East China’s Jiangsu province has focused on its advantages in cutting-edge technologies to accelerate the construction of major scientific and technological innovation platforms, enhance basic research and original innovation capabilities, and strive to gather more national strategic scientific and technological forces.
Since its establishment last year, the Gusu Laboratory of Jiangsu Materials Science, with a total investment of 20 billion yuan, has carried out 28 directional basic research projects to seek breakthroughs in technological bottlenecks and achieve technological breakthroughs in material science.
Researchers from the G2112 project of Gusu Laboratory are drilling small holes of about 3 nanometers in the base material of 2 mm square.
This extremely subtle materials science research is an important part of the development of the fourth generation of gene sequencing technology-solid-state nano-pore sequencing technology.
At present, this disruptive technology has begun to take shape in Gusu Laboratory, and upon its mass production, it will greatly reduce the cost of gene sequencing.
"Basic research in the field of life sciences is inseparable from gene sequencing technology. Our technology can change the pattern of the entire sequencing market and break the monopoly of foreign research on gene sequencing."said by Hu Lan, Head of G2112 Project of Gusu Laboratory.
"The Gusu Laboratory intends to become a national laboratory in the field of material science with a view to take a leading role in the strategic scientific and technological fields of major countries, so as to gain the capacity for rapid completion of scientific research tasks."said by He Minle, Deputy Head of Scientific Research Capacity Building of Gusu Laboratory.
The profound adjustment of the international economic and technological competition has forced China to rely on independent innovation to achieve high-quality development. In 2019, the Jiangsu Provincial Government established a leading group for major technological innovation platforms to select the first batch of major technological innovation platform cultivation projects.
The launch of Gusu Laboratory, Purple Mountain Laboratory, and Taihu Laboratory over more than two years has helped Jiangsu to gain an upper hand in national strategic scientific and technological force.
The State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Display at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications has provided core technologies for flexible displays that are widely used in mobile phones and tablet computers.
"We hope to build the country’s strategic scientific and technological strength provide more original technology sources and ensure that China leads the future development and direction of the electronic information technology."said by Lai Wenyong, Deputy Head of State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Display, NUPT.
Jiangsu has built 29 major technological innovation platforms, recruited more than 3,000 talents of various types, and carried out strategic innovation cooperation with more than 300 domestic and foreign universities, scientific research institutes, and leading enterprises.
In 2020, Jiangsu's major scientific research platforms applied for more than 400 patents and participated in the formulation of a number of international and domestic standards.
"The Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government has mapped out the plan to build strategic scientific and technological forces with its system framework to be spearheaded by the Provincial Industrial Technology Research Institutebased on 3 major provincial laboratories10 technological innovation centers above the provincial level as backbonesand numerous engineering innovation platforms as bridges."said by Zhang Hua, Deputy Dean of Jiangsu Academy of Science and Technology Development Strategy.
