7th World Indium & Germanium Forum

Ms. Min Hou used to hold the post of accountant in Shaoguan Southeast Bearing Co., Ltd. and financial manager of Chenzhou Qiaonengda Industrial Co., Ltd. She is the vice-president and vice general manager of Hunan Jinwang Bismuth Industrial Co., Ltd. and Fourth CPPCC number of Chenzhou at present. With many years of working experience in enterprise management and marketing, she succeeded in creating an excellent marketing team when she worked as the marketing manager, and the company’s consumers and clients kept stable with increase and sales revenue rose year by year. Hunan Jinwang Bismuth Industrial Co., Ltd. grew out of the Hunan Jinwang Enterprise Co., Ltd. in April 2011. Now Jinwang integrates science, technology and trade, with the import and export management in non-ferrous metal, chemical industry, new superconducting materials and other fields. Its registered capital stands at RMB120 million, with a total asset over 700 million. Jinwang owns two wholly owned subsidiaries, two share companies, a high standard of quality testing center and two bismuth products research and development production agencies. Jinwang won the well-known trademarks in China and the famous brand in Hunan, Which is one of the ten key imp&exp enterprises of Chenzhou, as well as key high-tech enterprises of Hunan province, " Key listed backup enterprises in Hunan province", one of the top 20 "Small giant" plan enterprises and non-ferrous metals enterprises.

Christian graduated from the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg and has a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry. He joined Photonic Sense in 2004 and has mainly been focused on material analytics and the Czochralsky crystal growing process.

Photonic Sense is dedicated to manufacturing highest quality germanium and silicon material and precision components for infrared optics applications. Their advanced production and measuring technologies and equipment guarantee consistent and cost effective processes and outstanding product quality. As a reliable and flexible partner they help customers to increase their production efficiency with short lead times, support of Kanban principles and high precision blanks to save manufacturing cost.

Mr. Shijun Wu is a member of Communist Party of China, master degree candidate, senior engineer, a "May 1" labor medalist and science & technology private entrepreneur in Jiangxi as well as an outstanding entrepreneur in China. He has been rewarded as a leader of Ganpan Talents "555" Project in Jiangxi for many times. Guixi Grand Sanyuan Industry Group Co., Ltd., founded in November, 2000 (Previous name: Guixi Grand Sanyuan Smelting & Chemical Co., Ltd.) is a comprehensive medium-sized enterprise group specializing in producing, processing and trading non-ferrous metals. It is located in Guixi Industrial Park, covering an area of 300 mu with total registered capital of RMB160 million and total assets of RMB400 million. Its subsidiaries include Guixi Grand Sanyuan Smelting & Chemical Co., Ltd., Guixi Sanyuan Technology & Trade Co., Ltd. and Guixi Sanyuan Metals Co., Ltd. and its main products are refined bismuth, refined tellurium, matte, bismuth oxide, electric lead, tin ingot and so on. With an output of about 2,600tpy for refined bismuth, the company becomes the largest bismuth producing and export enterprise in China.

As one of the first batch of MBAs returned to China, he worked as a senior economist in SDPC and project manager of SDIC previously. In addition, he was occupied in direct investment of several national major projects and acted as investor representatives of several national projects.

The company invested and operated China's first 1MW CIGS thin-film battery power station in Shilin, Yunnan in 2012, and the station connected to the grid and generated electricity successfully. The firm is not only the practitioner conceptualizing energy of CIGS thin-film battery but also the founder industrializing the battery.

Christophe joined Umicore in 1999 after obtaining his master degree from Solvay Business School in Brussels, Belgium. He has held several positions at Umicore in Finance, Product Management, Global Sales prior to becoming the Business Line Manager for Large Area Coating. Christophe left Belgium in 2002, and has since held various assignments in Liechtenstein and Hong Kong. Currently he is based in Providence, Rhode Island, the manufacturing center of Umicore’s ITO targets and the headquarter of his current business segment.

Tieyan Wang has been involved in research and development of high-purity chemicals for optics and infrared optical materials for an extended period of time. She took charge of finishing the demonstration project of industrialization of germanium tetrachloride for optics in NDRC. This was achieved through establishing the first high-purity germanium tetrachloride production line with the capacity of 40tpy which filled the gap of domestic production and produced alternatives of imported materials. Her researching achievements obtained a number of prestigious awards and accolades over the years. She has produced over ten articles in the field of science and technology and secured 15 patents to date.

As the researcher and doctoral supervisor of CAS Semiconductor Institute, professor Wang Junxi is the deputy director of CAS Semiconductor Lighting Research and Development Center as well as deputy secretary of National Semiconductor Lighting Research & Development and Industrial Alliance at present. He was awarded the doctoral degree of CAS Semiconductor Institute in 2003, specializing in the research on semiconductor lighting, growth of GaN epitaxial chip materials as well as application of LED devices.

Semiconductor Institute of CAS, founded in 1960, is a national-level integrated institute of semiconductor science and technology combing research and integrated application of semiconductor physics, material, device. CAS Semiconductor Lighting Research and Development Center, an unincorporated research unit on the basis of CAS, is the largest stated-run professional research institute in China, focusing on core technology of semiconductor lighting LED.

Guohong Yang, graduating from Renmin University of China with bachelor degree, now works as the Vice President and General Manager of Products Dept. in The FANYE Metal Exchange. Guohong Yang worked in Kingdee International Software Group Company Limited in the year from 1999 to 2001, and then he worked as the GM of Financial Dept. of the electronic business department of Searainbow Holding Corp. from the year of 2001 to 2006. During the year of 2006 to 2011, Guohong Yang worked in the electronic commerce settlement department of Hainan Searainbow Holding Corp., with the position of Deputy General Manager.