Editor's Note:  

    Secretary Ma Minglong of Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) CPC Working Committee recently announced that SIP would integrate rising sectors with nanotechnology so as to build SIP into a leading nanotech industrial base in China and even in the world in five to ten years.
    This is a decision made on the solid foundation of current achievements. On the basis of BioBay and Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics at Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), SIP has gathered a group of technological and industrial resources in the field, built the country's top technical platforms, recruited 2,000 professionals, and mastered a series of proprietary patents.
    Nanometer, one billionth of a meter, is widely believed to have the strength of defining the future. Our serial reports will lead you into this world.

 
    Having managed to get away from the extensive impact caused by the global financial crisis and being ready to embrace more opportunities, SIP found itself in an even more challenging situation with many strong competitors. The city of Wuxi becomes increasingly well-known for its Internet of Things, Taizhou leads in pharmaceutical business, while Nanjing is steadily promoting its software sector.
    But more compelling pressure comes from Kunshan, a close neighbor of SIP. The LCD panel production continuously grows in Kunshan and the city gathers the country's top professionals and leading companies in nucleic acid industry. At the municipal working meeting held at the end of March, Kunshan Economic and Technological Development Zone was recognized as Suzhou's only industrial park with the size of over 400 billion yuan, while SIP belongs to the category of 300 billion yuan.  [more]
SIP held this year's first meeting promoting transformation and upgrading on March 28
 
 
     When the city of Wuxi finds its strength in the Internet of Things, Taizhou in bio-medicine, and Nanjing in software, Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) can feel the increasingly compelling pressure of identifying its unique advantage so as to ensure sustainable growth.
     As a result, local decision-makers turned their eyes to nanotechnology. SIP CPC Working Committee held a meeting on May 13 and Secretary Ma Minglong chaired the discussion on how to promote nanotech sector in SIP. According to the resolution, SIP will give top priority to the development of nanotechnologies and the five-year development goal is to make SIP a world-renowned and the country's best nanotech innovation highland and industrial base.
     This decision won the active support from Bai Chunli, President of National Center for Nanoscience and Technology [more]

At the meeting held on May 30, to develop nanotechnology is an important agenda
 
 
    Under the new situation, Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) started to upgrade its traditional industries and venture into rising sectors. As a result, a new industrial structure is taking shape by centering on nanotech and being composed of new energy, bio-medicine, unified communication, and creative industry.
    Of all industries, why would SIP choose nanotech as the strategic industry?
    Recognized as a national IT industry base in 2006, SIP grasped the chance when some multinational IT corporations and private enterprises decided to move their facilities to the places with more favorable investment environment. As a result, SIP has gathered a large number of companies in IT industry.
    According to Xia Fang, former Director of SIP Science & Technology Bureau, the local government would always notice  [more]
The rapid growth of BioBay gives local decision-makers confidence
 
 
 
    Nanometer, one billionth of a meter, is the distance that Suzhou Industrial Park determines to conquer so as to venture into a new field and to secure a sustainable future.
    NanoGlobe, a world-class consultancy well-known among government agencies, research institutions, large global corporations, early-stage companies and investment firms, published an article on February 3 introducing Suzhou BioBay as the "Young and Progressive Nano-bio Incubator". In the closing paragraph, the reporter noticed that "Within just two and a half years since the opening of BioBay, the incubation units have filed over 300 patents (90% filed in China) including 40% of them from nanotech-related companies. Although the global economic condition is still tough, especially for the nanotech start-ups, it is very encouraging to know that the bio & nano start-ups such as Nano-Microbiological Technology Co. Ltd., BioNano Suzhou, [more]
Dr. XU Bai, founder of Suzhou Natong Bionanotechnology
 
 
 
