Located in the north of Shanghai, Baoshan is bordering the Yangtze River in the northeast, faces Huangpu River in the east, adjoins Yangpu, Hongkou, Jing’an and Putuo in the south, borders on Jiading in the west, and is bounded on Taicang of Jiangsu in the northwest. The district is divided into north and south by Wenzaobang River in the middle of it. Wusong Bridge, Jiangyang Road Bridge, Wenchuan Road Bridge, Kangning Road Bridge and Hutai Road Bridge stretch across the river. The district is 17.5km long from east to west and 23.08km wide from north to south, with an area of 293.71 square kilometers.People's government serves every aspects of people's daily life.
Shanghai University (hereinafter referred to as SHU) is one of the top 40 Chinese universities, top 100 Asian universities, the premier university of Shanghai, and a member of China Project 211 Universities. It is a comprehensive university offering 82 undergraduate programs, 187 graduate programs, and 97 doctoral programs in various disciplines including science, humanities & social sciences, engineering, economics & management, art, etc.SHU was founded in 1922, and has been developed into a university with profound academic traditions and outstanding research facilities, embracing students from various countries with its global outlook. Just like the city of Shanghai, SHU has undergone dramatic changes in the past few decades,turning into a multicultural community with tremendous opportunities and resources.
China Innovation Alliance of the Graphene Industry (CGIA) was established as a non-profit organization on July 13, 2013 with the support of the Chinese Government bodies. As a consortium of enterprises, institutions, and universities that are devoted to R&D on graphene and graphene based products, CGIA aims at improving the industrial technology innovation for the development of enterprises and achieving their common interests. With dozens of members and industry network, CGIA are able to provide services like project investment and financing, IP protection and licensing, policy application and support, and has made a significant progress towards fulfilling the mission.
As a component of the Shanghai municipal government, the Shanghai Science and Technology Committee (STCSM) is responsible for scientific and technological development of the city as well as supporting the cooperation of domestic and international institutions regarding science and technology. Its mainly responsibilities include: International cooperation and exchange, S&T achievement transformation and high tech industrialization, S&T development planning, Science popularization, S&T legislation and policy, Coordination between system and entities, Resource optimization and system reform, Improving S&T service system, Making and running Programs on S&T.
Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization has 24 major divisions, and over 300 employees. Their responsibilities can be divided into 18 different areas include to implement the national laws, regulations, guidelines and policies in respect of industry and informatization work, to make suggestions on the direction and scale of fixed asset investment in the industry and informatization sectors of Shanghai, etc.
The Graphene Flagship is a Future and Emerging Technology Flagship by the European Commission. With a budget of €1 billion, the Graphene Flagship represents a new form of joint, coordinated research on an unprecedented scale, forming Europe's biggest ever research initiative. The Graphene Flagship is tasked with bringing together academic and industrial researchers to take graphene from the realm of academic laboratories into European society in the space of 10 years, thus generating economic growth, new jobs and new opportunities.
Graphene-Info is a comprehensive portal for all things graphene. It was launched in 2009 as a graphene news aggregator and quickly grew to become a hub for graphene professionals and enthusiasts. Graphene-info is a cyber meeting spot for all kinds of graphene buffs, providing services, resources and news for professionals, as well as people who want to learn more about this exciting new material and its applications. Graphen Info is a spin-off platform from the Metalgrass Group. Up to now, they have more than 400,000 monthly readers, more than 50,000 newsletter subscribers, and more than 50,000 social media followers.
The Phantoms Foundation (non-profit organisation) was established on November 26, 2002 (in Madrid, Spain) in order to provide high level Management profile to National and European scientific projects such as AtMol (ICT/FP7 Integrated Project), EUPHONON (Building a European NanoPhononics Community-ICT/FP7 Coordination Action) or NanoSpain (Spanish Nanotechnology Network). The Phantoms Foundation has been also working in close collaboration with Spanish and European Governmental Institutions such as FECyT (Spanish Foundation for Science & Technology), ICEX (Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade) or the European Commission to provide focused reports on Nanotechnology related research areas (infrastructure needs, emerging research, etc.).
