From 10th to 11th of August 2025, the "1+N" Sci-Tech and Industry Deep Integration Service Expert Delegation from the China Association for Science and Technology Consortium of Advanced Materials Societies conducted an in-depth scientific service mission in Wuzhou, injecting strong momentum into the upgrading of Wuzhou's resource cycling industry.

Here, "1" represents the China Association for Science and Technology Consortium of Advanced Materials Societies, while "N" represents national strategic scientific and technological forces. The initiative leverages the multidisciplinary and multi-field advantages of the Advanced Materials Consortium at the upper stream of the industrial chain to empower national strategic scientific and technological forces downstream. These include typical sci-tech innovation cities, sci-tech-oriented central state-owned enterprises, national-level research institutes, and other entities in major high-end manufacturing fields such as aerospace, transportation, biomedical engineering, CNC machine tools, marine engineering, energy equipment, and information engineering.

Wuzhou is a national base for recycled new materials in South China. The city focuses on five pillar industries: recycled resources, high-end metal new materials, construction materials, food and pharmaceuticals, and electronic information. It continues to deepen the integration of its industrial chain with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, strengthening chain extension and complementation, steadily enhancing the industrial chain level, accelerating the introduction of new projects, and speeding up industrial transformation and upgrading. By leveraging high-quality projects to drive synergistic development of the industrial chain, Wuzhou aims to build its resource cycling industry into a national-level industrial cluster. The city is promoting the transformation of the resource cycling industry toward scaling, high-end development, intelligence, and greenization, accelerating the optimization and upgrading of the entire industrial chain, fostering high-quality development of the resource cycling industry, and striving to establish a national-level resource cycling industrial cluster.

On August 10, a delegation of secretaries-general from the China Association for Science and Technology Consortium of Advanced Materials Societies and experts from China Resources Recycling Group Co., Ltd. arrived in Wuzhou to conduct an in-depth investigation. The experts visited several prominent enterprises, including Wuzhou Jinsheng Copper Co., Ltd., Guangxi Zhenyu Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., Guangxi Wuzhou Yongxin Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., and Guangxi Zhihuixinyuan New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. Representatives from these enterprises provided detailed introductions from various perspectives, covering their profit models, technological innovation achievements, and existing challenges. Senior officials from Wuzhou City expressed their expectation to leverage the consortium's resource advantages and technological capabilities to promote local industrial upgrading and achieve high-quality economic development.  

On August 11, the Wuzhou Industry and Information Technology Bureau held a symposium on the planning of the resource recycling industry. The meeting was chaired by Ma Tianbao, Deputy Director of the bureau. Li Guilan, relevant responsible person of the Lingang Economic Zone, elaborated on the current development status, planning layout, and future goals of the economic zone. Subsequently, eight enterprises—Guangxi Zhihuixinyuan New Materials Technology Co., Ltd., Guangxi Zhenyu Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., Guangxi Wuzhou Yongxin Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., Wuzhou Yima Hardware Products Co., Ltd., Wuzhou Xinghua Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd., Guangxi Wuzhou Guolong Renewable Resources Development Co., Ltd., Guangxi Shenguan Collagen Biological Group Co., Ltd., and Wuzhou Yongda Steel Group—covering areas such as recycled aluminum, lead, zinc, rare precious metals, stainless steel, plastics, and biomedical materials, introduced their production and operation status, future development plans, and explorations and practices in the field of resource recycling. Representatives from the China Association for Science and Technology Consortium of Advanced Materials Societies engaged in in-depth exchanges with the enterprise representatives, discussing solutions to technical challenges and development needs raised by the enterprises, and made detailed arrangements for follow-up collaborations.

Prior to this, member units of the consortium had already established a presence in Wuzhou. The Chinese Materials Research Society had set up a Wuzhou workstation and organized the first Renewable Materials Conference. The Society’s Strategic Research Institute had also formulated a strategic plan for Wuzhou’s renewable new materials industry. The China Metals Society had established a collaborative innovation center in Wuzhou High-Tech Zone and developed a strategic plan for the stainless steel industry. The China Nonferrous Metals Society had signed a framework agreement with Wuzhou for future close cooperation. Based on industrial research conducted by the consortium’s 13 societies, Professor Wang Chongchen, an expert in environmental engineering materials from the Chinese Materials Research Society, had implemented key technology—"anti-fouling high-flux ceramic membranes"—in Wuzhou, exhaustively solving the deep purification challenges in the water treatment technology system of Wuzhou’s renewable new materials industry. Through deep collaboration between the consortium and Wuzhou, dozens of experts had participated in diagnosing and addressing technological challenges, gradually forming a consortium of excellent technical force to empower the high-quality development of Wuzhou’s renewable new materials industry.

The "1+N" initiative for deep integration of technology and industry, led by the China Association for Science and Technology Consortium of Advanced Materials Societies, has received comprehensive support from the China Association for Science and Technology and its Service Center. The consortium’s service team focuses on achieving "chemical reactions" rather than mere "physical effects," and will facilitate breakthrough progress in technological innovation, industrial upgrading, and sustainable development of Wuzhou’s resource recycling industry through measures such as demand research, in-depth exchanges, and technical collaboration. This cooperation marks a critical step forward in the industrial upgrading of Wuzhou’s resource recycling sector, injecting strong momentum for sustainable economic development.

The "1+N" initiative not only brings advanced technological support and innovative ideas to Wuzhou but also provides a platform for local enterprises to collaborate and exchange with top domestic research institutions and experts. In the future, Wuzhou will further optimize its industrial structure, enhance industrial competitiveness, and promote the high-quality development of the resource recycling industry with the support of the consortium, contributing Wuzhou’s strength to the rise of China’s resource recycling industry.

This "1+N" event is the first activity following the work of the third consortium announced at the second presidential meeting of the China Association for Science and Technology Consortium of Advanced Materials Societies on July 6. The meeting was chaired by Li Yuanyuan and Wei Bingbo, with Executive Vice Chairman Xie Jianxin, Vice Chairpersons Gao Ruiping, Duan Wenhui, Cao Chunyu, Wang Xinjiang, and Sun Junliang in attendance. The meeting formulated work plans and implementation layouts for the third consortium to address national major needs and provide high-level services for national major strategies.