Xiamen Flexible Electronics Research Institute, co-sponsored by Xiamen Hongxin Electronics settling in XMTORCH and Guangzhou Fangbang Electronics, has been inaugurated recently. As the first research institute in the city to start the future industry cultivation, Xiamen Flexible Electronics Research Institute has become the first landing project in our city to explore the new mode of construction of R & D institutions, marking another milestone in the process of reform of scientific research system and mechanism.

　　This year is called the first year of flexible electronics. Flexible electronics is generalized as a kind of technology or can be summarized as a new electronic technique that makes organic / inorganic materials electronic devices on flexible / ductile plastic or thin metal substrates. It has a wide application prospect in fields of information, energy, medical care, national defense and so on. According to the introduction, Xiamen Flexible Electronics Research Institute will aim at the frontiers of science and technology in the world and tackle and transform several industrial frontier technologies and common key technologies.

　　Xiamen Flexible Electronics Research Institute is a new-type research institute with university cooperation, government support and market-oriented operation and an independent legal person that promotes industry-college-institute-application collaborative innovation. It aims to solve the problems with the transformation of past scientific research achievements, find out a way to realize the industrialization of future emerging industries and original innovative technology breakthroughs, play the engine role of leading industrial enterprises in the market end and realize the organic linkage among basic foundation, applied research and achievement transformation.