Xiongan design workshop was held at the Taihang State Guesthouse in Shijiazhuang, capital of North China’s Hebei Province. Participants present here included government leaders, such as Hao Lixiao, Deputy Director-General of the Industry and Information Technology Department of Hebei Province, Shi Qiwei, Director of the Industry Policy Division under the Industry and Information Technology Department of Hebei Province, and Guo Rui, Deputy Director of the Industry Policy Division under the Industry and Information Technology Department of Hebei Province, distinguished guests from the circle of industrial design, representatives of manufacturers, and teachers and students from universities, totaling more than 100 persons. Focusing on the theme of “when Xiongan meets design” and fully considering the development planning and industrial situation in Xiongan, the workshop conducted discussion and exchange on how to better promote the “Four One Project” in the New District.

Industry and Information Technology Department of Hebei Province , Management Committee of Xiongan New Area and Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association（SIDA） signed “Xiongan Industrial Design Innovation Strategic Cooperation Contract”. Xu Qin, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Hebei Province; Chen Gang, Hebei Provincial Party Standing Committee, Deputy Governor, Xiongan New Area Party Working Committee Secretary and Director of Management Committee; Zhu Haowen, Director-general Secretary of Hebei Province and other officials and Shirley Feng, Executive & Secretary General of SIDA attended and witnessed the contract signing ceremony. Gong Xiaofeng, Industry and Information Technology Department of Hebei Province, Dang Xiaolong, Director of Hebei Development And Reform Commission (at that time, he was provisional Deputy Secretary of Part Committee of Xiongan New Area) and Li Bokai, Deputy Secretary General of SIDA signed the contract.

Industry and Information Technology Department of Hebei Province and Management Committee of Hebei Xiongan New Area held Xiongan industrial design innovation cooperation symposium. Chen Gang, Director of Management Committee of Xiongan New Area, Liu Chuncheng, Deputy Secretary and General Manager of the Party Committee of China Xiongan Group,and Hao Lixiao, Industry and Information Technology Department of Hebei Province attended the meeting.

Xiongan branch office of Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association was established, located at No. 60 Aowei Road, Rongcheng county.

The Rongdong Zone Planning Working Group in Xiongan New Area convened a conference on the industry and public service policies to discuss the research fruits related to the industry and public services in Xiongan.

A matching meeting was held between Xiongan New Area. Chen Gang, Director of Management Committee of Xiongan New Area said, Xiongan New Area would have deep cooperation with Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association in the fields of industry matching and industrial design, so that Xiongan New Area was full of innovative vitality and design elements.

Management Committee of Hebei Xiongan New Area discussed with Shenzhen design innovation delegation.

Xu Qin, Deputy Secretary of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Hebei met Shenzhen design innovation delegation, opening Hebei-Shenzhen design innovation cooperation. Yuan Tongli, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, and deputy governor of the province, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, deputy governor, Chen Gang, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Xiongan New District, and Zhu Haowen, secretary general of the provincial government, attended the meeting.

Liu Yantao, Secretary of Anxin County Party Committee, Xiongan New Area, Hebei Province, and his entourage paid a visit to Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute and attended a symposium to have an in-depth discussion with Shirley Feng, Director of Hebei Industrial Design Innovation Center, on the planning and upgrading of the reed industry in Baiyiangdian Lake.

The first Lecture Hall for Xiongan Design was successfully held by Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute. Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Xiongan New District, Executive Deputy Director of the Management Committee, Tian Jinchang, Party Secretary and Chairman of China Xiongan Group Co., Ltd., Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Committee of Renqiu City, Mayor Gong Jianjun, Rongcheng County, Anxin Leaders of the county leaders and relevant departments, as well as representatives of some enterprises in the Xiongan New District attended the event.

Kazuo Tanaka, President and CEO of Japanese GK Design Group Inc., and his entourage visited Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute and attended a symposium, during which both sides conducted exchange of views on the development of Xiongan New Area , will cooperate in the field of urban furniture design.

Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute joined hands with the Education Bureau of Anxin County in organizing Xiongan Youth Practice Camp.

Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association signed a strategic framework agreement for industrial design innovation with China Railway Construction Bridge Engineering Bureau Group Co., Ltd. Both sides will carry out cooperation in the fields such as industrial design and Innovation in future.

Shirly Feng, Director of Hebei Industrial Design Innovation Center, gave a lecture at Baiyangdian Cultural Center, Anxin County, with the title of “Opening wider to the Outside World Makes AnXin County More Prosperous”. By comparing Anxin with Shenzhen, Feng’s lecture is composed of four parts, “story of city, story of design, story of makers, and story of Xiongan”.

Mads Quistaard, the founder of Urgent Agency, a newly emerging brand culture institution in Denmark, together with his entourage, paid a visit to Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute and attended a symposium. At the symposium, In the future, we will jointly contribute to the construction of Xiongan New District in the field of design innovation.

Signing Ceremony of Business-Matching Achievements.

国际设计新品发布会 New Design Products Launch Conference.

One village One Product: Japanese Design Sharing Salon.

Global Design & Scientific Innovation Summit.

Design Station: Splendid Design Night.

Finnish Design Day

Industrial Design Innovation Achievement Exhibition.

Xu Qin, Deputy Secretary of Hebei Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Hebei Province, Wang Jiangping, member of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology,Jarno SYRJÄLÄ, Finnish Ambassador to China, Chen Gang, Director of Management Committee of Xiongan New Area said, Srini Srinivasan, President of the World Design Organization, Jukka Savolainen, Director of Design Museum Finland，jointly launched the first Hebei International Industrial Design Week.

October 18-24, 2018 The Hebei International Industrial Design Week 2018 was held in Xiongan New Area and relevant counties and cities, sponsored by the People’s Government of Hebei Province and organized by the Department of Industry and Information Technology in Hebei Province, Xiongan Management Committee and Hebei Industrial Design Innovation Center. The Hebei International Industrial Design Week 2018 made its debut at the Times Square in the United States.

During the Hebei International Industrial Design Week 2018, Wang Jiangping, member of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Chen Gang, Member of the Standing Committee of Hebei Province Party Committee, Deputy Governor of Hebei Province, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Xiongan, and Director of Xiongan Management Committee, and Zhu Tao, former President of China Industrial Design Association and Director of the Strategic Advisory Committee of China Industrial Design Association, together with Zhu Hongren, Vice Chairman of China Entrepreneur Association (CEA) and President of CEA Council paid，and Chief Engineer of the former Ministry of Industry and Information Technology a visit to Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute, accompanied by Shirley Feng, Director of Hebei Industrial Design Innovation Center.

On the eve of the Hebei International Industrial Design Week 2018, Xu Qin, Deputy Secretary of Hebei Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Hebei Province, and their entourage made an investigation in the Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute, accompanied by Shirley Feng, Director of Hebei Industrial Design Innovation Center.

Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute established, Located in Nanguan Village, Rongcheng County, Xiongan New District

the Deputy secretary of the CPC working committee, the Executive deputy director of the management committee, secretary of the party committee of China Xiongan Group, Chairman of China Xiongan Group, Tian Jinchang visited and surveyed the Xiongan New Area Office of Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association, accompanied by Shirly Feng, Director of Hebei Industrial Design Innovation Center.

Liu Baoling, the then Deputy Secretary of Xiongan Party Working Committee and Executive Deputy Director of Xiongan Management Committee, and Niu Jingfeng, Member of the temporary Xiongan Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Preparatory Work Committee of Xiongan New Area, together with Shang Shaopu, Secretary of Rongcheng County Party Committee, and Song Yongliang, Executive Deputy County Mayor of Rongcheng paid an inspection tour to the Xiongan Office of Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association, accompanied by Shirly Feng, Director of Hebei Industrial Design Innovation Center.

The first Hebei International Industrial Design Week committee held a press conference, the former Deputy secretary of Management Committee of Xiongan New Area, Liu Baoling, the Deputy director of Industry and Information Technology Department of Hebei Province, Hao Lixiao and the Director general of Hebei Industrial Design Innovation Center (HIDC) Shirley Feng were presented.

