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YANTAI, China, Oct. 22, 2021 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--

The 2021 World Industrial Design Conference (WIDC) was successfully held in

Yantai, Shandong Province from October 22 to October 24. The event was

co-sponsored by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the

Shandong Provincial People's Government, and organized by the Department of

Industry and Information Technology of Shandong Province, the China Industrial

Design Association and the Yantai Municipal People's Government, with the

support of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and

the Global Design Industry Organization (GDIO). WIDC is a top-level and largest

global industrial design event, and the only industrial design industry event

sponsored by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the

People's Republic of China.

Themed "Design Drives the Age of Digital Intelligence", WIDC 2021 brought

together representatives of government agencies, industry organizations,

experts and scholars, entrepreneurs, designers and other innovators from more

than 40 countries and regions, according to the Organizing Committee of WIDC.

This was facilitated through a combination of online and offline means, and it

enabled a range of information and knowledge sharing, discussions, exchange and

cooperation centered on the innovation and development of industrial design in

the age of digital intelligence.

It gathered the innovative design achievements of more than 100 manufacturing

enterprises, design institutions, universities and other institutes from around

the world, and comprehensively showcased the new ideas, new designs and new

industries of outstanding industrial design from home and abroad. It focused on

design and industry, design and intelligence, design and education, design and

innovative thinking, design and sustainability, design and culture, and design

and sports, as well as some other fields. There were four exhibition areas:

International Design, University Design, Enterprise Design and Shandong Design,

displaying in excess of 1,000 innovative design achievements of almost 200

world-famous companies.

Yantai, one of the three cores of the comprehensive experimental zone for the

transition from old to new economic engines in Shandong province, has pursued a

combination of industrial design with upgrading industrial development and

enhancing the charm of urban development. It proposed the creation of A City of

Design and the planning and construction of a Park of Design. Industrial design

is fast becoming the new Yantai city calling card. In the future, Yantai plans

to gradually create a world-class industrial design landmark - an innovation

highland that global designers will aspire to, by designing and building global

top-class innovation ecology, human ecology and environmental ecology.

Source: The Organizing Committee of WIDC

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