On February 8, Wuhan East Lake High-tech Zone Party Working Committee (expanded) meeting and 2025 annual work meeting was held. It was learned from the meeting that in 2025, East Lake High-tech Zone will seize the key links of the industrial chain, promote industrial clusters, and accelerate the creation of world-class advanced manufacturing clusters. The construction of four industrial innovation blocks has been launched, covering the fields of compound semiconductors, memory, new displays and intelligent terminals, and life and health. Among them, creating 100 billion industrial innovation blocks has become an important measure for Optics Valley to promote the high-quality development of strategic emerging industries.
Compound semiconductor industry Innovation block: Seize the global innovation highland
Relying on Jiufengshan Laboratory and other leading enterprises and innovation platforms, Optics Valley started the construction of compound semiconductor industry innovation block. At present, key projects such as Innoseco and Minxin are accelerating construction, and more than 50 upstream and downstream enterprises will be gathered in the future to seize the innovation highland of the global compound semiconductor industry. As an important basic material for the new generation of information technology, the development of compound semiconductors will further enhance Optics Valley's position in the global semiconductor industry chain.
Memory Industry Innovation block: Burnishing the "Memory Capital of the World" brand
Relying on leading enterprises such as Xinmeng Technology, Optics Valley started the construction of memory industry innovation block. The block will improve the three-dimensional storage process verification, research and development pilot, advanced packaging and other high-level service platforms, accelerate the construction of core industrial park and other key projects, and plans to introduce 10 upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain every year, to further consolidate Optics Valley as the "world storage capital" leading position.
New display and intelligent terminal industry innovation block: Build the largest industrial base in the country
Optics Valley relies on leading enterprises such as Huaxing Optoelectronics, Tianma and Xiaomi to start the construction of new display and intelligent terminal industry innovation blocks. Huaxing t5, Tianma vehicle display and other key projects are accelerating, while Optics Valley actively layout unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned ships, unmanned vehicles and other intelligent terminal industry, and strive to build the country's largest new display base and the country's first-class intelligent terminal manufacturing base.
Life and health industry innovation block: Accelerate the approval and listing of innovative drugs
With Optics Valley Biological City as the carrier, Optics Valley relies on leading enterprises such as Renfu Pharmaceutical and Wuxi Apptec to start the construction of life and health industry innovation district. Key projects such as Optical Valley International Medical Center and Optical Valley Pharmaceutical Innovation Service Center are being accelerated, and high-level service platforms such as new drug proof of concept, small pilot trials, and scale-up production will be built in the future to accelerate the approval and marketing of innovative drugs. Optics Valley plans to promote at least one Class I new drug every year from this year, and strive to advance the comprehensive strength of Optics Valley Biocity into the top five in the country.
Previously, the Hubei provincial government issued the Action Plan to accelerate the construction of the "World Optical Valley", which proposed that Optical Valley will be committed to building a global compound semiconductor innovation center. By 2025, four compound semiconductor test lines will be completely replaced by domestic production, and the integrated verification of basic field research, new materials, and new processes will be completed. By 2030, a global open and shared integrated innovation research center in the field of compound semiconductors will be established, covering cutting-edge research on basic technologies, integrated verification of industrial chains, and industrial incubation, and leading the progress of global compound semiconductor technology.
According to the plan, by 2025, Wuhan integrated circuit industry output value will exceed 120 billion yuan, the third-generation semiconductor industry is beginning to take shape, and in the future, East Lake High-tech Zone will continue to focus on memory chips, optical chips and compound semiconductors and other fields, and strive to build the world's leading integrated circuit industry cluster. Through the construction of industrial innovation blocks, Optical Valley promotes the coordinated development of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain and promotes the clustering of industrial chains. In the future, Optics Valley will continue to be driven by scientific and technological innovation, accelerate the building of a world-class advanced manufacturing cluster, and inject strong impetus into the high-quality development of the regional economy. With the gradual landing of the four industrial innovation blocks, Optics Valley will occupy a more important position in the global scientific and technological competition, and contribute to the high-quality economic development of Wuhan and even the whole country.
(Reproduced from: Semiconductor Core Technology)