On the afternoon of August 4, the 2017 Lingang International Smart Manufacturing Summit Forum and the opening ceremony of the Lingang International Smart Manufacturing Exhibition and Trade Center were successfully held at the Lingang Management Committee. Relevant leaders of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, Shanghai Lingang Administrative Committee, National Technology Transfer Eastern Center and representatives of more than 200 smart manufacturing enterprises attended the forum. The conference was organized by the Eastern National Technology Transfer Center, undertaken by the Shanghai Lingang Technology Innovation Center and co-organized by Shanghai Qianxiang Intelligent Technology Group Co.

Liu Qin, Deputy Bureau Inspector of the Municipal Science and Technology Commission, said in his speech that it is an important supply-side structural reform to promote the transfer of scientific and technological achievements to the economy and society, and to release the vitality and potential of scientific and technological achievements stored in universities, research institutes and state-owned enterprises, which is a key measure to implement the innovation-driven development strategy and an important breakthrough for Shanghai to accelerate the construction of a scientific and technological innovation center with global influence. As an innovative and functional platform, Lingang International Intelligent Manufacturing Exhibition and Trade Center will continue to promote the transfer of scientific and technological achievements in the field of intelligent manufacturing in Lingang, Shanghai and the world, explore new methods, modes and functions, and gradually play a pivotal role in the field of intelligent manufacturing research and development.

Wu Xiaohua, deputy director of the Lingang Management Committee, said in his speech that as a characteristic gathering area with smart manufacturing as its main direction, Lingang is taking policy as a guide, laying out the industrial ecosystem and playing the "trump card" of smart manufacturing. In order to strengthen industrial guidance and cultivation, the Lingang Management Committee set up a 5 billion yuan scale Lingang area smart manufacturing industry fund, set up an annual 500 million yuan of smart manufacturing special funds.In 2016, Lingang carried out two smart manufacturing projects special review, 63 projects, approved support funds of 660 million yuan, driving social investment of 3.16 billion yuan. Under this favorable industrial ecological environment, the Lingang region is in dire need of a platform that can facilitate the participation of smart manufacturing-related technologies, products or scientific research results in exhibition or trading, thus breaking the "last kilometer" of transformation of scientific and technological achievements and promoting the transformation of scientific and technological innovations on the spot. The opening of Lingang International Intelligent Manufacturing Exhibition and Trade Center announces the birth of this important functional platform of Lingang. This platform will bring together high-end intelligent manufacturing applied technology, dock with international intelligent manufacturing cutting-edge technical achievements, realize technical achievements and intellectual property bidding, matchmaking, docking, transfer and financing functions.

Afterwards, the leaders went on stage to jointly trigger the launch ball and officially unveil the offline exhibition hall and online platform of the Lingang International Intelligent Manufacturing Exhibition and Trade Center. In order to promote the realization of the functions of each module of the exhibition and trade center, the center also introduced professional service agencies to provide a variety of mature and complete third-party services for intelligent manufacturing enterprises. In the signing session afterwards, the Exhibition and Trade Center signed service agreements with Shanghai Pudong Software Platform, Gaopeng (Shanghai) Law Firm and Shanghai Xin Yinjia Venture Capital Management Co. At the signing ceremony of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, the transferor and transferee of the ultra-wideband and odometer information fusion food delivery robot project, microwave heating device related technology project, advanced integrated circuit test platform technology development project signed on stage. The leaders, guests and enterprise representatives witnessed the first batch of professional service organizations stationed in the Lingang International Intelligent Manufacturing Exhibition and Trade Center, and the first batch of scientific and technological achievement transformation projects were transformed in the Lingang International Intelligent Manufacturing Exhibition and Trade Center.

Introduction of Lingang International Intelligent Manufacturing Exhibition and Trade Center

In June 2017, under the joint guidance of the Shanghai Lingang Area Development and Construction Management Committee and the National Technology Transfer Eastern Center, the Lingang International Smart Manufacturing Exhibition and Trade Center (hereinafter referred to as "the Center"), which integrates the display, trading, research and development, incubation and training of smart manufacturing technologies and achievements, was born in a timely manner.

As an exquisite business card for the construction of international intelligent manufacturing center in Lingang, Lingang International Intelligent Manufacturing Exhibition and Trade Center docks with international intelligent manufacturing frontier technology achievements, focuses on artificial intelligence, unmanned technology, industrial robotics, intelligent equipment and other fields, gathers industry resources, introduces research and development subjects, superimposes professional services, and promotes international advanced intelligent manufacturing technology, products and innovative projects to gather in Lingang.

The Center relies on the Shanghai Technology Exchange and connects with the big data platform of the Eastern National Technology Transfer Center to realize the bidding, integration, docking and transfer of technological achievements and intellectual property rights. The center is built by Shanghai Lingang Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Center, which implements the service model of "Internet + Entity", and takes the implementation path of synchronous construction, unveiling and operation of online and offline exhibition halls.

The offline exhibition hall is constructed in two phases, the first phase is located in Building 6 of Shanghai Lingang Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Center, with a showroom area of 1000 square meters, divided into upper and lower two floors, which is now officially unveiled and put into use. The second phase is located in the incubation building of Shanghai Lingang Science and Technology Innovation Center, with a planned showroom area of 5000 square meters, which is scheduled to be completed and moved in 2018.

The online exhibition hall will be an online platform for exhibitors to display projects, technologies and achievements, a socially oriented promotion platform to search for information on scientific and technological achievements, research and development projects, technical information, product information, industry information, is a supplement to the physical exhibition hall, breaking through space constraints, attracting more domestic and foreign enterprises and research and development institutions to release massive project information, and become the wind vane of intelligent manufacturing industry data.

The functional layout of the Centre is divided into five main centres.

        Display Center.It will showcase international advanced technologies and application results of intelligent manufacturing, as well as relevant research and development institutions, service organizations and technical experts, and become a weathervane for insight into global intelligent manufacturing industry data and an engine for exporting cutting-edge technologies.

        Trading Center.Focusing on the technical achievements and intellectual property rights of the intelligent manufacturing industry at home and abroad, through competitive bidding and trading, to maximize the value of technology transfer, improve the mobility of technical resources and promote cooperation in the R&D chain of the intelligent manufacturing industry.

        R&D Center.Attracting the R&D center of well-known intelligent manufacturing enterprises to settle in the city, integrating intelligent manufacturing R&D and innovation resources, forming a development synergy and making Lingang an innovation plateau for intelligent manufacturing R&D.

        Incubation centres.Relying on the professional incubation system of Shanghai Lingang Technology & Entrepreneurship Center, a state-level technology business incubator, it provides professional incubation services such as technology finance, marketing and project cultivation. It will become a gathering place for intelligent manufacturing R&D, capital, market, talents and other elements and services.

        Training centres.To engage international and domestic experts, scholars and investors to interpret the development trend of intelligent manufacturing industry, to carry out intelligent manufacturing innovation and entrepreneurship talents training and technical training, and to hold intelligent manufacturing large-scale events with national and even global influence.