2024 World Design Cities Conference opens in Shanghai

The World Design Cities Conference (WDCC) 2024, organized by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), opened in east China's Shanghai on Friday.

Running under the theme "Design Reframing Growth", the four-day event aims to build a platform for global design collaboration and exchange. It seeks to explore a design-driven approach for new quality productive development and promote the integration of design into all aspects of urban and daily life.

This is the third consecutive year that Shanghai has hosted the conference, bringing together nearly 1,000 representatives from international design industry organizations, design schools and leading enterprises, as well as renowned scholars and designers from home and abroad.

Participants will share design concepts, cutting-edge technologies and market trends in different fields through nearly 50 activities, including forums, roundtable dialogues, exhibitions and design carnivals, aiming at advancing global design innovation.

The opening ceremony also witnessed a series of announcements, including the World Design Cities Shanghai Manifesto 2024, which calls on the world to embrace future trends and develop designs driven by new quality productive forces to better address the challenges of human development.

The winners of the 2024 Shanghai Design 100+, including three annual awards -- the AI Innovation Design Award, the Green Sustainable Design Award, and the Cultural Creative Design Award, were also revealed during the event.

China's first AI-generated animated series 'Poems of Timeless Acclaim,' jointly produced by the CMG and Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, got the AI Innovation Design Award.

The event also announced the winners of the third Frontier Design Prize, which aims to encourage and lead the development of design innovation by recognizing people and works that have made pioneering contributions to the field of design around the world.

2024 World Design Cities Conference opens in Shanghai

The Global Business and Law Conference 2024 was held in Beijing on Friday, with participants engaging in discussions on dispute settlement, win-win cooperation in the world economy, and intellectual property rights and the development of new quality productive forces.

Themed on Strengthening Business and Law Cooperation for Further Global Economic Development, the conference, hosted by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, brought together nearly 1,000 representatives from major global legal institutions and business associations, including the United Nations International Law Commission and the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property.

The event also underscored China's commitment to improving its business environment and strengthening legal cooperation in industry and commerce.

This year marks the second edition of the conference, following the first edition held in September last year.

Global Business and Law Conference held in Beijing