First works exchange meeting of calligraphers and painters of Shenzhen, HK and Taiwan launched in Shenzhen
In May, the height of spring when air is filled with nice fragrance of flowers and everywhere is green. The first exchange meeting kicked off at Great Aim Central City, Longcheng sub-district, Longgang district, Shenzhen, which attracted more than 60 artists from Chinese mainland, HK and Taiwan to Longcheng. They exhibited Chinese culture and depicted a beautiful future with ink and painting and expressed their patriotism of "loving China and peace".
The exchange meeting was hosted by Great Aim Central City in Shenzhen and co-organized by International Economic Information Development Center of China News Agency, Federation of Literary and Art Circles of Longgang District, HK Shenzhen Longcheng Townsmen Association and Association of Industry and Commerce (Chamber of Commerce) of Longcheng Sub-district, Longgang. The activity aimed to carry forward Chinese culture and arts, promote friendship and exchange of calligraphy and painting circles of the three regions, deepen the brotherhood of compatriots, promote the flourishing of cultural undertakings of the three regions and compose a chapter of "Chinese dream" together.
At the site of the exchange meeting, more than 20 calligraphers and painters from three regions practiced calligraphy and painting at the site, including Zhao Changqing, a member of CPPCC and a consultant of Chinese Calligraphers Association, Hu Baoli, a council director of Chinese Artists Association, a national first-class fine artist, and vice president of State Ethnic Academy of Painting, Dai Wuguang, a professor with Taiwan National Hsinchu University of Education, Liu Yulou, vice chairman and secretary general of Beijing Flower-and-bird Painting Association, a professor of the academy of fine arts of Tsinghua University and a research consultant of Qi Baishi, Zhang Ge, vice chairman of Heilongjiang Literary Federation and Calligraphers Association, Li Zhucheng, chairman of Artists Association of Zhongshan Guangdong, Ji Guangming, a council director of Chinese Calligraphers Association and vice chairman of Guangdong Calligraphers Association, Bai Yuejin, a disciple of Chinese painting master Lou Shibai, chairman of Chinese Artists Association, and a national first-class fine artist, Yang Zonglin, a disciple of Chinese painting master Lou Shibai, a national first-class fine artist and curator of Dalian Ethnic Art Gallery, Yang Feng, vice chairman of Chinese Calligraphers and Painters Association, a winner of double gold awards of the 66th US Benny Award and chairman of the board of Great Aim Group, Zhao Zhijun, secretary general of Hong Kong Culture and Art Exchange Association and Zhuang Weiqiang, vice chairman of Chinese Calligraphers and Painters Association and a member of HK Calligraphers Association. Their works are rich in contents and diversified in forms, complete in various calligraphy works such as semi-cursive script, cursive script and seal script and painting works such as landscape paintings, figure paintings, flower and bird paintings. The calligraphy and painting works highlight the spirit of the times, the fragrant ink highlights the lively thoughts and soul, and the gorgeous images reflect the common dream of the three regions.
Yang Feng said, the traditional Chinese culture has a brilliant long history and is the root shared by Chinese people as well as an important tie for Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Calligraphy and painting arts are not just visual aesthetics art, but more an important carrier for spreading and conveying the five-thousand-year traditional culture of Chinese people. Great Aim Group sincerely wishes to deepen the mutual understanding and friendship among the three regions and carry forward the culture and arts of Chinese people together by establishing a communication and exchange platform for artists of the three regions. He also said, in the future, Great Aim will continue to host more such kind of calligraphy and painting art exchange activities.
(Profile)
Yang Feng
A Hakka born in Shanwei, Guangdong, he now serves as chairman of the board of Great Aim Group. Since his childhood, Yang has been enthusiastic in calligraphy, photography, writing and music. In 2015, he won double awards "Gold Award for Champion" and "Best Exhibit" in Benny Award, known as Oscar of American printing industry with his artistic performance manifested in his album of photos Pursuing Dream in Wilderness and became the first Chinese to win Benny Award. Now he is a member of Chinese Calligraphers Association, vice chairman of Chinese Calligraphers and Painters Association and a winner of double awards of the 66th US Benny Award.
