From December 12th to 14th, the final of the 12th China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2023 New Display Industry Technology Innovation Professional Competition and project signing series with the theme of "Infinite Innovation and Vision to the Future" was held in Foshan. The new display industry has a large industrial scale, a long industrial chain, a large number of employees, and a strong leading role, and is in a leading position in the electronic information industry cluster, which is one of the main battlefields to maintain the stability of the industrial chain, and is also an urgent need for the country to promote high-quality development. Foshan attaches great importance to the cultivation of new display industry chain, and has obvious industrial development advantages. Taking this opportunity, the whole city unifies its ideological understanding, strengthens its responsibility, combines the industrial foundation, adheres to the precise extension of the chain and strengthens the chain, and accelerates the reengineering of industrial advantages. To this end, we have invited technical experts in the new display industry to jointly develop the development trend of the new display industry in the form of a virtual roundtable.
Zhu Changchang, former chief engineer of the National Flat Panel Display Engineering Technology Research Center:
Break the barriers of the display industry and stimulate the vitality of market applications.
Continue to support and lay out the upstream and downstream industrial chainsThe scale of China's new display industry continues to expand, and the industrial revenue in 2022 will exceed 500 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of about 15%. At the same time, China's shipments in the field of flexible AMOLED have jumped to the first place in the world, becoming a bright spot in China's new display industry. These data show that China's new display industry is developing rapidly and has strong competitiveness in some fields.
The first is to give full play to the advantages of TFT-LCD production capacity, strengthen the ability of AMOLED technology innovation, pay attention to the research and reserve of emerging technologies, and promote the industry to move towards a high-quality competition track. The second is to strengthen the coordination and cooperation between panel enterprises and upstream enterprises, and pay attention to the balanced development of the industrial chain. The third is to focus on the digital economy, explore the integration and innovation development path of new displays, new energy vehicles, 5G, and the Internet of Things, accelerate the development of new applications, and strive to create new markets. Fourth, we will carry out the construction of a multi-level and all-round industrial ecosystem, strengthen the introduction and training of talents, adhere to high-level opening up and cooperation, actively carry out multi-channel and multi-level international cooperation models, and promote the deep integration with the global industrial chain. Fifth, we should promote green development and promote sustainable development. The new display industry should pay attention to environmental protection and sustainable development. In the production process, it is necessary to promote the concept of green manufacturing, reduce energy consumption and emissions, and improve resource utilization efficiency. In the process of product use, we should pay attention to energy saving and environmental protection performance, and promote product upgrading. Sixth, it is necessary to strengthen personnel training and lay a solid foundation for development. The new display industry needs the support of high-quality talents. It is necessary to intensify the cultivation of talents, improve the talent incentive mechanism, and attract and cultivate more outstanding talents to devote themselves to industrial development. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen cooperation with universities and scientific research institutions to promote the deep integration of production, education, research and application.
Printing OLED technology is a cutting-edge screen production technology that is different from the current mainstream evaporation technology. At present, significant progress has been made in printed OLED technology. Some companies have already started to build production lines with printed OLED technology, and plan to mass ship them in the next few years. However, the material system of printed OLED technology is not mature enough and needs to be further developed and optimized. In general, printed OLED technology is a potential screen production technology that is expected to play an important role in the display industry in the future.
In addition, it is necessary to continuously optimize the policy environment and stimulate market vitality. **It plays an important role in the high-quality development of the new display industry. It is necessary to optimize the policy environment, increase support for the industry, and provide more preferential policies and services for enterprises. At the same time, it is necessary to deepen the reform of the system and mechanism, break down industry barriers and regional blockades, and stimulate market vitality and innovation vitality.
Li Junfeng, a special expert of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China in the 14th Five-Year Plan for "New Display and Strategic Electronic Materials" and President of the Innovation Research Institute of Visionox Group
The coordinated development of the whole industrial chain improves market competitiveness.
The key elements for the high-quality development of the new display industry include technological innovation, coordinated development of the industrial chain and policy support.
Technological innovation is the foundation. The display industry needs to continue to carry out systematic technological innovation, including materials, equipment, processes, devices and products. Layered innovation takes into account current product needs and forward-looking technologies. The former improves product performance, reduces costs, and improves market competitiveness, while the latter is oriented to the future competitiveness of the industry, and also provides theoretical support for the solution of current product performance problems.
Collaborative innovation in the industrial chain is the key to industrial development. Collaborative innovation of upstream and downstream enterprises can jointly improve efficiency and enhance the overall competitiveness of the industry. Collaborative innovation, on the one hand, can open up the demand management of upstream and downstream R&D, make innovation more targeted and efficient, and on the other hand, it can accelerate the application verification of innovation achievements and improve the speed of innovation iteration. Therefore, collaborative innovation is very important to improve the development level and competitiveness of the entire industry.
