Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIAT) was jointly established in February 2006 by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. As a key component of the national strategic scientific and technological strength, SIAT has always been anchored to the greatest common divisor of national demands, scientific frontiers, and industrial development, striving to break through the 'two-point one-line' path from scientific and technological commanding heights to the fusion point of transformation of scientific and technological achievements. It has innovatively constructed a micro collaborative innovation ecosystem that integrates research, education, industry, and capital with research as the core, continuously deepening its alignment with the international academic system and the industrial ecosystem of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, committed to building itself into a new type of research institution that is prestigious internationally, prominent nationally, and contributive locally. During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, SIAT focused on the goals of 'four leaderships' and 'two accelerations and one effort', strategizing and implementing major tackling tasks to seize scientific and technological commanding heights, leveraging its systematic and institutional advantages to form a research matrix of 'three main attack directions plus five emerging fields': focusing on three main directions of medical imaging equipment and scientific instruments, life health and synthetic biology, and integrated circuit materials and packaging. It accelerates breakthroughs in emerging research directions such as brain-computer interfaces and intelligent systems, brain analysis and primate models, medical devices and equipment, intelligent medicine and health data, advanced materials and carbon neutrality, striving to seize scientific and technological commanding heights in increasingly fierce international scientific and technological competition, laying a solid foundation for enhancing China's discourse power in international scientific and technological competition. After 19 years of vigorous development, SIAT has built 9 research institutes, 2 large scientific facilities, 4 national key laboratories, 2 innovation centers at the national level, and 112 innovation carriers at the provincial and municipal levels, centered around the 'IT+BT+MT' cross-convergence strategy. Among them, it leads the construction of the National Key Laboratory of Medical Imaging Science and Technology Systems and the National Key Laboratory of Quantitative Synthetic Biology, and participates in the co-construction of the National Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuit Materials and the National Key Laboratory of Brain Cognition and Brain-like Intelligence; the National Innovation Center for High-Performance Medical Devices and the National Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Industry continue to deepen collaborative innovation; the three basic research institutions of Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Electronic Materials International Innovation Research Institute, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology Innovation, and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Brain Science Innovation Research Institute are accelerating breakthroughs; two major scientific and technological infrastructure projects of Shenzhen synthetic biology research and brain analysis and brain simulation have been stationed in Guangming Science City and started operation, which will effectively attract the accelerated aggregation of high-end scientific research resources from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and even globally.