China News Service, Shenzhen, October 17 (Reporter Suo Youwei) With 30 days left before the opening of the 2026 APEC meeting, Shenzhen held the APEC CHINA "Be a good host and welcome APEC" 30-day countdown theme event on October 17, with the theme of "green travel" Driven by "Smooth flow with me", we further advocate the general public and all sectors of society to transform their enthusiasm for welcoming guests into conscious actions and service practices in various industries, and gather Shenzhen's city power to welcome guests and friends from the Asia-Pacific.
The event kicked off with the creative video "One Feather Paints the Asia-Pacific". The roc flaps its wings and bird feathers fly like pens, outlining the fantastic images of 21 economies in the Asia-Pacific, vividly interpreting the concept of an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future.
The “Green Travel, Smooth Travel with Me” initiative was issued at the event site. Photo by Peng Cheng
On October 15, Shenzhen launched a package of measures called "Green Travel, Smooth Travel with Me", which advocates citizens to stop driving private cars and drive less, opens channels for voluntary suspension declarations, encourages working from home, paid annual leave, off-peak travel, and launches point rewards, commemorative car stickers, half-price subways and buses, and discounts at scenic spots. The relevant initiative triggered an enthusiastic response as soon as it was released: more than 20,000 car owners reported to stop driving in just 3 hours, and by the morning of the 17th, the number of applications had exceeded 230,000, becoming a vivid footnote to the national welcome event.
At the 30-day countdown event, representatives of the city's public transportation industry and traffic police issued the "Green Travel, Smooth Travel with Me" initiative to all citizens, calling on everyone to scan the QR code to participate in the "Shenzhen Green Travel Season Application" and strive to be practitioners of green travel, guardians of civilized order, and communicators of new civilized practices. Some citizens at the scene completed the suspension declaration on the spot, and some solemnly wrote in front of the signature wall, responding to the city's initiative with practical actions and claiming the host responsibility - from online response to offline participation, green travel is transforming from an initiative to actual actions of more citizens, and also gives "being a good host" an expression that is closer to daily life.
At the same time, the civilized practice 100-day check-in mini program has simultaneously opened a signature channel, so citizens can sign the civilized initiative by checking in daily. The lightweight and convenient participation method turns "being a good host" from a slogan into a small thing that every citizen can do.
At the event site, 10 industry representatives, including airport service staff, scenic spot service staff, hotel service staff, civilized campus principals, foreign volunteers, community workers, social workers of the New Era Civilization Practice Center, robot community representatives, cultural facility instructors, and foreign building directors, shared their practices and stories about welcoming APEC, demonstrating the spirit of all walks of life in Shenzhen to welcome visitors from all directions with high-quality services.
Event site. Photo by Peng Cheng
A 30-day countdown to APEC CHINA 2026 "Be a good host and welcome APEC" was held at the event. The live video showed the grand signing event at nearly 20 points. Guests at the main venue solemnly signed on the signature device, and relevant images were simultaneously displayed on the big screen on the stage. People carefully wrote on the city-wide signature wall of "Green Travel, Smooth Traffic with Me".
Signature events across the city. Photo by Peng Cheng
It blooms in many places offline and relays simultaneously online. So far, nearly a hundred offline signature points have been established in the city, and the cumulative number of online and offline participants has exceeded 2 million.
At the event site, there were check-in points for "Green Travel, Smooth Travel with Me" application, and signature points for the 30-day countdown to APEC CHINA 2026 "Be a Good Host, Welcome APEC" throughout the city. Works with the theme of "Asia-Pacific Youth Chronicle" created by Chinese and foreign young art creators were exhibited, and a civilized market and other contents were set up to allow citizens to feel the warm atmosphere of welcoming the event through participation, experience and interaction, and promote the theme promotion of welcoming APEC to enter the people and integrate into their lives.
The musical Allegro "Who Should We Send to Hospitality" was performed at the event. In a lively and lively art form, Shenzhen's high-tech power was integrated into the welcome story, allowing all kinds of cutting-edge technologies to "show their magical powers" and demonstrating the vigorous vitality of mutual empowerment between technological innovation and urban development.
"Meet APEC, I am the host" short video solicitation and exhibition activity was launched simultaneously, soliciting short video works on the theme of welcoming APEC from all walks of life, recording the city's expectations from the perspective of national creation, and spreading the voice of the host.
At the event, four Chinese and foreign young art creators and Chen Xiangbo, vice president of the Chinese Meticulous Painting Society and chairman of the Shenzhen Artists Association, took the stage one after another to share the creative story of "I contribute to APEC"; a flash mob video of the themed art works was released simultaneously, integrating the connotation of oriental ink painting with international aesthetics, and outlining an Asia-Pacific picture of mutual learning among civilizations and shared beauty.
