The Huairou Science City in Beijing will be built into a world-class innovation supporting zone with a planned area of nearly 100.9 square kilometers. The first group of five interdisciplinary research platforms has started construction in late May.

According to the plan, the science city is expected to take shape and achieve initial goals by 2020, and it will become a comprehensive science center with global influence by 2030.

It is estimated that in 2030 the science city will be home to over 23,000 faculty members and employees of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, about 24,000 postgraduates, postdoctoral researchers and foreign students, as well as 2,110 visiting scholars.

Currently, the two platforms located near the Institute of Electronics of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Huairou District -- the materials genome research platform and the clean energy materials testing and R&D platform -- are under construction. The two projects are expected to be completed during the last two months next year. By then, they will become China’s first and the world’s largest materials research platforms.

Located near the two platforms is the construction site of the comprehensive facilities for experiments under extreme conditions, which will be the first major national science laboratory infrastructure. The project started at the end of September and is scheduled to complete in August 2022. The completion of the project will greatly improve China’s capability of scientific R&D and the operation of cutting-edge experimental equipment.

In terms of supporting public facilities, the Huairou Science City will start the expansion of schools and hospitals in order to provide customized services to researchers at the science city.

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