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On January 21, the ****** office held a press conference. Tao Qing, spokesperson for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and director of the Operation Monitoring and Coordination Bureau, said at the meeting that China’s development level in new materials as well as its capacity to ensure supply have seen significant improvements. The reporter learned that in recent years, China’s new materials industry has entered a period of accelerated development, with its scale continuing to expand. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is making vigorous efforts to promote the deep integration of innovation in new materials and industrial innovation, focusing on three key areas to support the development of the industry. First, strengthen key breakthroughs. It is necessary to organize and implement key **scientific and technological projects and initiatives aimed at strengthening industrial foundations, to enhance the role of enterprises as drivers of innovation. Cooperation mechanisms between upstream and downstream entities should be established in response to key application areas, thereby fostering systematic and collaborative innovation. “Since the 14th Five-Year Plan period, a number of key materials have been developed. For example, high-performance carbon fiber composites were used for the first time in the world in the main structural components of commercially operated subway cars, resulting in a 11% reduction in the weight of these vehicles. This leads to an annual reduction of approximately 130 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, thereby facilitating the advancement of urban rail transport toward lighter and more environmentally friendly designs. Second, strengthen promotion and application. Focusing on the barriers to adoption and dissemination that new materials face in the early stages of entering the market, efforts have been made to implement insurance compensation policies for these new materials on a pilot basis. The scope of support available for such materials, as well as the duration of that support, has been expanded in order to alleviate customers’ concerns about making purchases. Local authorities are also encouraged to tailor these policies to suit their specific conditions, thereby accelerating the adoption of these new materials. To date, it has helped bring new material products worth over 55 billion yuan to the market, supporting missions such as the Shenzhou-21 manned spacecraft in its pursuit of space exploration, as well as enabling the C919 large aircraft to soar through the skies and intelligent high-speed trains to travel across China. Third, strengthen capacity building. The layout has established a system of 5 key platforms for new materials that cover the entire process, including material research and development, pilot-scale testing, material production, testing and verification, as well as material application. This setup accelerates the simultaneous testing, verification, and iterative improvement of new materials alongside end products. To date, it has provided nearly 3,000 batches of services for verifying the application of new materials, as well as over 1.5 million testing and evaluation services, serving 230,000 enterprises. Over 500 new material standards have been issued to drive the optimization and upgrading of advanced basic materials, key strategic materials, and cutting-edge new materials. Tao Qing said that in the next step, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will focus on meeting the actual needs of key application areas. Aiming to drive industrial development through material innovation, it will take advanced basic materials, key strategic materials, cutting-edge new materials, and \"artificial intelligence + materials\" as directions for development. It will promote collaborative innovation throughout the entire value chain related to advanced materials, strengthen policy coordination, financial support, talent supply, and resource provision, in order to create a favorable environment for the research, development, and application of new materials, thereby enhancing the innovation capacity and development efficiency of the new materials industry as a whole.