From June 22 to 23, the third session of the "Stage Art Salon" hosted by the Shandong Stage Art Institute was successfully held at the Baihua Theatre in Jinan. The event was co-organized by the Shandong Academy of Arts and the Shandong Stage Art Institute, with the Shandong Lü Opera Theatre as co-organizer, academic support from the China Institute of Stage Design, and Yajiang Photoelectric participating as a supporting organization throughout.

Three Strategic Directions Empowering Shandong's Arts and Culture

In his address, Yajiang Photoelectric General Manager Alex Huang aligned closely with Shandong Province's 15th Five-Year Plan for cultural development, outlining three key directions for Yajiang's deepened engagement in Shandong: First, supporting the upgrading of aging professional theatre lighting systems across the province to address public cultural infrastructure gaps. Second, developing customized professional lighting solutions tailored to the unique characteristics of local opera forms such as Lü Opera, empowering the "Bravo Shandong" brand. Third, deeply serving key projects along the Yellow River, Grand Canal, and Great Wall National Cultural Parks as well as cultural tourism experience corridors, using light and shadow technology to polish the "Friendly Shandong" cultural tourism brand.

"Grounded in cultural confidence, we remain committed to our core mission: stage lighting that serves the performer and serves the production. Through restrained yet precisely adapted professional lighting, we empower stage narrative and safeguard the essence of art with domestically manufactured performance equipment," Huang stated.

▲ Alex Huang , Vice Chairman of CETA, Director of Guangzhou Office, and General Manager of Guangzhou Yajiang Photoelectric Equipment Co., Ltd., delivers his address

Aligned with Shandong's overallstrategic plan for high-quality cultural and cultural-tourism development under the 15th Five-Year Plan and actively responding to the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism's work directives, Yajiang Photoelectric will deepen strategic cooperation with the Shandong Stage Art Institute and major provincial arts troupes, focusing on three directions to precisely empower the development of Qilu arts and culture: First, assisting in the upgrading and renovation of aging professional theatre lighting systems across the province, addressing public cultural venue hardware gaps, strengthening the province's stage art infrastructure, and serving the public cultural service quality improvement initiative. Second, rooted in the unique development needs of Shandong opera, customizing professional lighting solutions around the artistic characteristics of local forms such as Lü Opera, empowering the "Bravo Shandong" brand and supporting Qilu's fine arts creations to scale new artistic heights. Third, deeply serving key projects along the province's Yellow River, Grand Canal, and Great Wall National Cultural Parks and various cultural tourism experience corridors, comprehensively empowering new cultural-tourism performance formats, using light and shadow technology to advance deep cultural-tourism integration and polishing the "Friendly Shandong" cultural tourism brand.

Leveraging the independent innovation advantages of domestically manufactured performance equipment, we will empower the living heritage of Qilu culture with hardcore technology, support the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional culture, and contribute Yajiang's industrial strength to Shandong's goal of becoming a cultural powerhouse under the 15th Five-Year Plan and promoting high-quality development of the stage arts.

Making Technology Serve Opera, Not Show Off

▲Leo Huang , Domestic Sales Director of Guangzhou Yajiang Photoelectric Equipment Co., Ltd.

Yajiang Photoelectric Domestic Marketing Director Leo Huang delivered a presentation titled "Technology-Powered Lighting for Opera Masterpieces," sharing Yajiang's four decades of technical expertise and practical experience in the field of Chinese opera lighting.

Addressing the color inconsistency challenges caused bybatch-based procurement of fixtures across opera troupes, Yajiang's self-developed CCS5.0 full-chain digital color management system controls color coordinate accuracy within ±0.003, achieving consistent color across batches and across theatre productions.

Targeting the industry pain point of traditional cyclorama lights being "fixed and unable to cut light spots," Yajiang collaborated with renowned lighting designer Zhou Zhengping to co-develop the S-one moving-head cyclorama cutter, which has been successfully deployed in major national productions including the Sichuan opera "Dreaming Back to Dongpo" (Dreaming Back to Dongpo), the Yue opera "Bright Moon, Clear Spring" (Bright Moon, Clear Spring), and the Cantonese opera "The Finest Daughter's Fragrance" (The Finest Daughter's Fragrance), earning three national patents.

