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CHENGDU, China, Nov. 29, 2022 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--

Sponsored by the Sichuan Provincial People's Government and Ministry of

Industry and Information Technology, and organized by the Chengdu Municipal

People's Government, the 2022 World Conference on Display Industry (WCDI) is

set to commence in the Chinese metropolis of Chengdu on November 30.

During the span of the conference, the latest in hi-tech applications and

products such as holographic projects of Sanxingdui Museum's mask with

protruding eyes and gold mask, and LG's flexible OLED television will be

unveiled. Around a hundred heavyweight guests from about a dozen nations and

regions including China, South Korea, Japan, the U.S. and the U.K. will

participate in the meeting and deliver speeches.

Held concurrently with the main event is a novel display technology innovation

exhibition. More than 60 leading enterprises and their cutting-edge

technologies, products, applications and solutions will be showcased over an

exhibition area of some 12,000 square meters, where visitors will be treated to

an up close and immersive experience into the forefront of the industry.

"Displays are everywhere," and under the direction of scientific and

technological advancements, new applications in the display industry are

quietly but surely changing people's lives. This year's host city, the

megapolis of Chengdu situated in the hinterland of southwestern China, is

utilizing its novel display industry to connect with the world.

"If you are using a foldable phone, the display screen could have been made in

Chengdu," remarked Qin Xiangdong, Vice President of BOE Technology Group.

Chengdu is home to the world's second and China's first BOE sixth-generation

flexible AMOLED display panel production line. Flexible OLED screens have been

broadly adopted in a wide range of smartphones from brands such as Apple and

Huawei, and in the future, half of the world's high-end flexible display

screens might be "made in Chengdu".

BOE is a display industry leader, and also the engine that has propelled the

advancement of Chengdu's novel display industry. Since first establishing its

presence in Chengdu 15 years ago, not only has BOE invested and constructed

projects worth nearly a hundred billion yuan, it has also attracted the

gathering of numerous upstream and downstream enterprises such as CEC-Panda,

Tianma, Newway Photomask, Vistar Optoelectronics, Xgimi Technology and

Skyworth, which together comprise a basically complete novel display industry

chain. Not only has this chain been able to effectively reduce corporate

operation costs and fuel the growth of innovation-driven enterprises, but has

also resulted in the assembly of a large number of talents and the acceleration

in the development of new products and new technologies.

From China's first batch of 4.5th-generation 0.1mm liquid crystal glass

substrates, to the first piece of photomask product from the country's first

11th-generation ultra-advanced photomask manufacturing line, a series of

symbolic and original research and development achievements have been birthed

in Chengdu. Xgimi Technology, a Chengdu home-grown enterprise, has emerged as a

leader in the projector industry thanks to its independent innovations, and its

global delivery reached the million unit milestone in 2021, while accounting

for 21.2% of total shipment in the Chinese market for the year.

On August 16, BOE formally unveiled two new technologies that can lower OLED

display energy consumption while immensely improving visual performance.

Announced in Chengdu, the pair of new technologies serves to demonstrate the

city's world-leading flexible OLED display technology and tremendous smart

manufacturing capability.

At present, novel display industry achievements from Chengdu can be readily

found in fields from smartphone, vehicle-borne technology, home appliance and

urban lighting to long-distance medical device and office equipment. In 2021,

main business income of Chengdu's novel display industry jumped year-on-year by

39% to reach RMB 60.269 billion, becoming one of the city's most promising

pillar industries and further cementing its role as a crucial pole in the

Chinese novel display industry.

Currently, Chengdu's novel display industry is already included in the city's

key future development blueprint, and plans call for building the city into a

hundred billion-yuan novel display industry research, development and

manufacturing base. The hosting of the World Conference on Display Industry in

Chengdu will further strengthen communications and cooperation in the global

novel display industry chain and supply chain, and contribute to a world that

is more intelligent, tech-driven and borderless.

Source: Chengdu Municipal People's Government