On November 7th, the Zhejiang Provincial Development and Reform Commission issued the "Notice of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission on the Identification of the List of Provincial Engineering Research Centers in 2023" (Zhejiang Development and Reform High-tech [2023] No. 283). The "Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Research Center for Multimodal Transport Logistics Large Models" led by Academician Lee Der-Horng, Dean of ZJUI, was successfully approved, becoming the first provincial-level engineering research center of ZJUI, and the first pilot logistics large model research center established nationwide.

▲ Approved file

Based on the strategic deployment of building an innovative province, Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Research Center is a research and development entity organized by the Zhejiang Provincial Development and Reform Commission.  It focuses on key core technology breakthrough around the urgent needs of key industries. It is an important component of the innovation system in Zhejiang Province, aiming to break through the bottleneck of core technologies, provide key technical support for the development of related fields in the province, and carries out major equipment research and development, the transformation and industrialization of major scientific and technological achievements, as well as the sharing of scientific and technological resources, in order to promote industrial technological progress and enhance core competitiveness.

▲ Laboratory facilities

▲ The Research group

▲ Leaders and experts visit the laboratory

Led by Academician Lee Der-Horng of ZJUI, Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Research Center for Multimodal Transport Logistics Large Models is jointly built by a research group from Zhejiang University and Yuantong Bonded Logistics Company. In the data and modern logistics industry, the center focuses on the key core technologies of logistics transportation and intelligent computing, facing the major development strategic needs of the country and Zhejiang Province’s economy and society. With a view to building an innovative development model of multimodal transportation driven by intelligent computing, the center is expected to break through key technologies such as the general model of multimodal transportation logistics and to build a multimodal intelligent logistics platform. Also, the center may carry out advanced application demonstrations in the Yangtze River Delta region and radiate across the country.  The center may then promote the global international goods trade industry represented by the “the Belt and Road”, create the world’s leading intelligent logistics multimodal transport technology innovation platform, boost the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements, cultivate and expand a number of first-class enterprises with innovative capabilities, and lead the development of multimodal transport industry in our province  as well as the entire  country.