New future：2021 China Textile Innovation Conference & Design Summit
May 08, 2021 ｜ by Zhao Xinhua
This year is the beginning year of the 14th Five-Year Plan, how to achieve a new leap forward is an urgent issue facing the industry. The outbreak of the pandemic has accelerated the digital process of the industry, and the supporting of the digital economy is obvious in the anti-pandemic achievements of the industry. The ability of digital transformation has become the key and core driving force for China’s textile and apparel industry to win the current and future development.
On April 26-29, the series of activities of New Era, New Value, New Futur - 2021 China Textile Innovation Conference & Design Summit was held in Dalang Fashion Town, Longhua District, Shenzhen. Leaders from national ministries and commissions, local governments, and crossover experts, scholars, brand representatives, and technology talents gathered at this summit to talk about digital and fashion. The four-day conference carried out a series of activities such as theme reports, special forums, trend release shows, product development training, industry matching, and fashion brand investigation and so on.
Sun Ruizhe, president of China National Textile and Apparel Council and president of International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF), Cao Xuejun, first-class counsel of Consumer Goods Industry Department of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Xu Zhibin, member of the Standing Committee of the Longhua District Committee and executive deputy district mayor, Shenzhen, and other leaders, attended the conference and fully affirmed Dalang Fashion Town’s efficient measures to explore the construction of a digital fashion pioneer area and build an international digital fashion town, meanwhile, they also interpreted the new development concept and pattern of national and industrial innovation and design in the new development stage. Chen Dapeng, vice president of China National Textile and Apparel Council and president of China National Garment Association, chaired the conference.
This design summit is sponsored by China National Textile and Apparel Council (CNTAC) and Longhua District People’s Government of Shenzhen, and jointly organized by China Textile Information Center, China National Garment Association, National Textile Development Center and Dalang Fashion Town Construction Management Center of Longhua District of Shenzhen.
Sun Ruizhe, president of China National Textile and Apparel Council and president of International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF), Cao Xuejun, first-class counsel of Consumer Goods Industry Department of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Xu Zhibin, member of the Standing Committee of the Longhua District Committee and executive deputy district mayor, Shenzhen, and other leaders, attended the conference and fully affirmed Dalang Fashion Town’s efficient measures to explore the construction of a digital fashion pioneer area and build an international digital fashion town, meanwhile, they also interpreted the new development concept and pattern of national and industrial innovation and design in the new development stage. Chen Dapeng, vice president of China National Textile and Apparel Council and president of China National Garment Association, chaired the conference.
President Sun Ruizhe pointed out in the keynote speech of “New Era, New Value, New Future” that the favorable environment for digital technology to help the development of fashion is forming, the key capabilities are improving, and the necessary paths need to be broken through urgently. Digital technology realizes the deep integration of unique data, professional knowledge, business process and intelligent technology, and carries out comprehensive application in industry trend prediction, product development, quality control, business operation and other links. Digital technology has become the “new infrastructure” and “new energy” for the development of the industry. It needs to take research and development and technical services as the core, complete the transformation from “digital individual” to “platform-based service”, and realize the scale breakthrough from individual to aggregate. He also pointed out that in the future in the process of intelligent industrialization and industrial intelligence, it is necessary to improve the industry penetration of digital technology, broaden the application scenarios of digital technology, guide the value conversion of digital technology, and strengthen the effective governance of digital fashion.
Sun Ruizhe, president of China National Textile and Apparel Council and president of International Textile Manufacturers Federation
Digital Technology Alliance for Fashion Industry Founding Ceremony
Fabrics China Trend Forecast & Promotion Alliance Enterprise Award Ceremony
2021 Dalang Cup China Women Fashion Design Contest Launching Ceremony
Virtual release show
Sun Ruizhe, president of China National Textile and Apparel Council and president of International Textile Manufacturers Federation
Counsel Cao Xuejun addressed the conference. She pointed out that the modernization level of the textile industrial chain and supply chain should be enhanced, well-known brands with wide influence should be cultivated and diversified industrial supply chains should be built. She expressed, design is the important productivity of fashion innovation, also be digital technology application most active link. The fusion of digital technology and fashion design shows a huge prospect.
“Longhua District has fully promoted the construction of digital Longhua in this year. It is accelerating the digital transformation of advantageous traditional industries, building a digital economy industrial, and building a world-class digital economy pioneering zone.” Deputy District Mayor Xu Zhibin pointed out in his speech, “as one of the six key areas of Longhua District, Dalang Fashion Town is an important part of the construction of the digital Longhua development pattern. We will further promote the high-quality development of the fashion industry and create a new city for the fashion industry in Shenzhen.”
At the Design Summit, Digital Technology Alliance for Fashion Industry Founding Ceremony, Fabrics China Trend Forecast & Promotion Alliance Enterprise Award Ceremony, 2021 Dalang Cup China Women Fashion Design Contest Launching Ceremony and other activities were held.
Digital Technology Alliance for Fashion Industry Founding Ceremony
Fabrics China Trend Forecast & Promotion Alliance Enterprise Award Ceremony
2021 Dalang Cup China Women Fashion Design Contest Launching Ceremony
Yu Jianyong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Donghua University, delivered a speech at Digital Technology Alliance for Fashion Industry Founding Ceremony. He said that under the new development pattern, the digital economy is becoming an important source of new competitive advantages for the fashion industry, and the fashion industry will also give new connotation to the development of the digital economy. Shen Xiangyang, a renowned scientist in the field of artificial intelligence, a double employed professor of Tsinghua University, a foreign academician of the National Academy of Engineering, a foreign academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and chairman of the International Digital Economy Academy at Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, sent a congratulatory message from the U.S. He said AI can better link fashion, culture and economy, change the way of thinking, behavior and lifestyle of human beings, and offer innovation and creativity to China’s fashion industry.
Wang Weifeng, managing director of Accenture Greater China Product Manufacturing Division, Gao Feng, chairman of Shanghai Juanniao Silin Brand Management Co., Ltd., Tao Ke, head of Market Development of Lenzing Group in China, respectively from the digital transformation of the five major industry technology trends, the value reconstruction of brands in the digital context, the important value of sustainable materials in the context of carbon neutrality and carbon compliance, etc., discussed the new trends, new technology and new material in the creative design, future of science and technology and ecological development.
On the same day, representatives of well-known technology companies, technology innovation enterprises and creative design institutions were invited to share the wisdom of cutting-edge ideas and business practices around “data-driven, human-computer collaboration, crossover integration, co-creation and sharing”. The forum was chaired by Li Binhong, director of the National Textile Development Center.
As an important part of the series of events of the summit, 2022 Spring/Summer Fabrics China Trend, a fashion banquet created by ten excellent textile fabric enterprises and excellent designers, conveys the trend of China’s fashion industry. In addition, the virtual release show through the digital solutions provided by Heart Dub Technology, the 2021 China International Fabrics Design Competition award-winning fabric products for digital transformation, showing the digital and fashion boundless fusion of the virtual release show.
2022 Spring/Summer Fabrics China Trend
Virtual release show
During the Design Summit, 2021 China Textile Innovative Product Development Training Course, Silk Road in Keqiao, Connect Whole World Together - 2021 Into Shenzhen & China Textile City Popular Fabrics and Shenzhen Clothing Brand New Product Matchmaking, Shenzhen Longhua District Dalang Fashion Street - Opening Ceremony and Brand Investigation have been carried out one after another.
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