Qingdao recently released an action plan (2025-2027) for accelerating the cultivation and development of industries of the future. According to the plan, Qingdao will prioritize developing eight industries of the future, which comprise terahertz, marine electronic information, deep sea exploitation, aerospace information, brain-inspired intelligence, quantum information, advanced semiconductor materials, and satellite internet, and strive to build a business presence in a number of future-oriented cross-domain frontier segments.

Targets for development of industries of the future in Qingdao have been set out in the plan. By 2027, the technological innovation network, incubation and cultivation chain, and policy and institutional system, which underpin the development of industries of the future, will be established in the main, and a slew of critical technologies, application scenarios, key enterprises and leading professionals will emerge. To be specific, Qingdao will launch around 10 innovation platforms and new-type R&D institutes, and make about 50 breakthroughs in key and core technologies, cutting-edge technologies and generic technologies; boast around 30 high-growth enterprises, including specialized, refined, differentiated and innovative (SRDI), gazelle and hidden unicorn enterprises, and cultivate a number of top innovators and high-caliber innovation-oriented teams in industries of the future; roll out around 30 application scenarios and 20 signature innovative products in such sectors as brain-inspired intelligence, quantum information, advanced semiconductor materials and satellite internet.  (Zhou Xiaofeng)

The SV3 wave glider developed by Qingdao Hydrotech Co., Ltd.