Agreements were signed by 22 international experts on Aug 31 -- paving the way for them to relocate themselves and their cutting-edge projects to Baotou Rare Earth High-Tech Industrial Development Zone, according to the Baotou Evening News.

Officials said the development was part of a series of innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives and activities held alongside the seventh Inner Mongolia “Grassland Talents” High-level Talent Cooperation and Exchange Conference.

Some 24 overseas experts -- from 14 countries and regions including the US, UK, Russia, Australia and Sweden -- promoted their self-developed projects at the conference. The projects covered areas including new materials, health, artificial intelligence the internet of things, advanced electronic information and optoelectronic display technology.

Officials said the project’s technologies all had independent intellectual property rights.

Through policy promotions, business environment inspections, project roadshows and business negotiations, the relocation agreements concerning 22 of the total were confirmed at the event.

One incoming expert, Dr Hao Nan, is a graduate from Inha University, the private research university located in Incheon in Republic of Korea. Organizers said the Intelligent IoT Fire Safety Smart Solution Platform Project led by Hao has the advantages of wide coverage, low power consumption and low costs.

In terms of the reasons why he chose to settle his project in Baotou Rare Earth High-Tech Industrial Development Zone, he underlined the district’s preferential policies.

Ren Yamin, a postgraduate from University of California, Los Angeles, is in charge of the Artificial Intelligence Wearable Device and IoT Cloud Industrialization Project.

The project mainly develops glasses designed for people with hearing problems. By wearing the glasses, the words formed by sounds can be seen through a small screen, thereby solving the substantial problems confronted by people with hearing problems.