align="justify">Cree has announced that Tiajin Economic Development Area (TEDA) has joined its LED City program. TEDA and Tianjin Polytechnic University are collaborating with Cree to introduce LED lighting initiative in mainland China. Cree has previously taken the LED City program to Raleigh, North Carolina USA, Toronto, Canada, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Austin, Texas. The LED City program is an international initiative to promote and deploy energy-efficient LED (light-emitting diode) lighting. TEDA is the first city area in China to join a growing consortium of cities in evaluating and deploying LED lighting technology across their infrastructures.

According to Cree, TEDA has partnered with Tianjin Polytechnic University in a large, student-produced LED street lighting project over the past two years. At Tianjin Polytechnic University, twenty graduate students, directed by Professor Pingjuan Niu, Ph.D., designed, produced and installed approximately 1,500 LED streetlights. The students installed LED fixtures more than a year ago to illuminate 15 kilometers along the university's streets.