A foundation stone laying ceremony for the Chinese mainland's first large-scale OLED (Organic Light Emitting Display) production line was held November 6 in Kunsan of Jiangsu. It is an application of a high-tech achievement of the 863 (High Tech Research and Development) Program during the tenth Five Year. The technology used in the production line comes from Tsinghua University and Beijing Visionox Technology Co. Ltd. The move indicates that China has made major breakthrough in independent technological innovation and industrialization of research results in the new flat panel display area.

In 2005 OLED, together with Internet, mobile phone and PC, were listed by the US CNN as one of the 25 innovative technologies that have had the greatest impact on mankind in the last 25 years.

Tsinghua University began basic research on OLED since 1996 and set up Beijing Visionox Technology in collaboration with other investors at the end of 2001 to engage in the construction of pilot-scale production line and development of production technologies. It has applied for over 50 OLED patents at home and abroad and has taken part in the enacting of OLED international standards.

The successful industrialization of the OLED technologies indicates that China has for the first time acquired complete industrialized technologies by relying on independent research and development and innovation in the photoelectric display industry, thereby has avoided walking down the same old path of the whole introduction of CRT (kinescope) and LCD (liquid-crystal display).

By People's Daily Online