In 1994, he established Great Aim Enterprise, which was engaged in two main business segments, namely, real estate development and high-tech industry. Yang has always pursued a development strategy of "Developing the Enterprise with Culture". In 2010, he proposed "Navigation for life quality pursuers" as the development philosophy for the group's real estate segment, to introduce world-leading forms of habitation into China, provide life quality pursuers with humanistic residences and pursue a perfect combination of arts and products. He has been honored as a "senior artist among entrepreneurs" and an "excellent entrepreneur among artists";
The works of Yang Feng, Pursuing Dream in Wilderness
The works of Yang Feng, Pursuing Dream in Wilderness
The works of Yang Feng, Pursuing Dream in Wilderness
(Today's Great Aim)
Great Aim takes the lead in the times
Great Aim Group, an international real estate developer with a background of high technology, has infused into real estate high technology and a concept of humanization. Established in 1994, its international headquarters is set in Los Angeles of the US. After developing for 20 years, it has gradually grown into a modernized, diversified and internationalized corporate group.
The group owns around 20 controlled subsidiaries or wholly-owned subsidiaries and is engaged in three business segments, real estate, high-tech, integrated business, with its business scope covers the US, Beijing, HK, Macau, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, etc. and involved in near ten industries such as real estate, optical communication technology, intellectual property operation, settlement and transaction.
The group has made a distinctive achievement in its optical communication high-tech segment. Its U-beacon system, a patented technology of white light communication indoor positioning, will be applied in the commercial center and even residences of the Great Aim Central City in Longgang, to infuse the project with more high-tech concepts.
In 2015, the group marched into Shenzhen with an ambitious deployment in real estate and its advantages in comprehensive urban operation. Its ultimate aim is not just to be a real estate developer, but to be a comprehensive urban operator based on development and renovation of old urban complexes and a navigator to launch and lead a brand new lifestyle.
The project occupies approximately 280,000 ㎡, with a total floor area of approximately 1.50 million ㎡, which comprises diversified types of operation such as high-end residences, villa quality foreign style houses, large commercial facility, landmark office building in Longgang, high-tech R&D office center, star hotel, public-funded school and kindergarten, to meet the placement demands of different groups in an all-round manner.
The project occupies the central area of the Central Town of Longgang, on the southern side of the conjunction of Longgang Avenue and Jixiang Road, close to Jixiang Subway Station, near Longgang River. As a rare urban property with rich natural landscapes at the exit of subway station, it takes the lead in the urban renewal of a 6 million ㎡ riverside CBD and creates a benchmark habitation.
The project will be developed in three phases. The Phase I sits at the conjunction of Longteng Third Road and Caixia Road, occupying 32,000 ㎡ with a total floor area of approximately 103,000 ㎡. Among which, foreign style houses with a Chinese style garden and near water are the only fantastic units sold at present in the market of Longgang. Phase II and III occupy a land of 247,000 ㎡ in total, with a total floor area of 1.42 million ㎡. After its completion, it will set a record for the largest floor area of a single project in the history of Shenzhen.
(About Longcheng)
Cultural charm of Longcheng
The exchange meeting was held in Longcheng, not only because it is where the Great Aim Central City is located, but also because it has accumulated and been equipped with a cultural system and cultural brands to establish a new benchmark of modernized, internationalized and innovative city.
From 2012 it began to focus on building a "civilized sub-district", the people of Longcheng has begun to take firm steps towards the construction of high-end and internationalized culture and civilization. By making great efforts to cultivate a positive culture of morality and rule of law and resisting the decaying, negative and unhealthy cultural inclination, it has achieved the effects of carrying forward the core values of socialism and diversified cultures.
Nowadays, the whole Longcheng has formed a sports culture circle centered on the Universiade Stadium, an education culture circle centered on Shenzhen's international university park, a high-tech industry culture circle centered on Longgang Tian'an New Digital City, a commercial culture circle centered on Vanke Mall, a cultural circle of "civilized communities" represented by Tianjian and Oriental Qinyuan, and a road cultural circle based on Longgang Avenue and Longxiang Avenue...these cultural circles, together with the Animation Creativity Park, Intenrational Music Festival, International Exchange Meeting of Calligraphy and Painting, Hakka Culture Festival, work together to stimulate the new cultural charm of Longcheng and open a new chapter for the "cultural extension eastward" of Shenzhen.