An exclusive journey to Tonino Lamborghini's headquarters immersed global media, creators and partners in the Italian design culture and bold lifestyle vision behind the limited-edition smartphone.
BOLOGNA, Italy, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Italy has long been known for its distinctive approach to craftsmanship and industrial design, where function, creativity and character come together. That same spirit can be seen in the TECNO POVA 8 Pro 5G Tonino Lamborghini Limited Edition.
To explore the history, culture and elegant way of life that have shaped Tonino Lamborghini's design vision and inspired TECNO POVA 8 Pro 5G Tonino Lamborghini Limited Edition, TECNO and Tonino Lamborghini jointly welcomed approximately thirty media representatives, creators and business partners from around the world to Bologna for an exclusive brand immersion journey.
Under the theme "Where Boldness Begins," the journey brought guests closer to the Italian roots of Tonino Lamborghini and how those influences come through in its collaboration with TECNO POVA. Through the brand immersion activities, a garden welcome event, an on-site product unveiling and hands-on use throughout the visit, guests explored how the limited edition translates Tonino Lamborghini's distinctive design language and bold lifestyle attitude into a contemporary mobile experience.
Discovering the roots of Italian boldness at Palazzo del Vignola, home to Tonino Lamborghini
Bologna served as the perfect setting for the journey. Known for its rich traditions in architecture, food and manufacturing, the city reflects the close relationship between creativity and everyday life that has long shaped Italian design. Its artistic heritage, specialist craftsmanship and long tradition of manufacturing have helped shape an approach to design where function and personality are closely intertwined. Within this tradition, engineering design becomes a form of storytelling, with shape, materials, color and craftsmanship carrying character and attitude beyond mere function.
A visit to Tonino Lamborghini's headquarters at the historic Palazzo del Vignola gave guests a closer look at the brand's history and the way its design language has evolved across different aspects of lifestyle. For more than four decades, Tonino Lamborghini has drawn on its Italian heritage and mechanical inspiration to create products with a strong sense of character. Power, the signature Tonino Lamborghini black-and-red palette, and engineering-inspired aesthetics recur throughout the brand's world, reflecting a belief that design can be an expression of individuality as much as it is of utility. This philosophy finds a natural connection with TECNO POVA, which brings together youthful energy and unconventional design centered on self-expression.
Later in the afternoon, guests gathered for the unveiling of the TECNO POVA 8 Pro 5G Tonino Lamborghini Limited Edition, surrounded by Tonino Lamborghini design works that reflected the brand's distinctive aesthetic. The setting offered a natural context for exploring how those visual codes and lifestyle values have been reinterpreted through POVA.
Sharing the heritage and creative principles behind the brand, Mr. Tonino Lamborghini, Founder and President, said: "For me, design tells a story rooted in my Italian culture and craftsmanship. This collaboration brings that bold, unmistakable identity into a new technological form, allowing young users to express their individuality. I'm honored to host the launch here at my headquarters to better express and share the identity that characterize my brand since 1981."
"By bringing guests to Italy, we wanted them to experience firsthand where the inspiration behind this product comes from and what brings our two brands together," said Laury Bai, CMO of TECNO. "Together, we are bringing Tonino Lamborghini's distinctive design language and bold lifestyle attitude into POVA's youthful identity, combining technology, aesthetics and self-expression in a new mobile experience."
Bringing Italian design into every detail
The limited edition translates this shared vision into a design language that is immediately recognizable. For Tonino Lamborghini, luxury is something to feel and experience, not shown off, and that spirit is reflected in the phone's design. Its black-and-red palette establishes a bold visual identity, while the Pulse Line adds a sense of movement across the rear panel. The Signature Shield and dual-layer stacking process further bring Tonino Lamborghini's mechanical and engineering-inspired aesthetics into the phone, making it a distinctive expression of character and individuality.
A dual-layer rear cover and internal mirror structures create a layered sense of depth, producing dynamic visual effects as the phone moves. The Alive Matrix Display introduces a more contemporary digital expression through a custom "L" signature effect, while the customized interface extends the same visual language from the exterior into the software experience.
The collaboration carries Tonino Lamborghini's engineered design language and bold spirit across the phone's visual details, materials, customized interface and accessories, extending the collaboration beyond the exterior design alone.
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Where boldness begins: TECNO POVA explores the Italian inspiration behind its Tonino Lamborghini limited edition
Where boldness begins: TECNO POVA explores the Italian inspiration behind its Tonino Lamborghini limited edition
Where boldness begins: TECNO POVA explores the Italian inspiration behind its Tonino Lamborghini limited edition
KUNMING, China, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from China Report ASEAN:
A group of Indonesian rural officials arrived in China on September 9 for a week-long study tour to Kunming, Xishuangbanna, and other parts of Yunnan Province as part of the 2026 Indonesian Rural Officials Training Program, also known as the sixth "Village Heads Class." The program is giving participants a close-up look at China's experience in rural revitalization, grassroots governance, distinctive local industry development, and efforts to benefit farmers and boost rural incomes.
Hosted by the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia and organized by Yunnan Minzu University, this program brought together more than 20 Indonesian village officials and relevant staff. The opening and welcome ceremony drew officials from relevant Chinese and Indonesian departments, faculty and student representatives from Yunnan Minzu University, and media representatives, including those from CICG Asia-Pacific.
