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On November 28, the "Chengdu·2023-2024 World E-Sports Event Launch Conference" was held in Chengdu. This conference was guided by the E-sports Working Committee of China Audiovisual and Digital Publishing Association, Sichuan Province Press and Publication Bureau, Sichuan Sports Bureau and Chengdu City People's Government, co-sponsored by Propaganda Department of Chengdu Municipal Party Committee, Chengdu Sports Bureau and Chengdu High-tech Zone Management Committee, and co-organized by Chengdu High-tech Zone Digital Economic Bureau, Tencent Chengdu Company, Sichuan E-sports Association and Chengdu E-sports Association.

At the press conference, five major events, namely, the 2023 King Glory World Champions Cup, the 2023 Cross Fire World Finals (CFS), the 2023 Fifth Personality Professional League Autumn Finals, the 2023 Eternal World Championship Finals and the First Tencent Enlightenment Artificial Intelligence National Open Finals, were released and announced in Chengdu to further promote the high-quality development of Chengdu World Games. Leading guests at all levels, including Propaganda Department of Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, Sichuan Sports Bureau, Chengdu City People's Government, Propaganda Department of Chengdu Municipal Party Committee and Party Working Committee of Chengdu High-tech Zone, attended the conference.

Connect the world and build a "new highland" as the capital of e-sports culture

With the e-sports event listed as a formal sports event by the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, a key step has been taken in the process of e-sports in China and even in the world. Chengdu has successively issued "Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Development of" E-sports +"Industry,""Twenty Policies of Chengdu City to Support the High-quality Development of Sports Industry," and other supporting policies for E-sports industry, clearly proposing to build Chengdu into a "capital of E-sports culture."

Gu Xuebin, member of the Standing Committee of Chengdu Municipal Party Committee and Minister of Propaganda Department of Chengdu Municipal Party Committee, said in his speech at the press conference that Chengdu is one of the earliest cities in China to lay out the e-sports industry, gathering more than 300 game e-sports enterprises, ranking first in game R & D in China, successfully incubating the phenomenon-level cultural creation IP of "King Glory," and a batch of world-class e-sports events were grandly launched in Chengdu, which will certainly inject powerful kinetic energy into Chengdu to build "the capital of e-sports culture" and "a famous city of world competitions."

E-sports industry is becoming a new form of digital sports, a new language for international communication, a new engine for economic growth, and a new business card for urban development. Zhang Xiaoming, deputy secretary-general of the E-sports Working Committee of China Audiovisual and Digital Publishing Association, said that e-sports is a characteristic industry integrating digital economy and real economy, connecting cultural creativity and technological innovation, providing broad development space for cultural creativity and technological innovation. Chengdu is an important e-sports base in China, with strong industrial strength and abundant talent reserves. It is fertile ground for the development of e-sports industry.

▲ Zhang Xiaoming In August 2020, Tencent's first functional headquarters in China-Tencent New Cultural Creation Headquarters was settled in Chengdu, constantly promoting the layout of systematic "culture + science and technology" contents such as animation, e-sports and games in Chengdu, helping to improve the transformation and upgrading of urban business form. Cai Guangzhong, vice president and general manager of Southwest China of Tencent, said that Tencent and the city have always maintained the same frequency and co-prosperity. Under the guidance of the cooperation of Xinwen Chuang Headquarters, Tencent's three high-level competitions landed in Chengdu, hoping to further assist Chengdu in the construction of a famous world sports city. Nowadays, e-sports are booming all over the world, including scientific and technological innovation and cutting-edge applications. We look forward to paying close attention to the development of the industry together with the industry and exploring Chengdu experience.

▲ Cai Guangzhong, in order to accelerate the high-quality development of e-sports industry in Chengdu High-tech Zone and assist Chengdu to build a "capital of e-sports culture," Chengdu High-tech Zone released the Action Plan for Building a World-class E-sports Industry Base (2024-2026)(Draft for Comments) at the press conference. According to the relevant responsible person of Chengdu High-tech Zone Digital Economic Bureau, the action plan will promote the establishment of a world-class e-sports industry base with high-end intensive events, head enterprises gathering, leading technical equipment, rich industrial ecology and professional talents by holding global top e-sports events, introducing and cultivating head enterprises in the e-sports industry, planning and constructing landmark e-sports carriers, supporting the healthy development of e-sports talents, combining policy support, fund encouragement and publicity resources.

Five major events gathered in Chengdu and went to the famous world competition city "New Competition Boundary"

2023 King's Glory World Cup (KIC)

In 2015, the national game "Glory of the King" sprouted and was born in Chengdu, carrying the city culture and heritage gradually to the world, and also became an important business card of e-sports events. At the press conference, Bai Bing, head of the King's Glory World Champions Cup, officially announced that the 2023 King's Glory World Champions Cup Finals will be held in Chengdu. He said that Chengdu is not only the birthplace of the glory of the king, but also the hot land of e-sports. This year's King's Glory World Champions Cup chose to return to the place where it was born to witness this feast together with everyone. This Finals is the highest level international competition of King Glory E-Sports every year, attracting 27 excellent teams from 19 countries and regions around the world to participate. It will be grandly opened in Chengdu Phoenix Mountain Sports Park Comprehensive Gymnasium on December 30 to gather with the world audience.

