laboratory glassware washer：AVIC Joins Hands with China University of Science and Technology to Layout the Quantum Era

China Aviation Industry Corporation and the University of Science and Technology of China are working together to layout the quantum era.

Quantum technology is a disruptive technology in the field of information, which fundamentally revolutionizes the principles and methods of information acquisition, transmission, storage, and processing by manipulating the microscopic world. At present, the continuous breakthroughs in quantum technology, as well as its widespread application potential in fields such as computers, simulation systems, information communication, metrology science, and induction technology, have attracted high attention from the scientific and technological community, industry, and stakeholders. Traditional technological powers in the international community are striving to take the lead in the large-scale application of quantum technology.

China Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC), one of the Fortune Global 500 companies and the largest aviation manufacturing enterprise in China, has signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Beijing. The two sides will carry out in-depth industry university research and innovation cooperation in quantum technology, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology, aviation big data application technology, and talent cultivation. At the same time, both parties will jointly build the China Aerospace Science and Technology Quantum Technology Joint Research and Development Center in Hefei, Anhui Province.

Lin Zuoming, Chairman of AVIC, and Wan Lijun, President of the University of Science and Technology of China, signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement between the two parties. Zhang Xinguo, Vice General Manager of AVIC, and Academician Guo Guangcan of the University of Science and Technology of China signed an agreement to jointly build the AVIC Quantum Technology Research and Development Center.

AVIC is a driving force and leader in the development of aviation technology in China. Lin Zuoming pointed out in his speech that the group company has always attached great importance to the promoting role of scientific and technological progress in the development of aviation technology, as well as the driving role of innovative model construction in the development of the aviation industry. In recent years, we have continuously strengthened our in-depth cooperation with well-known universities and established a more open, efficient, and flexible research and development system.

Lin Zuoming expressed that he believes that through the joint efforts of both parties, this strategic cooperation will definitely achieve fruitful results, cultivate a group of high-level professional and technical talents, enhance research capabilities and technological level in the field of quantum technology applications, and use this as a good start to promote deeper and wider technological cooperation between the two sides, and further develop industry university research innovation cooperation.

The history of quantum technology research at the University of Science and Technology of China is long, and a series of innovative achievements with international leading levels have been achieved in fields such as quantum communication technology, quantum computing, and quantum measurement. Wan Lijun emphasized that the University of Science and Technology of China has always attached great importance to cooperation with local governments and national defense construction. The goal of this cooperation with AVIC is clear, and both sides will work together to promote the development of national defense science and technology under the guidance and leadership of the industry, combined with the success of industry, academia, and research.

According to the agreement, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Quantum Technology Joint Research and Development Center mainly conducts research on quantum information technology and its application and industrialization in aviation technology fields such as navigation, communication, encryption, computing, and imaging, in order to build a bridge from basic research on quantum information technology to aviation application technology research, build a technology chain for quantum information technology research and development from electronic functional materials, electronic devices, preparation processes, etc., develop derivative aviation application products, and build a gathering place for first-class quantum information technology professionals and application research talents.