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Design Intelligence Award (DIA, 中国设计智造大奖)

China Academy of Art / DIA Organizing Committee Hangzhou · open to applicants worldwide

Major Chinese international design award run from Hangzhou covering industrial equipment, consumer products, digital economy and cultural innovation, with large cash prizes.

Free to start · no account needed

Get your nomination packet for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes.

You look at it first. Nothing is submitted without your tap.

About

What it offers: Grand prize RMB 1,000,000; gold RMB 300,000; silver RMB 100,000.

Also: exhibition; industry and investment connections.

Who can apply: Industry and concept tracks; entries via public registration or expert nomination.

Cost: Free registration in early period; later registration may carry a fee.

Annual: registration in first half of year (2026 free registration closed July 1, 2026).

How to apply: through the organiser's own application portal (you need an account there).

What to prepare: images, project description.

From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “本次大奖免费报名于2026年7月1日24时(北京时间)截止”

Who can apply

  • Open to creators and freelancers, founders, students
  • Industry and concept tracks; entries via public registration or expert nomination.

What you will need

  • Product imagesOnly you can supply it: upload it once and it is attached wherever it is asked for.
  • Project proposalOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.

How to apply

Applications go through the official page (own portal), which needs an account in your name.

How Onward Scout helps

This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.

Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.

Let Onward Scout prepare this application

Get your nomination packet for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to China Academy of Art / DIA Organizing Committee without your tap.

Nothing is submitted without your tap. Logins, CAPTCHAs, payments and interviews stay with you.