China's third-generation semico nductor industrial ba se in South China (hereinafter referred to as “South ba se”) was officially settled in Dongguan, Guangdong Province. On September 30, the project initiating meeting of South ba se was held in Dongguan. The group of leaders including Cao Jianlin, the former vice minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology and director of the China's third-generation semico nductor industry policy-making committee, Yuan Baocheng, vice governor of Guangdong Province, Huang Ningsheng, director of Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Liang Weidong, deputy secretary of the Do ngguan Municipal Party Committee and mayor of Do ngguan City, and Wu Ling, Chairman of China's third-generation semico nductor industry innovation strategic alliance, attended the initiating meeting and the signing ceremony.

A new beginning for the semico nductor industry in Guangdong

Cao Jianlin pointed out that the third generation of the semico nductor industry is an industry of scientific and technological research and development with great potential. First, the third generation of semico nductor has a huge market in China, including the power grid, high-speed rail, equipment manufacturing, home appliances and so on. Second, China has a large number of professio nals and experts in mathematics, physics and materials science. Third, in recent years many high-tech enterprises are attracting a number of talents. The initiation of the South ba se is the first step for the development of China's third-generation semico nductor industry.

According to Yuan Baocheng, since Guangdong is to build a world-class innovation center, science and technology and industry should be perfectly taken into account. The business model of South ba se is the combination of science and technology and industry. It is expected that the government, scientists and entrepreneurs work together to make South ba se one of the most innovative industrial ba ses of Guangdong, and to promote the development of Guangdong to become one of the biggest markets for the third generation of semico nductor in china.

To develop new growth points for Dongguan

Liang Weidong said that the South ba se settled in Do ngguan is the second natio nal third-generation semico nductor industrial ba se after the Shunyi ba se in Beijing. It shows the full support to the industrial development in Do ngguan from our country, which will bring together domestic and internatio nal excellent resources, promoting the transformation and upgrading of Dongguan’s electro nic information industry, and promoting the formation of new industry growth and innovation growth.

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What is the basis for the development of the third-generation semico nductor industry in Dongguan?

The third generation semico nductor industry is a strategic emerging industry supported by the country. It is becoming one of the fro ntiers and directions of global high-tech competition. After years of development, Do ngguan has a complete and large-scale electro nic information industry cluster. The designed-size enterprises of electro nic information have achieved value added of RMB 89.65 billion in 2015, and rose at 20.6% in the first half of 2016. As the core of the electro nic information industry, the semico nductor industry is forming a large scale in Dongguan. Some domestically famous semico nductor companies like Sino Nitride and TYSiC are emerging here, laying a solid foundation for the development of the third-generation semico nductor industry.