At Hefei High‑Tech Zone, technicians from Easpeed Technology Co., Ltd. demonstrate interactive holographic‑imaging products. (Photo by Wang Shibao, Correspondent)

On August 7, at the SIC Robotics Future City in Jiujiang District, Wuhu, data collectors train robots to serve coffee. (Photo by Zhang Dagang, Reporter)

On August 14, staff conduct commissioning work inside the injector tunnel of Hefei Advanced Light Facility. (Photo by Xu Minhao, Reporter)

On August 24, aerial view of the construction site of the Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST) (left) and the Kuafu Park. (Photo by Xu Minhao, Reporter)

At the Ion Medical Center of the First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China, technicians from CAS Ion Medical Technology Co., Ltd. maintain the proton therapy system. (Photo by Cheng Zhao, Reporter)

On August 24, aerial view of Hefei National Laboratory. (Photo by Xu Minhao, Reporter)

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), developed by the Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. (Photo by Xu Minhao, Reporter)

Innovation serves as a hallmark and golden calling card of Anhui Province.

In recent years, Anhui has strived to build a nationally influential source of scientific and technological innovation, with its regional innovation capacity ranking firmly in the top tier nationwide. As a key component of the Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta) International Science and Technology Innovation Center, Anhui hosts a series of national‑level platforms including national laboratories and the Comprehensive National Science Center. It is fostering the "3+N" framework for innovation‑driven high‑ground development, consolidating three major innovation high‑grounds for quantum information, fusion energy and deep‑space exploration. It plans to establish the Center for Scientific‑Intelligent Material Creation, and strengthens forward‑looking research in artificial intelligence, life sciences and other fields. Thirteen large‑scale scientific facilities are completed, under construction or in pre‑research phases.

Guided by the global scientific frontiers, major economic sectors, national strategic needs and people’s health‑care demands, Anhui boosts basic research through applied research and underpins applied research with basic research. A batch of technologies and products have broken foreign monopolies, including computational lithography EDA software, high‑temperature alloy blades, the Jiuzhao kernel software, superconducting cyclotrons, fifth‑generation dynamic memory chips, and non‑medium holographic imaging technology.

Source: Anhui Daily

Translated by Shao Hanzhe, intern