On December 18, the 2023 Jewelry Technology Innovation Conference, co-sponsored by the China Jewelry and Jade Jewelry Industry Association (hereinafter referred to as the "China Treasure Association") and the people of Shunde District, Foshan City, was held at the Holiday Inn Shunde Lunjiao Poly.
This conference focuses on the two key development directions of scientific and technological innovation and talent training in the jewelry industry, with the theme of "leading new technology and sailing on the shore", and through the method of "award awarding + project signing + achievement promotion + theme forum", the development path of the jewelry industry under the new situation and new requirements of the market will empower the high-quality development of the jewelry industry in Shunde. At the conference site, a number of industry representatives, experts and scholars deeply interpreted the trend of scientific and technological innovation and design change in the jewelry industry, gathered high-quality resources inside and outside the industry, and drove the development level of Shunde's first-class jewelry industry to further leap forward with innovation.
Promote production with awardsEnhance the level of scientific and technological innovation in the jewelry and jade jewelry industry
Promote production with awards, and promote use with competitions. After nearly half a year of preparation, collection and review, an award ceremony was held at the conference site to present awards to the winners and individuals of the Science and Technology Award of the China Jewelry and Jade Jewelry Industry Association and the 3rd "Tiangong" Jewelry Design Competition, so as to enhance the level of scientific and technological innovation in the jewelry and jade jewelry industry.
It is reported that the Science and Technology Award of the China Treasure Association has been evaluated once every two years, and has been held for six sessions from 2010 to 2021, with a total of 416 projects participating in the application of previous science and technology awards, of which 124 projects have been awarded.
First, second and third prizes.
In order to accelerate the construction of a scientific and technological power and contribute wisdom and strength to achieve high-level self-reliance and self-reliance, the China Treasure Association has carried out the evaluation of the 7th Science and Technology Award in 2023. In 2023, a total of 104 projects were submitted by 74 units and individuals for the Science and Technology Award of China Treasure Association. A total of 3 first prizes, 9 second prizes, and 16 third prizes were awarded in four categories: scientific research and invention, material and process innovation, product innovation, and technological innovation and application.
These award-winning new achievements, new products, new processes and new models will help accelerate the improvement of the scientific and technological innovation capabilities of the jewelry industry, continuously promote the deep integration of production, education and research, and give full play to the role of innovation as the first driving force for development.
Tiangong" jewelry design competition and Shunde Lunjiao began in 2017, by the China Jewelry and Jade Jewelry Industry Association and the people of Shunde District, Foshan City, jointly sponsored, aiming to combine the advantages of the industry resources of the China Treasure Association and the resources of the jewelry industry in Shunde District, to create an incubation platform for business to promote design creativity, to help the integration and development of cultural creativity and design services and the jewelry industry, is an important event of the jewelry design innovation project of the China Treasure Association.
The competition is committed to creating a think tank platform for designers, enterprises and the market to help each other and win-win for the jewelry industry, and promote more intellectual achievements into tangible consumable products. As the origin of China's modern jewelry industry, after more than 100 years of profound accumulation, in the context of the development of the new era, it has established the industry status of "China's jewelry and jade jewelry characteristic industrial base" and "Guangdong jewelry technology innovation professional town", and has also created the industry performance of rough diamond processing imports accounting for nearly seventy percent of the country, giving birth to the most regional brand value of the first jewelry industry cluster.
With the theme of "Lingnan Literature and Shunde", this year's "Tiangong" Jewelry Design Competition set up two entry groups of physical objects and artwork, and widely solicited works from the society, with a total of 626 sets of entries (210 sets of physical objects and 416 sets of artwork groups). After the evaluation of the expert team of the competition, a total of 2 sets of gold awards, 3 sets of silver awards, 10 sets of bronze awards in the physical group, 5 sets of gold awards, 11 sets of silver awards and 23 sets of bronze awards in the artwork group were selected. A group of outstanding jewelry design talents and creative design works have been discovered, focusing on promoting the inheritance and creative transformation of excellent Lingnan Cantonese culture, and opening up a new situation for jewelry design innovation, regional cultural inheritance and commercial value integration.
The Jewelry Technology Innovation Conference was permanently settled in Shunde, Foshan
For a long time, Shunde District and Lunjiao Street have been closely following the decision-making and deployment of "manufacturing masters", actively exploring new paths for the high-quality development of the first-class jewelry industry, working hard and making practical moves in the first-class jewelry industry to "build nests and attract phoenixes", and attract more high-quality projects to take root and develop and become bigger and stronger with a first-class business environment: actively connect with the high-quality jewelry industry resources in the Bay Area, introduce the first-class jewelry innovation eco-city project with an investment of 30 billion yuan, and create the first jewelry innovation eco-city project in the Greater Bay Area. The first phase of the project has been successfully constructed, and the Aesthetics Hall (Exhibition Center) has been capped on October 9, 2023, and the construction of the "South Coast" industrial cluster has taken a solid stepIssued a series of incentives and subsidies to help enterprises, benefit enterprises and real money, provide guarantees in terms of index inclination, infrastructure, project land, project energy consumption and environmental capacity, etc., and provide the best service, the widest space and the best environment for manufacturing enterprises such as jewelry.
It is worth noting that the conference announced that the jewelry science and technology innovation conference will be permanently settled in Shunde, Foshan, and the entry of this high-level industry conference will promote more innovative elements to gather in Shunde's first-class jewelry industry, which will not only inject a "strong needle" into the majority of first-class jewelry enterprises, but also press the "acceleration button" for the development of Shunde first-class jewelry enterprises. With the opportunity of the permanent settlement of the Jewelry Science and Technology Innovation Conference, we will boost the formation of a new round of siphon effect in the jewelry industry and further accelerate the gathering of hundreds of billions of jewelry industry resources.
Chen Zhenhao, deputy head of Shunde District, said that Shunde will take the holding of this conference as an opportunity to continue to do a good job in the industrial chain, innovation chain, chain, value chain, and institutional chain, and continuously improve the level of scientific and technological innovation and application of the jewelry industry, and gradually establish a technological innovation system for the jewelry industry with enterprises as the main body, market-oriented, and a combination of production, education, research and application, so as to accelerate the realization of the highest level of scientific and technological strength in the jewelry industry from the accumulation of quantity to the qualitative leap, and further accelerate the gathering of hundreds of billions of dollars Jewelry industry resources, to further enhance the popularity and reputation of Shunde's leading jewelry industry brand.
Ye Zhibin, President of China Jewelry and Jade Jewelry Industry Association, said that in the future, the China Treasure Association will give full play to the role of the leader of high-quality development and innovation and development of the jewelry industry, further strengthen policy research, and actively make suggestions and suggestions to relevant national departments to strive for greater policy supportActively coordinate scientific research and innovation resources in related fields, build a new mechanism for collaborative innovation and scientific research with major common problems in the jewelry industry as the core, and effectively promote collaborative innovation in the integration of innovation chain and industrial chain.
The conference set up two theme forums at the same time, focusing on the two themes of industry innovation and design innovation, bringing together more than ten well-known scholars and industry experts to deeply analyze the development trend of the industry, and jointly plan the layout and discussion of China's leading jewelry innovation business.
Written by: Nandu reporter Chen Feilong and Xi student Lai Xiaoyu.