On November 24th, the 2024 Sichuan Provincial College Students’ Ethnic Arts and Crafts Creative Design Competition, hosted by the Education Department of Sichuan Province and organized by Aba Teachers College, officially drew to a close at Aba Teachers College.

After the preliminary selection of works and the final defense in the first round in our school, the College of Architectural Engineering and the College of Education submitted a total of 57 entries, covering various types of works including ceramic art design, ethnic costume design, IP character design, and weaving crafts. In this competition, the school has won a total of 9 first prizes, 9 second prizes, and 14 third prizes in the theme-free category, and 1 second prize, 1 third prize and 3 excellence awards in the category of government-assigned-theme. SCIT teachers, including Zhang Dongguo, Long Yangchi, Yang Yue, Yan Siyu, and Tang Manlin, were awarded the Excellent Instructor Awards, and the school received the Outstanding Organization Award.

This competition promotes innovation in design and the revitalization of traditional ethnic arts and crafts among teachers and students from universities inside and outside the province through discipline competitions, achieving contemporary social value transformation, and making “industry-education integration” an important way to promote the development of ethnic arts and crafts. Through the competition, a talent cultivation and collaborative innovation mechanism has been established, which helps to promote the inheritance and development of ethnic arts and crafts, fully explores and utilizes the excellent traditional cultural connotations of the Chinese nation, and further promotes the development of cultural creativity in Sichuan.