A total of 385 experts from 127 colleges and industry associations in 26 countries gathered at Shanghai's Donghua University recently to share ideas on textile and fashion talent cultivation, education reform and internationalization of education. The Textile and Fashion Education World Conference was the first of its kind organized by the China National Textile and Apparel Council, the China Textile and Apparel Education Society and Donghua University. It was agreed at the meeting that textile education must “cross over” to other disciplines to achieve innovation and development of the industry, and that “textile plus” — the combination of textiles and other disciplines — has become the mainstream of textile talent cultivation.