Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The AI park plans to start a “Silicon Valley” way of development, and create a global pioneering area of artificial intelligence with originality and an international industry innovation center, relying on the university’s science and education resources. 

Taking the opportunity of the university high-tech zone’s establishment, the Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone will seize the chance of a new wave of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, speed up the construction of advanced light source research institutes and a brain-inspired intelligence national engineering laboratory in Hefei, and build an industrial platform of nuclear fusion, quantum, and ion medicine research centers. 

It will also attract innovative resources globally, construct a comprehensive national science center in Hefei, keep promoting its brand of “China Sound Valley” and the “Quantum Center”, and focus on building itself into a world-class high-tech park and a modern technology city integrating science and technology, industry, culture and landscapes, to become the “home of innovation” with a global influence.

The University of Science and Technology of China Hefei’s high-tech zone

The University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) is a comprehensive key university in China with cutting-edge science and high technologies as its mainstay and coordinated development of humanities as a major focus.

The university’s new campus is planned for Hefei’s high-tech zone, with an area of 1,537 mu (102.47 hectares). It is bordered by Chiangxin Avenue, Yanzihe Road, Shilian South Road and Boyanwan Road.

It is divided into separate campuses for the university and USTC affiliated schools and talent apartments. The first-phase project will cover an area of 595 mu, including a library, dormitories, a canteen, a stadium, an activity center and buildings for different departments. Having begun this month, the construction is slated to finish in 2020.