The opening ceremony of 2021 Guangzhou design week was held at Guangzhou Poly World Trade Expo on December 9, marking the official opening of the four-day Guangzhou design week. Zhang Wentao, Deputy Secretary General of Guangzhou Municipal People's government, Zhang Weiping, co-founder of Guangzhou design week, Carlos hilarte, Consul General of Mexico in Guangzhou, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony, Xiao Zhensheng, deputy convener of CCTV news center and deputy head of Guangdong terminus Dawan District terminus, Hu Zhigang, chief engineer of Guangzhou Bureau of industry and information technology, Bi Jide, a first-class researcher of Guangzhou Municipal Administration of Commerce, Fang Xiaofeng, vice president of the Academy of fine arts of Tsinghua University and expert representative of Guangzhou design week, and other government leaders, experts and scholars, as well as bikens, Consul General of the Netherlands in Guangzhou, Raul Le, Consul General of Israel in Guangzhou, Adam blarchik, Consul General of Poland in Guangzhou, and Sha Wanping, Consul General of Laos in Guangzhou, Representatives of embassies and consulates from many countries, including Martinos mandalitis, Consul General of Greece in Guangzhou, Sha kunzhen, Consul General of Nepal in Guangzhou, Dmitry kamkov, Consul General of Ukraine in Guangzhou, Ruben Espinosa, Consul General of Peru in Guangzhou, attended the opening ceremony. Opening ceremony of 2021 Guangzhou Design Week The three pavilions attract more than 1000 exhibitors The theme of 2021 Guangzhou Design Week is "youth bloom". The three pavilions of Guangzhou Poly World Trade Expo, Guangzhou international procurement center and Nanfeng International Convention and Exhibition Center also bring forth new features in the design and theme of the exhibition hall, with prominent Highlights - poly exhibition hall promotes industrial upgrading around the theme exhibitions such as low-carbon design, sustainable design, advanced customization, whole house intelligence and design material selection, Assist carbon neutralization; "Guocai" exhibition hall focuses on theme exhibitions such as smart home, wide design exhibition, red cotton Design Award and super life trend joint exhibition to show that design makes life better and design leads consumption upgrading; The theme of Nanfeng exhibition hall is cultural and creative design and trend art. 2021 Bay Area (Guangzhou) cultural and Creative Festival, mechanical Star Alliance, BKA big children's post-dimensional trend special exhibition and other exhibitions are held at the same time, led by the national trend. This year's exhibition was carried out under strict epidemic prevention measures, and the exhibition area increased from 150000 square meters last year to 180000 square meters. In the context of the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, the exhibition area is still growing, which fully reflects the strong demand of the market for "design". Design plays an increasingly important and positive role in promoting the upgrading of manufacturing industry, especially in the Pan home field, and improving people's quality of life. 2021 Guangzhou design week activity site This Guangzhou Design Week has attracted more than 1000 exhibitors from more than 20 countries, including China, Mexico, the Netherlands, Italy and France. The exhibition covers the fields of design, materials, home, intelligence, art, life aesthetics and advanced customization. It is oriented to new products, new materials and new technologies upstream and downstream of the design industry chain, and arouses interest through "design thinking" In-depth thinking of "design makes life better", and actively explore from the perspective of design in the field of sustainable development of cities and human settlements under the national strategy of double carbon emission reduction. Building energy consumption accounts for nearly 30% of the total human energy consumption. Under the background of artificial intelligence, Internet of things and 5g era, building energy consumption can be greatly reduced through whole house intelligence. At the 2021 Guangzhou design week, dozens of smart home enterprises at home and abroad jointly exhibited how to effectively reduce the comprehensive energy consumption of lighting, fresh air, air conditioning and heating through intelligent technology and green products. 2021 Guangzhou design week activity site "Colorful Mexico" experience unique humanities and Arts Mexico, the guest of honor of this Guangzhou design week, takes "colorful Mexico" as the theme and Luis Barrag á n, the Mexican architect Inspired by the famous building christerbo stables and villas, a theme booth combining strong colors and extremely simple lines is created. Through the illumination of lights, a wonderful light experience is created, which combines colorful themes and pays tribute to classics. "Colorful Mexico" theme exhibition in Mexico, the guest of honor of 2021 Guangzhou Design Week In addition, the audience can also enjoy dozens of Mexican handicrafts that have traveled across the sea to Guangzhou in the theme exhibition: the "rbolde La Vida" representing life thinking and the colorful "alebrijes" , representing Mexico's traditional embroidery clothing, etc., feel Mexico's colorful humanities and art from jewelry, pendant to all kinds of furnishings and decorations. Mexican cuisine and art Carlos hilarte, Consul General of Mexico in Guangzhou, said in an interview with Xinhua that Guangzhou Design Week has created a platform for mutual exchange and cooperation for the design industry, showing a colorful Mexico through design, art, architecture, handicrafts, music and other elements, attracting more people to understand Mexico and promoting the development of Mexican tourism More Mexican enterprises will deepen their understanding of the Chinese market and deepen the exchanges and interaction between enterprises of the two countries. Carlos hilarte, Mexican Consul General in Guangzhou, was interviewed by Xinhua Carlos hilarte (right), Consul General of Mexico in Guangzhou, took a group photo with Xinhua reporters The friendly relations between China and Mexico have a long history. In 2022, China and Mexico will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. In this regard, Carlos hilarte said, "We hope that by taking advantage of the opportunity of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Mexico and China, the two countries can continue to deepen friendship through further artistic and cultural exchanges, and the Mexican Consulate General in Guangzhou will continue to make efforts in this regard. At the same time, we also hope that more people can go to Mexico to deepen the understanding and identity between the two peoples, so that more people can know the beautiful and colorful Mexico." Carlos hilarte, Consul General of Mexico in Guangzhou, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the theme exhibition "colorful Mexico" Sustainable design At the Sustainable Design Summit Forum with the theme of "active house build for life", designers from China, Denmark, Spain, the United States and other countries focused on "carbon peak, carbon neutralization", "active house active architecture" and "sustainable design" to discuss how to "carbon neutralization" through design The forum also focuses on vertical industry segments, discusses science and technology, industrial examples and systematic solutions in the dual carbon field, and provides people-oriented green design solutions. The organizer, together with international design organizations, well-known design institutions and manufacturing enterprises, launched the "sustainable development design practice plan" , promote designers to carry out sustainable design practice by means of design curation, design competition and forum activities, including multiple sustainable design exhibitions: Sustainable Design Practice Exhibition shaped by a variety of renewable or degradable new materials and intelligent AI technology, and recyclable "urban expression" Design exhibition, etc., pay attention to the utilization of waste materials and advocate energy regeneration and low-carbon life. 2021 Guangzhou design week activity site It is understood that Guangzhou design week was born under the leadership of Guangzhou Municipal People's Government in 2006 and began full market-oriented operation in 2013. It is one of the earliest design weeks held in China. Guangzhou Design Week has been successfully held for 16 consecutive sessions. It is a design industry event with large scale, large number of participants and wide influence in Asia. Guangzhou Design Week has promoted "low-carbon design" since 2007 First of all, by undertaking the "climate cool first exhibition", it took the lead in setting off a trend of paying attention to sustainable design. (correspondent: Guangzhou Design Week)