Advanced Material Future Preparedness Taskforce (AMPT) is an international Public-Benefit initiative focused on using Advanced & Frontier Materials to help solve some of humanity's most pressing challenges. As an international cooperative platform, the multidisciplinary taskforce is building a global infrastructure and an ecosystem network that enables the advanced material community to respond swiftly and effectively under the umbrella of Future Preparedness.
TechBlick was founded by Khasha Ghaffarzadeh, a well-known international strategic research expert. He has spent more than a decade leading a global analysts teams focused on emerging technologies at IDTechEx. He has developed market-leading industry reports and supported numerous clients in Asia, Europe, and North America. Based on its strong business resources, TechBlick develops an online business communication and docking platform of emerging technologies. Each year they bring subscribers 500+ analyst-picked LIVE online presentations and 10+ industry-led masterclasses, including BASF, Cabot, Google, Swarovski, Panasonic, Jabil Technology and other global top 500 application enterprises.
The Graphene Council was founded in 2013 with a mission to serve the global community of graphene professionals. Today, The Graphene Council is the largest community in the world for graphene researchers, academics, producers, developers, investors, nanotechnologists, regulatory agencies, research institutes, material science specialists and even the general public. We reach more than 50,000 people with an interest in this amazing material. Graphene holds the potential to dramatically disrupt and positively impact an extremely broad range of industries, including; Medicine, Sensors, Diagnostics and Testing, Electronics, Transistors, Light Processing, Energy Storage, Water Filtration, Lubricants, Nanoantennas, Corrosion and Waterproof Coatings, Thermal Management, Composite Structural Materials and many, many more. It is truly revolutionary.
Shanghai Industrial Technology Center of Graphene is a graphene R & D and transformation functional platform jointly built by Shanghai and Baoshan District. It is one of the "four beams and eight pillars" for Shanghai to build a science and technology innovation center with global influence. Guided by the application demand of graphene, the platform focuses on building the core service ability of graphene application technology innovation, pilot test and industrialization. Through the mode of "base + fund + talent", it gathers and effectively allocates innovative resources such as technology, talent and capital market, promotes the industrialization of more mature laboratory achievements, solves common technical problems faced by the industry, cultivates and builds graphene production.
The graphene innovation center of China EU cooperation is an international graphene innovation service platform jointly initiated by Baoshan Science and Technology Commission, Baoshan City Industrial Park and graphene industrial technology innovation strategic alliance. It is also an important achievement of the 2019 China EU Yangtze River Delta graphene Innovation Summit Forum. The center undertakes the important mission of linking Shanghai and European graphene industry, aiming to promote the in-depth exchange, resource sharing, technical cooperation, achievement incubation, talent cultivation and project industrialization between excellent graphene project teams and local industries in Shanghai, and promote the industrialization of EU graphene flagship program and even global high-level graphene innovative technology and innovation achievements in Shanghai To enhance the technological innovation and achievement transformation capacity of Shanghai graphene industry, incubate a number of global innovative science and technology projects, capture key core technologies and "hard technologies", build Shanghai Baoshan into the source of global graphene industry cooperation incubation, and become a strong support for Shanghai to build a global influential science and technology innovation center. Huanqiu (Shanghai) graphene technology center was established on April 3, 2020 and is the operation unit of China EU cooperative graphene innovation center.
CGIA supports members to focus on application and industry chain, to keep pace with market development, to guarantee industry interests by involving in policy making and establishing standards, and to build long-term cooperation with up-down stream enterprises all over the world.
E-mail: meeting@c-gia.org
Abstract: Minyang Lu
Sponsor: Wenyang Yang
Media: Liping Wang
Operated by:China Innovation Alliance of the Graphene Industry