On November 14, the 16th China (Wuxi) International Design Expo opened, and the 21st China Patent Award (Design) was presented at the opening ceremony. This is the first time that the 21st China Patent Award (Design) awarding conference was held at Wuxi Design Expo. Shen Changyu, director of the State Intellectual Property Office, Ma Qiulin, vice governor of Jiangsu Province, and Huang Qin, Secretary of Wuxi Municipal Party committee, attended the opening ceremony and presented awards to the winners. Deng Hongsen, director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), addressed the conference via video, and Liu Hua, director of WIPO China office, attended the conference. The opening ceremony was presided over by Zhang Lefu, Deputy Secretary General of Jiangsu provincial government.

      Shen Changyu pointed out that with the deepening of the supply side structural reform, "made in China" is changing to "created in China", "designed in China", "intelligent in China" and "refined in China". General secretary Xi Jinping repeatedly stressed the need to build a manufacturing powerhouse. Nowadays, manufacturing industry pays more and more attention to the important role of design in product development and marketing. Over the years, the State Intellectual Property Office has been focusing on the national strategic needs, constantly increasing the protection and application of industrial design, and promoting made in China to leap to the high end of the global industrial chain and value chain. He stressed that the combination of this Wuxi Design Expo and the China Patent Award (appearance design) awarding Conference for the first time is a major innovative measure. He hoped that all parties attending the Expo would make full use of this platform to jointly promote the continuous upgrading of design and manufacturing, better support economic and social development, and meet people's yearning for a better life.
Ma Qiulin said that in recent years, Jiangsu has adhered to the guidance of Xi Jinping's new socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics, and will strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights as the biggest incentive to enhance economic competitiveness, and thoroughly implement the strategy of innovation and development, so as to build China's most perfect intellectual property protection and service system as a strategic goal, and promote the creation, protection and application of intellectual property rights as a whole. High quality development provides strong support. In the future, Jiangsu will further speed up the construction of pilot provinces with leading intellectual property rights, make greater efforts to protect intellectual property rights, pay more attention to supporting innovation driven, and serve the overall development situation with higher quality, so as to contribute to the modernization of "strong, rich, beautiful and high" new Jiangsu.
Huang Qin said that focusing on the theme of "reflecting things with heart and creating new with wisdom", this Wuxi Design Expo gathers design elites at home and abroad to discuss the design development plan. It is not only a concise improvement of the achievements of the past 15 sessions, but also an accurate grasp of the new situation, new trend and new mission. It will greatly promote the high-quality development of the design industry and effectively promote the development of design innovation and economic and social integration Exhibition. In particular, the gold award of China Patent Award (appearance design) was awarded in Wuxi, which injected a strong driving force for Wuxi to build a better and faster "city of intelligent manufacturing of Chinese design", "city of design protection of China" and a strong intellectual property market.
Deng Hongsen said in his video speech that the cooperation between WIPO and the State Intellectual Property Office of China on the China patent award can be traced back to 1989. He hoped that the award would encourage Chinese entrepreneurs and innovators to commercialize their intellectual property rights, even go out of the domestic market and extend them to the international market. In the past decades, China has built an efficient and modern intellectual property ecosystem, which has promoted economic and social development. WIPO is willing to continue cooperation with China in the field of intellectual property and innovation.
At the China Patent Award (Design) awarding conference, Hu Wenhui, deputy director of the Patent Office of the State Intellectual Property Office and director of the office of the patent office, read out the awarding decision of the 21st China Patent Award (Design). The participating leaders presented awards to the representatives of 10 Chinese design golden award winners, including CRRC Qingdao Sifang locomotive and rolling stock Co., Ltd. and Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd . Later, Wang Jun, vice president of CRRC, and other two representatives who won the gold award of China exterior design made speeches.

        At the opening ceremony, the leaders of the conference jointly launched the Wuxi Design Expo. Later, Chinese contemporary artists, national first-class artist hanmeilin, former president of Zhongnan University of Finance and law, and member of national intellectual property strategy expert group Wu Handong and other industry experts and scholars gave online and offline speeches.
Before the opening ceremony, Shen Changyu and his delegation visited the offline special exhibition area and listened to some of the exhibition appearance design works.
It is understood that the Wuxi Design Expo is a three-day exhibition with four theme pavilions, which are represented by swan, China CRRC, Haier innovation center, Weilai automobile and good children. The total exhibition area reaches 24600 square meters. At the same time, Wuxi Design Expo also upgraded and built online exposition platform, held three high-end industrial forums, namely "Innovation Design Forum", "design and Intellectual Property Protection Forum", "technology innovation forum for added materials manufacturing industry", in order to make professional audience realize the industry gap and let the public feel the beauty of design.