On May 18, Suzhou Science and Technology Bureau released the list of projects to be launched by Suzhou Enterprise Engineering Technology Research Center in 2021. According to the list, the "Suzhou Ultra-high Speed Hard Disk Storage Engineering Technology Research Center" project proposed by Kaifa Suzhou was approved.

The approval of the Engineering Technology Research Center allows Kaifa Suzhou to have its first Municipal Engineering Technology Research Center, which marks its ascending to a new level in hard disk technology research and development.