Date: Friday,
May 26, 2006
Time: 3:30pm
– 4:00pm Registration
& Networking
4:00pm – 6:00pm Program
6:00pm- 7:00pm Reception (Invitation only)
Venue: The Fairmont San Jose [170 South
Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113]
Host: Wuxi
Municipal People’s Government
Co-hosts: Wuxi National High-tech
Industrial Development Zone (WND)
North America Chinese
Semiconductor Association (NACSA)
Agenda:
16:00 - Introduction of VIPs Attending the Symposium
16:10 - Welcoming Speech by Mr. YANG Weize, Party Secretary
of Wuxi
16:20 - Keynote Speech by Mr. ZHOU Qian, Party Secretary of
WND
16:40 - Case Studies of Successful Companies in WND
-
Presentation by Dr. SHI Zhengrong, Chairman
& CEO of Suntech
-
Presentation by Mr. Dong Whie KIM, Vice President of
Hynix-ST
-
Presentation by Dr. ZHAO Yang, President & CEO of
MEMSIC
17:10 – Q&A
17:30 – Signing Ceremony of
Cooperative Agreements
18:00 – Reception
(invitation only)
Wuxi Introduction
Located 80 miles west to Shanghai and situated in the center
of the Yangtze River Delta, Wuxi covers an area of 4,788 square kilometers and
has a total population of 4.53 million. Bearing thousands of years of
civilization, Wuxi is situated in the beautiful and wealthy land along Taihu
Lake. It is a fertile land of fish and rice, well known in China as “bright
pearl shining over Taihu Lake”.
As a famous city with a history of 3,000 years, Wuxi was the
birthplace of Wu Culture. With the developed national indigenous industry and
commerce in the early 20th century, the products of flour, textile,
silk and machinery were exported to countries in Europe, USA and Southeast
Asia. Its economic volume ranked No. 3 at its peak point in China, thus being
reputed as “Shanghai in miniature”
Since 1980s, Wuxi developed its township enterprises by
making use of its solid industrialization basis. The emergence of township
industry has accelerated the development of industrialization in the
countryside and has found a road of enriching its farmers. As the cradle of
China’s national indigenous industry and commerce, township enterprises and a
concentrated place of foreign investment, Wuxi is not only famous for its
beautiful sceneries, but also is a hot-land in creating prosperity. Being
innovative and practical, the people in Wuxi have created 1.54% of China’s
economic volume with 5 per 10,000th of land and 4 out of 1,000th
people in China. Its GDP per capita achieved US$7,724, making it in the leading
positions among cities in China.
With the aim of becoming a world-famous manufacturing base
through scientific planning, Wuxi is to build a series of high-tech basis such
as Silicon, LCD and Pharmaceutical Valleys, so as to create a platform of
initiating new businesses for investors from home and abroad.
Wuxi New District Introduction
As one of the state-level high tech parks in China, Wuxi New District(WND) was approved by the State Council in 1992. It covers a total area of 222 square kilometers, and has a registered population of some 280,000 and residential population of nearly 500,000. By the end of 2005, WND has approved establishment of more than 1,300 foreign-funded projects involving a total investment of some US$ 10 billion, with US $6 billion actually paid-in capital. Within WND are 70 projects funded by some 50 of the Global Fortune 500. Its integrated circuit, precision machinery and other manufacture techniques lead the world. In addition, WND boasts very strong innovation capabilities among high tech parks in China. It has built 5 state-level technological innovation and industrialization bases including IC design, software, LCD, cartoon and high-tech incubation services until 2005. It has also witnessed non-state-owned high-tech enterprises that are flagship in their respective industry in China such as Suntech and Evermore.
In the next five years, Wuxi New District will accelerate
the construction of a first-class internationalized city of science and
technology in China. It will forge itself into an advanced manufacturing clustering
area, national technological innovation area, southern Jiangsu International logistics
hub and a harmonious new Wuxi exemplary area.
Mr. SHI Zhengrong
Chairman & CEO of Suntech
Dr. Zhengrong Shi is founder and CEO
of Suntech Power Co., Ltd, a company he established in 2001 to specialise in manufacturing
silicon solar cells, modules and systems. Under Dr. Shi’s leadership, Suntech has
grown at a phenomenal rate, increasing its manufacturing capacity by more than
an order of magnitude in less than three years, reaching 150 MWp earlier this year.
