Hebei International Industrial Design Week to open in November
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SHIJIAZHUANG, China, Oct. 25, 2022 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--
The 5th Hebei International Industrial Design Week will be held from November
10 to 16 in North China's Hebei Province, with the Netherlands as the guest of
honor.
The province's new modern city Xiongan New Area will serve as the event's main
venue while some activities will also be held in the cities of Shijiazhuang,
Qinhuangdao and Dingzhou.
A series of activities will be featured in the main venue, such as the
launching ceremony and keynote speeches, Xiongan Design Forum, the industrial
design innovation exhibition, international design new product releases, the
third Goldreed Industrial Design Award, Dutch Design Day and design innovation
tours, making it an open platform for international design cooperation
featuring meetings, exhibitions and awarding ceremonies, according to Hebei
Provincial Industry and Information Technology Department.
Xiongan Design Forum, World Design Organization (WDO) and World Design Weeks
will join hands in hosting a series of activities like keynote speeches and
round-table dialogues.
Topics will cover urban development, industrial transformation, new normal of
production and life, new consumption trends, and sustainable development, among
others. Leading figures from domestic and foreign design institutions,
manufacturing enterprises and universities will be there to interpret and
discuss pioneering design innovation ideas and trends.
The International Design New Product Releases will invite top design firms,
design masters and cutting-edge designers at home and abroad to launch new
designs in conjunction with fashion brand companies and manufacturing
enterprises.
Besides, representatives from manufacturers, platform enterprises, incubators
and financial institutions will also attend the conference, providing
opportunities for the industrialization and market-oriented cooperation between
the two parties, and helping the transformation of designs into products and
the establishment of design values.
The Goldreed Industrial Design Award's foreign president WDO Chairman David
Kusuma and Chinese president Professor He Renke of the School of Design and Art
of Hunan University, as well as other guests, will attend the awarding ceremony.
They will unveil the winners of the award's third event and present trophies.
To further enhance the event's international influence and brand value, the
competition for fourth Goldreed Industrial Design Award will be launched to
invite outstanding industrial design institutions, companies, teams and
individual designers from all over the world.
The activities of the design week will make full use of modern IT technologies
such as 5G, VR/AR and big data to display offline activities by means of online
exhibition and live broadcasting, breaking the time and space constraints and
creating an online design week that never ends.
Since 2018, Hebei has held four International Industrial Design Week in the
Xiongan New Area, including 139 forums, exhibitions, match-making and exchange
activities that have attracted enterprises from over 50 countries and regions,
and 25,000 design works.
China-based embassies of Finland, Italy and Britain organized delegations trips
to the events, and more than 50 well-known design institutions at home and
abroad like the WDO and the Hong Kong Federation of Design Associations sent
representatives there.
The International Industrial Design Week pioneered the mode of organizing expo
both online and offline in Hebei. The four events have attracted more than
170,000 attendees and visitors, and more than 28 million visits online.
Hebei has leveraged the International Industrial Design Week as an important
platform to cultivate and develop industrial design service industry, promote
the deep integration of industrial design and manufacturing industry, and bring
innovation and development onto the global stage.
Industrial data showed that the number of industrial design enterprises in
Hebei reaches 470 this year, more than 9 times that of 2017, ranking the fifth
in China. There are 20 municipal industrial design industry organizations in
Hebei, accounting for 15 percent of the country's total industrial
organizations.
Hebei has 11 provincial level and municipal-level industrial design awards,
ranking the fourth in the country. The province has cultivated 11
national-level industrial design centers, and created 5 in 2021 alone,
achieving a historic breakthrough.
Source: Hebei Provincial Industry and Information Technology Department
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