#  Dalian Design Festival in China

The [Dalian Design Festival](http://www.dalian-designfestival.com) 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](https://gots.vorschau.website/resources/glossary/gots "<p>The worldwide leading voluntary sustainability standard for the post-harvest textile value chain for certified organic fibres, covering environmental criteria, human rights, social criteria and business conduct.</p>") 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](https://gots.vorschau.website/resources/glossary/standard "<p>standard glossary text</p>") as the most stringent [organic](https://gots.vorschau.website/resources/glossary/organic "<p>'Organic' is a regulated term used to distinguish systems of managed production and products derived therefrom that adhere to principles of health, ecology, fairness and care, and which are certified compliant to an organic standard's regulations by an Approved Certification Body. <br>GOTS defines organic textiles as being made with fibres from organic agriculture systems that are certified to one of the IFOAM Family of Standards, and that are processed in socially and ecologically responsible ways, in alignment with organic principles.</p>") textile [standard](https://gots.vorschau.website/resources/glossary/standard "<p>standard glossary text</p>") in the world, to Chinese designers, designer students and establish dialogs with Chinese garment companies and media.

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