The Beijing Design Week (BJDW)is an annual citywide cultural event co-hosted by Chinese ministry of culture and Beijing Municipal People’s Government. The event will last two weeks, and overlap the National Day Holiday(1st—7th October) of China every year. Attracting over 2,000 designers, institution representatives and industry experts, over 5 million visitors(person-time), and more than 100 accredited news media in attendance every year, BJDW has become the largest and most influential platform in Asia for display, promotion, exchange and trading of creative designs.

Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology is the first garment university in China. Currently, BIFT operates seven full-time undergraduate teaching colleges: School of Fashion, School of Fashion Accessory, School of Materials Design and Engineering, School of Art and Design, School of Fashion Communication, School of Business, School of Fine Arts. And other educational institutions include School of Arts and Sciences, Ideological and Political Theory Teaching Department, Graduate College, International College, Continuing Education College.

School Design and Arts of the (BIT), founded in 1984 as the Department of Industrial Design, is one of the design schools that first opened industrial design courses in China. As the culmination of 30 years of experience and exploration, the school has established its leading position in design education of the nation and been granted the membership of the Industrial Design Education Steering Committee of the Education Ministry of China. To meet the demand of rapidly developing economy for design talents in a broad spectrum of fields, five departments have been established since 2000, including the Department of Visual Communication Design, the Department of Environmental Art and Design, the Department of Cultural Heritage, the Department of Decorative Painting, and the Department of Traditional Art Crafts. In 2002, the school was officially founded, featuring a unique model of comprehensive development combining technology, design and art. To further the reform of teaching methods, draw on the most recent concepts and philosophies in design and art industries, and create vigorous academic atmosphere and more favorable teaching and research environment, the school officially adopted its current name in 2009. Meanwhile, the academic resources and teaching staff were integrated, optimized and augmented, so as to adapt to the future development of the school, and provide constant booster and solid foundation for successful careers of students.

CAFA School of Design is a national leader in design education in China, with established programs covering visual communication design, digital media art, public art and design, environmental art design, product design, fashion and accessories design, art and technology, design studies, as well as newly emerged programs of mobility innovation design, social design, design management, innovation design, system design, ecological crisis design (smart city) etc.. It takes as its mission, as an active response to global technological, economic and social changes and the future pattern and economic model of China, to cultivate top design talents with Chinese cultural stance and global awareness while serving China’s national strategy for design-driven development.

In the face of the evolving circumstances, industrial changes, crises and challenges in the new era and in response to the new needs, news changes, new stages and new characteristics of design education in China, CAFA School of Design has integrated the design discipline with other professional clusters such as modern information technology, and created new directions, new standards and new value judgments in the new propositions, new methods, new technologies and new means raised in the new engineering, new medical and new agricultural sciences. With research into the global political and economic changes in the post-pandemic era, CAFA School of Design works to build a new cross-disciplinary teaching structure and resources integration platform dominated by crisis awareness, in an attempt to focus on thinking and acting in the context of the future survival modes of mankind.

Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts?GAFA), the only one of its kind in South China, is the predecessor of Central South College of Fine Arts. The Academy consists of School of Traditional Chinese Painting, School of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and Allied Arts, School of Industrial Design, School of Visual Communication and Media Design, School of Art Education, School of Arts and Humanities, College of Continuing Education, and Section of Political Science. The bachelor degree education includes 11 disciplines and 38 directions, such as painting, sculpture, fine arts, art design, industrial design, architecture, photography, animation, fashion design & engineering, museology, and the like. The School of Visual Arts Design now has four secondary disciplines: visual communication, digital media, animation, and advertising, which correspond to three first-level disciplines: design, drama, film, and journalism. The college vigorously advocates the reform of teaching mode in the form of “2+2” which means the first and second grades are taught by the research department and the later second years are in studio. Currently, there are 4 research departments, including visual communication design, animation, digital media art, and advertising; the studio system is implemented in the senior stage, and there are currently 11 professional orientation studios: visual culture design, advertising design, brand design, information design, new media art design, digital image art design, cross-media art design, film and television animation design, experimental animation design, entertainment derivative design, digital game design, etc. In terms of school conditions, the college has teaching facilities such as graphic design laboratory, Apple computer laboratory, 3D animation laboratory, post-production laboratory, digital creative design laboratory, digital imaging laboratory, etc., which provides a good platform and experimental techniques for the cultivation of professional talents.

