People-Oriented Human Settlements: Lighting Restores Urban Humanistic Care | Shenzhen Futian Slow Traffic System Lighting Upgrade Project

According to Wikipedia, humanistic care refers to the attention to and understanding of human nature. It starts from people’s own needs and desires, meets their demands, safeguards their interests, and thereby achieves basic respect for human rights. The concept of "emphasizing humanistic care" was first put forward in the report to the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, reflecting the state’s care for its people and society’s compassion for individuals.

Contemporary cities are mostly planned around car-oriented development, and people-centered living environments have often been overlooked amid rapid urbanization. How can we solve urban traffic congestion? How should we encourage public transportation and low-carbon, green mobility? Humanistic care in cities means meeting people’s work and daily living needs while improving living environments, emphasizing the construction of spiritual civilization in human settlements, and making cities warmer and more caring.

How can we achieve harmonious development among people, cities and society? As the most extensive public infrastructure in urban areas, outdoor lighting, on the basis of satisfying functional illumination, integrates landscape and spiritual attributes. It enhances people’s spiritual enjoyment through visual experience, builds a healthy, aesthetic and high-quality lighting system, improves the living environment, makes low-carbon travel more pleasant, creates a stylish and modern atmosphere, and truly implements urban humanistic care. As a demonstration zone of socialism with Chinese characteristics, Shenzhen plays an important exemplary role in building a people-oriented living environment and embodying humanistic care in urban development.

As the comprehensive solution provider for the Slow Traffic System Lighting Upgrade Project in Futian District, Shenzhen, Sanxing Lighting is committed to restoring humanistic care to the city with professional lighting solutions — Slow Traffic System Lighting Upgrade Project in Futian District, Shenzhen (Shennan Avenue, Nonglin Road, Shangmeilin Park)

According to statistics from relevant local authorities, the total daily travel volume in Futian Central District is approximately 930,000 passenger trips, of which around 112,000 trips are made via slow-speed modes, accounting for 12% of all trips — far below the citywide average of 56%.

Among these, daily bicycle trips total about 28,000, representing only 3% of total travel. For short-distance trips under 5 kilometers, slow-speed traffic handles just 33% of the volume. Furthermore, 20% of residents report discomfort with the current slow-traffic system and lack willingness to choose low-carbon travel.

The term “slow-traffic system” refers to a mobility framework that prioritizes slow-speed modes such as walking and cycling as core components of urban transportation. By integrating landscape lighting and a healthy light environment, we aim to create a continuous and comfortable slow-speed leisure system, enhance residents’ sensory experience, and encourage the public to adopt low-carbon and green travel behaviors.

In accordance with Shenzhen Comprehensive Strategies for Traffic Congestion Management and Slow Traffic System Plan for Futian Central District and Surrounding Areas, Futian District has been designated as a pilot area to rebuild the urban slow traffic system. This initiative aims to optimize and adjust the urban travel structure, alleviate traffic pressure, and embody people-oriented care in urban development.

Against the priority of functional lighting, Sanxing Lighting’s landscape courtyard lamp Bollard Lighting features a modern, minimalist design. Its pole is die-cast from aluminum alloy with a solid, premium texture, and the light source boasts a sleek, stylish form that complies with international aesthetic design principles.It complements Shenzhen as a modern mega-city, fully highlighting the openness and dynamism of this special economic zone.

The slow-traffic system serves not only commuting purposes but also social functions, providing residents with spaces for exercise, leisure and recreation.

With landscape lighting, the upgraded slow-traffic system allows this vibrant city to slow down at night after a busy day, letting residents calm their minds and embrace life. Such is the outdoor lighting system by Samsung Lighting: it brings people-oriented living environments to cities, delivers genuine urban humanistic care, improves the quality of urban outdoor lighting, makes cities warmer and more caring, and illuminates the path of smart cities.