On the afternoon of September 1, the signing ceremony for university-industry cooperation & the opening ceremony of Chinese Men’s Trend Development (Shanghai) Center was held by Chinese Men’s Fashion Design and Trading Center and our university on the campus. The inauguration ceremony was attended by President Xia Jianguo, Deputy Party Secretary & Deputy President Pei Xiaoqian, Vice President Yao Xiuping, Vice Chairman of Circulation Sub-commission of China Textile Industry Association & Executive Officer of Textile and Apparel Weekly Qian Jin, Deputy General Manager of China Textile Design Center Li Shiyong, Director of Management Committee of Changshu Apparel City Lu Jianda, Deputy Director of the Management Committee Deng Yunhua and responsible persons of each Center of the Management Committee, China Top Ten designer and Winner of Jinding Award Wu Xuekai, and administrative leaders and party leaders of the President’s Office, Department of Scientific Research and Fashion College. The Ceremony was chaired by Deputy Party Secretary and Vice President Pei Xiaoqian.
President Xia Jianguo delivered a welcome speech to the guests, he appreciated the concern from China Textile Industry Association and the support from Management Committee of Changshu Apparel City on behalf our university’s teachers and students. President Xia hopes that the two sides would establish a long-term, comprehensive and in-depth university-industry strategic alliance through university-enterprise coalition and by relying on the university-industry cooperation platform so as to enhance our university’s industrial cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta and along the “One Belt And One Road”. By centering around excellent personnel training, conversion of scientific and technological achievements, construction of innovation and creative industries, President Xia expected to promote our universities and enterprises to complement each other’s advantages and truly realize “resources sharing, mutual benefit and joint development”.
Vice Chairman of Circulation Sub-commission of China Textile Industry Association & Executive Officer of Textile and Apparel Weekly Qian Jin also expressed their high expectations for the Center. He believes that Chinese Men’s Fashion Design and Trading Center and SUES jointly established Chinese Men’s Fashion Trend Development (Shanghai) Center, so the two sides aim to explore the model innovation and upgrade the service industry; the Center will take men’s fashion design transactions, trend R &D and brand fostering as its core business. Then he expects that the Center would promote the match-making and cooperation among industrial upstream and downstream and territorial channels.
At the ceremony, President Xia Jianguo and Vice Chairman of Circulation Sub-commission of China Textile Industry Association & Executive Officer of Textile and Apparel Weekly Qian Jin inaugurated the Chinese Men’s Fashion Trend Development (Shanghai) Center altogether; Vice President Yao Xiuping and Director of Management Committee of Changshu Apparel City Lu Jianda jointly unveiled the “University-Industry Cooperation Base”. Party Secretary of Fashion College Yuan Rong and General Manager of Chinese Men’s Fashion Design and Trading Center signed an industry-university-research cooperation agreement.