    To develop nano-based industries, Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) has several unique advantages, including two leading facilities of BioBay and Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO), the talent pool, and the country's biggest and the most advanced nanotech public service platform.
    Located in SINANO, the 120m-yuan facility has two platforms of nano processing and nano test & analysis. The machining precision of the processing platform varies from micrometer to nanometer; its equipment can satisfy the entire process from laboratory to pilot plant test for various fields of nano-electronic devices, nano-optoelectronic devices, micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems (MOEMS), bio-chips, and nano manufacturing, while the test & analysis platform is capable of testing and analyzing the composition, structure, light, electricity, heat, power, and magnetic.  [more]
SIP has the world-class nano-processing platform
 
 
 
   Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO) joint founded by Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) and local government is located at 398 Ruoshui Road at Dushu Lake Sci-Edu Innovation Park and next to the complex of BioBay. In a sense, Ruoshui Road is the place where most nanotech companies gather in Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP).
    The state-owned research institute equipped with the country's best facilities and enjoying numerous state, provincial, and municipal preferential policies is extremely attractive to high-end talents in the field. As of May 2010, the SINANO has 547 employees and the proportion of researchers, supporting staff, and management is 7:2:1. Among the professionals, 184 have PhD degrees and most have overseas education background.
    At the official inspection and acceptance for the SINANO on December 9, 2009,   [more]
Cui Zheng is one of nearly 2,000 top nanotech professionals in SIP
 
 
 
    ?There are more than 20,000 cities in the world and people only remember those with unique cultures. At the mention of Vienna, you'll hear the sound of music; the mention of Venice brings to mind the city on canals; and the examples of cities with distinguishing industrial cultures include Detroit the Motor City and Bangalore the City of Software.
     Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) decided to make nano-tech its strategic industry. Will this new city district be a City of Nano-Tech in the future?
     SIP plans to invest 10 billion yuan in the next five years to promote the rapid development of nanotechnologies. The goal is to build research, education, incubation, and industrialization facilities with a total floor space of 2.5 million square meters so as to create a complete chain from R&D to production by attracting a total investment of 50 billion yuan. [more]
Will this be a City of Nano-Tech in the future
 
 
    Nanotech is a cutting-edge science enjoying increasingly wide prospect in the world and the most part of its potentials lies in the fact that it can be applied in different fields or interdisciplinary fields and create new industries or disciplines, which is one of the reasons why people believe that it can create miracles. Suzhou Nano-Micro Biotech is one of the miracle creators, for its over 3,000 products can be extensively used in multiple fields such as bio-medicine, diagnosis, environmental monitoring, purification processing, LCD, cosmetics, and paints.
   Dr. Jiang Biwang founded Suzhou Nano-Micro Biotech in 2008 at BioBay and its proprietary technologies and products have created new records in the country and ventured into the markets originally monopolized by foreign companies.
   Nano-Micro Tech Co offers the largest selection and the highest quality of mono[more]

Dr. Jiang Biwang is the founder of Suzhou Nano-Micro Biotech
 
 
    Creating the industrial chain of rising sectors is as important as transforming economic growth pattern and only those in control of both upper stream and downstream and a comprehensive value network can win the chain competition.
    Getting the Industrial Leaders
    LED is a semiconductor device capable of transforming electricity to light, and LED lighting products have become increasingly popular with such distinct features as energy-saving, long service life, and environment-friendly. As a response to the global warming and energy shortage, LED lighting sector grows rapidly with a global annual increase of over 20%.
    The problems facing Chinese LED industry are the lack of core technologies and an upper stream monopolized by foreign companies; but the domestic community  [more]
In comparison with ordinary products, the Mont LED lights can save energy by 80%
 
 
    As the highland of nanotech and nano-industry in China, Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) has gathered a group of high-end R&D institutions represented by Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO) and companies based in BioBay. They have created one legend after another by developing and producing new products to make ordinary people live a better life.
   Nano-Particles Turn Fragile Ceramics into Sharp Knives
   Adding nano-alumina powder during the process of making ceramics can reduce the firing temperature by 200 degrees centigrade and make ceramic knives strong and sharp enough to cut fruits, vegetables, and even meat without being brittle.
   The local legend creator is Suzhou Huaweite Power and the Company has started the production lines recently. [more]

