The 3rd World Materials Conference kicks off in Guilin

Attendees take a group photo. [Photo/Guilin Daily]

The Third World Materials Conference opened in Guilin on Oct 15, coinciding with the 9th World Materials Summit and the International Union of Materials Research Societies International Conference in Asia 2025.

Centering on six frontier material fields – advanced energy, information, structural, functional, biomaterials, and computational materials – the conference featured 37 meticulously organized thematic symposia.

This provided a platform for academic exchange and cooperation among materials scholars from around the world.

Wei Bingbo, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of the Chinese Materials Research Society, said that the conference was jointly organized by the society and the International Union of Materials Research Societies.

It also received strong support from the materials research societies of Europe, Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, Australia, Thailand, and Africa. "This conference offers an important platform for exchange and cooperation within the global materials science community," he said. "I hope that participants will engage in discussions, share the latest achievements, spark innovative ideas, and create a fruitful conference."

Lu Xinhua, mayor of Guilin city, said, "Guilin is home to natural resources and is rich in mineral deposits such as talc, quartz sand, tantalum, niobium, tungsten, and tin, which provides a natural advantage for the development of the new materials industry."

He expressed hope that the event would further strengthen close cooperation between Guilin and the global materials science community and industry.