Delegation of Shenzhen municipal party and government came to Xiongan New Area; the Secretary of Hebei Provincial Committee of the CPC, the Director of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial People's Congress, Wang Dongfeng, the Governor of Hebei Provincial Government, Xu Qin with the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, Shenzhen Party Secretary Wang Weizhong, the Deputy the mayor of Shenzhen, Chen Rugui and other officers visited the team of Shenzhen experts, then held a colloquia. Shirley Feng, Executive Vice President and Secretary General of Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association, and Ye Qing, Chairman of Shenzhen Institute of Building Research attended the meeting.

Wang Zhanyong, the when head of Rongcheng County , made an investigation tour in the Xiongan Office of Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association（SIDA） and attended a symposium to have deep talks with Jack Luo, Deputy Secretary General of SIDA, and Danny Hou, Director of Xiongan Office of SIDA, on the issues related to the transformation and upgrading of enterprises in Rongcheng County.

Japan's national treasure-level master of cross-border design, Yashi Kurokawa, visited the Xiongan Office of the Shenzhen Industrial Design Association and held a symposium to discuss the

Freeman Lau, Secretary General of Hong Kong Federation of Design Association, and Lin Kuorong, a famous keramist from Taiwan, visited the Xiongan Office of Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association（SIDA）. accompanied by Shirly Feng, Vice President and Secretary General of SIDA.

Song Yongliang, Executive deputy magistrate of People's Government of Rongcheng County in Xiongan New Area and Shirley Feng, Executive Vice-president and Secretary-General of Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association visted Baiyangdian to learn local culture.

Jukka Savolainen, Director of Finnish Design Museum, and Luisa Bocchietto, President of the World Design Organization (WDO), paid a visit to the Xiongan Office of Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association（SIDA）for a better understanding of the characteristics of the industrial development in Xiongan New Area, accompanied by Shirly Feng, Vice President and Secretary General of SIDA.

Liu Chuncheng, Deputy Secretary and General Manager of the Party Committee of China Xiongan Group, and his Assistant GM, Yang Zhong, hosted a symposium at Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association’s Xiongan Office and exchanged in-depth views with Shirly Feng, Vice President and Secretary General of SIDA, on the planning and design of Xiongan Creative Square and other relevant issues.

A group of VIPs paid an inspection tour to the Xiongan office of Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association, including Chen Gang, Member of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Governor of Hebei Province, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Xiongan New Area, and Director of the Management Committee of Xiongan New Area; Zhai Wei, Director and Deputy General Manager of China Xiongan Group; and Wang Jiping, Deputy Director of the Planning and Construction Leading Group Office of Xiongan New District, Director of the Party and Government Office of Xiongan New District, Deputy Inspector of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission.

Management Committee of Heibei Xiongan New Area organized a symposium about Xiongan New Area Urban Furniture Design Plan.

Industry and Information Technology Department of Hebei Province ，Management Committee of Heibei Xiongan New Area organized symposium of achievements of Xiongan industrial design “Four One” Project. Wu Haijun, Deputy Director of management committee of Xiongan New Area and Hao Lixiao, Deputy director of Industry and Information Technology Department of Hebei Province attended the symposium.

Ben Evans, Executive Director of London Design Biennial, Project Director of the London Design Festival, Chairman of the Cultural Leadership Committee of the Mayor's Office of London, together with his entourage, paid a visit to Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute.

Huang Xiaofeng, Founder of LOCUS ASSOCIATES, Kent Wong, Vice-Chairman of Furniture Association, Federation of Hong Kong Industries, Wang Yimeng, Deputy Secretary-General of Urban Furniture Branch of China Standardization Association, Bao Shidu, Professor, doctoral supervisor, of Donghua University, Dean of Environmental Art Design Research Institute, Huang Tao, Professor in the Department of Industrial Design, School of Architecture and Design, Southwest Jiaotong University, Zheng Dedong, an associate professor of Southeast University Art School and director of the Institute of Tourism and Landscape, visited Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute.

