On May 9th, the Technical Seminar of the Innovation Center for High Performance Carbon Fiber Equipment and Composite Materials Manufacturing Industry was grandly held in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Chen Wenxing, academician of the CAE Member and president of Zhejiang University of Technology, Li Hejun, academician of the CAE Member and professor of Northwestern Polytechnical University, Zhang Jiujun, foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chief scientist of Seiko Technology, Xu Lianghua, professor of Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Huang Wu, head of the High tech Division of Zhejiang Provincial Economic and Information Department, Ding Meiling, secretary of the Party Leadership Group and director of Shaoxing Municipal Economic and Information Bureau, Ke Hongwei, deputy head of Keqiao District Government, Sun Guojun, chairman of Seiko Technology, and Li Aijun, president, attended the meeting. Wu Yan, Deputy Director of Shaoxing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, presided over the meeting.

More than 40 experts from authoritative research institutes such as Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Harbin Institute of Technology, representatives of leading enterprises in the industrial chain, and relevant departments gathered together to conduct in-depth discussions and build consensus on key issues such as the creation plan and technical route of the innovation center, and work together to promote the creation of the National Manufacturing Innovation Center.

Strategic anchoring, seizing the core track of the carbon fiber industry

2026 is the starting year of the 15th Five Year Plan. High performance carbon fiber and composite materials, as key materials supporting national strategic emerging industries such as aerospace, rail transit, new energy, and embodied intelligent agents, are the core lifeline for ensuring the independent and controllable supply chain of the industry chain and achieving high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement, providing important development opportunities for the construction of the National Innovation Center.

Sun Guojun, Chairman of Jinggong Technology, stated in his speech that the establishment of the National High Performance Carbon Fiber Equipment and Composite Materials Manufacturing Innovation Center is a major measure to closely follow the "15th Five Year Plan" strategic layout, implement the national and Zhejiang Province's scientific and technological innovation deployment, overcome key technological bottlenecks, and cultivate and strengthen new quality productivity. It is also a key lever to promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. As the first joint research platform in the national carbon fiber field covering the entire chain from raw silk, carbonization, equipment manufacturing to product application, the Innovation Center has strategic significance in breaking the bottleneck technology, ensuring industrial chain security, and cultivating new international competitive advantages.

Authoritative argumentation, assessing the direction of the innovation center's technological roadmap

At the meeting, Li Aijun, President of Jinggong Technology, as the Director of the Innovation Center, gave a special report on the "National Innovation Center Creation Plan and Technical Route", clarifying that the Innovation Center will closely follow the national "15th Five Year Plan" strategic layout, focus on six core directions, break through technological barriers, integrate industry resources, consolidate development foundations, and build a carbon fiber full industry chain technology research and development system from source innovation to green circulation, independent and controllable, becoming the core engine leading the upgrading of China's carbon fiber industry.

Under the leadership of Academician Chen Wenxing, Director of the Academic Committee of the Innovation Center, attending academicians, experts, and university professors conducted in-depth discussions and precise assessments on key issues such as the positioning, construction advantages, technological routes, operational models, and application scenario expansion of the Innovation Center. They put forward a series of valuable opinions and suggestions with foresight, pertinence, and operability, providing authoritative guidance and solid support for optimizing the technological layout, improving construction plans, and enhancing core competitiveness of the Innovation Center.

Concentrate on tackling challenges and sprint towards the construction of a national innovation center at full speed

At the seminar, Academician Chen Wenxing summarized that Zhejiang has a leading industrial advantage in the field of carbon fiber equipment manufacturing nationwide. Currently, striving to become a national innovation center has a solid industrial foundation, a sound policy environment, and strong collaborative forces, which can be described as a combination of timing, location, and people. He hopes that the Innovation Center will take this seminar as a new starting point, further consolidate the strengths of industry, academia, research and application, focus on core technology research, deepen industrial collaboration, concentrate on breakthroughs in key shortcomings of engineering and industrialization, and with the determination to create and achieve excellence, make every effort to push forward the goal of creating a national innovation center, providing strong support for China's carbon fiber industry to achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement.

At the meeting, Huang Wu, Director of the High tech Department of the Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology, Ding Meiling, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, and Ke Hongwei, Deputy District Mayor of Keqiao District People's Government, stated that they will continue to strengthen policy support, talent coordination, resource guarantee, and service empowerment, continuously optimize the business environment at the provincial, municipal, and district levels, and fully support the innovation center in striving to create a national innovation platform.

This seminar comprehensively consolidated strategic consensus, clarified the construction path, and gathered joint efforts to tackle challenges, laying a solid foundation for the creation of a national innovation center. The Innovation Center will take this technology seminar as a new starting point, earnestly absorb the insights of experts, further focus on the forefront of the industry, optimize the technological route, and sprint towards the national innovation center with higher standards and more practical measures.

The successful convening of this conference marks a crucial progress in the transformation of the provincial innovation center into a national innovation center. In the future, the center will always be guided by national strategies and industrial needs, committed to building a national level innovation platform that integrates technology research and development, pilot testing, standard setting, achievement transformation, and industrial empowerment, to help China's carbon fiber equipment and composite materials industry move towards the top of the global value chain.