When Car Design News launched the China Awards in 2010 the boom in China’s auto industry was still in its early stages. China had just surpassed the US to become the world’s largest car market. However, most joint ventures simply produced their world designs in China and few local producers took design that seriously.

Fast forward a decade and that has all changed. Chinese producers with increasingly global ambitions have fully fledged design departments. Feeding those departments are universities and colleges offering graduates in subjects such as industrial design and transport design.

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