SHANGHAI, Dec. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- The sixth Shanghai Biennial, which is scheduled to take place in Shanghai on Sept.5, 2006, will highlight designs, organizers announced on Tuesday.

    Zhang Qing, one of the six specially invited planners for the Shanghai Biennial, said design and innovation were closely related.

    "In addition to being on an artistic mission, we also hope to amass experience for the World Expo, scheduled to be held in Shanghai in 2010, by holding the 6th Shanghai Biennial," said Zhang.

    The sixth Shanghai Biennial, with "hyperdesign" as its main theme, will also feature three subthemes: design and imagination, redesigning and constituting future history, according Zhang.

    The Shanghai Biennial, launched in 1996, is the first international art biennial expo on the Chinese mainland. Each time,it will last for two months.

    Xu Jiang, head of the art committee for the 2006 Shanghai Biennial and also president of the China Academy of Fine Arts based in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, said,"We are determined to provide the world with a feast of designs and art via the Shanghai Biennial." Enditem