From July 8th to 11th, 2024, the China Materials Conference 2024 and the 2nd World Materials Conference, hosted by the China Society for Materials Research, were grandly opened in Guangzhou. Nearly a hundred academicians and over 25000 material science and technology workers attended the conference. This conference is an interdisciplinary, cross disciplinary, and cross industry academic exchange conference in the field of new materials, held against the backdrop of the National Science and Technology Conference, National Science and Technology Awards Conference, and Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering just concluded. The whole country is deeply studying and implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and comprehensively promoting high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement. It is a national level brand conference with the highest academic level, the widest range of fields involved, and the latest cutting-edge dynamics in China's new materials industry, with over 10000 attendees.

This conference has set up 92 sub forums, 3 cutting-edge hot topic youth forums, 8 characteristic new materials forums, 2 cutting-edge flash report areas, 1 China Materials Education Conference 2024, 1 materials journal forum, 4 training courses, etc. in five major fields: energy materials, environmental materials, advanced structural materials, functional materials, and material design, preparation, and evaluation, providing diversified services for representatives with different needs.