This is a new opportunity, and will kick off a new round of revolution in the field of digital technology. From 5G technology to camera recognition upgrade, to the innovation of sensor technology, photonics industry as an important infrastructure for the era of artificial intelligence, for the development of the Internet of Everything plays a decisive role. With the opening of a new era of technological competition, many international giants are laying out the photonics industry, including Huawei, Cisco, Intel, Apple, etc., are heavily acquiring optical companies and opening related technology research and development work.
Shaanxi, as a major scientific research province in contemporary China, shoulders the important responsibility of the country's development, and is not willing to lag behind on the road of "chasing light". Over the years, the provincial and municipal levels will be the development of photonics industry in the development of key positions, whether it is enterprise support or policy introduction, have been strengthened year by year.
Continuously strengthen Shaanxi photonics industry future "light" bright!
November 3, 2023 Global Hard Science and Technology Innovation Conference opened in Xi'an, which 2023 Photonics Industry and Hard Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Forum, focusing on the photonics industry, organizing a series of thematic exchanges and inviting well-known experts in the field of photonics and industry gurus to share their insights, convergence of cutting-edge viewpoints, focus on the development of photonics in Shaanxi, and all-round discussion of the exchange of future photonics in the field of new paths and new trends. Trends.
Just the day before, on November 2, Zhao Yide, Secretary of Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, went to Xi'an City to investigate the development of photonics industry and hosted a symposium.
Zhao Yide separately inspected the Curvature Engine hard science and technology enterprise community photonic manufacturing park, to see the operation of common technology research and development platforms and resident enterprises, as well as Xidian - Lide Infrared Advanced Intelligent Photonics Joint Innovation Center, Xi'an Institute of Optical Machines Transient Optics and Photonics Technology State Key Laboratory, etc., and emphasized the need for in-depth study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on the new type of industrialization and important speeches to visit Shaanxi Province. He emphasized that we should deeply study and implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on new industrialization and the spirit of the important instructions of the important speeches on the visit to Shaanxi, adhere to the innovation leadership, leader-driven, positioning, integration and development, and accelerate the promotion of photonics industry to gather chains into clusters, comprehensively enhance the level of industrial base advanced, industrial chain modernization, and constantly shape the new momentum of high-quality development.
Only one day apart, photonics industry frequently "out of the circle", as Shaanxi Province, strategic, basic, pioneering emerging industries, but also the manufacturing industry, one of the 24 key industry chain, Shaanxi in this area of investment is huge, far-reaching layout. With the development of the industry, the current photonics industry in communications, medical, industrial, energy, security, scientific research and other fields to carry out a wide range of applications, its development involves all aspects of our lives, in the material, information, life, energy, space and other elements of a wide range of application prospects.
China Photonics "Lights Up" the World
The photonics industry can be divided into upstream photonic materials, midstream photonic chips, devices, modules, and downstream equipment, systems and industrial applications.
According to the statistical analysis of the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE, the total revenue of the photonics industry in 2012 was 1.5 trillion U.S. dollars, and the global annual revenue of optoelectronic products in 2021 exceeded 2.1 trillion U.S. dollars, with a nine-year growth rate of 40%, and a compound annual growth rate of 3.9%, which is an astonishing growth rate.
Since the 1980s, countries around the world have invested a lot of energy in the photonics industry, and as of 2021, the total size of the global photonics products has exceeded 2.1 trillion U.S. dollars. With the arrival of the "consumer photonics" era, it will give rise to a huge market of more than 10 trillion dollars.
On the international level, according to the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE statistical analysis shows that from 2012 to 2020, there are 53 countries and regions in the world to participate in the global division of labor in the photonics industry. In terms of output value, Japan ranks consistently first, but year-on-year revenue growth has leveled off. China, on the other hand, has seen significant growth in the global share of the photonics industry over the past decade, with a compound annual growth rate of nearly 23% from 2012 to 2020.
The overall development of China's photonics industry, although the gap between the time of its start and that of foreign countries is not large, is mostly for scientific research purposes, as a result of the reform and opening up before the formation of a large-scale industry.
In 1994, after the Xiangshan Science Conference, China began to pay attention to the development of the photonics industry, and the photonics industry in the economic development of the promotional role played by an increasingly clear understanding and consensus.
