In 2017, the Education Department of Shandong Province of China approved Qingdao University to establish the «Shandong Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Eco-textiles”. Through hard work and struggle, the center achieved extraordinary achievements in serving the development of Chinese textile industry. Therefore, in 2020, the Ministry of Education of People’s Republic of China recognized Qingdao University to establish the “Collaborative Innovation Center for Eco-textiles of Shandong Province and the Ministry of Education” based on the Shandong Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Ecotextiles.
The center adheres to facing the forefront of world technology, the main battlefield of the economy, major national needs, and people’s lives and health. The mission of the center is to serve Shandong’s trillion level textile industry and build a strong textile country. The center collaborates with the industry leaders such as YuYue, Luthai, Jifa, Anoki and Sunvim to conduct innovation research in the three areas of green and low- carbon dyeing and finishing technology, green fibers and functional ecological textiles, and textile resource recycling. Efficient collaborative nnovation has broken through a large number of key technologies and promoted the green and high-quality development of the textile industry.
The center has formed an innovation team of more than 100 national and provincial level experts, including academicians, national talents of millions, national special experts, Changjiang scholars, national outstanding and outstanding young people, etc.
The team has undertaken 319 national and provincial level major projects, including the National Key R&D Program and the Shandong Provincial Key R&D
Innovation Project, as well as enterprise commissioned projects. In recent years, the center has broken through 62 major common key technologies in textile ndustry, transformed and applied 130 scientific and technological achievements, and created economic benefits of Ґ3.453 billion. The team of center has won 11 awards including the first prize for scientific and technological progress in Shandong Province, authorized 127 patents, and published 379 high-level academic papers.
At present, the center’s research space covers more than 3100 square meters, with 86 sets of large-scale instruments and equipment worth over Ґ30 million, including artificial climate laboratories, high-speed inkjet observation systems, and textile specific testing and analysis equipment. The center has established a firstclass industry university research collaborative innovation platform, serving more than 100 textile enterprises inside and outside Shandong Province.
The head of the organization：
Kuanjun Fang， Ph.D., Full Professor.
E-mail: kjfang@qdu.edu.cn, 13808980221@163.com
Mr. Kuanjun Fang obtained his engineering doctoral degree n 1993 from China Textile University majoring in textile chemistry and coloration engineering. At present he is the first level distinguished professor, second class professor, and also:
– doctoral supervisor of Qingdao University,
– the head of Shandong Provincials top discipline and first level discipline doctoral program in textile science and engineering,
– Director of Provincial and Ministerial Collaborative Innovation Center for Eco-textiles,
– Vice Director of Provincial and Ministerial Collaborative Key Laboratory for Biofibers and Eco-textiles,
– Vice Director of National Advanced Printing and Dyeing Technology Innovation Center,
– Director of the Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Textile Materials for Medical and Health,
– Distinguished Chair Professor of Tiangong University,
– Fellow of China Textile Engineering Society,
– Fellow of the Society of Dyers and Colorists,
– Royal Chartered Colorist of United Kingdom,
– Vice Director of Dyeing and Finishing Committee of China Textile Engineering Society,
– Council Member of China Printing and Dyeing Industry Association,
– Textile Safety Advisor of China National Textile and Apparel Council,
– Chairman of China Region of the Society of Dyers and Colorists,
– Executive Director of Fiber Material Modification and Composite Technology Branch of China Materials Research Association,
– Corresponding Editor of Coloration Technology,
– member of the editorial committee of China Textile Press, Journal of Textile Research, Dyeing and Finishing, Knitting Industries and China Textile Leader,
– Reviewer of the National Thousand Talents Program and Changjiang Scholars,
– chief scientist of YUYUE Home Textile Co., Ltd.,
– the president of Shandong Yellow River Delta Insititute for Textile Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
He used to be the dean of College of Textiles and Clothing of Jiangnan University and the director of Eco-textile Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, the professor of Textile College of Tianjin Polythenic University.
He mainly engaged in research on green and low-carbon textile manufacturing technology and textile materials for medical and health. He presided 61 national, provincial, ministerial and entrusted projects, published 3 monographs, authorized 173 patents, and published 262 papers. He made outstanding contributions in clean production technology for highprecision rotary screen printing of textiles, salt free clean dyeing of cotton textiles, digital inkjet printing, source reduction of coloration wastewater and resource recycling, denim deep processing, nanocarbon composite fiber materials and physiotherapy products, nanofiber composite materials and products, etc.
He has won second level prize of National Science and Technology Progress Awards by the State Council of China, 7 first prizes of provincial and ministerial awards for science and technology progress, and 6 other science and technology awards.
He has the honours of recipient of the special allowance of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, Excellent Talents of the Ministry of Education in the New Century, China, Distinguished Individual in Shandong Province for Solving Difficult Problems, Outstanding Contributors to the Textile Industry in China’s Past 40 Years of Reform and Opening-up, China Textile Academic Leader, and Qingdao Distinguished Employee.