The 5th Working Meeting of the National Coordination Group on Solid State Lighting (SSL) was convened in Shanghai on August 22, 2007. The meeting was staged in parallel with an activity series represented by the 4th China International Exhibition & Forum on SSL. Those events were based on the successful launch of the major national SSL project and its overarching goal in the 11th Five Years, and aimed at in-depth discussion and cooperation among authorities, enterprises and academics.

As a revolution in the new era, SSL faces quite a few S&T problems that call for intensive exchanges globally. The continuing of extensive, equal and win-win cooperation will further boost China’s innovativeness in SSL. With concerted efforts from the government and related industries, it is convinced that SSL can become a successful paradigm of China’s own hi-tech innovation that endeavors to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.