China News Service, Shenzhen, November 11 (Reporter Cai Minjie) The 2026 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Meeting Week News Center was opened in Shenzhen, Guangdong on the 11th. The news center with a total working area of 15,000 square meters will provide news service guarantees for nearly 5,000 Chinese and foreign registered journalists.
From November 18th to 19th, the 33rd APEC Leaders’ Informal Meeting will be held in Shenzhen. The last Senior Officials' Meeting of APEC's "Year of China", the APEC Business Advisory Council meeting, the APEC Business Leaders' Summit and other supporting activities will also be held during the 2026 APEC Leaders' Meeting Week.
The press center is an important part of hosting international events. The News Center is located in Hall 2 of the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center (Futian). It has functional areas such as a comprehensive service area, media work area, technical support area, press conference hall, and reporters’ home service area. It will provide journalists with services such as radio and television technology, media acquisition and editing intelligence, and other services.
When reporters walked into the press center on the 11th, the theme art installation "Asia-Pacific Sail" was particularly eye-catching, implying that economies in the Asia-Pacific work together to sail forward together.
The public work area has approximately 700 standardized workstations, which can meet the needs of intensive reporting during the conference week. Digitalization is a major feature of the news center. The first Hongmeng smart studio in mainland China is installed here, equipped with XR virtual recording, 4K ultra-high-definition signal transmission, and online intelligent acquisition and editing tools to help reporters quickly edit and produce in multiple languages, greatly improving the efficiency of publishing.
In the past, reporters had to switch back and forth between several systems to check schedules, find materials, write, edit, and translate. Nowadays, the underlying capabilities of the large language model and the news center system are aggregated in the same conversation interface. Zhang Shaowei, senior architect of Tencent Cloud Smart Media, said that this service supports more than 10 languages. When reporters state their needs in natural language, they can access official materials and official caliber. From finding materials, drafting to multi-lingual delivery, everything is done in one interface.
In the cultural experience area, Chinese and foreign journalists can experience projects such as paper-cutting, Xiangyun yarn, and Chaozhou embroidery, as well as taste Guangdong Dancong tea, Yingde black tea, and Zijin cicada tea.
The exhibition area also displays relevant overseas Chinese approval files of 21 APEC member economies. The exhibits take the 21 APEC member economies as the core and radiate to many places, restoring the global cross-border banking and trust network of two-way flow of overseas Chinese approval and return approval. The modern non-governmental banking and trust network was an early exploration of Asia-Pacific interconnection; the spirit of China Unicom carried by the century-old overseas Chinese batch is in line with the vision of APEC regional cooperation.
According to reports, during the conference week, the News Center will successively hold many activities such as city visits.
