The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, known as the “Shanghai light source,” is expected to have 35 working beamlines and 60 experimental stations by the end of 2022, able to accept tens of thousands of users a year.

The facility is the core of a cluster of infrastructure facilities being built at the Zhangjiang Science City in the Pudong New Area.

The cluster, with an investment of nearly 13.8 billion yuan (US$2 billion), is expected to have eight facilities, including a hard X-ray facility and a proton therapy center, in use by the end of 2025.