Policy environment and policy support are important guiding factors for the healthy development and sustainable development of the industry. The display industry is a heavy asset, long-term industry, the correct policy guidance can encourage enterprises to strengthen technological innovation, reduce the short-sighted behavior of enterprises, encourage the shortcomings of collaborative breakthroughs, reduce the phenomenon of undesirable competition or disorderly development, and guide the healthy development of the entire industry from the macro level, steady and far-reaching.
Visionox has always adhered to the mission of "leading China's OLED industry with scientific and technological innovation", and has been unswervingly committed to technological innovation for more than 20 years. Technological innovation has also strongly supported the company's development
First of all, the transformation and implementation of technological innovation achievements have promoted and supported the company's industrial layout. At present, the company has laid out four major industrial bases in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Chengdu-Chongqing region, which is the embodiment of the transformation and implementation of technological innovation achievements. Secondly, long-term technological innovation has formed a solid technological accumulation, and several industry-leading technological breakthroughs will be produced every year. At present, it has more than 14,000 patents in the field of OLED, of which 86% are invention patents. Third, a breakthrough in joint innovation has been achieved. On the one hand, Visionox actively collaborates with industry chain partners to innovate and strongly support the development of the industrial chainOn the other hand, based on the existing resources, the expansion of the platform has been realized, and the evaporation OLED display innovation platform of the National New Display Technology Innovation Center, Anhui Academician Workstation, Jiangsu Academician Workstation, and Hebei Flexible Display Technology Innovation Center have been jointly established. Solve common problems through innovation platforms and accelerate the transformation of innovation achievements.
In the future, Visionox will continue to adhere to technological innovation and collaborate with the industry to help the industry continue to develop.
Peng Xinhan, General Manager of Hymson Group's New Display Industry Center:
Technological innovation and quality coexist and continue to maintain a leading position in the world.
Through the continuous support of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the layout of the upstream and downstream industrial chains, the mass production of laser display machines has been realized, making China's laser display industry become an international leader. In recent years, there are more than 30 backbone enterprises engaged in the industrialization of laser display in China, with shipments of 600,000 units. At the same time, the new direction of the next generation of display technology continues to emerge, with printed display, laser display, micron-level light-emitting diode (micro-LED) display-based next-generation display direction gradually clear, light field display, laser holographic display and other transformative display technologies will promote the development of three-dimensional display, the world is in the research and development stage before industrial application. It is not difficult to find that the key to promoting the high-quality development of China's new display industry lies in technological innovation.
In the tide of the new display industry, Hymson has made a forward-looking layout for the future ultimate display technology micro-LED. In 2020, the strategic project research was launched, and the new display industry center was established in early 2022 to go all out to enter the micro-LED equipment market. In June 2022, Hymson launched a mass transfer device with laser technology, and successfully delivered the first batch of micro-LED mass transfer equipment to customers in September, which means that Hymson has successfully mastered the micro-LED mass transfer technology and made an important breakthrough in the field of new displays.
Looking forward to the future, Hymson will lay out the micro-LED full-process laser equipment technology, including mass transfer, mass bonding and rework process, which will solve the challenges faced by micro-LED technology, promote the industry to enter the era of large-scale mass production, and contribute to the development of China's new display industry.
Zhang Yongai, researcher and doctoral supervisor of the School of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University
Accelerate the pace of technological progress and promote the high-quality development of the industry.
China's new display industry has stepped out of the scale-oriented and is accelerating towards the high-quality development path of technology-oriented and value-oriented. This development process covers all aspects of the industrial chain, from display panel products to special materials and special equipment for display, as well as various application markets.
First of all, in the industrial chain, in addition to display panel products, there are two key links: display special materials and special equipment. Thanks to the construction of production lines, the local output value of China's new display materials has increased year by year, and liquid crystal materials, optical films, targets, and electronic chemicals have reached a certain scale. In terms of special equipment, enterprises are mainly concentrated in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions. Secondly, in terms of investment and financing, in the past 18 months, China's new display industry has invested nearly 170 billion yuan. These investments are not only used for the construction of production lines, but also cover special display materials, equipment, micro displays and other fields. At the same time, the new display industry continues to empower consumer electronics, digital culture and creativity, landscape tourism, digital medical care, vehicle display, virtual display and other fields, empowering and empowering production, life and social management, and injecting new momentum into high-quality economic and social development. In terms of innovation-driven development model, high-value-added high-end intelligent terminal products such as ultra-high-definition, ultra-high brush, flexible OLED, and mini micro LED will show more innovative breakthroughs. Application markets such as automotive, folding screens, metaverse, smart healthcare, and smart retail will also usher in rapid development.
In general, the resilience and sustainability of China's new display industry are further enhanced, and the stability of the industrial chain is also steadily improving. At the same time, with the advancement of technology and the expansion of the application market, the industry is accelerating towards the goal of high-quality development.