Ruan Wentao and Bao Jing, founder of Hong Kong GROUNDWORK have a visit to Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute.

David Kusuma, President-Elect of WDO made an investigation in the Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute.

Lin Xinbao, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Taiwan Creative Design Center, He Renke, Dean of Design and Art Institute of Hunan University, Zheng Xuan, Deputy Director of Shenzhen Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Cai Shaoling, Deputy Director of Shenzhen Industry and Information Technology Bureau Advantage Industry Division visited Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute.

Chen Gang, Member of the Standing Committee of Hebei Provincial CPC Committee, Vice Governor, Xiongan New Area CPC Working Committee Secretary, Administrative Committee Director, David Kusuma, President-Elect of WDO, Tian Jinchang, Deputy secretary of the CPC working committee, the Executive deputy director of the management committee, secretary of the party committee of China Xiongan Group, Chairman of China Xiongan Group, Yu Xiaodong, deputy Director of Industry Division of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Xu Kehua, Deputy Director-General of the Industry and Information Technology Department of Hebei Province, He Renke, Goldreed Industrial Design Award Chinese President and Shirley Feng, Director of Hebei Industrial Design Innovation Center jointly launched the first Goldreed Industrial Design Award.

During the 2nd Hebei International Industrial Design Week, Li Yizhong, Former Minister of Industry and Information Technology, President of CFIE, Yu Xiaodong, deputy Director of Industry Division of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Wang Jianhua, Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Vice President of China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Promotion Association, Chairman of the Cross-Straits and Hong Kong-Macao Collaborative Innovation Alliance, Xu Kehua, Deputy Director-General of the Industry and Information Technology Department of Hebei Province, Yu Yong, Member of the Party Committee of China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Promotion Association, Executive Vice-Chairman of China Culture International Cooperation and Innovation Alliance, Secretary-General of Cross-Straits and Hong Kong-Macao Cooperative Innovation Alliance and Shi qiwei, Director of the Industry Policy Division under the Industry and Information Technology Department of Hebei Province, and their entourage made an investigation in the Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute, accompanied by Shirley Feng, Director of Hebei Industrial Design Innovation Center.

Wang Jiangping, Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Li Yizhong, Former Minister of Industry and Information Technology, President of CFIE, Chen Gang, Member of the Standing Committee of Hebei Provincial CPC Committee, Vice Governor, Xiongan New Area CPC Working Committee Secretary, Administrative Committee Director, Ge Haijiao, Vice Governor of Hebei Province, Zhu Tao, Director of the Strategic Advisory Committee of China Industrial Design Association, Wang Jianhua, Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Vice President of China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Promotion Association, David Kusuma, President-Elect of WDO, Charles Hayes, Executive Managing Director, Asia & Partner IDEO, Peter Kuchnicki, Chairman of the Spark Design Awards Organizing Committee co-start the 2nd Hebei International Industrial Design Week.

Wangzhijun , He Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and Mowei , Deputy Director of Science and Technology Committee, and Wushengwu , Deputy Director, Department of Electronic Information, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and Gong Xiaofeng, Director of the Industry and Information Technology Department of Hebei Province, and Wu Haijun, Deputy Director of the Administrative Committee of Xiongan New Area to the Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute, accompanied by Shirley Feng, Director of Hebei Industrial Design Innovation Center.

Bian Jianguo, Member of the Meeting for Department Affairs under the Publicity Department of Hebei Provincial Party Committee, Sub-inspector, and Director of the Publicity Center of Xiongan New District, paid a visit to XIDI to know more about the design concept and future development plan of its innovative products.

In the Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute (XIDI), Shirley Feng, Director of Hebei Industrial Design Innovation Center (HIDC) gave a lecture themed on “newly created design and harmony with difference” to the students of the 12th Business Leaders Project of Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. In the lecture, Feng compared Xiongan with Shenzhen while sharing the “story of design, story of makers, story of city, and rise of transformation design in Hebei”.

Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute signed an agreement with China Railway 16th Bureau Group Co., Ltd. and Tangshan Xingbang Pipeline Engineering Equipment Co., Ltd. to jointly build the Sino-Finnish Heating Design and Research Institute.

Sun Xiaolei, deputy director of the Economic Development Board of Xingtai Economic Development Zone Management Committee, and Zhang Lihua, director of Xingtai Industrial Design Innovation Center, together with their entourage, paid a visit to the Xiongan Future Industrial Design and held a symposium at which Xingtai Industrial Design Innovation Center delivered a work report.

Xu Qin, Deputy Secretary of Hebei Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Hebei Province, met with Jarno SYRJÄLÄ, Finnish Ambassador to China, and conducted in-depth exchanges on promoting the fields such as industrial design, winter sports and technological innovation. Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Governor, Chen Gang, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Xiongan New District, Zhu Haowen, Secretary General of the Provincial Government, Gong Xiaofeng, Director of the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, and Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Xiongan New District Executive Deputy Director of the Committee, Party Secretary of China Xiongan Group Co., Ltd., Chairman Tian Jinchang, and Director of Hebei Industrial Design Innovation Center Shirly Feng attended the meeting.

Major events during the Sino-Finnish Design Day include the Sino-Finnish Design Forum which was held in the press conference hall of Xiongan Citizen Service Center. At the forum, five distinguished guests at home and abroad delivered keynote speeches successively focusing on the two topics, “Design Empowerment, Smart City”, and “Design Driving, Industry Innovation”. Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Hebei Xiongan New District, Executive Deputy Director of the Management Committee, Party Secretary of China Xiongan Group Co., Ltd., Chairman of the Board of Directors Tian Jinchang, Director of the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology Gong Xiaofeng, Deputy Director of Xiongan New District Management Committee Wu Haijun, Ambassador of Finland Jarno SYRJÄLÄ and five speakers attended the event.

The delegation from Helsinki, capital of Finland, to attend the activities for the Sino-Finnish Design Day, paid a visit to Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute, marking that the cooperation between the two sides ushered in a new stage.

Shi Qiwei, Head of the Industrial Policy Division under the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Hebei Province, and Tian Yanfeng, Deputy Director of the Reform and Development Bureau of Xiongan New Area, visited Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute and took part in a symposium, listening to the report on the preparatory work of the Second Hebei International Industrial Design Week delivered by Danny Hou, Director of the Xiongan Office of Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association.

Shi Limin, Director of the Environment and Resource Protection Committee of Zhejiang Provincial People’s Congress, and his entourage paid a visit to Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute.

Yan Hong, Vice President of the Longjitaihe Group, and her entourage paid a visited to Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute and attended a symposium to exchange views on the issues such as architectural engineering design. Both sides hoped to beef up mutual understanding to jointly promote the development of the City of Future.

Qiu Huawei, President of Tangshan Xing Bang Pipeline Engineering Equipment Co., Ltd., and his entourage visited Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute and took part in a symposium. Both sides decided to jointly build a research institute in Xiongan for the sake of the development of the energy industry in Xiongan New Area.

Liu Yantao, Secretary of Anxin County Party Committee, Xiongan New Area, Hebei Province, and his entourage paid a visit to Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute and attended a symposium to continuously discuss with Shirley Feng, Director of Hebei Industrial Design Innovation Center, on the transformation and upgrading of the reed industry in Baiyiangdian Lake.

Du Yahong, Executive Deputy Director of Xiongan Branch of the Bank of China, together with her entourage, visited Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute and took part in a symposium, looking forward to further strengthening cooperation and exchanges between the two sides and jointly pushing forward the construction of Xiongan, a City of Future.

Xie Feng, President of Beijing Oursky Digital Technology Co., Ltd. and her entourage visited Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute and took part in a symposium, talking a lot about the potential cooperation in the field of digital design. A preliminary consensus was reached between the two sides.

Nick Andersson, Manager of Chinese Business Development and Government Affairs in Nordic Apiary, a Swedish multinational and cross-industry consulting company, and his entourage visited Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute and attended a symposium. At the symposium, explore Sino-Swiss design innovation cooperation.