Hiiibrand International Creative Platform.  Hiiibrand is a platform that enables broad communications and interactions among creative, artistic and design talents across the world.  Since 2010, Hiiibrand has successfully hosted over 30 authentic and professional international competitions, and has attracted over 30,000 people from more than 100 countries and regions to participate, who come from various creative fields including identity, children’s books, illustration, typeface, product design and photography. It has also won support and endorsement from over 200 domestic and overseas professional agencies, organizations, institutions and media, such as ico-D, ATypI, etc. Hiiibrand also organizes high-standard competitions and cultural events on behalf of governments and corporations. To this day, we’ve organized more than 100 cultural communication activities in diversified forms, including exhibitions, lectures, workshops, sharing sessions, story-telling sessions and study tours, having an impact on more than 5 million people around the world.  Hiiibrand is committed to integrating global high-quality creative resources and creating a top creative platform through competition operations, exhibition planning, artist agency, design creation, and copyright licensing.

Jilin Animation Institute(JAI) was founded in June, 2000. It was admitted to be “Independent Undergraduate-level Private College” by Ministry of Education in China in 2008. At present, it has 14 branch schools: School of Animation Art, School of Animation Industry, School of Comics, School of Game, School of Design, School of Film, School of Film Technology, School of Creative Industry, School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, School of Civil Aviation Etc. The employment rate of graduates keeps over 90%.JAI has 5 national first-class undergraduate major construction points(animation ,digital media art and technology, visual communication design), 5 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction point.

Luxun Academy of Fine Arts grew out of Luxun Art College, which was founded in Yan’an in 1938 on the initiative of such late revolutionists as Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. <br /><br />The academy is not only a well-known institution, but also a center of art creation and academic studies. The number of the prize-winning works at the previous national art exhibitions always placed first. National Art Gallery of China, The Museum of Chinese History, and The Military Museum of China, have collected many works by the faculty members and the alumni. The academy has occupied the first place in the field of panorama in China, the works such as the Conquest of Jinzhou, Qingchuan River Battle, Laiwu Battle, the Conquest of Yuncheng, Chibi Battle and Jinan Battle are the display of the teachers’ artistic creativity.

Macau Design Centre (MDC) is the first platform to give Macau designers , design enterprises and design lovers the opportunity to exchange , promote , learn and cooperate. MDC has started operating on the 15th of November, 2014 . Formerly and old deserted factory at the Areia Preta, is the first innovative multi-functional building designed to promote Macau’s cultural creative industry.

 

The College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at Qingdao University has five teaching departments, namely the Department of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, the Department of Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering, the Department of Measurement and Control Technology and Instruments, the Department of Energy and Power Engineering, and the Department of Industrial Design, as well as the Engineering Training Center at Qingdao University. The college offers five undergraduate majors: Mechanical Engineering, Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering, Energy and Power Engineering, Industrial Design, and Measurement and Control Technology and Instruments. The college has two first level master's degree programs in Mechanical Engineering, Power Engineering, and Engineering Thermophysics, and four second level academic master's degree authorization programs in Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation, Mechanical Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Design and Theory, and Vehicle Engineering; There are 5 professional master's degree authorization points in Mechanical Engineering, Vehicle Engineering, Industrial Design Engineering, Intelligent Manufacturing Technology, and Power Engineering. The Department of Industrial Design at Qingdao University was founded in 2003 and began admitting undergraduate students majoring in industrial design. It currently has 128 undergraduate students and was approved as a master's degree program in industrial design engineering in 2006. There are currently 60 master's degree students in industrial design engineering, with a focus on cultivating applied and versatile talents.

Based on the origin of Chinese civilization" and the frontline of the digital economy. School of Design & Innovation is an innovative design teaching experimental area established by the China Academy of Art for future social development.

