Anhui finds new engine to drive development

Powered by emerging high-tech industries, traditionally agricultural province building itself into a national science hub

HEFEI－In a sprawling workshop about the size of 180 soccer fields in East China's Anhui province, huge glass substrates move slowly on the automated production line. They will be cut and made into LCD screens for TVs.

The Generation 10.5 TFT-LCD production line of China's leading LCD panel maker BOE Technology Group, also the world's latest generation, started mass production in Hefei, capital of Anhui, more than a year ago.

Now, the monthly capacity of the LCD panel production line has reached 120,000 sheets of glass substrates upon full operation, with a yield of 96 to 97 percent, representing the highest level of its kind in the industry.