An unquestioned fact, China is the fastest growing economy of the world. Starting beginning of 2008, the country became the world’s third largest economy chasing after U.S. and Japan. As the country grow richer, retail sales in China have reached over 6 trillion RMB and are expected to continue increasing in the next 10 years to 30 trillion RMB. The local consumers are demanding well-made and designed products. Driving by this demand from the market, the manufacturers need good designs.

Meanwhile, on the export market, China is well known for “MADE IN CHINA”. The country has made itself the factory of the world in the last 30 years. Since last a couple years, due to the factors such as depreciation of U.S. dollar, increasing prices of labor and material etc. , China can no longer compete on prices alone. That forces the Chinese companies to make change. This new market development has great impact on life style product sector. Most of the Chinese companies in the industry take product design as serious as never before and indeed they need good designs to stay competitive.