Do you know how Jiaolong can identify its direction when it reaches thousands of meters deep? Do you know how the Shenzhou spacecraft can find an angle when docking in the sky? The answers to these magical questions can be found at the 2013 First (Wuxi) Yangtze River Delta Optoelectronics Industry Development Promotion Conference held on September 12. On September 12, experts and scholars from universities, scientific research institutes, industry associations in the optoelectronic field across the country, as well as representatives of well-known enterprises from all aspects of the industrial chain, gathered at Wuxi Huishan * High-tech Entrepreneurship Service Center to discuss how to build a good industrial foundation and Wuxi, with industrial advantages, has built the optoelectronic industry into a strong economic growth point for emerging industries in the future.
On September 12, Professor Li Zhengjia, Honorary Chairman of Hubei Province and Wuhan Laser Society, who came to attend the promotion meeting, said in an interview with this newspaper that the proportion of GDP generated by optoelectronic technology in the industries it is applied is increasing, and the market potential of the optoelectronic industry itself is also rapidly increasing. According to statistics from China Optical Electronics Industry Association, the total output value of China's optoelectronic industry in 1999 was approximately US$4 billion, and by 2011, this figure had climbed to US$50 billion.
It is precisely because the optoelectronic industry has broad prospects and huge market potential, so many places are targeting this big cake. Zhu Dexiang, director of the Shanghai City Laser Technology Research Institute, told reporters that Wuxi has more obvious advantages in developing the optoelectronic industry. The first is to have a certain foundation in the optoelectronic industry. Taking Huishan Economic Development Zone as an example, the photovoltaic industry in the region has a high degree of agglomeration, and the industrial chain is in a rudimentary shape. The products involve the solar photovoltaic field, light source optoelectronic field, communication system and equipment field. The aggregation of products from many upstream, intermediate and downstream similar or similar enterprises reduces information asymmetry in the market, forms an economic growth pole, and is conducive to driving the comprehensive development and development of the industrial economy. The second is a good industrial foundation. Wuxi has a solid industrial foundation and a large number of industrial enterprises. These industrial enterprises are potential customers of future optoelectronic products. The third is talent advantages. In Huishan District alone, where Huishan Optoelectronics Industrial Park is located, there are 10 provincial-level academician workstations and 2 foreign academician studios. A number of provincial-level postdoctoral mobile stations and postgraduate workstations have been established. Many of these are talents in optoelectronic science and technology, laying a talent foundation for the development of the optoelectronic industry in the park.
