According to the Publicity Department of the Party Zaozhuang Municipal 
Committee, the Shandong Provincial Innovative and Business-startup Community 
for Inorganic Functional Materials and Intelligent Manufacturing was recently 
approved for launch in Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province. 

It became one of the first five provincial-level innovative and 
business-startup communities to be constructed in Shandong Province. The 
project aims for an innovative community that brings together seven elements, 
namely government, industry, academia, research, finance, service, and users. 
The goal is to increase the market value of the green new material industry to 
100 billion RMB in 3 to 5 years. This is another major project of Zaozhuang 
City's move to improve the quality of development by focusing on the transition 
from the old driving power to the new.

As a resource-based city that found prosperity in coal, Zaozhuang has deployed 
a number of measures to continue development into the future: emphasis is 
placed on industrial transformation and upgrading; the driving power for 
high-quality economic development is carefully directed; the development of the 
six advantageous industries -- namely, high-end equipment, high-end chemicals, 
big data, lithium batteries, optical fiber and health care -- is promoted; 
incentives designed to attract business investment and industrial investment 
are made available; cooperation with universities and research institutes is 
actively sought. Due largely to its focus on the transition from the old 
driving power to the new, Zaozhuang City is now on the right track towards 
high-quality development. 

Source: The Publicity Department of the Party Zaozhuang Municipal Committee

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   Caption: By realizing functions such as online inspections and quality 
control, and real-time monitoring of the environment and of safety, SHANDONG 
ZHINK NEW MATERIAL has significantly reduced its production and R&D cycles as 
well as the size of its workforce.

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   Caption: R&D engineers from the Graphene Application Research Center at 
Zhejiang University's Shandong Institute of Industrial Technology screening the 
base materials.