The commencement ceremony of Yangcheng Evening News' Lingnan digital creativity center recently took place in Guangzhou's Tianhe district. It is the district's first large-scale cultural project after this year's Spring Festival, which fell on Jan 22.

It is expected to promote the high-quality development of the cultural industry in Guangdong province, as well as contribute to building a cultural highland in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The commencement ceremony in Tianhe. [Photo/Yangcheng Evening News]

The digital creativity center will be located in Tianhe's Yangcheng Creative Industrial Park. It will cover a combined floor area of nearly 120,000 square meters. It will consist of 32 floors above ground and two floors underground, spanning a height of 149.95 meters. It is scheduled to have a three-year construction period and to be put into operation in 2026.

The design sketch for the digital creativity center. [Photo/WeChat account: tianhefabu]

Yangcheng Creative Industrial Park has gathered 148 enterprises in cultural and creative industries, of which nine have been listed. Its annual output value exceeds 30 billion yuan ($4.42 billion).