Founded in 2009, Ningbo Artop Industrial Design Co., Ltd. is a holding subsidiary of ARTOP GROUP (AG), a national industrial design center. The company is located in Ningbo, the economic center of the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta. Since its establishment, Ningbo Artop has won dozens of top design awards at home and abroad, including German iF Design Award, German Red Dot Design Award, China Design Intelligence Award and Red Star Award, and has also won the honorary qualifications of Top Ten Industrial Design Enterprises in Zhejiang, Small and Medium-sized Scientific and Technological Enterprises in Zhejiang, and Credit Demonstration Small and Micro Enterprises in Ningbo. Ma Chao, general manager of Ningbo Artop, won the honorary titles of "Top Ten Outstanding Young Designers of the first Zhejiang DDF Awards" and "Top 100 Young Designers of China" in the 14th DDF Awards in 2018. Ningbo Artop relies on the whole industry chain design innovation service platform of Artop Group to provide the whole industry chain service with design innovation as the core for enterprises in Yangtze River Delta in terms of the transformation and upgrading, the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, innovation and entrepreneurship. Driven by design innovation, it enhances the comprehensive competitiveness of enterprises, promotes the adjustment of industrial structure in Yangtze River Delta, and realizes the high-quality development.

Artop Design Group was born in Shenzhen as a professional industrial design institution in 1999. It is one of the professional full industry chain design innovation servicer with large scale, strong innovation, implementation capabilities and wide supply chain resource in the domestic industrial design field. With a professional team of over 1,000 people in design, research, technology, engineering, manufacturing, marketing and branding fields, Artop group has formed six business clusters covering design, supply chain, manufacturing, industry research, education, finance and in relative cities through 54 wholly-owned / holding companies and affiliates in 15 cities around the world, drawing out an internationalized and platformized business map along the "Belt and Road" with "Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Great Bay Area" as the innovation resource hub and the "Yangtze River Economic Belt" as its axis.Artop group has taken the lead in proposing and implementing the development model of the whole industrial chain design and innovation. It has built a D + industry-wide ecosystem of innovative services with multi-dimensional capabilities and high efficiency, with design innovation as its core, and set up three industrial clusters under the D + M brand, namely, Artop intelligent manufacturing factory, intelligent manufacturing experience hall and Industrial Design Town.As a member of the World Design Organization (WDO), Artop group has been certificated as “National Industrial Design Centers” two times and got other nationl qualifications such as “Technology Business Incubator”, “Maker Space” and “Demonstration Platform of Small and Medium Enterprises Public Service”