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On June 25, Xi’an Economic & Technological Development Zone (Xi’an ETZ) hosted a special new materials industry signing event themed Gather Industrial Chains of New Materials, Forge Ahead into the Future. Leveraging its unique geographic and strategic location advantages in Northwest China’s core hub, the zone attracted eight high-quality projects across segmented high-end new material sectors for centralized signing and settlement, injecting strong momentum into the high-quality upgrading of the regional new materials industry. The settled projects cover the Hantang New Materials Testing Base & R&D Center, Baotitan Metal Materials Laboratory, Xinpaide High-Purity Niobium Material Manufacturing Project, and the industrialization project of short-process powder metallurgy structural titanium alloy components for aircraft developed by Ouzhong Technology, alongside key fields including modified polymer materials, optical imaging technology and precision alloys.
Strategically positioned as the central gateway connecting East and West China and the core industrial hub of Northwest China, Xi’an ETZ boasts unparalleled geographic advantages for new material industrial development. It enjoys convenient interconnection with national transportation networks, efficient logistics coverage for domestic and cross-border markets, and superior regional radiation capabilities, laying a solid foundation for industrial clustering, technological collaboration and product market expansion. Aligned with the zone’s 15th Five-Year Plan layout for the new materials industry, all signed projects feature high technical barriers, precise industrial chain matching, and prominent growth driving effects, which can fully leverage the zone’s superior geographic location to realize rapid industrial transformation and scale expansion.
Overview of the Eight Signed Core Projects
The project fills the critical professional testing gap in the zone’s closed-loop industrial system covering R&D, pilot testing, mass production and performance inspection. Relying on the zone’s central geographic location and regional radiation advantages, it will provide one-stop professional testing and technical services for new material enterprises across Northwest China, improving the overall supporting capacity of the regional industrial chain.
Upon official operation, the laboratory is expected to complete more than 3,700 professional testing and experimental projects annually. Supported by Xi’an ETZ’s superior location as the core gathering place of China’s rare metal industry, it will further consolidate the zone’s leading status as Asia’s largest seamless titanium tube production base and strengthen its cross-regional technical service and industry radiation capabilities.
The project adopts self-developed and domestically leading integrated purification and smelting technologies, achieving independent breakthroughs in the localization of high-purity tantalum and niobium materials. Benefiting from the zone’s convenient logistics and central geographic layout, it will effectively reduce regional production and transportation costs, and supply high-end rare metal materials for aerospace, new energy and high-end equipment industries nationwide.
This project focuses on the industrialization and mass production of high-end aerospace titanium alloy structural parts. Backed by the zone’sstrategic location adjacent to national aerospace industry clusters and complete industrial supporting facilities, it accelerates the transformation of advanced aviation material technologies and empowers the development of the domestic high-end aerospace manufacturing industry.
In addition, other signed projects cover modified polymer materials, optical imaging technology, precision alloys and other high-value segmented tracks, further enriching the zone’s new material industrial system and giving full play to its regional geographic aggregation advantages.
Project Characteristics and Industrial Ecological Advantages
Driven by Xi’an ETZ’s unique strategic geographic location and regional core competitiveness, the newly settled projects feature tiered development, full industrial chain coverage and integrated industry-university-research collaboration, forming a distinctive and competitive industrial ecosystem:
First, leading local enterprises expand investment and production continuously. Relying on the zone’s superior location and complete industrial supporting conditions, leading enterprises release core production capacity steadily and drive upstream and downstream supporting enterprises to cluster and develop.
Second, the projects are deeply integrated into the collaborative innovation ecosystem of the Northwest Institute for Nonferrous Metal Research. The zone’s central geographic advantage in Northwest China facilitates efficient linkage between scientific research institutions and industrial entities, realizing seamless docking of technological research and industrial application.
Third, the transformation of university scientific and technological achievements is accelerated. Supported by convenient regional transportation and talent radiation advantages, the zone efficiently opens up the whole channel from laboratory research and development to factory mass production, translating scientific and technological innovation into real industrial growth momentum.
All settled projects run through the entire industrial chain of high-purity raw material preparation, special material forming, precision machining, performance testing and cutting-edge new material R&D. Supported by superior geographic conditions, the zone realizes centralized aggregation of industrial resources, efficient allocation of factors and cross-regional market coverage.
Solid Industrial Foundation and Unique Geographic Endowments of Xi’an ETZ
As the core innovation cluster and industrial source hub of new materials in Shaanxi Province and Northwest China, Xi’an Economic & Technological Development Zone boasts irreplicable geographic and industrial advantages, and has built three influential core industrial bases worldwide and nationwide:
- Asia’s largest seamless titanium tube production base
- The world’s second-largest production base for layered metal composite materials and metal fibers
- National core scientific research and production base for rare metal materials
Benefiting from its strategic location as the pivot of China’s western development and the core node of the Silk Road Economic Belt, the zone enjoys prominent advantages in transportation logistics, talent gathering, market radiation and policy superposition. Up to now, it has gathered 51 industrial enterprises above designated size in the new materials sector, cultivated more than 20 benchmark enterprises including national manufacturing single champions, national-level "Little Giant" specialized and sophisticated enterprises, and provincial and municipal industrial chain leading enterprises, as well as 10 listed and NEEQ-listed enterprises.
In 2025, the output value of the zone’s above-scale new materials industry reached RMB 19.48 billion, with an average annual growth rate of 8.7% in the past three years. The steady industrial growth is inseparable from the zone’s unique geographic advantages, which support continuous resource aggregation, industrial expansion and market breakthroughs.
15th Five-Year Plan Development Blueprint: Empowering Industrial Upgrading with Geographic Core Advantages
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Xi’an ETZ will take full advantage of its core strategic geographic location in Northwest China and Silk Road Economic Belt pivot position, centering on the core goal of lifting the new materials industry output value to over RMB 50 billion. The zone will strive to build a world-class superconducting industrial cluster and a globally competitive titanium and titanium alloy industrial cluster, while actively fostering advanced composite materials and high-end polymer materials, and deploying forward-looking cutting-edge materials such as aerospace stealth materials and ultra-high temperature ablation-resistant materials.
Relying on its superior regional layout, the zone will integrate high-quality industrial carriers including Jingwei Industrial Park, Weibei Industrial Park and Silk Road Innovation Valley. Supported by diversified financial tools such as industrial funds and financial leasing launched by Jingkai Industrial Development Group, it provides integrated full-factor guarantees covering land, factory buildings, capital, talents and supporting facilities. Making the most of its geographic radiation advantages, the zone will continuously release industrial upgrading dividends, translate resource and location advantages into core industrial competitiveness, and deliver higher-quality products and more efficient services to global customers.
Rooted in the core hub of China’s titanium and new material industry with unparalleled geographic and industrial advantages, we will give full play to regional aggregation and radiation effects, and strive to be your most reliable strategic partner in China’s core new material industrial cluster.
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