Junshan New City in the Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone is an emerging high-tech hub. [Photo/WeChat account: whkfq]
Junshan New City in the Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone (WEDZ) is evolving into a high-tech innovation hub.
Home to Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) Junshan Campus, Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) Junshan Campus, and the Wuhan Institute of Advanced Technology (WIAT), Junshan New City is planning to develop a 22-square-kilometer University Innovation Belt to foster the integration of technological and industrial innovation.
HUST will contribute its expertise in advanced materials and intelligent manufacturing, information technology and artificial intelligence, clean energy and environmental protection, and life sciences and healthcare, while WUT will bring its strengths in vehicle engineering, energy storage science and engineering, and energy and power engineering.
"With these developments, nearly 30,000 academic elites and young talents are expected to join the high-tech hub," said a representative of Junshan New City.
A crucial component of this innovation ecosystem is the Dajunshan Science and Technology Innovation Park, currently under construction and located adjacent to the HUST and WUT Junshan campuses. With a total investment of approximately 300 million yuan ($41.39 million), the park will feature platforms for university-enterprise co-creation, research and innovation clusters, eco-manufacturing clusters, living service clusters, and headquarters economy clusters.
Located within the park is the Future-Tech Innovation Institute institute's pilot base, where HUST Professor Guo Xin's team took less than two years to refine their solid-state lithium/sodium-ion battery technology for industrial application.
Guo explained that the project has established slurry, coating, assembly, formation, and testing workshops, enabling the complete process from raw materials to finished solid-state batteries. The pilot base has built 12 pilot production lines and incubated nine industrial companies.