Established in April 2020, the School of Design at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) is known for its innovation education and draws on the strengths of this vibrant university, namely its depth in research, its vigor for innovation and entrepreneurship, and its disciplinary diversity. Enhanced by the resources in Shenzhen and the Greater Bay Area, the School of Design engages closely with the industry to establish a robust and structured collaboration that fosters and realizes design for the greater common good. Prof. Thomas KVAN, former Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, was selected as the founding dean.

The School of Digital Technology and Creative Design of Jiangnan University is a new generation design school established based on the current digital and intelligent background, adapting to the changes in the design industry, and facing future emerging fields and social needs. The college will be committed to the development mission of the digital era, paying attention to new methods and new paths in design education and design research empowered by digital technology; paying attention to the harmonious development of technology and humanities, advocating the value of the design-driven era; actively promoting interdisciplinary and professional integration, and exploring digital The emerging growth points of the design discipline under the background of the times. Based on the original design discipline advantages of Jiangnan University, the college focuses on innovative fields such as intelligent interaction and digital design, digital imaging and interactive media, digital fashion and clothing culture, and focuses on the characteristic teaching concepts of problem-driven, process research, technology empowerment, and interdisciplinary teaching. , to cultivate comprehensive design talents and innovative organizers with professional cutting-edge cognition, digital technology application, innovative scientific literacy, integrated cross-cutting capabilities and international vision.

Shandong University of Art and Design has put first priority on art disciplines, at the same time placing importance on liberal and scientific disciplines as its two supporting wings, with the goal to foster "scientific spirit, humanistic accomplishment, artistic innovation, and technical skills". Shandong University of Art and Design includes schools listed below: School of Applied Design, School of Architecture and Landscape Design, School of Arts and Humanities, School of Continuing Education, School of Digital Art and Communication, School of Fine Arts, School of Fashion Design, School of Industrial Design, School of Modern Handicraft, and School of Visual Communication Design. SUAD has set up Chinese Folk Art Research Institute, Image Research Institute, Landscape Design Research Institute, Glass Research Institute, Furniture Research Institute, and etc. Most faculty members and even some administrative staffs are engrossed in their research projects, covering different areas related to art and design. And each school has partnership cooperation with different companies as their off-campus base, where students could practice what they have learned. SUAD vigorously expands its foreign exchange and cooperation with foreign universities and institutes, and has established friendly relationship with universities and colleges of art and design in America, Australia, Europe, Japan and Korea.

Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University inherits the Shanghai Art Spirit of Shanghai Fine Arts School founded by Liu Haisu in 1912, and in 1959 the Shanghai Municipal People's Government rebuilt the Shanghai Fine Arts College (undergraduate). It was merged into the newly established Shanghai University and named the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University In 1983. In December 2016, it was officially renamed as Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts (SAFA), Shanghai University. Prof. Zeng Chenggang, vice chair of the China Artists Association and president of the China Sculpture Institute is the current Dean of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. SAFA has 3 A-level doctoral programs (fine arts, design, art theory), 1 A-level master program (architecture), 2 professional master's degree programs (fine arts, art design), and 1 postdoctoral station (fine arts). SAFA has 17 undergraduate majors in Chinese painting, oil painting, print-making, sculpture, calligraphy, fine arts, art design, visual communication design, environmental design, art and technology, digital media art, architecture, urban and rural planning, art design, product design, arts and crafts, and art management., including 7 national first-class undergraduate major sites and 3 provincial first-class undergraduate major sites. SAFA consists of 8 teaching departments, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center Public Art Technology Experimental Teaching Center, and the Shanghai Public Art Collaborative Innovation Center, one of the first batches of municipal collaborative innovation centers. In recent years, SAFA faculties have been approved in many national, provincial, and ministerial projects such as the National Social Science Foundation, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Social Science Major Project, the National Art Fund, the National Art Fund Creation Funding Project, the Shanghai Philosophy Society Project, and the Shanghai Major Literary and Artistic Creation Funding Project. Undergraduate students have won 117 national awards and 36 international awards in professional or discipline competitions. Graduate students have won 103 national awards and 58 international awards in professional or discipline competitions, and doctoral students have published more than 100 high-level journal papers. The school closely focuses on the school ideology of "FOR PEOPLE, FOR ART, FOR LIFE, FOR CITY", with the vision of "holding up the banner of 'new Shanghai ethos', creatively inheriting the tradition of applying for education, innovatively developing Haipai (“Shanghai-style”) culture, and creatively improving Shanghai's humanities", and with the mission of "building the coordinates of international urban art in China and China", and striving to build a world-class art academy that matches this modern international metropolis with global influence.

