The first electric vertical take-off and landing manned aircraft, humanoid robot...a number of industrial design innovations were unveiled, directly igniting the audience! On November 30, 2023, the 6th China International Industrial Design Expo opened grandly in Wuhan. There are

's first electric vertical take-off and landing manned aircraft, humanoid robot...a number of industrial design innovations were unveiled, directly igniting the audience! On November 30, 2023, the 6th China International Industrial Design Expo opened grandly in Wuhan. There are more than 300 exhibiting companies, and the entire exhibition has a sense of technology and the future.

This expo is co-sponsored by the International Economic and Technical Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Electronic Information Industry Branch of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and is hosted by the Wuhan Municipal Economic and Information Technology Bureau. With the theme of "Design Wins the Future and Forges a New Journey", this expo will focus on displaying the most cutting-edge design works of domestic and foreign industrial design. Focusing on the design development goals of co-creation and symbiosis, it will focus on the future design direction of digital intelligence and explore the industrialization of integrated innovation. development path. The

conference has five major exhibition areas: local exhibition area, international exhibition area, Wuhan innovative design special exhibition area, future creative concept design exhibition area, and young creative designer exhibition area. 22 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country have carefully organized outstanding local enterprises to participate in the exhibition in specially designed formats. The exhibition area reaches 20,000 square meters, and there are more than 300 exhibiting companies. Among them, the number of participating national industrial design centers is the largest ever, and the international exhibition area It brings together the latest design products from Germany, Russia, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia, Mongolia and other countries.

The opening ceremony also saw the signing of 22 industrial design-related projects, covering advanced manufacturing, producer services and the headquarters economy. The projects are of high quality, strong driving force, highly consistent with the direction of urban development, and will accelerate the creation of "Wuhan" "Famous Industrial Design City" adds new impetus.

Volkswagen Group (China) released the first electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) manned aircraft prototype. Picture/Jiupai News reporter Wang Jing

At the expo, a number of industrial design innovation results were released. The first domestically produced large-scale cruise ship "Aida·Modu" at the CSSC Cruises booth was successfully built after 8 years of scientific research and 5 years of design and construction; the 200km/h double-decker EMU of CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive is the first fully electric multiple unit in China. It is an EMU product that is independently developed and designed and meets the EU Interoperability Standards (TSI) and the laws and regulations of five European countries including Germany; the hatch sailboat designed by Wuhan D+M Industrial Design Town has filled the domestic 3.8-meter small and medium-sized sailboat market. Industrial design blank. In the German pavilion exhibition area, the first electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) manned aircraft prototype released by Volkswagen Group (China) attracted waves of exclamation. This aircraft has eight rotors for vertical take-off and landing, and Two propellers for horizontal propulsion can carry 4 passengers and luggage for up to 200 kilometers; in front of the Tesla booth, the humanoid robot Optimus Bot has "evolved" the ability to walk upright and uses the visual neural network to The brain "sees the world."

Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus Bot was unveiled at the exhibition. Picture/Jiupai News Reporter Wang Jing

While displaying new products, new concepts, and new trends in industrial design, the expo also held a series of supporting activities, successfully creating an important platform for domestic and foreign exchanges and cooperation in the field of industrial design. At the main forum of the expo, the list of a new batch of national industrial design centers was released and awarded, and the "China Industrial Design Youth 100 Forum Initiative" was issued; Designer Night, as the elites of China's industrial design community, gathered to share inspiration and practice brand activities, presenting exciting and cool performances and cutting-edge design concepts, and releasing a number of outstanding exhibition works on site. In addition, the expo will also hold a variety of supporting activities such as new product launch conferences, young designer salons, industry-education integration sub-forums, and digital intelligence design sub-forums during the same period, to create sparks of thinking in innovative design and empowered manufacturing.

It is understood that the China International Industrial Design Expo has been held in Han for six consecutive years, becoming an important window to showcase the strength of China's industrial design and a platform for world industrial design exchange and cooperation. Up to now, Wuhan has a total of 10 national-level industrial design centers, 88 provincial and municipal-level ones, 1 National Industrial Design Institute training target, and has created 3 industrial design clusters. The industrial design industry has formed an innovation of stepped collaboration and clustered development. Ecological and industrial scale exceeds 30 billion yuan, injecting new momentum into the stable growth and transformation and upgrading of Wuhan's industry.Empowered by industrial design, Wuhan was named the fourth world "design capital" in the country. This year, Wuhan was selected as one of the first batch of national small and medium-sized enterprise digital transformation pilot cities. In the first three quarters, the industrial economy was under pressure, and the city's scale The added value of the Shanghai Industrial Industry increased by 3.8% compared with the same period last year, 1.7 percentage points higher than the first half of the year. The total economic volume for the whole year is expected to exceed the 2 trillion mark. The comprehensive strength will be further improved, and it has become an important engine for the rise of the central region.

Jiupai News reporter Wang Jing Correspondent Liu Zhou