DHU Recommends Practices! Promote Shanghai to Become a World-class "City of Design”

Date:2022-02-21

On February 17, the Shanghai World-class "City of Design" Development Promotion Conferencewas held at the Friendship Hall. Mr. Gong Zheng, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and Mayor of Shanghai pressed the starter button, marking the opening of a new chapter in the construction of a world-class "City of Design". Vice Mayor Zhang Wei delivered a speech, and other attendees included Ma Chunlei, Secretary General of the Shanghai Municipal Government and Chen Mingbo, Deputy Secretary-general of the Shanghai Municipal Government.

(Site of the conference)


At the conference, Yu Jianyong, President of DHU and Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, recommended practices on behalf of DHU. He said that DHU would cultivate more fashion science and technology talents for the future, define fashion trends, base itself on the forefront of science and technology, and draw a blueprint for Shanghai to become a City of Designand a City of Fashionwith colors and digits. Chen Jie, President of Tongji University and Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Wang Hua, Mayor of Jing'an District Government, Chen Hong, Chairman of SAIC Motor, Gu Weihua, Chairman of Huajian Group, Jiang qionger, founder of SHANGXIA brand, Ding Wei, founder of Moma Design, etc. also recommended practices successively.

(Yu Jianyong recommends practices)


In the new stage of development, Shanghai lives up to the idea that “a city is built by its people and the city seeks the welfare for its people”. Starting from the needs of economic and social development, based on its characteristics and benchmarking with world-class cities, Shanghai has officially launched the construction of becoming a world-class "City of Design”.


Develop and design the astronaut clothing integrating "science and technology and fashion", which has established a new image of Chinese astronauts; the "Flower Fairy" dress with Shanghai style is a tribute to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China; promote the “He Gan Zheng Zhi” project in Shanghai, compile the first national standard of urban furniture in China; Technology cheongsams have appeared at Edinburgh International Art Festival for many years, telling the oriental tales to the world; The Expo Costume "Xiao Bai Cai" shows its youthful style and records the rapid development of Pudong;  Intangible cultural heritage projects have many fashion elements, promoting the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage; help upgrade the "Four Leaf Clover" logo system of 860000 square meters, contributing Donghua wisdom to the CIIE; the Greater Donghua Fashion Week has been held nearly 20 times, the Universities wins the "annual achievement of the fashion institution" award of the "2021 China Fashion Festival" for its outstanding strength and contribution in the field of fashion design...…The design works of Donghua students have successively appeared on international stages, training a large number of talents for the fashion and design industries at home and abroad.  


As a "Double First-Class" University and directly under the State Ministry of Education, DHU is also one of the universities entering China's "211 Project” and it enjoys a high social reputation in the fields of textile, materials and design. It is known that the design discipline of DHU is one of the 23 doctoral programs of design in first-level in China. In recent years, DHU has endeavored to strengthen the construction of design discipline, participated in the construction of IV-Class peak disciplines in Shanghai universities, promoted the integration of design concepts and design services into national and local industrial development, space environment, public services, people's life, urban brand and other dimensions, contributing wisdom and strength to the construction of Shanghai as a City of Design and a City of Fashion.