Steel materials, with abundant resource reserves, convenient access, diverse properties, and low cost, are the structural and functional materials with the largest consumption and widest coverage globally. They widely support numerous key fields such as building facilities, mechanical equipment, transportation, energy production, aerospace, marine engineering, mining development, and national defense and military industry.
With technological advancements, steel is continuously evolving - from smelting processes to microstructures, from performance limits to application scenarios, constantly refreshing human cognition of "traditional materials". Accelerating the construction of a new generation of steel material system with high performance, low cost, and green characteristics is essential to forge new productive forces that support the Chinese path to modernization.
