Graphene connects the Silk Road, gathers usage, and wins the future - The 2019 China World Graphene Innovation Conference grandly opened in Xi'an.

Release time:

2019-10-30

This conference is jointly hosted by the People's Government of Xi'an and the Graphene Industrial Skills Innovation Strategic Alliance, with the Xi'an Science and Technology Bureau, the Management Committee of Xi'an High-tech Industrial Development Zone, and the Xi'an Silk Road Graphene Innovation Center as the organizers. Leaders attending the conference include Xu Dingming, former counselor of the State Council and former director of the Energy Bureau; Xing Tao, former deputy director of the Raw Materials Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; Shi Gaoling, member of the Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Work Committee and deputy director of the Science and Technology Department; Wang Huanchang from the Xi'an Political Consultative Conference and Xi'an Federation of Industry and Commerce; Wang Jianhua, executive vice president/secretary-general of the China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Promotion Association; Li Zhijun, secretary of the Party Leadership Group and director of the Xi'an Science and Technology Bureau; and Gu Haiwen, deputy director of the Xi'an High-tech Zone Management Committee. At the opening ceremony, graphene Nobel Prize winner Professor Andre Geim from the University of Manchester, Professor Costas Galiotis from FORTH in Greece, Professor Duan Xiangfeng from the University of California, Los Angeles, Chairman Qu Yan of Changzhou Sixth Element Materials Technology Co., Ltd., Vice President Murni Ali from Nano Malaysia, and Mr. Wang Zhenyu, assistant general manager of China United Property Insurance Company, successively delivered keynote speeches, deeply analyzing cutting-edge graphene technology and exploring the future development of graphene. It is reported that the "International Graphene Product Certification Center (IGCC)" is a global independent third-party certification organization proposed by the European graphene network organization Phantoms Foundation and other related organizations. This certification center was officially established on January 18, 2018, headquartered in Germany, and is currently an independent third-party organization providing voluntary certification services for graphene raw materials and application products in the global graphene industry. The establishment of the IGCC Xi'an Center not only provides strategic support for domestic graphene certification but also greatly stimulates the enthusiasm for the development of the domestic graphene industry. It is also an important measure in response to the Belt and Road Initiative, marking a milestone in the healthy standard development of graphene. This conference features a roundtable meeting on global cooperation in graphene along the Belt and Road, an exhibition of Shaanxi's graphene innovation achievements and the effects of the Belt and Road, a business reception room for enterprises to connect with graphene technology and product needs, a graphene product experience hall that combines popular science and market promotion, a new product launch conference for enterprises to release graphene products globally, and a global graphene industry research report release ceremony, among other special activities. These various activities aim to promote the development of the graphene industry. Among them, this conference has specially established the "Shaanxi Graphene Industrial Innovation Achievements and Belt and Road Effects Exhibition" with the theme of enhancing the central axis of the Belt and Road to boost the future of Shaanxi's graphene industry. The "Effects Exhibition" will showcase the innovative achievements of Shaanxi's innovation teams and research institutions, as well as mature products from Shaanxi's graphene industrialization, demonstrating the new vitality and advantages of Shaanxi's "hard technology" industrial development to the world. Since the Xi'an Silk Road Graphene Innovation Center was established in the high-tech zone, it has implemented the "Five Ones" project for graphene innovation in Xi'an, successively establishing the "Secretariat of the China International Graphene Innovation Conference," forming the "Xi'an Graphene Industrial Development Expert Committee," establishing the "Xi'an Graphene Industrial Alliance," building the "Graphene Industrial Innovation Base," and proposing the "Xi'an Silk Road Graphene Industrial Investment Fund." Focusing on key industry applications, the center has established professional and authoritative industrial service platforms, including research institutes for medical, construction, energy conservation and environmental protection, automotive, military integration, textiles, as well as promotion centers for agricultural and electric heating applications. Through these professional industrial service platforms, the center has effectively promoted the continuous emergence and transformation of Shaanxi's graphene innovation achievements, with a large number of high-end talents and their innovative achievements represented by graphene Nobel Prize winner Professor Andre Geim developing in Xi'an. At the same time, the center has also helped enterprises open up market promotion channels, assisting in the industrial transformation of Xi'an. This conference has specially established 100 "business reception rooms," gathering many domestic and foreign Fortune 500 companies such as Huawei, Haier, Shaanxi Automobile, Oriental Yuhong, and Tata Steel. Focusing on fields such as the Internet of Things, new energy, coatings, thermal management, medical health, aerospace, and energy conservation and environmental protection, it connects over 200 graphene technology innovation needs with global graphene industrialization enterprises, bringing urgently needed graphene-related technologies and products to application enterprises, helping them gain strategic advantages, promote industrial transformation and upgrading, and achieve new industrial growth points. It will also help graphene enterprises expand their product markets, gauge their future development directions, promote the industrialization process of graphene, and open a new era of global graphene industrial development. Everyone participates to build a highland of Silk Road graphene industrial innovation. 2019 is a key year for upgrading the Xi'an hard technology brand. The successful holding of the "2019 China International Graphene Innovation Conference," as an important part of the hard technology conference, helps Xi'an build an innovative ecological chain for the graphene new material industry, promotes international scientific and technological communication and cooperation in Xi'an, and stimulates the innovative vitality of local new material and other hard technology enterprises. At the same time, leveraging the conference platform, it aims to build a technological cooperation channel between Xi'an and the countries along the Belt and Road through graphene new materials, creating a global graphene industrial development community of complementary advantages and win-win cooperation, assisting Xi'an in becoming a city of graphene industrial application innovation along the Belt and Road and a global capital of hard technology, effectively supporting and leading high-quality economic development, and achieving the goal of catching up and surpassing.

Key words:

Harbin Institute of Technology Graphite, Jixi Harbin Institute of Technology Carbon-based Materials