China (Ningbo) International Forum of New Materials opened
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- Category: Ningbo Business
- Published: Monday, 14 November 2011 10:39
Today, Ningbo is once again the focus of the field of new materials home and abroad.
From November 9 to 12, opened China (Ningbo) International Forum of New Materials 2011, a forum hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, China Material Research Institute, Zhejiang University and Ningbo Municipal Government.
Attendants to the forum include experts in the material science field from 27 countries including the USA, the UK, Russia and Japan.
The hosts of the forum believe that that with the new projects, new concepts and new technologies brought to the forum, the forum will mace positive impact on the field of new materials in China and that the forum this year will be more influential than ever.
The forum opened in Ningbo in 2005. In 2004, the output of Ningbo in the field of new materials was only 29.9 billion yuan. But in 2010, it increased to 71 billion yuan, covering 33.49% of the total output of hi-tech products of the city in the year.
The success of the forum has resulted in the brisk development of the industry of new materials in Ningbo. Today, with such leading institutions as the Material Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ningbo Institution of China Arms Academy, Ningbo has formed a vigorous R&D industrial system of new materials and it has owned a number of technologies with independent intellectual property rights.
With the help of the forum, Ningbo is deepening the combination of industry, academia and the research community so as to strengthen the R&D of technologies of new materials and build an innovative industrial system with independent intellectual property rights and to be in a commanding height in the industry.
