(Yicai) Nov. 10 -- The China International Import Expo is emerging as an important platform for small and medium-sized science and technology firms in Shanghai to showcase their capabilities, connect with global resources and potential partners, and build collaborative innovative ecosystems.

Science and technology firms from Shanghai’s Zhangjiang high-tech hub are participating in the CIIE as a collective group called the “‌Innovation Incubation Exhibitors Group” for the first time this year. The 31 selected hard-tech companies are displaying their products and technologies across a 150-square-meter exhibition area, covering cutting-edge fields such as life sciences, full-stack intelligence, embodied artificial intelligence and smart devices.

“We hope to use the CIIE as a springboard to take our memory chips global,” Li Xiulu, chairman of Anxinda Semiconductor (Shanghai), told Yicai. "Since the expo opened, we have received inquiries from industry representatives from countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Finland and Egypt. We met with seven or eight visitors just yesterday.”

Anxinda specializes in memory technology solutions for AI and commercial space applications. Its memory chips are used in industrial computers, the Industrial Internet of Things, autonomous driving and intelligent robots, among other fields.

The company’s high-performance embedded memory chips for space-based applications, which can support commercial space operations and computing in space, have already been deployed aboard more than eight satellites currently in orbit, with no reported failures.

Li told Yicai that the firm announced its interest in expanding into new markets and securing financing at this year’s CIIE. Since then it has held talks with numerous companies and investors interested in its products.

“Some of them may not be end customers themselves, but they could help us establish connections with end customers. This is another way for us to expand our market reach,” Li said.

Quantum computing is at a critical stage of transitioning from technological breakthroughs to broader industrial adoption, said Jin Xianmin, founder of Turing Quantum.

This transition requires companies to continue investing in technological development while also encouraging greater participation from industrial users in testing and verifying real-world applications, he said. Such collaboration will help drive the high-quality development of China’s quantum computing sector.

Turing Quantum hopes its participation in the CIIE will help engage more industry users to collaborate on the development and application of the company’s products, Algorithm Director Zhao Xiang said.

Editors: Tang Shihua, Kim Taylor