▲ White Ice 2023 Crossing Firewire World Finals (CFS)

"In 2022, under the cooperation of Xinwen Chuang Headquarters, the cross-fire E-sports Alliance landed in Chengdu, and promoted the improvement of Chengdu E-sports atmosphere by holding a series of high-standard E-sports events." On the spot, Chen Kan, Deputy General Manager of Tencent Entertainment K1 Cooperation Department and Producer of Crossing Firewire Series, announced that the 2023 Crossing Firewire World Finals (CFS) landed in Chengdu. "On the tenth anniversary, we meet CFS Chengdu again," he said. In the past, we walked out of China full of blood and hope, and now we bring glory and opportunity back from the world. We look forward to taking this opportunity to let more people feel the charm of CFS. "It is reported that the group stage of the 2023CFS World Finals will be held in Chengdu VSPO Sports Center from November 29 to December 6, and the finals stage will be held in Chengdu City High-tech Sports Center from December 7 to December 10. This year, 9 teams from 11 countries, totaling more than 60 players, will compete with 3 teams in CFPL for the highest honor of CF E-sports and tens of millions of prizes.

▲ Chen Kan 2023 World Championship Finals (Robbery Cup)

Based on the national style,"Eternal Tribulation" is committed to transmitting the cultural connotation of the event itself and the value of Chinese traditional culture to young people around the world. Zhao Mingyi, general manager of Netease E-sports, said that the World Championship is the official highest-level competition brand, with rich charm such as entertainment, film and television, science and technology, culture, etc. He hoped that this competition with Chengdu could describe the charm of Chinese culture to the audience, construct unique competition cultural colors, and help Chengdu build an E-sports cultural capital. The finals of the 2023 Eternal World Championship are divided into the mainland of China, North America, Europe, Southeast Asia and Asia. Through the global audition and finalists, nearly 20 teams and players from the world's top teams will participate in this global finals to compete for the highest glory in the world. The finals are scheduled to be held in Chengdu Financial City Performing Arts Center from December 16 to 17. The offline finals will last for two days.

▲ Zhao Mingyi 2023 Fifth Personality Professional League Autumn Finals (IVL)

Netease game independently developed hand-game asymmetric confrontation competitive game "fifth personality" is also worth looking forward to. At present, the game has accumulated more than 250 million downloads worldwide, covering 207 countries and regions around the world, and has received high attention and love from foreign players. As the world's first asymmetric game professional league,"Fifth Personality" professional league is an important channel from the mainland of China to "Fifth Personality" COA global competition. The autumn finals of this "Fifth Personality" professional league will be held in Chengdu from December 29 to January 1,2024, injecting new vitality and momentum into the construction of Chengdu's "three cities and three capitals."

The First Tencent Enlightenment Artificial Intelligence National Open Finals

From IBM Deep Blue's victory over Kasparov to AlphaGo's victory over chess player Li Shishi, game scenarios provide the ideal testing ground for AI. In May this year,"Tencent Enlightenment Artificial Intelligence National Open" was based in Chengdu, inviting AI students from colleges and universities all over the country to take the king scene as the competition field and drive the competition with algorithms. A total of 128 universities and scientific research units, 340 + teams and 1000 + students have been registered for the first Open. "Enlightenment Open is a platform for science and technology exchange for AI students in colleges and universities all over the country. We expect that more and more young talents will invest in scientific and technological innovation through digital intelligence competition to jointly promote social progress," said Huang Lanxiao, general manager of Tencent Tianmei L1 Studio and executive producer of King Glory.

▲ Huang Lanxiao explores Chengdu mode and jointly builds a "new brand" for global e-sports industry development

In recent years, the state's vigorous promotion of the integration of digital economy and the real world, the return of offline e-sports events, and the support of e-sports as an official event of the Asian Games have pushed the e-sports industry into the fast lane of development.

E-sports has become a creative industry of world concern, and this upgrade cannot be separated from the progress of science and technology and productivity of the whole society. As an important carrier linking digital economy and real economy, e-sports organically combines advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, 5G, VR / AR with digital content, sports events and other realistic scenes, giving birth to new consumption formats and new business models, promoting technological progress and social development, and putting forward new demands for talent cultivation facing the future of the industry.

▲ At the signing conference, the Management Committee of High-tech Zone signed cooperation contracts with AG E-sports, Netease E-sports, Chengdu Media, Enlightenment and High-tech Digital Science respectively to jointly promote the upstream, middle and downstream collaborative efforts of the E-sports industry chain and jointly assist the development of Chengdu E-sports industry. Tencent Enlightenment also released the "Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Innovation Youth Talent Promotion Plan" and the first batch of cooperative units to the society. It plans to build a practical bridge for national outstanding AI young talents, provide transformation opportunities, including employment, internship or technical subject research opportunities, promote the close combination of young talents and scientific and technological innovation, and promote the joint realization of high-quality transformation of students and high-quality development of the country based on Tencent Enlightenment Artificial Intelligence National Open Competition.

In line with Chengdu's post-Universiade era, Chengdu will adhere to the goal of building a capital of e-sports culture, build a multi-level e-sports competition system, continue to pay attention to the innovation and development, application of science and technology and talent cultivation of e-sports industry, add a "wisdom" force to Chengdu to build a world famous sports city, and jointly explore Chengdu mode and provide Chengdu experience for the development of global e-sports industry together with the industry.

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