As the first sub venue in the history of ICIF, Dafen Oil painting village has been accompanying the grand event of ICIF for ten years. Art and market are connected here, and talent and wealth are exchanged here. This slogan was put forward during the first ICIF in 2004, and has now become the spokesman of Dafen Oil painting village.

Since then, the streets of Dafen Oil painting village are full of oil painting and reproduction works of art production and processing, with supporting industries such as traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy, craft, carving, picture frame and pigment. The industrial chain of Dafen Oil painting village is gradually complete, with an endless stream of painters and artists, and works of art have zero distance contact with the market for the first time. According to statistics, in the first five years of the ICIF, Dafen Village exported more than 1.2 billion yuan of paintings every year, and about 60% of the world's copied oil paintings purchased from Dafen. In fact, Dafen people's pursuit of original dreams has never stopped.

Dafen only has a narrow space of 0.4 square kilometers, which also makes many artists who have lived here and been immersed for many years run for many years to expand the space. At yesterday's strategy seminar, Chen Keshi, vice president of the school of urban planning and design of Peking University and director of the China Urban Design Research Center of Peking University, asked a question: "what will Dafen look like in another decade?" Chen Keshi suggested that Longgang District should, in combination with the future development trend of Shenzhen, position Dafen as Dafen art city and promote the transformation of the old city within 5 square kilometers around.