In 2012, The Market Will Exceed 130 Billion &Nbsp; New Materials Or New Industrial Revolution Will Be Detonated.

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"New materials are the foundation and forerunner of all industries. Therefore, technological breakthroughs in new materials often lead to some epoch-making industrial revolution."

A person in charge of Shanghai New Materials Association told reporters, "for example, in the 60s of last century, the emergence of high-purity silicon semiconductor materials enabled large scale integrated circuits to be realized, and human beings entered.

Some experts predict that twenty-first Century is the century of new materials. We can see the whole world from the competition of rare earth materials.

Due to environmental protection and national strategy considerations, China has been reducing exports of rare earth products since 2006. The total quota is only 30258 tons.

There is public information that the reduction of China's rare earth exports has made many countries anxious.

"No matter industry or agriculture needs materials, new materials are a basic and pillar industry. Breakthroughs in materials will lead to new industrial revolution".

Professor Tang Jianmao, director of the Consulting Department of the China Society for materials research, who formulated the strategic positioning plan for new materials, said in an interview with "daily economic news" that "new materials are the precondition for the revitalization and development of other industries. Materials are needed to support any industry's production process."

Relevant ministries and commissions have revealed to reporters that the detailed planning details of the new material industry will be promulgated at the end of the year.

At that time, specific funding support, tax incentives, product catalogues and other contents in the new material industry will be clearly defined, and the new material industry will also develop at a higher starting point.

At the same time, the market scale of new materials in the world has expanded rapidly with the rapid development of manufacturing and high-tech industries. It is predicted that by the end of 2010, the global market of new materials will exceed US $800 billion.

The importance of the state and the expansion of the market scale have brought great vitality to the development of new material industry.

Experts have estimated that the market scale of domestic new material industry will exceed 130 billion yuan in 2012.

During the "11th Five-Year" period, the implementation of the more than 100 industrialization projects effectively promoted the development of new material industry with independent intellectual property rights in China.

In the fields of electronic information materials, advanced metal materials, battery materials, magnetic materials, new polymer materials, high performance ceramic materials and composite materials, a number of core industries of high technology and new materials have been formed.

Tang Jianmao told reporters that CFRP is a new lightweight high-strength structural material, mainly used in high-end fields such as aviation and aerospace.

The aircraft component made of carbon fiber composite material can reduce 20%~40% by weight compared with aluminum alloy, which can generate great economic benefits in energy saving.

"Therefore, in the next 20 years, ~30 will be a new era in the development of aviation carbon fiber composite materials. A large number of composite materials on aircraft will cause revolutionary changes in the whole industry chain of the aviation industry."

Despite the optimistic development prospects, China is still facing challenges in the new material industry.

Tang Jianmao said frankly, compared with other strategic emerging industries, the new material industry is more scattered and has many sub industries.

In China's industrial development, there is an obvious characteristic: in the same field, there are more duplicate levels and repeated construction.

But the real leading industries are relatively few in technology, and the new material industry is facing such a situation as a whole.

"This requires national policy guidance, scientific development and resource optimization to prevent hot money from entering large quantities. This is a systematic project."

According to the decision, the new material industry will vigorously develop new functional materials such as rare earth functional materials, high-performance membrane materials, special glass, functional ceramics, semiconductor lighting materials, etc., and actively develop advanced structural materials such as high quality special steel, new alloy materials, engineering plastics, etc., and enhance the development level of high performance fibers and composites such as carbon fiber, aramid fiber, ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fiber and so on, and carry out research on common basic materials such as nano, superconducting, intelligent and so on.

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Industry focus

1. rare earth functional materials: large enough and strong enough.

In the decision on accelerating the cultivation and development of strategic emerging industries released by the State Council in October 18th, the development of rare earth functional materials in the new material industry bears the brunt.

The emphasis on rare earth is due to the fact that rare earth functional materials should not be underestimated.

"Rare earth functional materials are important materials for developing science and technology and commanding high technology commanding heights in the world.

As the most important driving force for the entire rare earth industry, the importance of rare earth functional materials has reached a consensus internationally.

Dou Xuehong, director of the former information center of Baotou Rare Earth Research Institute, said in an interview with "daily economic news".

"Oil in the Middle East and rare earth in China" has always been the pride of our country.

"In the world, China's rare earth industry, scale, sales and exports are all number one, but this big enough industry is not strong enough."

Li Wei, deputy director of the functional Institute of China Steel Research Group, said.

"The level of development of rare earth functional materials is directly proportional to the level of industrial and technological development of a country."

