Recently, the Selection Event of the 6th (2020) China Top Ten Best Textile Designers and Advanced Training Units came to an end. Lanzhou Sanmao Industrial Co., Ltd. was honored with the prestigious title of "'Golden Shuttle Award' Sixth (2020) China Advanced Training Unit for Textile Designers". Comrade Wang Linian, assistant to the general manager of the industrial company and director of the product design center, received the prestigious title of "China Outstanding Textile Designer". Comrade Li Yanni, the designer of the product design center, was honored with the prestigious title of "China Shortlisted Textile Designer".

The judging panel for this event was composed of many units including the China National Textile and Apparel Council and the China Textile Information Center. A total of 6 major awards were selected. Only 5 companies were selected as "China Advanced Training Units for Textile Designers", and Lanzhou Sanmao Industrial Co., Ltd. was among the winners.The development and innovation of new products and talent training have been recognized and affirmed by review experts, which demonstrates the R&D strength of the company's design team and shows that the company's influence in the wool textile market and industry is further increasing.

In recent years, the company has continuously strengthened innovation and research and development of product and talent training.The new products developed by the company's product design center have won numerous awards in various categories in the national wool textile industry and fields, with remarkable results, highlighting the company's gratifying achievements in product development, independent innovation, and brand building. The company focuses on strengthening technological innovation and research and development and continuously strengthens the construction of talent positions. The company has established and improved the incentive mechanism of innovation and R&D for engineering and technical personnel, which has effectively stimulated the subjective initiative and enthusiasm for the development and innovation of technical personnel, and established a stable R&D team.At present, the company's product design center has 15 employees, with an average age of 35 years old, of whom 76% have senior professional titles and 88% have a bachelor's degree or above, forming a young team full of vigor, high cultural quality, and excellent business and technical skills.

The product design center of the company was founded in 2004. Formerly known as the Woolen Textile Research Institute of Lanzhou Sanmao Textile Group, the company accelerated the deepening of the internal reform of the enterprise and separated the functions of woolen product development and design and relevant functions of front-line process of sample products production from the functions of the original Woolen Textile Research Institute to establish a product design center.In the construction and development of the product design center, the company relies on training and assessment of national textile fabric designers to jointly cultivate talents in art, design, and textile technology, and overall improve the capabilities of fashion leadership and technology development of design talents. The company has arranged for designers to participate in professional training many times and formed a skilled, innovative, and compound talent training model, which has further improved the R&D capabilities and levels of designers. At present, the company has built a strong R&D team led by senior fabric designers, with intermediate fabric designers as the main body, and assistant fabric designers as the reserve force, and has cultivated a group of fabric designers with high professional level and innovative ability.

In recent years, the developers of the product design center have devoted themselves to research and given full play to the "craftsman spirit". After they made bold breakthroughs and innovative ideas in new raw materials, new technologies, and new processes,they have designed batches of unique products of fabric style, and enriched and innovated new types of wool worsted products, which has made positive contributions to enhancing the company's influence in the industry and market.