Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province, is working to develop cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, biomedicine, and aerospace by pursuing a new wave of technological revolution and industrial transformation.
The city has become a magnet for entrepreneurs, with a slew of innovative businesses and cutting-edge research achievements emerging.
A laparoscopic minimally invasive surgical robot developed by Chengdu-based Borns Medical Robotics Inc is about to be clinically registered, said Li Yao, founder and CEO of the company.
Borns Medical Robotics Inc, established in 2016, is a specialist in the research, manufacture and application of medical robots. It aims to improve minimally invasive surgery with AI.
The company recently established the Borns Oussama Khatib Lab by working with Oussama Khatib, a professor at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Robotics Lab.
The lab, featuring Medical AI, will focus on the research and development of major theories and basic technologies for intelligent medical robots.
Li said that Borns will promote the intelligent upgrading of surgical robots and accelerate the registration of a series of surgical robot products at the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), the Conformite Europeenne (CE), and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Remarkable achievements have also been made in the field of biomedicine.
Chengdu Chipscreen Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Shenzhen Chipscreen Boisciences Co Ltd, obtained a drug registration certificate for Carfloglitazar, a configuration-restricted PPAR pan agonist for type 2 diabetes, from the NMPA on Oct 29.
The new drug is the first original First-in-Class drug for type 2 diabetes.
Another innovative company based in Chengdu, Jouav, is a leading developer and manufacturer of vertical takeoff and landing fixed-wing UAVs.
The company was listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Feb 10, making it the country's first publicly traded business focusing on unmanned aircraft systems.
The UAVs produced by Jouav are widely used in fields such as surveying and mapping, security monitoring, and forest firefighting and occupy more than 50 percent of the domestic vertical take-off and landing fixed-wing UAV market.
The company released its latest Dapeng UAV CW-40 at the Zhuhai Air Show in September. Ren Bin, founder and CEO, said the product has many advantages such as a large load capacity, long flight time, and the ability to vertically take-off and land on mobile platforms.
Ren said Jouav will continue to define and expand the applications of industrial UAVs by adopting new technologies such as 5G, AI, and big data.
A number of cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements have mushroomed in Chengdu as the city works to build itself into a national-level scientific and technological innovation center.
Chengdu is the birth place of the new-generation HL-2M Tokamak, also known as an "artificial sun", the world's first high-temperature superconducting high-speed maglev engineering prototype, and China's first nanopore-based single molecule gene sequencer.
The city is enhancing its technological innovation capabilities by building high-level innovation platforms such as the Tianfu Laboratory and the Chengdu Supercomputing Center. It has also made plans to support the research and development of 15 key industries including biomedicine, quantum technology and drones.
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