Shenyang, Liaoning: Creative Design Empowers Tussah Industry and Helps Rural Revitalization

  Cctv news Recently, the Shenyang Science and Technology Innovation Service Center of Liaoning Province, Zhong Jun, the inheritor of tussah silk clothing making skills of Shenyang Industrial Competition and intangible cultural heritage, and the teachers and students of the "Wild Silkworm (Tussah) Creative Design Project Team" of dalian polytechnic university Institute of Fashion Technology came to Zhujia Street of Shenyang City to hold an exchange meeting on the development of tussah industry and the design and development of tussah intangible cultural works, and held discussions with more than 30 representatives of silkworm farmers.

  Sun Caihong, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Zhujia Street in Shenyang, presided over the meeting and introduced the overall layout of the cultural tourism industry and the development of tussah industry in Tianjiawa Village.

  Ding Wei, Dean of dalian polytechnic university Institute of Fashion Technology, said that the college will devote itself to building a bridge of cooperation between schools and villages, exploring a new mode of urban-rural integration of "Wild Silkworm Valley" schools+enterprises+villages, providing intellectual support for rural revitalization and maintaining Liaoning’s characteristic industries, and helping Liaoning, China’s tussah industry to develop with high quality.

  At the seminar, the relevant members of the "Wild Silkworm Creative Design Project Team" demonstrated and explained the design concept, application materials and production technology of tussah wenchuang works, so that the majority of silkworm farmers could fully understand tussah wenchuang works through cases and arouse their enthusiasm for learning and participation. Zhong Jun introduced the related situation of Liaoning Heritage Base of Tussah. Finally, the Organizing Committee of Shenyang Industrial Design Competition introduced the related activities of the 2023 Shenyang Industrial Design Competition for teachers and students, and called on everyone to actively promote outstanding creative design works and promote the transformation of outstanding design works.

  Silkworm farmers have said that through this activity, everyone has a more comprehensive understanding of the extension chain of tussah industry, and they are more confident to expand the scale of farming and develop tussah cultural and creative works.

  In the next step, Zhujia Street in Shenyang will speed up the promotion of the Wild Silkworm Valley project, make efforts to extend and improve the tussah industrial chain, and let more people put on the tussah "golden rice bowl" to help the cultural tourism+tussah industry integrate and grow, and the creative design will empower the tussah industry to jointly help the rural revitalization and development.