Hainan Intl Yacht Design Award docks in Sanya

The first Hainan International Yacht Design Award's Launching Ceremony was held in Sanya on Oct 18, attracting hundreds of participants from enterprises and institutions in the yachting industry from both home and abroad.

The event sets up three categories for the competition: mass-production yacht design, super yacht design, and maritime culture and tourism platform design. Yacht designers from home and abroad, directors from major yacht manufacturers, and tutors from design schools have been invited as judges at the competition to judge the works in three categories: interior decoration, exterior decoration and general layout. Each of the three competition categories will have three gold prizes, three silver prizes, three bronze prizes and several judges' nomination prizes with a total bonus of 400,000 yuan ($62,463) .

The event was hosted by Hainan Provincial Department of Transportation, the Hainan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, the people's government of Sanya and the Aichuan Fine Arts Institute, and was organized by the administration of Sanya Central Business District and Hainan International Yacht Trading Company.

It aims to build a local yacht design brand, extend exploration in the upstream industry, incubate local enterprises and cultivate excellent talents. The Sanya CBD Yacht Industry academic seminar was also held on the spot with the theme of "Breaking the Road of Chinese Yacht Design."