The light developed along with the human being’s development, has become the necessary part of modern life and business application. From the torch in the old time and lantern in feudal society to the incandescent and CFL as well as LED lighting in modern times, each light of times is a symbol of social productivity, a combination of human art and technology. In the modern times, the configuration and understanding and technology of light has become an important issue to measure whether a country is high developed or not.
Review china lighting design development in the past over 20 years, it is a little slower than the developed countries like Japan and Europe and USA. But due to the success of Olympic Games, the Asian Games, the word expo in China, as well as the fast development of China estate and urbanization, the china lighting design level have been improved.
The author visited Over 40 countries, joined in a lot of international building lighting design summits and forums in the past 10 years. He has rich experience and feeling of the advanced idea and application of international design industry. He concludes 3 aspects of the gap between china lighting design ability and developed countries as follows:
1st is the talents of lighting design gap. An industry’s development need to be focused by special people, but cureently, china is lack of the specialist of Lighting design as over 80 percent of the lighting designers come from electrical engineer of indoor design and meanwhile, the training classes for lighting design in china is very few too.