The 17th China International Design Expo opened in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu Province on Monday. In addition to high-tech products, it also focuses on creative products that take low-carbon, environmental protection and recycling as their theme to demonstrate China's futuristic eco-friendly lifestyle. Photo: Lou Kang
The Expo aims to show visitors the most fashionable and high-tech design products in China and how they will be integrated into the lives of Chinese.
The 17th China International Design Expo opened in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu Province on Monday. In addition to high-tech products, it also focuses on creative products that take low-carbon, environmental protection and recycling as their theme to demonstrate China's futuristic eco-friendly lifestyle. Photo: Courtesy of the Expo
The Expo chose Wuxi, as Wuxi Party Secretary Du Xiaogang put it, because of "the city's inspirational creativeness and pursuit of a better life."
Wuxi has been a city full of humanistic and artistic beauty since ancient times. From exquisite paintings and purple sand craftsmanship to exquisite gardens and clay figurines, all of them contain the creative design inspiration and life pursuit of citizens in Wuxi, according to Du.
"We are now in a full swing of developing design industries covering the fields from engineering industry and software development to cultural creativity. We want Wuxi Design to become the city's name card."
In one of the three showrooms, various products ranging from high-speed rail locomotives and drones, as well as color ultrasound diagnostics, nucleic acid detection analyzers, and other medical services that affect people's lives and health equipment are on display.
The 17th China International Design Expo opened in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu on Monday. In addition to high-tech products, it also focuses on creative products that take "low carbon, environmental protection, and recycling" as their theme to demonstrate China's futuristic eco-friendly lifestyle. Photo: Courtesy of the Expo
AI household appliances such as air-conditioning cabinets and televisions are also on display, which Shen said will "meet the people's wish for a better life from different angles and levels."
In addition, another eye-catching showroom with designs such as handbags made from recycled newspapers are indications of environment-friendly design concepts at work.
On a large space in the middle of the exhibition area stands a string of showpieces made by Chinese young designers, dedicated to the young generation and their environmental protection works.
"On the one hand, we provide these young designers with an opportunity to display and turn their ideas into a realistic work. On the other hand, those works in fact show that the whole young generation, apart from designers, values our environment a lot at any rate," the booth host told the Global Times.
The 17th China International Design Expo opened in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu Province on Monday. In addition to high-tech products, it also focuses on creative products that take low-carbon, environmental protection and recycling as their theme to demonstrate China's futuristic eco-friendly lifestyle. Photo: Lou Kang
The 17th China International Design Expo opened in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu Province on Monday. In addition to high-tech products, it also focuses on creative products that take low-carbon, environmental protection and recycling as their theme to demonstrate China's futuristic eco-friendly lifestyle. Photo: Lou Kang
The 17th China International Design Expo opened in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu Province on Monday. In addition to high-tech products, it also focuses on creative products that take low-carbon, environmental protection and recycling as their theme to demonstrate China's futuristic eco-friendly lifestyle. Photo: Lou Kang
Since its start in 2000, the design Expo has been successfully held for 17 times. In addition to the exhibition itself, forums will also be held to discuss creativity and design for green development across the country.
"Design is incredibly important," said Rama Gheerawo, director of The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design in the UK.
"Everything in the world around us is designed… a product, an idea, a service, a system, and an environment, a space, a place. All of these things have been through a design decision."
"It is been through the last 18 months for coronavirus pandemic, that we have seen that through scientific, medical and professional collaboration, that real development can take place. A collaboration that saves lives," HJ-Colston from the Chopsticks Club, a company that focuses on maintaining a China-UK professionals' membership network, said at the opening ceremony.
The opening ceremony was attended by State Intellectual Property Office Director Shen Changyu, Jiangsu Vice Governor Hu Guangjei and a host of Wuxi dignitaries. More than 300 exhibitors and experts are participating in the three-day Expo.
