Issued: 2011 -08-09
Source: Shanghai creative industry demonstration and service platform

Today, promoting office of creative city is set on 16th Floor of Tongji Building, Ai Baojun, Vice Mayor, Zhu Hongren, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry, Xiao Guiyu, Municipal Government Deputy Secretary, Wang Jian, director of City Economic Information Committee and Jin Xingming, Mayor of Yangpu District together cut the ribbon for office locating.
This year is the start of promoting the creative entity operation in the city, according to planning requirements on the "creative city building" and "Twelfth Five-year" development of the city cultural and creative industries in 2010 government work plan, the office will focus on the relevant tasks proposed by UNESCO and the " Shanghai Creative Design view ", rely on show and service platform of creative industries in Shanghai, and concentrate on personnel training, service dock, projects promoting and other key works to be a good helper of government departments and a promoter of the development of creative design industry of the city, thus making efforts to unite the city's creative power to build creative city and laying the foundation to make Shanghai an important node of "Creative Cities Network" in the Asia Pacific region.
It is reported that the book “2011 Shanghai Design Impression” planned and compiled by the Economic Information Committee of information technology together with promoting office of creative city has recently been officially published. The content of the book consists of six parts: industrial design, fashion design, urban and architectural design, interior design, visual arts, design and creative industry cluster, and collects 35 innovative design cases which are a microcosm of the development of Shanghai creative industries, through which you can see the huge role of design innovation has played in the construction and development of enterprises, economy and social progress.