In December 14, 2005, Suntech
had a successful IPO
(Initial Public Offering) on the New York Stock Exchange. Through the IPO,
Suntech Power issued 26.38 million American Depository Shares (ADS) priced at
US$15 per piece. Company raised a total of US$400 million through the IPO,
becoming the Chinese private enterprise to raise the largest amount of funds in
the New York Stock Exchange. Suntech is the largest solar cell producer in terms of market
cap.
Zhengrong Shi was born in Jjiangsu
Province and initially completed his undergraduate and masters degrees in China
before conducting his PhD research at the University of New South Wales (UNSW),
Australia in 1988 under the supervision of Martin A. Green, a well known world
leader in PV. In 1991 he obtained his PhD degree in multi-crystalline silicon thin
film solar cells. Since his PhD, Dr Shi worked as a senior research scientist
at UNSW, and later worked as Deputy Research Director at Pacific Solar for 6
years.
Mr. Dong Whie KIM
Mr. KIM is vice president and Chief Financial Officer
(CFO) of Hynix-ST Semiconductor. Before appointed to this role for the new
Hynix and ST Micro’s $2
billion joint venture in early 2005, Mr. KIM spent 12 years at Hynix
Semiconductor. He served in the anti-dumping department, and then held the
positions of Director of Sale Operations and later Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
in Hynix US. His most recent assignment had been leading the Asia based strategic customers at Hynix
Headquarter.
Mr. ZHAO Yang
President & CEO of MEMSIC
Before founding MEMSIC, Dr. ZHAO
had been a key member in Analog Devices, MEMS division for seven years. Dr.
ZHAO has a Ph.D. in EE from Princeton (under Prof. Daniel Tsui who won the 1998
Nobel Prize in physics) plus two Master degrees in both Physics and EE. He
holds 9 US patents in IC circuit, processing, packaging and MEMS technologies.
Dr. ZHAO was selected by Small Times magazine as a finalist for
Business Leader of the Year in recognition to his significant contribution to
the commercialization of MES technology.
Mr. SHI Zhengrong
Chairman & CEO of Suntech
Dr. Zhengrong Shi is founder and CEO
of Suntech Power Co., Ltd, a company he established in 2001 to specialise in manufacturing
silicon solar cells, modules and systems. Under Dr. Shi’s leadership, Suntech has
grown at a phenomenal rate, increasing its manufacturing capacity by more than
an order of magnitude in less than three years, reaching 150 MWp earlier this year. According to Photon
International in March 2005, Suntech’s silicon solar cell production volume was
ranked the 10th in the world, and was forecast to be the 6th in 2006. The rapid
growth and success of Suntech combined with the quality of its products has
given PV markets and investors a new confidence in PV manufacturing in China. Dr. Shi’s impressive achievements have been honoured
with many awards and prizes from the Wuxi government, the Jiangsu provincial
government and the Central government, such as the prize for Excellence in Innovation
and Pioneering work from the Wuxi government, the National Prize for Excellent Achievements by
Homecoming Chinese from the Central Government. Dr. Shi has also been
acknowledged by our State leaders, such as President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen
Jiabao. In March 2004, Premier Wen Jia Bao inspected Suntech in person and
affirmed the impressive achievements of Suntech made under Dr. Shi’s leadership.
In December 14, 2005, Suntech
had a successful IPO
(Initial Public Offering) on the New York Stock Exchange. Through the IPO,
Suntech Power issued 26.38 million American Depository Shares (ADS) priced at
US$15 per piece. Company raised a total of US$400 million through the IPO,
becoming the Chinese private enterprise to raise the largest amount of funds in
the New York Stock Exchange. Suntech is the largest solar cell producer in market cap.
Zhengrong Shi was born in Jjiangsu
Province and initially completed his undergraduate and masters degrees in China
before conducting his PhD research at the University of New South Wales (UNSW),
Australia in 1988 under the supervision of Martin A. Green, a well known world
leader in PV. In 1991 he obtained his PhD degree in multi-crystalline silicon thin
film solar cells and has been subsequently recognised as a world authority in
the area such as, through being chosen as the International expert on thin-film
crystalline silicon solar cells for the Wiley journal Progress in Photovoltaics
for its special issue on Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells. Since his PhD, Dr Shi
worked as a senior research scientist at UNSW, and later worked as Deputy
Research Director at Pacific Solar for 6 years. During this period he was
involved in developing the thin film technology now being commercialised by CSG
Solar in Germany and is one of the inventors on the key patents for this
successful technology. Dr. Zhengrong Shi has published many scientific papers and
holds many patents for his innovations in solar cells.