On the afternoon of September 24, the final review meeting and awards ceremony of the 2020 Chongqing • Yuzhong Cultural & Creative Product Design Competition was held in Raffles City, Yuzhong District. Such works as "Shu Embroidery Table Lamp of Stilted Buildings," "Wood Carving Three-dimensional Night Lamp of I Love Chongqing Series," and "Three-dimensional Paper Carving Lamp of Hongyadong" carried off prizes.
The gold award Shu Embroidery Table Lamp of Stilted Buildings
CPC Yuzhong District Committee co-hosted the competition, People's Government of Yuzhong District, and Chongqing Daily News Group. It was undertaken by the Propaganda Department of CPC Yuzhong District Committee, the Yuzhong District Commission of Culture and Tourism Development, the Tourism Development Center of Chongqing Daily News Group, and Chongqing News Tourism Group. The competition lasted for more than two months, pooling over 200 entries, with 50 ones shortlisted in the preliminary review.
On the same day, a jury composed of heads of administrative government departments, experts and professors from universities, leaders of industrial associations, and business elites, after two rounds of on-site voting and deliberation, finally selected the winners of gold, silver, and bronze awards and ten best works. Among them, the "Shu Embroidery Table Lamp of Stilted Buildings" won the gold award with a prize of 50,000 yuan and the mass production policy support from Yuzhong District; the "Wood Carving Three-dimensional Night Lamp of I Love Chongqing Series" and the "Three-dimensional Paper Carving Lamp of Hongyadong" won the silver awards with a prize of 20,000 yuan each; "Yuzhong Landscape Paperweight," "The City of Sky • DIY Music Box of Five Yuzhong Scenes," and "Tianshi • Scented Lamp" won bronze prizes with a prize of 5,000 yuan each. The ten best works were also selected, including hotpot tableware set, the model of People's Liberation Monument, Zuishancheng • dark-red enameled pottery series, and "Jialing Dawn" series of the circular fan.
The purpose of this competition is to discover the authentic special goods of Chongqing further and use cultural and creative products to enable more people well-informed of Yuzhong, fascinated by its charm and engaged in its image promotion. Next, as a supporter of the competition, the Culture and Tourism Characteristic Branch of the Bank of Chongqing will financially support the outstanding cultural and creative products in the competition. Specifically, it will help them realize mass production and come into the market, thus bolstering the prosperity and development of the cultural industry in Yuzhong District.