Recently, the Hubei Provincial Federation of Trade Unions announced the list of model workers and skilled talent innovation studios in Hubei Province for 2024. After going through procedures such as review and public announcement, 60 innovation studios including the Li Wanjun Innovation Studio of Wuhan Textile University Birmingham Institute of Fashion and Creativity have been upgraded to the 2024 Hubei Province Model Worker and Skilled Talent Innovation Studios.

Professor Li Wanjun's Innovation Studio was established in 2018. Since its establishment, under the leadership of Professor Li Wanjun, the team members have, on the one hand, joined hands with Birmingham City University in the UK, which is the first Sino-foreign cooperative education institution at the undergraduate level in Hubei Province, and have made considerable progress in the integration and innovative development of higher design education between China and the UK. The project “Construction and Practice of a New Paradigm for Cultivating Outstanding Design Talents with ‘Diversified Integration and All-round Guarantee'” was awarded the first batch of new liberal arts research and reform practice projects by the Ministry of Education. “Enterprise Planning for Graphic Design” was recognized as a national first-class undergraduate course. The project “Reform and Practice of the International Creative Design Talent Cultivation Path with ‘One Chain, Three Stages and Five Dimensions’” won the first prize of the Teaching Achievement Award of Hubei Province. On the other hand, the team members have actively carried out scientific research cooperation between China and foreign countries in the field of creative design industry, conducting a series of scientific research work around innovative product design. In the past three years, the total amount of scientific research funds received has reached tens of millions of yuan. The research achievements have successively provided intellectual support for the development of government departments and enterprises such as Jiang 'an District of Wuhan City and Wuhan Institute of Design and Engineering. Meanwhile, Professor Li Wanjun's Innovation Studio has been actively engaged in the transformation of achievements and the application for awards. In the past three years, it has provided technical support to enterprises and successively transferred four invention patents. The research achievements have won the first prize for scientific and technological progress of the China National Textile and Apparel Council.

Taking the approval of Professor Li Wanjun's Innovation Studio as a model worker and skilled talent innovation studio in Hubei Province in 2024 as an opportunity, the university will call on all teachers to uphold the “self-improvement and perseverance” spirit of the Textile University, constantly learn and carry forward the spirit of model workers, strive unremittingly, pursue excellence, and scale new heights. Make new and greater contributions to building our university into a beautiful textile university with strong academic strength, high cultivation quality, beautiful educational environment, rich cultural atmosphere and good reputation for running the school!