Half city landscape, thousands of years of humanities. When talking about Wuhu, most people first think of the good mountains, good water and cultural heritage of this beautiful city in the south of the Yangtze River. Indeed, Wuhu has a written history of more than 2500 years. Since ancient times, the scenery has been intoxicating. In history, Wuhu has developed agriculture, handicraft industry and commerce. It deserves the reputation of "Jiangdong famous city" and "wuchu famous area".


While enriching the citys cultural heritage, Wuhu is also constantly stimulating innovation and creativity. As the "pioneer of opening up" in Anhui Province, Wuhu has established the earliest batch of national industries in Anhui Province and become the birthplace of modern industry in Anhui Province. Wuhu has never stopped on the road of accelerating the process of modernization and opening up and innovation.


Today, Wuhu is a big city in the development plan of the national Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, the core city of the Wanjiang urban belt to undertake industrial transfer demonstration area, and the central city of Wuhu Bengal national independent innovation demonstration area, Southern Anhui international cultural tourism demonstration area, Hefei metropolitan area, Nanjing metropolitan area and G60 science and innovation corridor. It is an important industrial base, science and education base and national comprehensive transportation hub in East China, The total economy ranks second in Anhui Province. It is a charming city that "looks beautiful, has value in coming, and has value in living".


In recent years, a number of strategic emerging industries representing the direction of scientific and technological innovation and industrial development have emerged in Wuhu, among which the robot industry has attracted much attention. Wuhu robot adheres to the cultural connotation of "accelerating innovation and agglomeration, integrating and displaying the future". Under the superposition of advantages such as "national pilot positioning, Yangtze River Delta location and agglomeration development status", the industrial development is booming.


In 2013, the national development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance approved the pilot plan for the regional agglomeration and development of strategic emerging industries in Anhui Province. The national Wuhu robot industry cluster grew from a wasteland in Jiujiang District of Wuhu City, with factories and scientific research buildings rising and projects put into operation, This innovative "magnetic field" has attracted robot enterprises from all over the country to take root.


From the original five enterprises with an annual output value of less than 400 million yuan to 128 upstream and downstream enterprises, the output value will reach 17.209 billion yuan in 2019. Industrial robot enterprise clusters represented by evert, Xingjian, ximeie and Longshen have been formed; Key parts enterprise clusters represented by aoyi precision machinery, qingneng Dechuang, Gugao automation, feiye power, rebos, ainti, Ganhang, Hart, etc; Service and special industry robot enterprise clusters represented by Kuwa, Xingtu technology, Tuogu, diving equipment, conch unmanned mine system, etc; Intelligent manufacturing equipment enterprise clusters represented by Kuangshi technology, Chungu 3D printing and zhuorei 3D; Intelligent manufacturing system integration enterprise clusters represented by Dongxu photoelectric equipment, Ruixiang industry, pumeco, Ehua Road, Rongfa and ximeie.


Ten years of sharpening a sword, sharpening plum blossom fragrance. Wuhu robot industry has realized the development trend of the whole industrial chain agglomeration with the localization of core parts, the robot body fully approaching the world-class level, and the increasingly mature robot system integration. It has been rated as excellent / best robot industrial park for many consecutive years: in 2017, it won the best robot industrial park of the third chapek Award; In 2018, it won the honor of Chinas excellent robot industrial park of high tech Industrial Research Institute; In 2019, it won the best robot industrial park of the fifth chapek award. Wuhu robot industry has completed the transformation from scratch, from having to being excellent, and from following to leading. Robots have become a "smart" business card of Wuhu and even Anhui.


Similarly, the chapek award has been singing and growing all the way. Since 2014, it has successfully held five sessions, organized the most influential expert team in the industry to inquire about the development strategic path of industry leading enterprises, combed the best practice experience, reviewed and recommended a number of innovative and entrepreneurial sunrise enterprises. After years of hard work, the chapeck award has become the most credible and influential award in Chinas robot industry. The annual chapeck award ceremony has also become a grand event for collaborative communication in the robot industry.


In 2019, the fifth chapek award was held in Wuhu. The "half of the country" in Chinas robot industry gathered in Wuhu, Anhui Province, made a series of remarkable achievements and gave birth to a number of awards with industry value models.


Since then, Wuhu has an indissoluble bond with the chapek award, and the sixth chapek award in 2020 will continue to be held in Wuhu. A higher starting point and a new chapter. From August 27 to 29, Wuhu, the city of innovation, is waiting for you to meet chapek and foresee a new future.