Xiamen Torch High-tech Zone promotes the transformation of scientific research results from universities and helps industries improve quality and upgrade

China News Service, Xiamen, October 3 (Wu Guanbiao) In the High-tech Plaza of Xiamen Torch High-tech Zone, a regional technology transfer and transformation center for universities is operating efficiently. Many university scientific research achievements, such as perovskite-crystalline silicon stacked photovoltaic technology, are accelerating towards industrialization here, which has effectively promoted the upgrading of local leading industries such as new displays and integrated circuits.

Xu Yixu, deputy director of the Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Department of the Xiamen Torch High-tech Zone Management Committee, said in a recent interview that the Chinese Ministry of Education approved the construction of a national university regional technology transfer and transformation center in Fujian in December last year, and built two characteristic sub-centers in Xiamen for optoelectronic display and marine hydrogen energy. At present, the two major sub-centers have reserved more than 460 scientific research results from universities and more than 30 implementation projects.

"Universities are responsible for innovative research and development from 0 to 1, and the transfer and transformation center realizes the leap from 1 to 10, promoting scientific research results to become entrepreneurial projects, and the high-tech zone industrial cultivation system helps enterprises to strengthen from 10 to 100." Xu Yixu said that the center has introduced a one-stop service platform to provide supporting services to university entrepreneurial teams, so that they can "transform as soon as they get off the bus, and accelerate after landing."

In June this year, Xiamen Qihang Hydrogen Energy Technology Co., Ltd., incubated by the Jiageng Innovation Laboratory led by Xiamen University, settled in the Marine Hydrogen Energy Sub-center. The company's main electro-hydrogen coupling equipment technology can effectively reduce the cost of hydrogen production. Wei Wen, general manager of the company, said that the company relies on the top teams and experimental platforms of Xiamen University and Jiageng Laboratory, spanning multiple disciplines such as chemistry, electrical, materials, etc., and introduces the latest results from the academic world into the research and development system.

"Xiamen has obvious geographical advantages. The narrow tube effect of the Taiwan Strait brings abundant offshore wind power resources, which can be effectively converted into hydrogen energy. The hydrogen energy industry subsidy policy is also in line with our business direction." Wei Wen said.

"1 to 10" promotes the industrialization of scientific research results in universities, while "10 to 100" tests the endurance of industrial cultivation. Since 2014, Xiamen Torch High-tech Zone has begun to deploy Hantian Tiancheng Electronic Technology (Xiamen) Co., Ltd., a leading company in silicon carbide epitaxial wafers, to provide assistance during critical periods many times. In March this year, the company was listed on the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx).

Zhao Jianhui, chairman of Hantian Tiancheng, said that the company took the lead in formulating the world's first international SEMI standard for silicon carbide epitaxy. Currently, the development of AIDC (artificial intelligence data center) has opened up space for the growth of silicon carbide, and the company is deeply binding its core supply chain to seize this industrial highland.

The ecology of "investment accompanying + platform transformation" is attracting more and more university projects to land in Xiamen. Xiamen Hengguangnian Technology Co., Ltd. will settle in the optoelectronic display sub-center in 2025 and land in Tong'an, Xiamen. Its core products are low-power, highly integrated optical computing chips. Li Qiang, deputy general manager of the company, said that Xiamen's optoelectronics industry is mature, has many application scenarios and a complete industrial chain. The Torch High-tech Zone can not only help companies calibrate product planning, but also provide corresponding financial support and cooperation opportunities.

According to statistics, Xiamen Torch High-tech Zone currently has more than 40,000 companies and more than 2,000 national-level high-tech enterprises.