The 13th Five-year Plan focuses on eight high-end manufacturing industries including aeronautical and astronautical equipment, high-end CNC machine tools and robot equipment. Aeronautical materials are the foundation of the development of aviation industry and involve a large amount of global import and export trade. Due to the high demand for materials from global aeronautical parts manufacturers, the aeronautical materials market in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America continues to rise. The global aeronautical materials market is expected to reach $25.8 billion by 2022, with a compound annual growth rate of 6.9% from 2017 to 2022.
China's civil aviation industry system, which takes COMAC as the core, unites AVIC, sweeping the whole country and faces the whole world, will make the civil aviation industry an important mainstay industry for the future development of Shanghai. COMAC Composite Materials Center and Civil Aircraft Materials Industry Development Alliance, established in 2018 and 2019 respectively, Shanghai will be further deepened as an important platform for disciplinary development, technological innovation and industrial development in the field of aeronautical materials.
This year, our forum in combination with OEM development units and aero-engine development units both at home and abroad, focus on technical innovation in the field of civil aircraft materials, pay attention to the frontier research on advanced aeronautical material research innovation and design innovation. The forum will have in-depth discussions on latest hot topics, like "The latest development and application trends of wide-body aircraft materials", "Development and Trend of aviation intelligent Manufacturing", "Application of composite materials", "Aircraft body/engine materials and processing", "Development of detection technology and material lightweight", "Advanced maintenance technology for composite materials".