Tech talents talk to local businesses in summit forum
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- Category: On The Campus
- Published: Monday, 18 November 2013 20:59
The New Material Development Summit Forum was held in Ningbo last Friday. Over 100 PhDs majoring in new material from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China University of Technology, Hefei Industrial University and other colleges and universities participated in the forum and held talks with over 60 local business owners.
The new material industry, together with electronics ＆ IT and bio-engineering, is known as one of the three major high-tech industries in the world. with the advantage in the development and innovation of new materials technology, Ningbo achieved an annual revenue of nearly 100 billion yuan (16.41 billion US dollars) last year in the new material industry, leading the other six national high-tech industry bases in China. To boost the development of the local new material industry, Ningbo invited top universities in the field of materials science to attend the forum. In the mean time, Ningbo listed 60 top local businesses with strong R & D and innovation capability and sent their job demands to the universities. The move aims to offer a platform to match the technologists with local companies for further cooperation.
To promote further understandings and cooperation, the organizers also arranged a visit to local new material companies and institutes for the participants.
