Dragon Design Festival 2018 kicks off in Beijing

Updated: 2019-03-07

Dragon Design Festival 2018 had a grand opening ceremony in Beijing's Daxing district on Dec 9.

It was the fourth time for the district to stage the high-profile design fair since 2013 and set the theme on facilitating Daxing's leap-forward development through innovative designs.

This year's fair focused on new energy, environmental protection technologies, innovation designs projects, public welfare designs and various activities, ranging from road shows to business matchmaking events.

Other highlights included a group of cooperation projects signed between research institutes and enterprises, which helped the industrialization of technological developments.

In addition to a trade fair and forums, the festival also staged an exhibition, which drew great attention of the public.

About 80 enterprises and colleges from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, provinces of Guangdong, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Shanghai displayed more than 200 works at the exhibition.

These exhibitors included a Beijing-headquartered creative design company–LKK, Chinese train maker CRRC Corp and local sci-tech firms.

Visitors could also get a closer look at the latest designs and technologies involving more than 10 industries, such as energy conservation& environmental protection, biomedicine, aerospace, artificial intelligence, and architecture.

Designers from Beijing, Tianjin, Hunan and Hubei brought their latest technological achievements, such as artificial intelligence-based energy management system,waste-to energy projects and the utilization of vapor energy.

As a co-host of the festival, Daxing district has been promoting its design industry and witnessed the rapid development of the industry over the past five years. The public's awareness of design’s role in improving people’s lives has been greatly enhanced.