The China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industry Fair (ICIF, also known as the Cultural Fair) is the world's first exhibition hall with full coverage of 5G signals. Advanced IT infrastructure and conditions will not only add strong impetus to the informatization services of the Cultural Fair but also bring more intelligent experiences to the audience.

As a national-level fair with high standards, large scale, and significant influence in the cultural industry sector, the Cultural Fair, hailed as "China's First Exhibition of Cultural Industry", will utilize the international first-class standards of the exhibition space and facilities at the Shenzhen International Convention and Exhibition Center.

This year's exhibition area is planned to expand from 120,000 square meters to 180,000 square meters, an increase of 50%. The professional exhibition area will increase from 60,000 square meters to 120,000 square meters, doubling in size. The number of participating units online and offline will increase from 3,600 to around 6,000, an increase of 67%. The number of countries and regions participating, exhibiting, and purchasing will increase from 50 to 60, an increase of 20%; the number of visiting, exhibiting, and purchasing countries and regions reaches 108; the international exhibition area increases from 3,000 square meters to 20,000 square meters; the number of overseas buyers increases from 20,000 to 30,000. The proportion of business entities' exhibition area accounts for more than 75%.

This year's Cultural Fair features 9 exhibition halls, including 3 comprehensive halls and 6 specialized halls, namely, International Cultural Trade Exhibition, Intangible Cultural Heritage · Time-honored Brands · Fine Arts Exhibition, Smart Broadcasting · Film Industry · Digital Publishing Exhibition, Animation Games Esports Exhibition, Cultural Tourism Integration · Cultural Consumption Exhibition, Greater Bay Area Cultural Industry Innovation Exhibition, Comprehensive Cultural Industry Exhibition, Art · Fashion · Design · Playful Exhibition. Each exhibition hall has an exhibition area of 20,000 square meters.

This year's exhibition is a milestone event in the history of the Cultural Fair. The China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industry Fair (ICIF) will accelerate its transformation and upgrading, highlight transaction service functions, comprehensively enhance the levels of internationalization, marketization, specialization, and digitalization, and strengthen transaction functions. It will focus on the cultural digitization strategy, improve the interactivity and participation of the exhibition, further expand the scale of the exhibition, optimize its structure, enrich its content, and improve its quality. It will innovate service mechanisms and strive to achieve new characteristics, new highlights, and new achievements.