The Releasing of China's First Carpet Industry and Industrial Design Integration Innovation Competition

Design drives the future, and innovation empowers development.

The four poles of longitude and weft, meet at the carpet city -- the launch ceremony of the first China "Zhicai Palace Cup" Carpet Industry International Industrial Design Competition was held at the site of the 7th China International Industrial Design Expo.

This competition is co-sponsored by Cui huangkou Town, Wuqing District, Tianjin, which is well-known in the global carpet industry and has the reputation of "the world's three carpet distribution centers", the people's government of the town and the organizing committee of the Oriental Creative Star Competition. The first international carpet culture boutique exhibition hall in China - Zhicai Palace - Cui Huangkou International Carpet Culture Exhibition Hall, and Chongming Bird (Tianjin) Intellectual Property Operation and Management Co., Ltd. Jointly hosted; co-organized by a number of leading social organizations in the domestic carpet industry, such as the Carpet Professional Committee of the China Association of Arts and Crafts, the Carpet Industry Chamber of Commerce, etc. It is the first international proposition design competition in China to perfectly integrate "carpet industry" and "industrial design" in recent years.

The organizing committee of the competition invited more than 600 domestic design colleges and universities and nearly 100 famous schools from the international "Belt and Road" member countries to form teams to participate in the competition, fully integrating the development trend of carpet art, industrial innovation and emerging consumer markets, promoting production and education through competition, and competition as a medium to deepen and promoted the development of advanced manufacturing clusters, promoted the integration of industry and education, showed the "perfection of carpet craft" inherited for thousands of years, took carpets as the carrier, told the story of a great country, and exported cultural confidence.

Chairman of the Jury of the Organizing Committee of the Oriental Creative Star Competition, "Father of Chinese Industrial Design", Professor Liu Guanzhong of Tsinghua University gave wishes for this competition - "Design is the driving force of innovation, and life is the foundation of innovation". The expert group of the organizing committee of the competition fully studied the innovative challenges of carpet manufacturing technology, closely combined with contemporary lifestyle change and subdivision of consumer market trends, and pioneered ten "proposition design" competition systems, focused on the personalized needs of different people in various life, work and consumption scenarios, and finely depicted consumer portraits. , insighted into implicit needs, guided teachers and students of design colleges and universities, carried out targeted design creation, highlighted the characteristics of "last exam competition", continuously raised the specifications of the competition and the value of the work, and promoted the landing of new products.

At the launch ceremony of the competition, Zhang Hongying, Secretary of Cui Huangkou Town Government, and 100 deans and professors of design colleges from more than 20 provinces across the country shared the "Current Situation and Design Requirements of Tianjin Cuihuangkou Town Carpet Industry Cluster", and had a wonderful exposition on the integration of industry and education, the joint construction of industry, academia and research, and the cultivation of customized design talents. The topic was discussed wonderfully, which received a high response from the participants. It is reported that this industrial design competition will give full play to the advantages of the advanced manufacturing cluster formed by more than 1,200 carpet enterprises in Cui Huangkou Town, and provide unlimited production capacity support for excellent entries and teams. We sincerely look forward to working together with the design force to create popular products and demonstrate industrial design innovation samples.

"Design drives the future, and innovation empowers the development". The launch ceremony of the first China "Zhicai Palace Cup" Carpet Industry International Industrial Design Competition was successfully held at the Wuhan International Expo Center and the 7th China International Industrial Design Expo. On the basis of implementing” the Outline of Building a Strong Country with Quality issued” by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, this competition will further highlight the traction role of industrial design on the integration and innovation of production factors and the optimization of industrial structure, solve the shortcomings of the development of the carpet industry, and promote the innovation of traditional industries.