The Dafen Oil Painting Village, Longgang, Shenzhen, is only a small village with over 300 villagers, actually gathered the artist, the picture labors and the painters come from every place. They draw every kinds of oil painting, sell to Europe and America, and the Dafen Oil Painting Village therefore becomes a well-known "oil painting village". The Dafen Oil Painting Village abuts the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, adjoins Hong Kong, has convenient transportation, and advantaged geographical position. At the end of 1980s, a Hong Kong picture merchant set a factory in the Dafen Oil Painting Village, employed the inland picture labors to paint the oil painting and export to the foreign countries, the business is prosperous.

From that time on, thousand picture labors from every place come to Dafen one after another. The local government noticed the emerging cultural industry, and gave great support, contributed millions to rebuild the environment of the village, constructed the exquisite oil painting street, and supported to establish the specialized market for the oil painting trade, carried on the overall packing and the promotion to this village.

Along with the improvement of the environment and the completion of the oil painting market, Dafen village has attracted more and more painting merchants and picture labors. At the same time, the artists from the inland who are ambitious to pushes the oil painting to the market, also set up studio and the decorated corridor at here, carry on the creation, develop the training, cause the improvement of Dafen, and the artistic atmosphere becomes thicker. Every day, there are painting merchants and visitors from domestics and foreign come to Dafen to wholesale, select and purchase the oil painting.

Now, Dafen oil painting village is worthy for the name "Oil Painting Village" and it has already became a collection of oil painting production, sale, exhibition, training, creation and traveling. There are millions of oil paintings to export to the places such as Europe and America from Dafen every year. "Dafen oil painting" has became a ding-dong brand in oversea business painting market.

Source: ICIF website

Editor: Donald