Tianjin recently held the 2016 International Joint Design Workshop. This was the first time the event was conducted in China.
The workshop was first organized jointly by the Nanyang Technological University and Chiba University in Singapore in 2006, aiming at offering global students an exchange opportunity.
Since then, during each year's activity, students would work together to finish a design.
Chun-Hsien Chen, a professor at Nanyang Technological University, said through this year's workshop, professors and students from different colleges could focus on more future co-operations.
This year's workshop focused on intelligent traffic and lasted for seven days. More than 70 professors and students coming from Singapore, Japan, South Korea Australia and China joined in the event.
Jiang Shangyuan, the director of the workshop in China, said the event aimed to offer colleges in various countries a platform to communicate with and learn from each other. This event also cultivated internationally qualified designers and hastened the integration of the international design originality and the industrial economy.
Zhou Dawei, the CEO of HEEJIA Design Group, said the workshop brought various creative idea into "Made in China 2025." This would help China to invent more environmentally friendly electric vehicles in the future.
During the activity, Tianjin University, the China General Association of Commercial Newspaper and the International Design Association also established the China International Industry Design Education Union.