The Dalian Design Festival is hosted by the Dalian Municipal and co-organized by China Industrial Design Association and Dragon Design Foundation. Since 2008, the annual event has been an important event in the design industry aiming to improve industrial development, to promote product design upgrade and to exchange talents and ideas.
From June 27th – 28th, Shirley Hon, GOTS China Representative was invited to the 6th Dalian Design Forum as a key speaker at the Garment Design Sub-forum to introduce the concept of ‘sustainable design” and brought up GOTS standard as the most stringent organic textile standard in the world, to Chinese designers, designer students and establish dialogs with Chinese garment companies and media.