On December 2, 2017, the final review of the 2017 "Design +" National Young Designer Innovation & Maker Competition sponsored by the Design Education Committee of China Higher Education Association and organized by the School of Art of Zhejiang Shuren University was successfully completed in Zhejiang Shuren University Art Museum. The competition received positive response of contributions from 153 design schools, including Central Academy of Fine Arts, China Academy of Art, Jiangnan University, Zhejiang University of Technology, Guangdong Vocational and Technical College of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hangzhou Normal University, Anhui Jianzhu University, Yanshan University and Fuzhou University, some design companies and individual designers, and received 4,234 entries.

In this year's national design competition, Wu Kaishun, a major in industrial design from the School of Art, and Shan Yaojia, a major in visual communication design from the School of Art, were awarded bronze awards in "Smart Lock Design" and "Poster Design" respectively, and many other students won awards of excellence.