Shenzhen Culture, Creativity & Design Association (SCCDA) is a social organization commissioned by Shenzhen municipal government to bridge and connect the local government with the cultural, creative and design industries.  

SCCDA serves to operate and brand the “City of Design” programme and is responsible for the promotion of "Shenzhen Design", the integration of the city's cultural and creative design resources and strengths, and the domestic and international communication and cooperation with fellow Creative Cities and professional design institutions at home and abroad.

SCCDA has played an important role in the organization of major design events in the city, including Shenzhen Design Week (SZDW), Shenzhen Global Design Award (SDA), Shenzhen Design Award for Young Talents (SDAY), Shenzhen-Hong Kong Design Twin-cities Exhibition among others. The association has contributed to the promotion of Shenzhen’s city image and the branding of “City of Design”.

The history of Design Academy at Fine Arts Institute (SFAI) has been traced back to 1939 when it was first founded. In 1982, it was among the first master's degree authorization centers in China.Especially in 2000, Design Academy’s design discipline was approved to become the key subject on the provincial level.In the year of 2015, the number of candidates who took entrance examinations for Design Academy reached at 100,000, the largest number of attendance who entered themselves for the arts colleges and universities in the world.Finally, there were more than 1,600 students admitted to the college, and the number of design major students counted on 70% of total. And 12 out of 21 incoming freshmen who got the scholarships from the college came from the Design Academy, making up a 57% proportion.Today, Design Academy boasts more than 1,500 students (including 1200 postgraduates and 350 graduates) and 80 plus teaching staff.Not only attracting many young and middle-aged State Outstanding Contribution Experts and international and domestic well-known experts and scholars (like the China National Exhibition of Fine Arts golden medal winners), it also has set up national specialties, national research and innovation platform for subjects and national experimental zone for personnel training model innovation Design Academy always adheres to the design construction with green and sustainable features, so as to adapt itself to have an irreplaceable advantage in the field of subject specialty group in southwest China. In recent years, with idea of "innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing"and based on western China, Design Academy headlined the China's sustainable development, envisioning itself to the Greater Western cultural inheritance, the urban and rural development as a whole and heavy equipment manufacturing in the Great Rear Area; focusing on construction of three major disciplinary directions (green and sustainable design, digital art and S&T integration and design history and theory ) and seven majors(such as environmental design, industrial design, visual communication design, digital media art, attires and costumes design, arts and crafts, art design and so on); and concentrating on the sustainable design research and innovation system construction under the chinese original context .

Tongji University College of Design and Innovation

The Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University is the first higher education institute of arts and design in China, with The Central Academy of Arts & Design being its predecessor, was established in 1956 and merged into Tsinghua University in 1999.

The mission of the Academy has been twofold: serving the daily needs of the population, and contributing to the economic and cultural development of the country. Its notable achievements include design work for the “Top Ten Architectural Decorations”, the Beijing Olympics, and the celebration of the 70^th anniversary of the National Day (e.g. the two long red ribbons on Tian‘anmen Square, parade floats and ceremonial vehicles).

The Academy offer a range of BA, MA and PhD degree programs across the art and design. In addition to a basic teaching and research group, there are ten departments to cover textile and fashion design, ceramic design, visual communication design, environmental art design, industrial design, arts and crafts, information art & design, painting, sculpture, and art history.

