Reporter learned that 38 academician workstations have been completed at the end of 2014, and there are 53 academicians, 324 experts in the workstation and 148 projects have been signed. Qingdao has the most workstations in the province and firstly brings foreign academician in the workstation. Meanwhile, enterprise’scompetitive advantagesandcapabilities of independent innovation have been improved.

Qingdao government pays high attention to the workstation and that greatly promotes the construction of academician workstation. There are 13 state-level programs among the 148 programssigned.

Workstation of CSR Sifang Co., Ltd in Qingdao hires ZhaiYaoming, Yao Xi and other 11 academicians to the R&D group. They have carried out research of system integration, light-weight vehicle and reducing vibration and noise together. The total sales revenue has reached 1.466 billion yuan. The train CRH380A, with independent intellectual property rights owned by Sifang, is the only train that has international orders.

Workstation in Haier Group, in collaboration with the academician team led by Wang Shoujue, enables the digital integrated TV receiver to be listed in China. The increased sales avenue is about 1.05 billion yuan.