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Linking the ceramic industry, creativity and education in Jingdezhen, China: Given at the First British Ceramics Biennial Conference Artists into Industry at the Wedgwood Museum in Stoke-on-Trent, October 2009

Jingdezhen The ceramic industry in China is an example of one of the oldest creative industries, and continues today, along with advertising, architecture, arts, computer and video games, designer fashion, film and video, music, performing arts, publishing, software, television and radio (Wei 2009). Jingdezhen, the ‘Porcelain capital of the world’, has been producing ceramics for over one thousand years, since the Han Dynasty (202BC–8AD) (see Figure 1). In the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368), nominated officials of different dynasties set up a special sector there in order to supervise ceramic production for royal use. In the Song Dynasty, Emperor Zhen Zhong gave a small town named Changnan an imperial order for ceramics. The pieces were all stamped with the name of the emperor’s era, ‘Jing de’, and Changnan gradually assumed the name ‘Jingdezhen’. Once the imperial kilns were established, artisans from the north migrated to Jingdezhen, bringing skills and advanced techniques. Jingdezhen’s porcelain ware soon became famous throughout the world. Jingdezhen has continued as the centre for Chinese ceramics production right up to the twenty-first century. After 1949, after the ‘large adjustment’, production was dramatically increased, and continues to flourish. From January to June 2009, ceramic industrial output produced 5,020,000,000 Yuan. There has been 3.02 billion Yuan year-on-year growth, equivalent to growth of 66.23 per cent year-on-year. Ceramic exports brought 85,926,000 US dollars into the country in that period, an increase of