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Report of ISU Education Research Professional Comm

Time:2018-11-30 Source:ISU Secretariat

 

Ms. Zheng Jinhuan, member of ISU Education Research Professional Committee,

president of Journal of Silk, made a speech representing president Chen Wenxing.

 

 

 

Education and Research of Silk

 

 

Dear chairman Li Jilin, all the vice chairmen, and all the members of professional committee,

 

Good morning everyone!

 

ISU Education Research Professional Committee is to practice the purpose of ISU with “communication and cooperation, development with concerted efforts”, promoting the mutual understanding, communication, win-win cooperation and interactive development in the international silk industry in the field of silk education research and scientific research innovation.

 

Since its establishment last year, the ISU Education Research Professional Committee has 15 members from China, Australia, India, Poland, Brazil, Thailand and other countries.

 

On October 9, 2018, the first meeting was held in Hangzhou, China, to discuss the educational research and the scientific research and innovation on silk, it’s also an enlarged meeting with some leaders of association and experts and entrepreneurs of silk industry. At the meeting, Mr. Li Jilin, chairman of ISU, reviewed the original intention of the establishment of the union, introduced some of the work already carried out by the union, and proposed the direction for future efforts to the Committee.

 

1.     Silk education

 

Cultivation of professional student

 

Chinese silk education represented by Soochow University and Zhejiang Sci-Tech University (ZSTU) has gone through an extraordinary road.

 

Take ZSTU as an example, ZSTU is one of the earliest new educational institutions in China, its predecessor named Sericulture Academy was founded in 1897, ZSTU have always adhered to the disciplines of silk and textile for 121 years. The silk major was once renamed and returned to the textile engineering major because of the change of history and era. Until 2016, ZSTU established the Silk Institute and restored the major of silk design and engineering.

 

Other textile universities such as Donghua University and Tianjin Polytechnic University also have a lot of silk education in the curriculum, which have made great contributions to the cultivation of talents in the silk industry.

 

1.2 Colorful training education

 

From May 27 to June 16, 2018, approved by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education, sponsored by ZSTU, co-organized by Journal of Silk, the third and fourth Training Program on Art & Technique Heritage and Creative Design of Brocade was successfully held in ZSTU. The students gathered ZSTU, condensed into a circle of friends in the brocade, and incorporated the knowledge they learned in the school into their creations, which played an excellent role in the livelihood of the Intangible cultural heritage project.

 

From October 17 to November 1, 2018, sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, China, ZSTU held the third International Training Program on Processing Technology and Innovation Design of Modern Silk Products. 24 participants from 9 countries including Ghana, Egypt, Cambodia, Mauritius, Bangladesh, Thailand, Tanzania, Uzbekistan and India participated in the training, demonstrating the Chinese technology and level in this field and contributing to Chinese technological progress in the world silk.

 

On September 12, 2018, 16 sericulture technicians from Uzbekistan came to China Deqing County Mogan Tianzhu Silkworm Co., Ltd. to learn sericulture seed technology. Mr. Wang Yongqiang, member of ISU Education Research Professional Committee and the deputy director of Zhejiang Sericulture Research Institute, and other expert gave lectures and technical guidance to Uzbekistan sericulture technicians, which has established the contact channels and partnerships in various aspects.

 

Huzhou Economic and Information Technology Commission and ZSTU opened the Training Course of Silk Processing and Innovation in Huzhou, which is held once a year for four days. It aims to open up the eyes of the participants and look at the world to design and produce more and better silk products.

 

2. Silk research

 

May 23, Seminar on Textile and Silk Technology and Industrial Development was held in Soochow University. October 24-26, 5th International Symposium on Advanced Textile Science and Technology was held in ZSTU. Provide wisdom and suggestions for textile and silk technology innovation and industrial development.

 

In recent years, Chinese experts have made a lot of works in deep processing technology of sericulture resources, digital and short-flow silk reeling equipment technology, processing technology of functional silk and its products, creative design and weaving technology for silk products, ecological and Intelligent printing and dyeing of silk, and silk cultural relics protection technology, etc. A group of industrial technology innovation talents have been cultivated, which has promoted the development of the silk industry.

 

For example, Intelligent double-twist work shop of High Fashion; Wensli double-sided printing technology; Zibo Daranfang Silk Group Co., Ltd. is newly recognized national enterprise technology center; Publish the international standard ISO15625:2014, Silk-Electronic Test Method for Defects and Evenness of Raw Silk; Establish a drafting group for raw silk electronic testing grading standards; ISO21046:2018 silk- test method for determining the size of silk yarns has been published recently.

 

A lot of innovative research has been carried out around silk at home and abroad, especially in the modification of the structure and properties of silk by GM Technology.

 

Silk fiber research containing spider silk protein

On August 20, 2018, the British "Daily Mail" published a report entitled " US Army begins testing bulletproof 'spidersuits' for soldiers made from GM silk stronger than steel"; Zhejiang University, Southwest University, and Fudan University in China are also committed to the research on the structure and characteristics of silkworm transformation by GM Technology.

 

Natural color cocoons

Professor Chen Yuyin from Zhejiang University has been researching practical color cocoons for more than 10 years. “Jinqiu × Churi” is the first practical color-cocoon variety to be promoted by the team. Until early 2018, a total of 758 “Jinqiu × Churi” were raised. The expansion of the development and sales channels from color cocoons to related silk products has been realized.

 

3. Research and exchange of silk culture

 

3.1 On the morning of June 9, 2018, Zhejiang Silk and Fashion Culture Research Center held an unveiling ceremony at ZSTU. On June 27, the center held the Seminar on the Construction of Contemporary Chinese Fashion Culture in ZSTU. On July 26, the center and Hang Zhou Weiouai Silk Co.,Ltd. cooperatively established the "Gaoyitai Silk Research Institute".

 

3.2 On April 21-22, 2018, sponsored by the French Consulate General in Shanghai, ZSTU and other units jointly undertook the 2018 China-France Fashion Meeting (Hangzhou Station) activities at the Silk Museum of ZSTU. The activities were mainly to the future developing trends of fashion industry, fashion education and fashion art.

 

3.3 On August 29, 2018, the teachers and students from the School of Fashion Design & Engineering, ZSTU went to New Delhi, India with the mayor of Hangzhou to carry out city image promotion activities.

 

3.4 On October 10-11, Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Culture & Art has successfully held the 2018 Oriental Culture Forum with the theme of silk, porcelain and tea with many companies and organizations such as ISU and Journal of Silk.

 

Regarding silk education and research, all members of the union have also carried out a large number of fruitful works. Welcome to supplement and improve.

 

Thank you all.