The Taizhou Science and Technology Bureau recently announced proposed construction projects for municipal key laboratories in 2025.
One of them from the Taixing High-tech Zone in Taixing city, administered by Taizhou city, East China's Jiangsu province, was included on the list.
It is the Taizhou Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Ceramic Materials, which is being operated by the Jiangsu Jicui Semiconductor Ceramic Materials Research Institute.
Founded in 2023, the Jicui institute is a new research and development platform for advanced ceramic technology and applications.
An exterior view of the Jiangsu Jicui Semiconductor Ceramic Materials Research Institute. [Photo/WeChat account: gh_986506431b72]
It was co-constructed by the Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute, the Taizhou Industrial Technology Research Institute and the Taixing High-tech Zone. That's as well as a team led by professor Pan Wei, director of the State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, based at Tsinghua University.
Currently, the zone is home to five key laboratories at or above the city level and 43 enterprise R&D institutions at or above the city level.
Moving forwards, plans are for the zone to continue to promote the innovation work of key laboratories, encourage and support leading enterprises to layout high-level R&D institutions, and improve independent innovation capabilities and technological levels.
That's in a bid to provide strong technological support for developing industrial innovation clusters.