By Song Yi

     Promoting the coming Wuhan Design Biennale in this November, the Wuhan Night was held during the Beijing Design Week at the China Millennium Monument on 23th September. Guests from Cities of Design of more than ten countries as well as other domestic and international guests to Beijing Design Week attended the event. 

      While the fashion show displayed the roots in Taoist culture, the light show “Old City New Life” combined traditional Chinese Diabolo acrobatics with visual presentations of such symbols of Wuhan as the Yellow Crane Tower and the Second Changjiang River Bridge showing the creativity to fuse old and new, virtual and actual. 
 

     Realizing creativity as one of the most important engines for its economic-social development, Wuhan puts great emphasis on its development of creative industries with the notions of “Design of the People”, “Design by the People” and “Design for the People”. Such major projects as Creative Valley for Mobile Internet and Changjiang New Town are attracting talent from the world.
 

      The 4th Wuhan Design Biennale will be held from November 11 to 24, 2017. Initiating in the year of 2011, Wuhan Design Biennale is now becoming the stage on which Wuhan presents the world its creativity in building a new city with the input from its glorious past. Echoing the slogan of “Old City New Life” which Wuhan used in its campaign for the membership of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, the 4th Wuhan Design Biennale is themed “Designing Tomorrow”.