In 2015, the State Council successively released national strategic plans such as "Made in China 2025", "13th Five-Year Plan for National Science and Technology Innovation", and "13th Five-Year Plan for National Development of Strategic Emerging Industries", etc. In 2018, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released the "China Optical Electronic Device Industry Technology Development Roadmap (2018-2022)", focusing on the four major directions of optical communication devices, communication fiber optic cables, special optical fibers, and optical sensor devices.
In 2019, after the National Natural Science Foundation of China initiated the preparation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the "Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan of the Science Foundation for the Period of 2021-2035", some of the "Priority Development Fields Some of the "Priority Development Areas" have been announced, including: high-speed, integrated semiconductor optoelectronic devices, ultra-high-speed optical switches, high-speed optical communications, optical interconnections, etc. ...... Biological and medical photonics, micro-optical technologies and devices, key scientific issues and device research in new optoelectronic functional materials, photonic crystals and their applications, and other light-related fields.
In 2021, "information photonics technology" was listed as a key special project of the "14th Five-Year" National Key R&D Program.
The booming development of the photonics industry will open a new era for China's science and technology, not only to promote China to build the future trillion output value of the important focus of industrial clusters, but also to seize the global science and technology innovation is an important strategic entry point.
Under the "Chasing Light", Shaanxi is flying!
The development of Shaanxi's photonics industry can be traced back to the 1950s, when China's first laser, the ruby laser, was successfully developed at the Xi'an Institute of Optical Mechanics in Shaanxi Province. Since then, Shaanxi has been maintaining rapid development in the field of photonics industry, and has continued to launch innovative achievements.
As an important optical research and production base in China, Shaanxi has a number of national and provincial key laboratories and engineering technology research centers represented by Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Machinery of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Shaanxi's universities and research institutions also rank among the top in China in terms of research on photonic technology, photonic materials, and photonic devices.
In 2016, CSTC established the first domestic photonics chip fund - "Shaanxi Pioneer Photonics Integration Venture Capital Fund", which has a total scale of 1 billion yuan, and mainly focuses on the layout and investment in consumer photonics, photonics integrated chips and photonics application industries.
In 2021, Shaanxi layout photonics industry chain, in order to fill the chain, strong chain as a grasp, the implementation of the "chase light program", plans to the end of 2023, the province added a number of photonics eagle or small giant enterprises, photonics science and technology champions, locally cultivated photonics hard science and technology listed companies, the industry scale reached 100 billion yuan.
Throughout recent years, the development of Shaanxi photonics industry has made even more remarkable progress.
As the first highland of photonics R&D in Shaanxi, Xi'an Hi-tech Zone focuses on strengthening communication and cooperation among industrial chain enterprises, promoting resource sharing and complementary advantages, and promoting the innovative development of the photonics industry, and builds a service platform for the upstream and downstream enterprises of the industrial chain to provide one-stop services such as policy consultation, technical support, and talent introduction.
In order to better guide the development of photonics industry and serve the development of photonics enterprises, on September 12, 2023, the CPC Xi'an Hi-tech Zone Photonics Industry Chain Committee was formally established. Building the Party Committee on the "chain" will strengthen the communication and cooperation among industrial chain enterprises, promote resource sharing and complementary advantages, and promote the innovative development of the photonics industry through the innovative model of "Red Leads Hard Science and Technology".
In terms of scientific research, Shaanxi has a number of colleges and institutes with sound and distinctive photonics disciplines, such as Xi'an Institute of Optical Precision Machinery of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an University of Electronic Science and Technology, and Northwestern Polytechnical University, which provide strong scientific research support and motivation for the development of the photonics industry.
With the continuous development of scientific research, Shaanxi's photonics industry cluster has taken shape, and with Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Machinery as the core, Shaanxi has successfully incubated more than 100 photonics technology enterprises, including a number of leading enterprises with international competitiveness such as Qixin Optoelectronics and Huaqin Science and Technology, which are involved in various fields such as lasers, optical components and photonics chips, etc. In addition, it has spawned Xi'an Zhongxin Optical Precision Machinery Institute (XOPMI).
