The Sunway TaihuLight is a supercomputer developed by the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi. [Photo/Wuxi Bobao]

Binhu district in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province has been promoting sci-tech innovation and improving its industrial structure to achieve high-quality development over the past few years.

The output of the high-tech sector presently accounts for 75.52 percent of the total value of companies above designated scale in Binhu, the highest rate among all districts in Wuxi.

Research institutes in Binhu have been making significant scientific and technological breakthroughs. For example, the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, which is located in the Liyuan Economic and Technological Development Zone of Binhu, unveiled the Sunway TaihuLight, once the world's fastest supercomputer, in 2016.

The center has since conducted extensive inter-disciplinary and cross-industry cooperation to expand applications of the supercomputer. It is also a recipient of the 2021 Gordon Bell Prize, which is commonly referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Supercomputing".

The center is planning to increase the supercomputer's processing capacity by eight to 10 times, allowing it to perform over 1 quintillion calculations per second and provide better services to institutions such as Jiangnan University and Envision Energy, said Liu Zhao, deputy director of the research and development department at the center.

Yang Zhenqing, head of the bureau of science and technology of Binhu, said the district will further develop its quantum technology industry in the future and is aiming to have 1,000 high-tech companies by 2025.