On the afternoon of February 7, 2012, Xu Guoping, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, was investigating work at the Municipal Entrepreneurship Center. This was his first stop in the new work of scientific and technological entrepreneurship in the city. He emphasized that it is necessary to play the role of the main channel of scientific and technological innovation. Innovation leads the next round of economic development. Deputy Mayor Liao Tao and Secretary General of the Municipal Government Wang Qun accompanied the investigation.

At the Municipal High-tech Entrepreneurship Service Center, Xu Guoping listened to a report on the progress of the preparation and construction of the Taizhou Graphene Research and Testing Platform. Since the graphene project entered the Municipal High-tech Entrepreneurship Service Center in 2010, it has made great progress in preparation technology and application project promotion. Xu Guoping requested to further strengthen the promotion of graphene projects, give full play to the core supporting role of finance, promote the large-scale production of projects, form a graphene project industry chain in our city as soon as possible, and play a nationally famous brand in the high-tech field.