Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, August 20 (Reporter Pan Qing) "Huihai·2020-Cross-Strait E-sports Cultural Festival" was officially launched on August 20 in Shanghai. In the next three months, the Cultural Festival will hold a series of activities, inviting e-sports fans on both sides of the strait to conduct online and offline exchanges and discussions.
The Cross-Strait E-sports Culture Festival is hosted by the Shanghai Cross-Strait Exchange Promotion Association, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the People's Government of Yangpu District, Shanghai, and the Culture and Tourism Bureau of Shanghai Yangpu District.
As the venue of this cultural festival, Yangpu District is making every effort to build Shanghai's "Global E-sports Capital" as an innovative cultural gathering place, and to support the e-sports industry, e-sports industry and e-sports by issuing "23 policies" to promote the development of e-sports industry. The development of competition education and e-sports events. In 2020, Yangpu District will speed up the construction of an e-sports industry gathering place with head development as the front-end, a place for e-sports events carried by professional venues and universities, and an e-sports talent training place based on the collaborative innovation of production and education. E-sports events start place and important venue.
According to reports, the cross-strait e-sports cultural festival consists of e-sports, e-sports host competition, e-sports tide play exhibition, e-sports music show, e-sports course construction and promotion and other activities, which will integrate online virtual activities and offline on-site depth. Experience activities, launch one or two theme activities on both sides of the strait every month. The collective carnival held at the end of November will push the cultural festival to a climax.
The organizer stated that the Cross-Strait E-sports Culture Festival aims to promote in-depth cooperation between cross-strait youths in the vertical field of e-sports, and promote the common development of the cross-strait e-sports industry through exchanges in the fields of cultural creation, digital content, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Xu Bo, secretary-general of the Shanghai E-sports Association, said that e-sports is an emerging sport that is deeply loved by the younger generation. Youths on both sides of the strait have many common languages in this field. Including campus e-sports invitational tournaments, the two sides of the strait have had a lot of interaction in the field of e-sports in recent years.
"Relying on the advantages of online communication and online competitions, cross-strait e-sports exchanges are basically not affected by the epidemic." Xu Bo said that the holding of the cultural festival expands cross-strait e-sports exchanges from competitions to e-sports culture, which can provide cross-strait youth exchanges Provide more topics and a better platform.