Materials Science, the substantial basis and pioneering power in the development of modern industry, provides strong technical functions to support national economy and industrial development.

       Since China stepped into the period of reform and opening to the outside world, the research, development and industrialization of advanced materials have been very importance to Chinese government. In the past 10 years, the government has invested over RMB 3000 million to finance a series of projects, including the construction of state key laboratories, national project research centers and important scientific projects; has organized and undertaken hundreds of hi-tech industrializing projects for advanced materials, which have promoted investment 10 times greater and made great breakthroughs in many areas of research and development; and has made a continuous new record of improvements, increasing the scale and expanding application yielding an industry value of over 550 trillion RMB.

       On March 29, 2007, 07 Bo’ao International Advanced Materials Forum, the grand two-day event of the China petrochemical industry, was successfully concluded at Sofitel Bo’ao Hotel in Hainan, the permanent venue of Bo'ao Asia Forum. This forum constructed a high-end platform for an unprecedented communication between government, enterprises, societies, research institutes and investors in petrochemical industry which made great contribution to developing national advanced materials.

        In order to strengthen and continue this valuable high level forum, the Tianjin Municipal People’s Government, ChemChina, the Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (DECHEMA e.V.) and Morgan Stanley, representing the shared interests of government, enterprises, industry organizations and investors, agree to continue jointly organizing The 2nd International Advanced Materials (Tianjin) Summit. With the theme of “Opportunity & Responsibility,” the summit will be held from October 30 to November 1 of 2008 in Tianjin.

         The summit is assumed to deepen communications between government and enterprises so that enterprises can learn of policy trends and the voices of the enterprises can be heard by government. Domestic and foreign companies will share accounts of their challenges and achievements so as to strengthen mutual learning and extend full cooperation.