Executive producer Wu Yan said the creative team for the opening ceremony employed interactive lighting techniques throughout the Sanya Baopo International Sports Center, transforming the venue into a multidimensional ethnic concentric circle. "The audience could feel the rhythm of the lights, enhanced by drone and AR effects, creating a vast visual representation of the sea and stars," she said.

The 12th National Traditional Games of Ethnic Minorities of the People's Republic of China, whose planning began in early 2022, is the highest-level and largest-scale comprehensive sports event held in Hainan before the independent customs operations of the Hainan Free Trade Port in 2025.