Dou Xuehong told reporters, "in this respect, the original core patent technology of developed countries is stronger than ours. Although we own some patents, we basically follow them."

"Putting the rare-earth functional materials in the first place, I think it is precisely because these seven industries are difficult to leave rare earth, and its importance is self-evident."

Dou Xuehong expressed this.

"There is no reason why the rare earth industry will not do well. After all, resources are in our hands.

This time the decision put forward a concept of "cultivation", that is, how to make it stronger and increase the added value.

Li Wei said.

2. carbon fiber composites: supply is expected to be in short supply in 2013.

"Our country is still in the development stage of carbon fiber composite materials, and has not formed a true scale of industrialization," a head of China Composite Materials Society told reporters.

Composite material is to mix two kinds of materials together, and its performance is more obvious than single material, such as carbon fiber, aramid fiber and so on.

Han Mei, a CITIC investment researcher, said in an interview, "the weight and material of carbon fiber and glass fiber are both lighter. Such materials are very suitable for use in aerospace, rail pportation and other fields."

Han Mei believes that if the carbon fiber and other composite materials industry can develop smoothly, it will also play a decisive role in China's energy conservation and emission reduction.

"For example, if the car is made of composite material, the weight of the car will be reduced, and the fuel consumption will also be reduced."

It is understood that the consumption structure of the world's carbon fiber is concentrated in three aspects: industrial application, aerospace and sports leisure. At present, industrial applications account for 58% of the total consumption, 23% of aerospace applications and 19% of sports equipment.

According to the Research Report of CITIC, the demand for carbon fiber will be maintained until 2011, and the supply and demand balance will be basically balanced by 2012. The rapid growth of industry demand after 2013 will hopefully bring the industry to a trend of less supply.

The China Composite Materials Society responsible person told reporters that China's carbon fiber production capacity accounts for only about 0.4% of the world's high performance carbon fiber output. "Self sufficiency rate has increased to more than 16% in 2009, but it still depends on imports. The quality and scale are quite different from that of foreign countries."

3. semiconductor lighting materials: GDP2 percentage point increase

"More functional materials are used in new materials, and semiconductor lighting materials are one of the most important functional materials."

Xu Luping, director of Materials Department of hi-tech development and Industrialization Department of the Ministry of science and technology, said in an interview.

Wang Jinsui, director of the China Illuminating society, told the daily economic news that "the development of this industry is of great significance to the development of China's low carbon lighting, such as the LED industry."

"The LED industry currently has only 5%~7% penetration rate across the market.

In the next ten years, the entire LED industry chain is likely to form a market scale of 500 billion ~10000 billion yuan.

Liu Sheng, a professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and LED packaging technology expert, told reporters that "semiconductor lighting materials are the cornerstone of the LED industry, which may increase GDP to 1 to 2 percentage points. Such industries have a strong strategic significance in giving priority to development."

Data show that China's semiconductor lighting production enterprises more than 3000, of which 70% are concentrated in the downstream industry, and the level of technology and product quality is uneven.

The domestic LED epitaxial materials and chips are mainly medium and low grade. More than 80% of the power LED chips and devices depend on imports.

Liu Sheng said frankly, "we have certain advantages in the application side and encapsulation end of LED. In this regard, our country has many intellectual property rights, which can realize the breakout of the industry with the intellectual property rights of the application side."

4. special steel: conversion to high technology and low cost

As the key material of major equipment manufacturing, engineering construction and national defense science and technology, special steel marks the level of comprehensive competitiveness of a country.

Last year, the world's steel output was 12.8 billion tons, of which China reached more than 500 million tons, accounting for 40%.

But the price of ordinary steel is only 1/3 of special steel, and the output of special steel in our country is only 12% of ordinary steel.

"Special steel as an important variety of steel, the importance of industrial strategy is self-evident.

The policy is to promote the development and upgrading of the industry.

To ensure the overall economic security of our country.

Li Zuojun, deputy director of the Institute of resources and environmental policy of the State Council Development Research Center, said in an interview with the daily economic news reporter.

Dong Xuedong, chief engineer of Northeast Special Steel Group, believes that high quality special steel plays a key role in the whole economic pformation of our country. "Transformation of energy and real estate to equipment manufacturing industry is essential for special steel."

But every year, we still have a lot of demand to rely on imports. "

Zhang Lin, a researcher at the Lange Iron and Steel Information Research Center, told us that the country's active development of advanced structural materials such as high quality special steel will help change the pattern of the industry to intensive, high technology and low cost.