Night Scene of Shenzhen Window of the World
Shenzhen Window of the World, covering an area of 480,000m2, is situated at the beautiful Shenzhen Bay which was jointly developed by China Travel Service (Holdings) Hong Kong Limited and OCT Group in 1994. As an outstanding brand of Chinese cultural theme park, it is widely regarded as a necessary stop on your Shenzhen trip. The attraction is divided into the World Square, Asia Area, Oceania Area, Europe Area, Africa Area, America Area, World Sculpture Park, and International Street, including more than 130 miniature landscapes of world-famous scenic spots around the world. The tourists can experience various entertainment projects, grand art gala in large square, colorful exotic performance in corresponding scenic spots and colorful themed cultural festival events that all contribute to build an amazing and joyful world for Chinese and foreign tourists.
Figure 1-2: Panorama of Shenzhen Window of the World and Theme Fireworks Show
Shenzhen Window of the World is the first to encapsulate the participatory entertainment with cultural themes, changing tourism resorts from pure sightseeing to comprehensive, interactive entertainment with a dozen projects, such as Crossing Europe, Flying over the United States, Experiencing Speed at Mount Fuji, Amazon Adventure, Pyramid Exploration, Returning to Jurassic, Indian Tribes, Alpine Icy World.
Figure 1-3: Eiffel Tower, Amazon Adventure, and Crossing Europe
Shenzhen Window of the World rolled out the first grand art performance in large square, coming up with a performance "tree" with the square party as the "root", the Caesar Palace Evening Party as the "branch", and the performance at scenic spots as the "leaves" that immerse the tourists in the abundance of world culture and art. It has successively staged large epic evening parties of Carnival World, World Gathering, Dream Journey, Embrace the Future, Create-century, Trans-century, Eternal Love, and Romance between Heaven and Earth since its opening. Their success is phenomenal in the history of Chinese tourism: Trans-century and Eternal Love stand as the IAAPA top award winners—Best Overall Production Award and IAAPA Best Performance Award; Romance between Heaven and Earth are listed in the first National Cultural Tourism Key Projects Directory–Tourism Performance Group by the Ministry of Culture and the National Tourism Administration. On the basis of more than two decades of artistic performances, Shenzhen Window of the World disrupted our visual sense by another contemporary metropolis living theatre—Sunshine All the Way, which has created an epoch of large scale square art performance with the brand-new style of youth, beauty, fashion and elegance, unique expression techniques, magnificent stage presentation, strong visual impact, and exquisite performance skills. Recently, it dedicated a new large music and dance epic—Prosperous Century. The music and dance epic organically integrates dance, opera, martial arts, acrobatics, and other artistic manifestation patterns in the essence of Chinese traditional culture with an open artistic vision and international innovative approaches to show the unique charms of Chinese culture and art in the course of world history thoroughly with multiple sides. It is the third after Create-century and Trans-century in the century epic series, which is another original artwork telling the millennium dream of the Chinese nation and showing the glory of human civilization.
Figure 1-3: Prosperous Century – Grand Han Dynasty
Shenzhen Window of the World also deeply exploits the cultural elements of the attraction in hosting many large events, such as the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2002, the 10th-anniversary party of Hong Kong's return to China in 2007, and co-hosted the closing ceremony of the 26th Summer Universiade. It also holds exotic theme cultural events such as Shenzhen International Beer Festival, Halloween, World Song & Dance Festival, Rock Music Festival, Pop Music Festival, Cherry Blossom Festival, as well as Cultural Aroma Festivals of India, Egypt, Africa, and South America, among which the Netherlands King Festival, Summer Shenzhen International Beer Festival, Autumn Halloween, and Nordic Christmas have become the most famous festival events in Shenzhen tourism market.
"I show you the whole world within one day". Combining culture, entertainment, and leisure in one park, Shenzhen Windows of the World with rich and enthusiastic exotic customs and colorful dynamic interactions has set itself as the preferred attraction for the tourists visiting Shenzhen. Window of the World will be worthy of an outstanding brand of China's theme park to create a more exciting "world" through continuous innovation and development.
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