On December 28th, the opening ceremony of Guangdong International Center for Advanced Design was held at Dongfeng Road Campus of GDUT. Du Chengming, Vice President of GDUT, delivered a speech. Wang Chengyong, Vice President, presided over the ceremony. Zheng Detao, former Party Secretary of Sun Yat-sen University and director of Guangdong Education Department, and others attended the ceremony.
Du Chengming pointed out that Guangdong International Center for Advanced Design took the lead to build a leading design innovation platform ecosystem in the whole province and in the forefront of the whole country, which integrates industrial innovation, design basic application technology innovation, academic discourse innovation and social innovation, and strongly supports the discipline construction of design. He hopes to take this opportunity to build new consensus and promote new cooperation, and jointly contribute to making the Center become the cradle of design innovation, the engine of industrial upgrading, the base of talent training and the bridge of international cooperation.
"In recent years, around the major development strategies of the country and Guangdong Province, Guangdong International Center for Advanced Design has made every effort to promote the discipline upgrading project of the" 1 +2 +3 "climbing plan. The Center is one of the three key centers to be built, and it is also an important starting point for GDUT to sprint to become" double first-class construction universities "during the 14th Five-Year Plan period." Wang Chengyong said that the Center will be committed to giving full play to the synergy advantages of Industry-University-Research, cross-disciplinary integration advantages and international design information.
