Introduction

Theme & Purpose of the Conference

The purpose of the conference is to present the latest advancements in environmentally compatible electronics design, manufacturing and packaging technology. The goal is to help electronics companies design and manufacture green electronics products for the global market.

Shanghai's Electronics Industries

Since the opening and reform policy was introduced in China, the emphasis has been laid, first and foremost, on the development of the Changjiang River Delta Region, which are opening up to the outside world. In modern history, Shanghai is the earliest industrial development area in China. From 1949, the number of industrial enterprises in Shanghai has increased almost thirty times, and the gross value of industrial output of Shanghai is 6.9% in China.

Now the Shanghai government encourages developing new electronic communication industry and new material industry. In 1999, the electronic communication industry output value was 59.49 billion RMB, and the gross value of industrial output in new technology industries will be more than 170 billion RMB. China’s World Trade Organization membership should further enable Shanghai to continue providing electronics manufacturing services, as well as to more to the top of the electronics industrial product chain in all aspect of product development.

According to the development blueprint for the Changjiang River Delta, by 2010, Shanghai will lay a solid foundation as an international economic centre; Ningbo will be turned into a modernized international port city; Nanjian will lay a sound foundation as an international metropolis; Hangzhou will virtually be turned into an international tourist city. It is estimated that within in the next two decades, the Changjiang River Delta is very like to gorw into an extraordinary belt of metropolises, which can be compared to that around Tokyo and Osaka in Japan.

Types of Papers Solicited

• Design for green electronics
  

• Green manufacturing technologies including lead-free solders, conductive adhesives and other green technologies
  

• Halogen free substrates
  

• Environmentally Friendly Packaging and Design Technologies
  

• Life Cycle Analysis and Assessment
  

• Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  

• Life Cycle Data Management