The Launch Ceremony (Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou Station) of the 10th Asian Lighting Design Awards in 2025 was Successfully Held

On November 1st, the Asia Lighting Design Awards 2025 successfully held its launch ceremony in the Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou region. The event also featured sharing of past award-winning cases, a book signing ceremony for the new book "Lighting Chronicles", practical AIGC application experiences, and interactive exchanges, aiming to inspire creative inspiration and promote breakthroughs in lighting design in terms of technological innovation, cultural integration, and sustainable development.

Award Launch: Embarking on a New Journey

On November 1st, 2024, the highly anticipated Asia Lighting Design Awards 2025 was successfully launched in the Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou region. The launch ceremony was held in these three historic and cultural cities renowned for their exceptional lighting art, aiming to gather lighting design forces in the Yangtze River Delta region and use this as a base to radiate and illuminate the entire country and even the Asian region.

|Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony

Chang Xiaojie, Chairman of Suzhou Urban Investment Lighting Development Co., Ltd., Huang Lei, AALD Wuxi Coordinator and Vice General Manager of Wuxi Lighting Co., Ltd., Chen Yang, Head of the Pre-construction Department of Changzhou Urban Lighting Engineering Co., Ltd., Xu Dongliang, AALD Executive Director and Principal Designer of Dongliang International Lighting Design Center, Shi Kun, Dean of the Lighting Institute of Enlighten Design Group, and Ma Bin, Secretary-General of AALD, jointly took the stage to witness the official launch of this industry event.

|Chang Xiaojie

In his speech, Chang Xiaojie expressed his continuous attention to the Asia Lighting Design Awards, believing it to be a significant force driving industry development. He looks forward to inspiring more creative inspiration through this event and promoting breakthroughs in lighting design in terms of technological innovation, cultural integration, and sustainable development. Subsequently, Qin Yong, Director of the Comprehensive Design Office of Suzhou Lighting, Xu Chen, a designer from Wuxi Lighting, and Xu Dongliang shared their award-winning projects for the Asia Lighting Design Awards this year, allowing attendees to fully appreciate their exquisite skills and innovative ideas in the field of lighting design.

Book Signing: Exploring the Journey of Lighting

The book signing ceremony for "Lighting Chronicles" was an important part of the event. This book is Xu Dongliang's another masterpiece after "City Lighting Strategies", written over five years. It depicts and presents, from a more professional and detailed perspective, the growth journey of a lighting designer who has experienced the development of China's lighting industry over 20 years. At the event, guests were enthusiastic and eager to obtain this precious signed copy as a keepsake.

|Book Signing Ceremony for "Lighting Chronicles"

AI Workstation: Multi-Dimensional Enablement

At the event, Wang Xiao, Technical Director and Mentor of the AIGC Lighting Design Workshop, shared a theme on "AIGC Application Cases" online; Zhu Yuerong, Assistant Secretary-General of AALD and AIGC Mentor, conducted a practical demonstration of the "AI Lighting Workstation".

|Ma Bin

As an AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) innovation platform empowering lighting designers, the "AI Lighting Workstation" leverages deep learning and big data analysis to quickly find the best lighting effects, optimize processes, and significantly improve efficiency. This is also an important step for AALD to lay out AI lighting infrastructure in the wave of intelligence.

Interactive Discussion: Supporting Urban Development

|Hosts: Huang Lei, Qin Yong

The event was co-hosted by Huang Lei and Qin Yong. During the interactive discussion session, guests shared their practical experiences and forward-looking perspectives, engaging in an in-depth and fruitful exchange on "Innovative Management of Urban Lighting Construction in Suzhou, Wuxi, and Changzhou".

|Shi Kun

|Xu Chen

|Chen Chao

|Feng Zheng

|Yang Jian

|Wang Weidong

|Zhu Yuerong

At the end of the event, Xu Dongliang delivered a summary speech. He affirmed the organization form of the event and stated that it provided many valuable suggestions and innovative ideas for further improving the lighting design level in the Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou region, which is of great significance to the urban lighting construction work in Jiangsu and even the Yangtze River Delta.

|Group Photo of Guests

The successful launch ceremony of the Asia Lighting Design Awards 2025 marks the Awards' renewed journey in seeking innovative, energy-efficient, and artistic lighting design works, driving the continuous progress of the industry. We look forward to witnessing more remarkable lighting design works in the future. This event was organized by AALD and Suzhou Lighting, co-organized by Wuxi Lighting and Dongliang International Lighting Design Center, and supported by Zhongzhao Jinzhi for AI technology.