Development Strategies of New Materials for Emerging Industries and Future Industries

Abstract

New materials are the foundation of emerging industries and future industries, which is an important field to seize the strategic commanding heights in science and economic development and an important driving force for China to promote its new industrialization. This study analyzes the application trend of new materials in the fields of information, energy, biotechnology, and deep-space and deep-sea exploration, and finds that the combination of new materials or deep integration with other disciplines or fields is becoming an important feature of new materials development. Moreover, it analyzes the development status of the new material industry in China from the aspects of industrial scale, technological innovation capability, enterprises, and industry clusters, and summarizes the problems regarding the development of the industry. For instance, key raw materials of the industry still rely on imports, the core equipment cannot be independently produced, the self-sufficiency rate of high-end products is insufficient, some key products lack application iteration, and the standards and evaluation systems require improvement. Nine and seven key areas are proposed for the development of the emerging industries and future industries, respectively. Furthermore, we propose the following suggestions to promote the high-quaility development of the new material industry of China: strengthening the foundation for new material industry development, improving the industry chain of new materials, creating a sound environment for industrial development, and improving the supporting policies for industrial development.

Keywords

• new materials
• key core technologies
• emerging industries
• future industry
• new industrialization