New materials in focus within high-tech push
China aims to accelerate the industrialization of new materials like superconducting materials, graphene and liquid metal that are now considered critical to the development of high-tech industries, the country's top industry regulator said.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission jointly released a list of important new materials whose industrialization will be advanced.
These materials represent the direction of the development of the new materials industry, which is an important entry point for building new growth engines, the ministry and the commission said.
They also called for their subordinate bodies to encourage enterprises to advance the industrialization of graphene in sectors like rail traffic, aerospace equipment, new energy and new-generation information technologies.
Also, more efforts are needed to promote the industrialization of superconducting materials in sectors with growth potential like nuclear engineering, electronic equipment and new energy vehicles or NEVs.
China's top leadership has attached high importance to manufacturing. For its part, the central government has unveiled a string of policies for industrial upgrades.
In a report delivered to the fifth session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, on Monday, Zheng Shanjie, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, said more efforts will be made to promote the building of a modern industrial system.
MIIT said in a guideline on Tuesday that China aims to establish an advanced manufacturing technology innovation system by 2027.
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