"I hope more young people would come to look around the museum," says Xu, adding that an annual activity that invites 2,000 or so Hong Kong students to visit the museum will be organized in the following years.

Shimao group also plans to set up more museums, galleries, the cultural resources or tourism towns in cities that boast ample cultural resources.

"By tapping the potential of a city's cultural resources to fuel its cultural development, we can also undertake the layout and expand the bases of Shimao Group's cultural industry," says Xu.