The Academy has developed a comprehensive platform integrating teaching, research and academic publications. Its Laboratory for Arts & Design Education, a national experimental teaching demonstration center, consists of 29 labs. It publishes ZHUANGSHI, a core art journal in China.

The Academy actively cultivates “virtuous, artistic, knowledgeable and creative” talents, putting a premium on individuality and innovation. It aims to raise its international profile and strengthen its global influence. 

Institute of Design and Sciences is located on the East Lake of Wuhan - at the Canglong Island, more precisely in the “Heart of the Dragon.”  The school covers an area of 753 MU, on which there are 250,000 square meters of actual building complexes. Many school installations have been constructed there, such as: an ensemble of learning laboratories, a library, an art gallery, the ceramic museum, a sports center, a stadium, dormitories, a large university restaurant, a supermarket, a medical service unit, security and administration facilities. There have also been dormitories installed fully equipped with air condition and hot water. The school benefits from an array of experimental teaching centers, such as: the food technology center, the fermentation engineering center, software engineering center, e-commerce, and the 3-D animation center. There are other practical centers as well, such as: a studio, a small theatre, a virtual studio, and the campus television station. Other training centers included are: the video photography, animation, clothing design, visual communication design, industrial design, interior design, landscaping, ornamental architecture, a music recording studio and post-editing center.  The library has a collection of 697.000 books.   Our chairman is Mr. CHENG Fan, executive director—who returned to China to develop the Chinese teaching, and the international movie star Mr. Jackie Chan as the director of the Jackie Chan Movie and Media College, also we have FENG Xiaogang, ZHANG Guoli, BAO Manzhu, XIONG Shanbai as well as other experts as our professors in charge of various majors. The main courses are taught by these professors or associate professors. The school has 474 full-time teachers, of which 188 known have high level credentials, 333 professors have attained Masters degrees; have all come together to form an excellent team of teachers, with vigor and vitality. The education and management of the students are administered by the Huazhong Agricultural University, that implemente

The Department of Visual Communication Design of Xi'an Eurasian University cultivates highly qualified design talents with international vision, design thinking skills, and visual innovation capabilities, who can work in the field of visual communication design, including graphic design, layout design, illustration, motion graphics, UIUX, new media, information visualization, identity system, and branding & planning. Visual Communication Design is not only about solving problems through text, images, dissemination, and stylization, but also about using digital technology as a medium to present visual information and emotional transmission. It focuses on the use of dynamic design, three-dimensional technology, and branding concepts to solve social problems in the visual field, which highlights the communication and interactivity between people and design and expands all forms of conveying a certain purpose or information through "visual symbols". According to the OBE teaching philosophy, the course system is reconstructed based on the resultoriented approach. The correspondence between graduation objectives and course objectives is clarified to optimize the content of the course. The program emphasizes achieving students’ visual design and problem-solving abilities. It integrates knowledge, technology, and design practice, and puts up the project-based and program-based teaching system as the main teaching mode. The program focuses on students' design practice ability by introducing real projects to form the industry-university-research cycle. As an applied university, Xi'an Eurasian University pays attention to practical teaching reform, and strengthens horizontal connections and communication with the industry to form a collaborative innovation mechanism with a win-win situation, and therefore establish a longterm and stable cooperative relationship with the head enterprises.

Zhejiang Modern Intelligence and Manufacturing Promotion Center is a civil non-profit organization organized by China Academy of Art (CAA), registered in Civil Affairs Bureau of Zhejiang Province on February 5, 2016. It is established as an operational entity mainly for holding each session of Design Intelligence Award (DIA) with relevant activities including launch conference, evaluation processes, exhibitions and award ceremony, as well as providing services as research project, consultancy, social training, design conferences and exhibitions, information communication services, etc.

Zhuhai Macau Design Centre is founded by Macau Design Centre and Zhuhai Huafa Group with the sponsor and support of the Macau and Zhuhai Government., aims to expand the business market for local creative design industry , to integrate the creative design resources from domestic and overseas areas, to encourage the development of creative design industry of Macau and Zhuhai, in order to build a comprehensive service platform for the creative design industry for the both places.