About the Contest
About the Contest

About the Contest

Vision the Future · Fusion of Art and Digital Technology

April2025– June 2025

Organizational structure

Sponsor: Shenzhen General Chamber of Commerce

Organizing entity: Longgang Enterprise Service Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Enterprise Service Group

Co-organizer:Shenzhen Vision Association;Shenzhen Optical Industry Association;

Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area “Eyewear+”Smart Wearable Industry Alliance;Chinese Original Eyewear Designer Team(SJF);Shenzhen Glasses Intellectual Property Service Officee;Shenzhen Virtual Reality Industry Alliance;Nanshan District New Quality Productivity Industry Association, Shenzhen;Shenzhen Longgang lasses Chamber of ommerce;

Professional Organizations

Judging Committee: The Committee will consist of specially invited representatives from leading global eyewear brands, manufacturing and retail enterprises, industry specialists, and heads and professors from world-renowned design schools. The Committeeis is responsible for determining the evaluation results of each group of the contest, resolving intellectual property disputes, and ruling on evaluation disputes or objections.

  • Contest origin

    Contest origin

    As technology develops rapidly, Artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G communication, virtual reality, and other fields have made breakthroughs.

     

    As an important tool of human visual aids, the functionality and style of eyewear are being redefined and the market has embraced unprecedented opportunities and challenges. Under the macro guidance of the national innovation-driven development strategy and the action plan of "Made in China 2025", Shenzhen has closely followed the trend of the times, taking the initiative in accelerating the in-depth integration of the digital economy and the real economy to promote the industry to move up to the top of the value chain.

  • Contest purpose

    Contest purpose

    2024 In order to further respond to the Action Plan for Accelerating the High-quality Development and High-level Application of Artificial Intelligence in Shenzhen (2023-2024) and implement the Action Plan for the Transformation and Upgrading of the Eyewear Industry in Longgang District

     

    It is planned to hold the 2024 Shenzhen International Eyewear (Wearable) Design Contest. Relying on the eyewear industry, the Coontest aims to promote cross-industry integration with such fields as industrial design, digital vision, virtual reality, and smart wear and boost industrial upgrades by stimulating the innovation vitality of the eyewear industry through an annual series of contest activities.

  • Contest significance

    Contest significance

    Shenzhen has rolled out such policies as the Implementation Plan for the Innovation and Development of Shenzhen's Digital Economy Industry and the Measures to Promote the Development of Strategic Emerging Industrial Clusters in Shenzhen

     

    The policies have not only specified the development directions of Shenzhen in such emerging industries as smart hardware and digital creativity but also emphasized leveraging digital technologies to transform and improve traditional industries, in particular, promoting the intelligent transformation of traditional robust industries. As the eastern center of Shenzhen, Longgang District takes the initiative in responding to the superior policies by specifically formulating such policies as the Implementation Rules for Supporting the Development of Industry and Service Industry in Longgang District, aiming to promote the in-depth integration of the eyewear industry and digital technology through means such as policy support, technical innovation, and platform building.