Beijing Design Week

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: "Beijing Design Week" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article contains content that is written like an advertisement. Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. (February 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Beijing Design Week (BJDW) is an annual event that takes place in Beijing, China during the fall. In 2012, UNESCO named Beijing an "International Design Capital."^[1] The purpose of Beijing Design Week is to raise public awareness of design as well as to help develop stronger design infrastructures and discourses in Beijing.^[2][3]

BJDW is an initiative of the Ministry of Education of the PRC, the Ministry of Science and Technology of the PRC, the Ministry of Culture of the PRC, and the People's Government of Beijing Municipality's. It is undertaken by Beijing's Gehua Cultural Development Group and Beijing Industrial Design Center.^[4]