The Wuxi Huishan Economic Development Zone holds an innovation conference on new industries on Oct 11. [Photo/js.chinanews.com]
The Wuxi Huishan Economic Development Zone held an innovation conference on new industries on Oct 11.
More than 300 experts from emerging industries such as graphene new materials, intelligent manufacturing, information technology, and optoelectronics participated in the conference.
They discussed recent achievements in industrialization applications and ideas related to industrial innovation and development, as well as possibilities for further development.
Products made of graphene are exhibited during the conference. [Photo/js.chinanews.com]
A total of eight key projects with 3.565 billion yuan ($503.8 million) in investment were signed during the conference, including a semiconductor technology project and a smart touchscreen project.
Cao Wenbin, director of the Wuxi Huishan Economic Development Zone, explained that the zone is mainly focused on developing new graphene materials, intelligent manufacturing, information technology, and optoelectronics.
Wuxi's Huishan district is at the forefront of the Chinese graphene industry. In 2013, the national graphene industry demonstration area was built there and was included in the Torch program -- a plan to develop hi-tech industries in China.
The Chinese workstation of Konstantin Novoselov, whose work with Andre Geim on graphene earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010, announced their latest achievement -- chip products based on graphene materials -- during the conference.
