Support for Wuhan UNESCO Creative City of Design

Posted: Wednesday Jun 03, 2020

Sixteen UNESCO Cities of Literature worldwide (including Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature) extended best wishes in nine languages to Wuhan, China.

With a 3500 year-long history, Wuhan is one of the most ancient and civilized metropolitan cities in China. Wuhan is known for its expertise in bridge and high-speed rail engineering, resilient urban planning and high-tech industries. 50% of the world’s long-span bridges and 60% of China’s high-speed railways were designed by Wuhan designers.

Creative design is at the core of Wuhan’s cultural agenda, which includes the large-scale Wuhan Design Biennale, focusing on partnerships between art and technology. The city hosted the first New Media, Animation and Game Expo in China, establishing a key cooperation platform for Chinese, Japanese and Korean designers. Hosting the 10th International Garden Exhibition for landscape design attracted the participation of 92 cities and attendances over 2.4 million people.

In January 2020 Wuhan became known as the birthplace of a deadly coronavirus, COVID-19.

The city was quickly placed in a state of quarantine to contain the spread of the virus. This swift and effective response probably saved hundreds of lives.

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