Wang Xiangang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Yunnan Provincial People's Government, said Yunnan—once a key battleground in China's fight against poverty—has marked a historic milestone by eradicating absolute poverty. The province has bolstered safeguards against a return to poverty, refined mechanisms that connect farmers with industry and share development benefits with them, advanced highland agriculture with distinctive local features, and built labor service brands that help rural workers find stable employment. It has also sent numerous village-based work teams, upgraded rural infrastructure and living conditions, and cultivated rural long-stay tourism. Together, these efforts have provided Yunnan with extensive experience in rural development. Today, the province is the world's leading flower producer, its coffee, blueberry, and avocado industries are flourishing, and its agricultural exports have long outpaced those of other western provinces and regions in China.
Wang Xiangang noted that Yunnan and Indonesia enjoy deep historical ties: Yunnan is the birthplace of the great Chinese navigator Zheng He. Friendly exchanges between the two sides—and people-to-people exchanges in particular—have gained strong momentum. In science and technology, Yunnan helped build Indonesia's first waste gasification power plant and deepened cooperation on vaccines and coffee breeding. In agriculture, the two sides partnered on an organic rice project that has significantly raised local grain output, with follow-up projects on photovoltaic lighting and organic farming upgrades in the pipeline. Overall, bilateral cooperation rests on a solid foundation and has produced fruitful results, with broad prospects ahead.
Ruan Chaoqi, Party Secretary of Yunnan Minzu University and Director of Yunnan Training Base for Ethnic Minority Cadres, expressed his hope that the program will help Indonesian participants strengthen their governance capacity and overall competence—and, in turn, contribute more to the comprehensive strategic mutual trust between China and Indonesia. Such people-to-people exchanges and experience-sharing, he noted, will bolster connectivity, deepen cultural exchange, and bring the two peoples closer, creating more opportunities for high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. On behalf of Yunnan Minzu University, he also hoped that more Indonesian officials and young students would choose Yunnan for study and exchange, so that the two sides can learn from each other and grow together.
Indonesia has more than 80,000 villages, each with its own resource endowments. Mulyadin Malik, Head of the Agency for Development and Information at Indonesia's Ministry of Villages and Development of Disadvantaged Regions, said the Golden Indonesia 2045 Vision positions villages as key players in economic development, and Indonesia has rolled out 12 village action plans. Under a multi-stakeholder mechanism, the government, businesses, universities, financial institutions, local communities, and international development partners all contribute to rural development—particularly in food, energy, and water security, export industry incubation, digital transformation, and climate change response. These efforts have yielded substantive progress.
Mulyadin Malik stressed that rural development is vital to a country's progress and future—a view both Indonesia and China share. Though separated by the sea, the two countries enjoy a long-standing friendship. On October 17, 2023, the two sides signed a memorandum of understanding in Beijing on cooperation in rural development and poverty reduction, setting up a framework for policy exchanges, experience-sharing, and capacity-building in these areas. As a concrete example of cooperation under this framework, the Indonesian Rural Officials Training Program seeks to promote mutual learning through the sharing of experience.
"We look forward to learning from China's valuable experience in rural development and adapting it to the resource endowments and on-the-ground needs of Indonesian villages before putting it into practice," said Mulyadin Malik. He hoped that this program will help Indonesian rural specialty products access the Chinese market, strengthen village economies, expand business networks, and improve the well-being of rural communities—ultimately helping build a mutually beneficial partnership between the two countries.
The Joint Statement Between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Indonesia on Advancing the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and the China-Indonesia Community with a Shared Future, issued in 2024, explicitly states that the two sides will expand cooperation in poverty alleviation and reduction, agriculture, and rural revitalization, jointly promote agricultural and rural modernization, and steadily improve the well-being of both peoples.
Launched in 2019, the Indonesian Rural Officials Training Program has held six sessions to date, giving more than 100 Indonesian village heads firsthand exposure to rural development in China. After returning home, participants tailored what they had learned to local conditions, yielding a set of cooperation projects that are substantive, replicable, and scalable. Their efforts have helped make mutual learning on grassroots governance a regular feature of China-Indonesia exchanges, turning the program into a signature "small yet beautiful" cooperation project under the Belt and Road Initiative—one closely tied to people's livelihoods and highly exemplary—and earning high praise from the heads of state of both countries.
During the field trip, participants visited Haiyan Village to see rural revitalization in action; explored Luosiwan International Trade City and Dounan Flower Market to learn about trade and specialty industry growth; and traveled to Xishuangbanna, where they got a firsthand look at the local coffee industry, a new business model built on the joint development of three villages, intangible cultural heritage preservation, and digital agriculture bases. They also examined how specialty industries boost rural incomes, how ethnic culture is preserved and passed on, and how new rural business models take shape. Through exchanges with grassroots officials and staff, they gained firsthand insight into China's approach to rural development.
On September 13, grassroots officials from China and Indonesia engaged in a dialogue at the village library in Manzhao Village Group, Menghai County, Yunnan Province. There, the Chinese hosts presented the Indonesian guests with books as study materials, including the English edition of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China (Volume V) and Up and Out of Poverty.
Through this program, the two sides hope to deepen experience-sharing in rural development, strengthen market connectivity, and advance coordinated capacity-building. In doing so, they aim to inject fresh momentum into rural cooperation under the China-Indonesia comprehensive strategic partnership.
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Hearts Meet Along a Shared Path: Indonesian Rural Officials Explore Rural Revitalization in Yunnan
