Harbin Design Center (HDC) was established in December 2022. It is a provincial-level creative design center set up by Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association under the "Framework Agreement on Cooperation in Building Harbin Design Center to Promote the Development of Creative Design Industry" in accordance with the provincial authority leading and province-city-district co-construction model. With the Publicity Department of the CPC Heilongjiang Provincial Committee as the overall guiding department and the Publicity Department of the CPC Harbin Municipal Committee as the business management unit, HDC is an important engine for promoting the development of creative design in Heilongjiang Province and also a platform supporting the "Four Ones" project, which aims to build engine for promoting Harbin's creative design (i.e. set up a creative design center, hold the Lilac Creative Design Award and Harbin International Creative Design Week, and create a "City of Design").

HDC aims to build a new highland of creative design in Northeast Asia and the "City of Design" of Harbin and based in Harbin, serving the whole province. By adopting the progressive development pattern of "atmosphere creation -achievement transformation - standard creation - carrier implementing", it helps implement the special policies for creative design introduced by Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, build a comprehensive service platform for the development of creative design in the province, achieve the deep integration ofcreative design and manufacturing, and promote the transformation from "Made in Heilongjiang" to "Creative in Heilongjiang".