Founder and President, Beijing Capital Recreation District and China Virtual Business Zone (Beijing)

The Beijing Capital Recreation District and China Virtual Business Zone is the biggest Government supported digital media industry development initiative in China. Dr. Liu Yan (David) is the Founder and President of both organizations, as well as CEO of the Beijing Cyber Recreation Development Corporation, making him one of China’s digital elite.

Dr. Liu is a pioneer of an innovative business model connecting virtual and real world via Internet Technology in China.

The Beijing Capital Recreation District is a massive industry development initiative in Beijing promoting digital media industry convergence, and incorporates China’s first Virtual Business Zone.  The CRD is an integrated Digital Entertainment Industry Centre consisting of eight dedicated technology centres: Mobile Game Center, Online Game Center, Animation Production Center, Cyber Information Center, Cyber Finance Center, IP Exchange Center, Cyber Sports Center, and the Talent Training Center. It also has a ‘Games Theme Park’ open to the public.

Dr. Liu has been working on the area of Information Technology, Telecommunication, Internet and Cyber Recreation for more than 12 years. He has been a senior manager in Motorola, CEO of Putian-SmartComm (one of the subsidiaries of POTEVIO group which is the biggest telecommunication manufacturer in China), Senior Vice President of CITTIC 21CN (a HK listed company, H.241 ) and CEO of China Credit Information Technology Corp.

He is also a the Vice Chairman of China Copyright Council; the Vice Chairman of Beijing Cartoon Association; a Senator of Beijing Shi-Jing-Shan District as well as the visiting professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, one of China’s designated “21C Project” universities, which receive preferential support for development into world-class universities in the 21st century.