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During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, my country's new material industry maintained an average growth rate of close to 25%, and the scale of the industry continued to expand. Rare earth functional materials, photovoltaic materials, silicone, special stainless steel, glass fiber and its composite materials and other production capacity in the forefront of the world. However, in general, there is still a big gap between the competitiveness of China's new material industry and that of developed countries. The ability of independent innovation is not strong, the core technology is controlled by others, the key strategic varieties rely on imports, and the industrial conversion rate of scientific and technological achievements is not high, which seriously restricts China's new material industry to become bigger and stronger. Therefore, during the 13th five-year Plan period, strengthen the research on key core technologies and key common technologies supporting the development of the new material industry, strengthening the construction of innovation capacity of new materials industry will become the focus of the development of new materials industry.

The material industry is a typical process industry, which has the characteristics of continuous or batch process, long production cycle, large-scale production equipment and high degree of automation. Because the production process of the process industry is continuous and the production process is relatively stable, it has the conditions to adopt automatic, digital and intelligent devices to realize real-time monitoring of the production process. At present, my country's new material industry is still in the stage of coexistence of electrical automation and digitalization. A few super-large enterprises are transforming to intelligence and have initially reached the level of smart factories. Some enterprises have realized digital factories, and most new material enterprises have not yet fully realized digitalization. It is still in the stage of using application software, which is far from the real intelligent manufacturing models such as intelligent equipment and intelligent factories based on physical information systems. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the intelligent manufacturing model will be fully promoted in the new material industry, and the intelligent and new manufacturing systems will be organically integrated to form a new manufacturing system, which can not only improve the flexibility of production, but also meet the differentiated and customized needs of consumers.

Compared with traditional materials, new materials have obvious advantages in energy saving and consumption reduction. For example, the use of lightweight materials such as aluminum alloys and composite materials in automobiles can significantly save energy and improve automobile performance and safety; the use of nickel-hydrogen batteries in the field of new energy Materials, lithium battery materials, hydrogen storage materials, etc. can reduce the pressure on environmental protection and promote the accelerated development of new energy. Although the new materials themselves have typical clean and low-carbon characteristics, the current production process of some new materials cannot achieve low energy consumption, low emissions, and waste recycling. For example, high-purity polysilicon is an important photovoltaic material, but its production process consumes high energy and produces a large number of by-products, which is easy to cause pollution if it is not handled properly. Therefore, during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the new material industry must vigorously promote green manufacturing technology, build an efficient, clean, and circular green manufacturing system, and achieve harmless raw materials, clean production, and waste recycling.

Materials are the basic industry of the national economy, and the demand for downstream products directly determines the direction of research and development of materials and the scale of production. In recent years, due to the high attention of the new material industry, new material projects have been launched in various places, but because the downstream application market has not been fully developed, some varieties have structural surplus. Taking polyoxymethylene as an example, due to the similar technology introduced and the rapid growth of production capacity, there has been a phenomenon of surplus and low-price competition in domestic common brand products. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the R & D and production of materials must be closely connected with downstream user companies, focusing on major needs and major projects, according to the characteristics of material basic support and integrated applications, breaking through key new material technologies, and promoting the high-end development of my country's new material industry. Avoid the new material industry from taking the old path of low-end competition in the raw material industry.