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2022 National Cultural Arts Festival from November 25th to 27th, 2022---the 2022 GBA Public Culture And Tourism Products Sourcing Fair was held in city cultural center of Greater Bay Area, grandly opened in City Cultural Museum. It was co sponsored by several national units. It was a grand exhibition gathering the cultural and tourism industries in the Greater Bay Area.

As an important value low-lying city in the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, Dongguan is the 15th city in China with a GDP of more than one trillion Chinese Yuan and a population of more than 10 million. The Cultural Talent Fair of the Greater Bay Area is a new beginning for accelerating the construction of a strong cultural city and jointly build a humanistic bay area.

This Cultural Talent Fair is held in a diversified, flexible and long-term way of "online+offline", "inside+outside", "exhibition+activities", "communication+services", gathering cultural, sports and tourism enterprises and institutions in the city cluster of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area to show you the unique cultural customs of the Greater Bay Area.

It is worth mentioning that this year's Talent Fair closely follows the trend of the times, with the full use of scientific and technological enabling elements, combined with 5G, VR (virtual reality), cloud rendering and other technologies, to build an online metaverse virtual exhibition hall. The cloud exhibition hall takes the shape of Dongguan Cultural Museum as the prototype, just like a metaverse "cultural aircraft carrier" carrying science, technology and culture. With the momentum and imagination of aircraft carrier going to sea, it "carries" the city into the construction of world-class city clusters in the Greater Bay Area.

Show the new business form of the city in the future

Create a new way of playing in the era of science and technology

The best way to get to know a city is to immerse yourself in life and culture. At the fair, there are not only  the cross-border flash mob "Meet Cantonese Opera", which integrates opera and Hip-Hop, but also the theatrical performances such as Cantonese opera, Chaozhou opera and Western Qin Opera, which mark the Greater Bay Area drama culture, and other theme areas and formats showing the exclusive cultural characteristics of the Greater Bay Area.

In addition, the literary fair appeared a number of high quality technology enterprises. As we all know, Dongguan is a famous international manufacturing city. In recent years, Songshan Lake Science City has strided towards becoming a science city with global influence. With the vigorous development of science and technology innovation ecology, the Greater Bay Area has revealed its strong advantages in science and technology innovation, and many outstanding enterprises based in the Bay Area have gradually emerged in various fields. The high-quality enterprises or institutions in this fair, such as city cultural center and Vanyee, have all created new ways in the era of science and technology while adhering to their cultural origin and original aspiration.

Vanyee's booth No. 27 in Exhibition Area A of this fair, it attracted a large number of visitors as well as municipal leaders and guests with a unique steampunk mechanical themed style booth design, two "robots" wearing steampunk mechanical style costumes. In fact, the two "robots" are based on a stunt show of characters from the show Awakening Adam in the Fantasy Valley of OCT fantasy resort in Xiangyang, Hubei Province, The stunt show features are with several “ world’s first” theme, such as the world's only movable "giant robot" stage, the world's only "steampunk" style mechanical theater, the world's first stunt show with "machines and people", and many other "world's first" scientific and technological innovation highlights, which innovated the high quality and high level of China's original high-tech themed performance. Unbeknownst to many visitors, the stunt, which has won several national and international awards, and it was co-produced by Vanyee, a company in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Although the three-day fair carnival has come to an end, a new era of cultural confidence and technological innovation in the Greater Bay Area has arrived. It is believed that under the leadership of this "never ending" fair, more and more cultural enterprises and technological innovation enterprises in the Greater Bay Area have sprung up, carrying the light of the Greater Bay Area.