Gong Huachao, a junior from Nanjing University of Science and Technology won a top design award at the prestigious 2011 Red Dot Design Awards in Germany. His design was crowned the "best of the best."

This is the post-90s student Gong Huachao's design, Number Keypad Film for Touchpad.

This is the post-90s student Gong Huachao's design, Number Keypad Film for Touchpad. The design turns the laptop touchpad into a convenient number keypad. And it brought Gong "the best of the best" in the design concept category.

Gong Huachao said, "This design is simple and environment-friendly, it can change our life in some way, and also, it has good commercial prospects."

Born in 1991, Gong Huachao has won several design awards since he was a freshman. Now, college students are mainly the post-90s generation, who are active and creative. Education experts said that they should be given more support and encouragement.

Gong Huachao, a junior from Nanjing University of Science and Technology won a top design award at the prestigious 2011 Red Dot Design Awards in Germany. His design was crowned the "best of the best."

Qian Linfang, vice president of Nanjing Univ. of Science & Technology, said, "The post-90s generation are independent, they are accessible to various information and they have developed their own ideas. We should provide support for them."

The Red Dot Design Awards are presented by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany. With over 4,000 entries from 40 countries, the annual red dot design award ranks among the largest design competitions worldwide.