▲ 18th Wenhua Grand Award Winner: "Dreaming Back to Dongpo" (Dreaming Back to Dongpo)

Sichuan Opera Theatre & Sichuan Vocational College of Art

Artistic Director: Chen Zhilin (Two-time Plum Blossom Award · Wenhua Performance Award) | Director: Zha Lifang

Lighting Design: Zhou Zhengping

▲ Shaoxing Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe: "Bright Moon, Clear Spring" (Bright Moon, Clear Spring)

Director: Zhang Manjun | Lighting Design: Zhou Zhengping

▲ Cantonese Opera "The Finest Daughter's Fragrance" (The Finest Daughter's Fragrance) | Director: Zhang Manjun | Stage Design: Ji Qiao | Lighting Design: Xing Xin

▲ Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Theatre: Youth Yue Opera "The Purple Hairpin" (The Purple Hairpin)

Director: Jiang Yao | Stage Design: Ding Bihui | Lighting Design: Qiao Teng

Costume & Makeup Design: Yang Sunshuo

▲ Liaocheng Shandong Bangzi Theatre: "The Magistrate of Yanggu" (The Magistrate of Yanggu)

Executive Producer: Zhang Yuchen | Director: Li Yongzhi | Lighting Design: Wei Tao

▲ Poverty Alleviation Modern Opera "The Promise" (The Promise)

Director: Wu Xiaohua | Artistic Director: Chai Xinji | Lighting Design: Zhang Wei, Ma Yunlong

To meet the creative demands ofreal-and-surreal scene transitions in Chinese opera, Yajiang custom-built the NW10 Spectral Stripping Light for lighting designer Xiao Lihe, showcased brilliantly in the blockbuster Yue opera "My Grand View Garden" . The production's first run of 58 performances generated over 78 million RMB in box office revenue, surpassed 10 billion online impressions, and drove over 360 million RMB inperipheral cultural tourism spending, becoming a benchmark case for how opera lighting empowers cultural tourism.

▲ Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Theatre: "My Grand View Garden"

Playwright: Luo Huaizhen | Director: Xu Jun

Starring: Chen Lijun, Li Yunxiao

Lighting Design: Xiao Lihe

▲ Zhejiang Vocational Academy of Art: New Performance Space Musical "Set Off Now" (Set Off Now)

Director: Huang Dingli | Stage Design: Xu Dingwei

Lighting Design: Xu Dandan | Costume & Makeup Design: Zhu Liang

▲ Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre: "Private Lives" (Private Lives)

Director: Luo Xi

Stage Design: Shen Li

Lighting Design: Zhu Yushuang

In the professionalprofile fixture category, Huang Lin introduced Yajiang's NeptuneFour-in-One series. The entire lineup features full-spectrum light sources, supports infinite X-axis rotation and infinite cutting systems, and is equipped with active dehumidification to withstand the humidity of both theatre and outdoor touring environments. The flagship 2000W full-color RGBALC moving-headprofile fixture delivers powerful penetration with its ultra-narrow 3.5° beam angle, precisely cutting light paths at the 2026 Badminton Asia Championships, successfully solving the challenge of long-distance dynamic positioning in large venues.

▲ 2026 Badminton Asia Championships

International Event Core Sports Presentation (Stage & Lighting): Luo Zhiwen

▲ Shandong Lü Opera Art Preservation and Heritage Center: "Strange Tales · Scholar Ye" (Strange Tales·Scholar Ye)

Chief Producer: Yu Jiannan | Director: Song Huiling

Chief Stage Designer: Zhang Ning | Stage Designer: Gong Shaofei

Lighting Design: Lu Xufeng

To conclude his presentation, Huang Lin shared Yajiang'sstrategic plan in the laser light source field. Sinceforward-looking investing in 2019, Yajiang has now built a complete laser productlineup spanning 120W to 650W. In the cultural tourism production "Clear Streams and Rivers" (Clear Streams & Rivers), Yajiang laser fixtures have operated for nearly four years without needing light source replacement,accumulating performing over 300 shows, welcoming more than 700,000 visitors, and generating over 80 million RMB in revenue. At the extreme desert environment of Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring, laser fixtures have delivered over 500 stable performances.

▲ Landscape Musical: "Clear Streams and Rivers" (Clear Streams & Rivers)

▲ Mingsha Mountain · Crescent Spring: Ten-Thousand-Person Starry Sky Concert

From collaborating with frontline creators to overcome technical challenges, to deeply cultivating the fertile ground of Qilu opera, Yajiang Photoelectric hasalways practiced "upholding tradition while innovating"—never using technology to show off, but always serving artistic expression.