The nano-particles developed and produced by Huaweite Powder
 
 
   In the field of nanotechnology, like in any other top sciences, those possessing the leading talents claim the industrial highland. Since Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) decided to build national nanotech park, more and more domestic and overseas scientists have joined in the undertaking and the talent pool lays a solid foundation for the creation of industry cluster in SIP.
    At the Fifth Sino-US Symposium on Nanoscale Science and Technology held on June 5, SIP announced officially that it would develop nanotech as a regional strategic rising industry so as to build a leading industrial base in five to ten years.
    Dr. Yang is tenure professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley, and one of the pioneers in the field of semiconductor nano-wires. He was appointed the director of international [more]
Dr. Yang Peidong, a researcher at Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics


    Top-class research equipment is of vital importance to all researches. In build a nanotech industrial base centering on Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO) and BioBay, Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) lays a solid foundation for future development by investing generously in cutting-edge equipment.
    Shortly after the SINANO was founded three years ago, the Institute decided to pay an annual rate of nearly one million yuan to rent equipment from Beijing-based Institute of Semiconductors at China Academy of Sciences (CAS), which helped the Institute to get the city's first assignment commissioned by Ministry of Science and Technology.
   The SINANO has invested 180 million yuan in buying a total of 2,000 R&D equipment, including the country's only 4- and 6-inch MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System) processing platforms and 40 units of equipment with unit price of more than[more]

The country's only MBE machine with top configuration
 
 
     After SIP decided to develop nanotechnology as core rising industry, China Nano-Tech Innovation Park (CHINANO) based in Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) has been in the spotlight and known to more and more people.
   Jointly founded in November 2007 by Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Commerce, and Jiangsu Provincial Government, CHINANO has become the frontier in the field and made the city of Suzhou a front of nanotech in the country. It would introduce and industrialize the leading domestic and international nanotechnologies before promoting them in the country.
    Suzhou CHINANO is the third national nanotech innovation park in China and the first in Jiangsu. According to the national strategic needs and industrial.....[more]
The logo of CHINANO
 

    In the 21st Century, it is universally acknowledged that the development of micro technology is stretched to the limit and replaced with nanotechnology as the dominant technology.
    For years, Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) has been making solid progress in nanotech industry based on forward-looking layout. Up to now, SIP has been at the forefront of nanotechnology in China and made its presence felt in the world. The world is frequented drawn to the "Sound of Nano" from SIP.  
   She represents SIP Nano, standing on platform of Harvard University.
   On the morning of April 17, the annual Harvard China Review was held on Harvard Campus. Liu Yuwen, General Manager of SIP Biobay, the only female guest, introduced the current achievements of Biobay in influent English.
    When Liu completed her speech, the hall burst into stormy applause. Quite a few[more]

Liu Yuwen of SIP Biobay
 
       On June 16, Wan Gang, Vice Chairman of 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and Minister of Science and Technology, visited Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) Biobay and CAS Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO) in China Nano-Tech Innovation Park (CHInano). Wan Gang unveiled the plaque of CHInano three years ago, when no one expected that ChInano would rise to the forefront of nanotechnology in China in a matter of three years. 
      After a lapse of three years, Wan Gang was excited to see the achievements attained by the two incubators. Before he left, he wrote down "Forge ahead and pursue excellence", which was a full appraisal and encouragement of SINANO as well as the high expectation for nanotechnology industry in Suzhou. ...[??]

On June 16, Wan acclaimed the current achievements of SINANO
 

       Only in pursuit of breakthroughs in key and competitive industries can unique "know-how" be acquired in competition; only in concentration of resources and energies can heavy blows be landed.
       The "fist" of developing nano-tech industry in Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) is now aggregating and presenting thrusts. In the Jiangsu Speeding-up the Development of New-emerging Industry Conference held in Nanjing on June 28, Mr. Yan Li, Mayor of Suzhou, said, "Suzhou will not repeat work in the fields others have explored, but mainly in the new-emerging industries with nano-tech as the breakthrough. In the future, when talking about nano-tech, people will invariably think of Suzhou."
       A "Nano-city " forges the future of SIP. [??]
 
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