The Fashion Culture and Creative Industrial Park established by Xi’an Polytechnic University is a professional platform with complete functions, including personnel training, scientific research, achievement transformation, economic services and cultural exchanges; it is ideal for carrying forward the traditional Chinese clothing culture, and for innovating to adapt to the new era.  

Headquartered in Xi'an, Shaanxi province in Northwest China, the university is the only university with textile and clothing characteristics in Northwest China; and the park, built by the school in 2014, relies on the school's professional textile, clothing, art and design as well as its grasp of the characteristic advantages of these disciplines.  

Lyu Zhao, director of the Fashion Culture and Creative Industrial Park and of the institute of clothing and art design of Xi’an Polytechnic University, said that at present the park mainly consists of five platforms: a design center for creation, design and service for the local economy, a center of innovation and entrepreneurship for the university’s graduates to carry out their own innovation and entrepreneurship around the fashion culture industry, a cultural and creative center to use the scientific research achievements of the university to serve local economic, tourism and cultural development, an art exchange center as a professional exhibition hall for exhibitions of all kinds of products and arts, including paintings and academic forums, and a fashion craft workshop that provides processing and technical services for designers.  

Lyu Zhao (standing), director of the Fashion Culture and Creative Industrial Park and director of the institute of clothing and art design of Xi’an Polytechnic University, guides students in the study of traditional Chinese clothing.  

A park office  

A design office of the park  

Lu said that his creative park has been vigorously supported by the governments of Xi'an city and Beilin district. At present, it is a national level maker space and a provincial, municipal and national level maker space.  

Lu said that his park is not just a commercial park but a platform for personnel training, “Therefore, in the construction of organizational structure and assessment standards, we focus on how to cultivate talents, transform achievements, and improve the level of scientific and technological research of tutors,” Lu said.

“On the creative park platform we are trying to build an art design system with Chinese style, Chinese manner and Chinese characteristics. I hope that through the excavation of traditional culture and by means of science and technology, we can inherit the excellent traditional culture,” the director said.