In addition, more than 100 photonics technology enterprises have been spawned, including Xi'an Zhongke Optical Machinery Investment Holding Company, Shaanxi Optoelectronics Pioneer Institute Technology Company, Xi'an Zhongke Micro-Precision Photonics Technology Company, Xi'an Tangjing Quantum Technology Company, Xi'an Zhixiang Optoelectronics Technology Company, Shaanxi Walt Radium Cesium Machinery Manufacturing Company, Xi'an Huako Optoelectronics Company, and other technological companies that cover a wide range of industrial clusters such as photonics manufacturing, photonics information, photonics sensing, and bio-photonics, and so on.
In terms of scientific research foundation, Shaanxi has deep R & D and innovation conditions, high refractive index silicon optical chip, micro-nano optical waveguide, grating coupler and VCSEL lasers, semipolar GaN optoelectronic chip substrate materials, etc., are at the international leading level.
According to the National Semiconductor Lighting Engineering R & D and Industry Alliance research predicts that the photonics industry is a huge industry with great potential, where the market segments are as small as tens of billions of dollars, or nearly one trillion dollars.
To "light" after "light", comprehensive layout, Shaanxi photonics industry as the future backbone of Shaanxi's scientific and technological development, bear an irreplaceable mission, but also the province's scientific and technological research and development, personnel training, enterprise cultivation in the field of leading high-quality development of an important embodiment.
In-depth exploration Advantages and space coexist
Shaanxi, as a major province in the development of photonics industry, has been highly valued by the state over the years, not only because of its deep strategic vision, but also because of Shaanxi's unique R&D advantages.
Photonics technology as one of the core technologies that will lead the change of the times in the future, with a strong "radiation ability" and "penetration ability", the future of photonics technology will be converted from a single point of application to a variety of applications, and closely integrated with the major industries In the future, photonics technology will be transformed from a single point of application to multiple applications, closely integrating with major industries ---consumer electronics, sensing and measurement, intelligent terminals, biomedical, quantum information, supercomputing, energy and chemical industry, and military security.
In the development of photonics industry, Shaanxi also plays its own advantages.
Sitting on the important hub position in central and western China, Shaanxi has always had convenient transportation, which has inherent advantages in both product logistics, east-west and domestic and international exchanges, which provides favorable location conditions for the development of photonics industry in Shaanxi. In addition, Shaanxi has leading technical strength in the field of photonics industry, for example, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Mechanics has a number of core patents and technology accumulation in the field of photonics manufacturing, photonics information, etc. These technical advantages provide strong support for the development of photonics industry in Shaanxi.
As a reserve corps of scientific research power, rich talent reserve is also one of the important development chips that Shaanxi can not be ignored. Outstanding scientists, engineers and technology researchers, these talents provide constant power for the continuous development of Shaanxi's photonics industry.
At the same time, in order to guide the industry to positive, good development, the Shaanxi provincial government attaches great importance to the photonics industry, formulated a series of preferential policies and measures to encourage innovation, support enterprises, and even more prosperous to create a favorable policy environment.
The development of the footsteps forward, with the photonics industry in recent years in the country and even the global competition continues to intensify, as well as the "Industry 4.0" era, the demand for high-end manufacturing and intelligent manufacturing is increasing day by day, whether in the Internet of Everything, artificial intelligence, or biomedicine, energy development and other fields, the development of photonics continues to have broad prospects, and Shaanxi's photonics industry is still in the foreground of the future. The photonics industry in Shaanxi has enormous room for improvement.
Although Shaanxi has a strong R&D and industrial foundation in the photonics industry, in order to make Shaanxi's "hard science and technology" and Shaanxi's "smart manufacturing" perfect, we need to further increase the visibility and influence in the international community, and actively develop our own photonics brand influence and visibility in addition to serious R&D. In addition to serious research and development, we should actively develop our own photonics brand influence and popularity, further develop the international market and improve brand building. At the same time, because the photonics industry is a high-tech, high-investment, high-risk field, the demand for financial support will be greater, because of this, Shaanxi in the financing environment needs to be further developed more excellent policies to attract more investment and capital into Shaanxi, Shaanxi photonics industry hand in hand to a higher level of progress.
At the Photonics Industry and Hard Technology Achievement Transformation Forum of 2023 Global Hard Science and Technology Innovation Conference, with the goal of focusing on the future development of the photonics industry, we will study how to give full play to Shaanxi's advantages in the field of hard science and technology, shape a more competitive photonics information industry cluster, and empower the enterprises, the industry, and the times. The development of photonics industry in Shaanxi will become an important force for the progress of science and technology in China!
