On the afternoon of April 9, 2023, Luan Zhicheng, member of the Standing Committee of the Harbin Municipal Party Committee and Deputy Mayor, and Yang Nianfu, Director of the Harbin Office in Shenzhen, visited the Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association for research. Accompanied by Shirley Feng, President of Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association and founder of Sino-Finnish Design Park, they visited the International Exhibition Hall of Sino-Finnish Design Park and Shenzhen CBON Design Consulting Co., Ltd. to learn about the enterprise situation, park positioning and operation mode of Sino-Finnish Design Park, as well as the development status of Shenzhen's industrial design industry.
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Sino-Finnish Design Park International Exhibition Hall
The Sino-Finnish Design Park International Exhibition Hall serves as a showcase window that focuses on new models and formats in the field of global design innovation. It showcases the latest works of internationally renowned design masters, emerging design enterprises at home and abroad, and the German iF Design Award that have settled in the park, documenting the achievements and development of Sino-Finnish Design Park over the past nine years.
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CBON Design
Shenzhen CBON Design Consulting Co., Ltd. is a professional team of brand planning, design, and marketing, with Luo Huan, one of the top ten outstanding young people and product strategy expert in the Chinese design industry, as the core. It has formed a new brand nail hammer theory and provides one-stop solutions for enterprise brands. It is praised by entrepreneurs as a "design consulting agency with an international perspective, Chinese thinking, and a better understanding of business.".
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Symposium
Subsequently, members of the Standing Committee of Luan Zhicheng and his delegation had discussions and exchanges with President Shirley Feng , focusing on promoting the construction of Harbin as the "Design Capital" and empowering the development of the design industry.
At the symposium, Luan Zhicheng, a standing committee member, proposed the difficulties in creating a "Design Captial" in Harbin and analyzed the pain points in the development of Harbin's industry. He expressed his hope to learn from Shenzhen's experience in deepening and building the "Design Captial", bring Shenzhen's creative design power to Harbin, and use creative design to promote the transformation and upgrading of Harbin's industry and urban development.
President Shirley Feng stated that in order to achieve the goal of creating Harbin as the "Design Captial", it is necessary to start from promoting the standards for creating the "Design Captial", compare horizontally with other cities that are carrying out the creation of the Design Captial", concentrate on breakthroughs, and gradually form a competitive advantage with Harbin characteristics. She mentioned that industrial design is the "golden finger" that can turn stones into gold. It is a "weapon" that leads technological innovation, improves product quality, and promotes industrial transformation and upgrading. Harbin's industrial development is in a critical period of kinetic energy transformation, and the development of the creative design industry will provide strong impetus for achieving comprehensive revitalization of Harbin.
Through this discussion, both parties hope to further strengthen communication and exchange in the future, work together to help Harbin become a core creative design area in the province, and strive to achieve the goal of creating a "Design Captial". Empowering the innovation and development of key areas and industries in Harbin through design, accelerating the formation of new driving forces for economic and social development, and providing strong support for promoting the comprehensive and all-round revitalization of Harbin and Heilongjiang.
