The 2019 Xi'an Global Key & Core Technology Conference, themed "Key & Core 
Tech: Powering Innovation", was held on October 29-31 in Xi'an, China. Renowned 
scientists, economists, entrepreneurs and investors from home and abroad 
gathered to explore various technology innovations arising from research into 
Key and core technologies. They were also able to gain insights into the 
first-rate development taking place in high-tech industries.

The Key & Core Technology concept was first adopted by Xi'an as a way of 
referring to state-of-the-art pioneering technologies in fields such as 
artificial intelligence, aerospace, biotechnology, optoelectronic chips, 
information technology, new materials, new energy and intelligent 
manufacturing. This was characterized by independent research and development, 
long-term accumulation, high technical thresholds, and inbuilt intellectual 
property protections. 

In recent years, Xi'an has invested abundant scientific and educational 
resources to enable a focus on Key & Core Technology, thereby facilitating 
exploration of new pathways for the transformation of universities and 
scientific research institutions, and activation of numerous scientific 
research outcomes, both theoretical in publications and practical in 
laboratories.

Key & Core Technology is also becoming a new channel for collaboration between 
cities within China as well as internationally. In collaboration with the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chishine3D, a company in Xi'an, has 
established a database of 430,000 images of human faces, enabling rapid 3D 
modeling on a device that costs less than RMB10,000. Confident in the 
development prospects of Key & Core Technology in Xi'an, Nobel Prize Laureate, 
Avram Hershko, collaborated with a private enterprise in Shaanxi to build a 
biology laboratory - the Chinese Peptide Library - which undertakes research 
and development into synthetic peptides. Another Nobel Prize Laureate, Daniel 
Shechtman, established a Nobel Prize Lab in Xi'an and worked together with the 
Xi'an University of Technology to conduct research into magnesium alloy-based 
3D printing.

During the conference, a number of Key & core technology industry projects were 
put into effect, which will enable the construction in Xi'an of a number of Key 
& core technology innovation platforms, transformation platforms, and Belt and 
Road cooperation platforms. So the ancient city of Xi'an is evolving into the 
Capital of Key & Core Technology.

Source:  The 2019 Xi'an Global Key & Core Technology Conference

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