated a mobile phone while explaining to audiences about Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) on the history of ancient seas. The program resorted to AIGC technology to resuscitate bizarre creatures that are introduced in The Classic of Mountains and Seas. Audiences could interact via simple gestures with these fantastic creatures they painted to see how modern science and technology could vitalize culture. As a master enterprise on the cultural tourism industry chain of Qingdao, Goldon has showcased a number of its latest products on digitally-enabled technology.

In the Qingdao area of the exhibition themed “Copyright Protection Facilitates High-quality Urban Development”, Link Culture presented its intelligent experience program in which audiences just need to stand in front of a screen to instantly turn into virtual “digital persons” based on their images to visit landmark sites in Qingdao including the May Fourth Square, Zhanqiao Pier and Laoshan Mountain.

With the participation of more than 6,000 Chinese exhibitors via both online and offline channels, this year’s cultural industries fair has chalked up new record highs in terms of the exhibition scale, the number of buyers, the attendance of industry-leading companies and the degree of internationalization, highlighting in a vivid way China’s latest efforts to unleash new productive forces in the cultural sector. (Ma Xiaoting)

The program, in which audiences can instantly turn into virtual “digital persons”, finds enormous favor with foreign visitors.

Culture-oriented companies from Qingdao showcase their digitally enabled interactive experience programs.