Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone is also known as China Speech Valley and the Quantum Center. [Photo/WeChat ID: hefeigaoxinfabu]

Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone released an action plan on Sept 24 for speeding up the construction of a world-leading sci-tech park, highlighting the goal of building the World Quantum Center by 2035.

The zone aims to become China's first world-leading sci-tech park, with the quantum industry being the core of the World Quantum Center by 2035, according to the plan.

With the goal of becoming a world-leading sci-tech park, the zone plans to produce a number of disruptive technologies, cultivate a number of world-class enterprises, explore several future world-leading industries, bring together the world's top talents, create a world-class innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, and have an open and inclusive innovation culture, according to Lyu Changfu, deputy director of the zone's administrative committee.

The plan states that the zone will focus on developing future industries, including two characteristic industries of quantum technology and aerospace information, and two major industries of energy, and life and health. It aims to take the lead globally in the fields of quantum information and aerospace information by 2025.

Lyu Changfu, deputy director of the administrative committee of the Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone, releases the action plan at a press conference on Sept 24. [Photo/WeChat ID: hefeigaoxinfabu]