"D+M Industrial Design Town" is an industrial service ecosystem area centered on design innovation, integrating industry chain resources, research and application development, basic support systems (including inspection and testing, rapid prototyping, etc.), and innovation incubation platforms. It aims to promote industrial transformation and upgrading, technology achievements transformation, and innovative entrepreneurship development.
In "D+M," D represents Dream (梦想), Design (设计), Diversity (多样性), Development (发展), Do (实践) and other concepts, while M stands for Manufacture (制造), Market (市场), Money (财富), Merge (融合), etc.
Relying on the "Langjian Full Industry Chain Design Innovation" platform, "D+M Industrial Design Town" constructs six major innovative modes: design innovation consortium, industry chain integration and smart industry consortium, research and application consortium, education and training consortium, innovation incubation consortium, and service supporting consortium.
Founded in 1999, Langjian Group has six business groups including design, supply chain, production research, industry-education integration, industry-finance integration, and city-industry integration. With 52 wholly-owned/holding companies and branches, and a professional team of over 1200 people, it is one of the largest full-industry chain design innovation service providers in China's industrial design field with the strongest innovation and implementation capabilities and the widest supply chain resource coverage. Under the international, diversified, and platform-based strategy with the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" as the innovation resource hub, the "Yangtze River Economic Belt" as the axis, and radiating development along the "Belt and Road", Langjian took the lead in proposing and practicing the "full industry chain design innovation" development model. It built the "D+" full industry chain design innovation service ecosystem centered on design innovation, featuring multi-dimensional empowerment and efficient collaboration among production, learning, research, capital, and application. The group established three major operating brands under the "D+M" brand: Langjian Smart Manufacturing Workshop, Smart Experience Museum, and Industrial Design Town, creating a new industrial development ecology of "co-creation, co-win, coexistence" with remarkable achievements and playing a leading role in the industry.
The first "D+M Industrial Design Town" is located in Wuhan, at No.1 Teyi Avenue, Qiaokou District, Wuhan City, and is a key investment attraction project of Qiaokou District. Covering more than 40 acres, it is operated by Wuhan Jiangchu Kaiwu Technology Co., Ltd. (a holding subsidiary of Langjian Group). The town promotes cluster development through the "one town, six clusters" innovative mode, helping Wuhan develop industrial services such as industrial design and mold technology, implementing the national strategy of innovation-driven development, and aiming to become a leading creative ecosystem platform in Central China and even nationwide centered on design innovation.
Currently, the town has completed the construction of six public service platforms including the rapid prototyping center, initiated and carried out various operational service activities, achieving good results and initially showing industrial agglomeration and service radiation effects: gathering 17 high-quality upstream and downstream enterprises of the industrial chain; hosting and undertaking more than 20 special events in various industrial fields, carrying out hundreds of enterprise services; establishing cooperative relationships with 10 local universities and 11 departments, conducting more than 20 activities such as course development, project co-construction, and student internship training; providing product upgrade and development model innovation service solutions based on the full industrial chain resources for local industrial enterprises like Dongfeng, Oufudi, Jinxiyinxing, Biyi Bird, Fenghuo, Gaode Infrared, Li De Space. In 2018, the town received more than 70 visits from national, provincial, municipal, and district government leaders, with more than 8000 visitors, providing a strong support platform for Wuhan's investment attraction and talent introduction, promoting the steady development, agglomeration development, and upgrading development of Wuhan's industries. While being warmly welcomed by the industrial community and highly recognized by all sectors of society, "D+M Industrial Design Town" was named the "Only Industrial Design Agglomeration Area in Wuhan" in 2018.
In the future, "D+M Industrial Design Town" will activate Wuhan's existing industrial design resources through the integration of innovative technology research, innovative services, innovative entrepreneurship training, incubators, and related fields and resources of the industrial chain. It will help the development of Wuhan's intelligent manufacturing; promote the transformation and upgrading of Wuhan's industries, the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and the development of innovative entrepreneurship; facilitate the integrated development of the service industry and manufacturing industry, playing an important role in creating new economies, new formats, and new models; drive the establishment of a sound innovative entrepreneurial ecological chain in Wuhan and its surrounding areas by gathering multiple industrial services and building various types of public service platforms. This will further enrich the innovative entrepreneurial cultural atmosphere while effectively assisting traditional industries in transformation and upgrading, achieving a more fitting, efficient, scientific, and sustainable coexistence development.