Before the first Foshan Talents Day, a lecture focusing on industrial design was held in Foshan Polytechnic on September 26, attracting hundreds of students. It is one of the activities for the 2022 Foshan Mayor’s Cup of Industrial Design Competition.

Previously, the lecture has been given in Foshan University, Shunde Polytechnic, Neusoft Institute Guangdong and other institutions. With the lecture as a platform, many well-known designers went into the institutions and made face-to-face communications with students, helping train the future industrial designers. The Mayor’s Cup of Industrial Design Competition, which has been held for ten years and seven times so far, has become an important platform for the industrial design talents in Foshan, and has witnessed how Foshan makes its way to a place full of design talents.

Data shows that Foshan’s development of industrial design industry and its innovation capabilities rank high in Guangdong Province and even in China. According to incomplete statistics, as of 2021, Foshan has a total of nearly 1,000 professional design institutions and nearly 50,000 design practitioners, contributing economic output value of more than 250 billion yuan.

Author | May

Revisor | Eleanor