Preface

The Green Award is promoted by Mr. Zhou Ganzhi, a famous academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences or Chinese Academy of Engineering and former deputy minister of Construction. He is absent at our prize-awarding ceremony and the winning designer forum in Nanjing last year because of his poor health condition. But when I gave him the collection of awarded entries, he read it carefully, smiling amiably and approvingly. He praised the Green Award for providing students a fair platform to show their talents. He told me earnestly, “Students are the future of our country who will burden the mission to construct our motherland in a few years. The Green Award should be definitely on year after year without selling honor, otherwise the Green Award will be lost its real meaning”.

Mr. Zhou, we will make it better and better as your wish and never let you down.

In the year of 2014, we made a great achievement. The amount of entries and competitors is tripled over last year, involved nearly half of China's most influential universities. One thing be mentioned, the quality of the entries is significantly improved than last year, especially the theory of ecological civilization shows a more prominent status in their works. From those excellent works we know that the teaching level in design majors has reached a new height.

In professional group, we received many great works from Singapore which leads the trend of ecological culture, pro-environment. I hope that all our young students would learn from them and attend the contest more actively.

Proposition design has become a special highlight of the contest, but there are few works in this field because that it is too difficult for students to finish in a limited time. In order to encourage student to participate the design contest, we decide to choose an easy one next year.

I will give my thanks to all of the contestants and my congratulations to winners as well as their teachers. Especially, I will show my special thanks to Professor Men Zhaozhen of attending our award ceremony and encouraging the young generations.

The publication of the collection is not only the achievement-demonstration of this year but also a new beginning for next year. To make a better future, our Chinese Dream.

Wang Xianmin

10.19.2014

West Coast , Qingdao