From September 28^th to 30^th, 2019, the high-end Forum on Advanced Catalytic Materials and Chemical Technology was held in Shanghai, which was held by the National Industrial Catalysis Information Station, Fudan University, Shanghai Normal University and jointly held by Shanghai Institute of CleanTech Innovation (ICT innovation，Shanghai Curui Low-Carbon Energy Technology Co., Ltd.). It aims to provide a platform for information exchange, results exchange , and wisdom exchange for solving scientific problems in catalysis development, promote technological innovation in the field of catalysis in China, realize the special plan for scientific and technological innovation in the field of materials in the “13^th Five-Year Plan”, and drive the green catalytic industry and continue the economic development!

The forum attracted Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai Normal University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University of Technology, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and other well-known domestic universities, Xi'an Kaili New Materials Co., Ltd., ICT innovation and other catalytic enterprises to attend the meeting. Influential experts and scholars from the industry discussed the difficulties and challenges in the research and production of new catalytic materials.

     At the opening ceremony, Ye Li, Vice President of Shanghai Normal University, expressed his warm welcome to the participation of experts, and addressed: The forum faced the transformation and upgrade of chemical technology and the major demand of the catalytic materials industry. It would gather the history wisdom of advanced catalytic materials, and deeply explore the development status and future prospect of chemical materials, further enhance the influence of catalytic materials in chemical materials, and promote the integration of production, education and research to drive industry development and common progress!

     Academician Dongyuan Zhao of Fudan University pointed out that catalysis was an important branch of chemistry and a key core technology for future sustainable society. However, China is still limited in R&D of catalytic materials. He hopes this forum will combine university research with enterprise application to solve the frontier problems of catalysis and break the technology monopoly of foreign countries!

     This forum embraced an in-depth discussion on “The key issues of the application of new chemical materials in the field of chemical technology and the future development directions”. Academician Yuguo Zheng, Academician Fener Chen, Academician Kuiling Ding ，Professor Hexing Li, Senior Engineer Zhixiang Zhang, Professor Yuhan Sun, Professor Fengshou Xiao, Professor Ying Wan, and delivered wonderful guest reports respectively. Experts put forward their own opinions on the technological innovations related to the field of green energy catalysis, exchanged views on the difficulties of catalytic materials technology.