Development Trends of Silica Driven by New-Quality Productive Forces
Huang Qifan emphasized that reform and innovation serve as the "dual engines" for developing new-quality productive forces, requiring reliance on five core sectors and seven institutional safeguards to unlock three major dividends during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. As a key carrier in the new materials field, the development of silica is deeply aligned with this strategic logic.
In terms of technological breakthroughs, focusing on the demand for tackling "bottleneck" challenges in new-quality productive forces, efforts will be concentrated on breaking through the preparation technology of electronic-grade high-purity silica. This will support the independent development of industries such as integrated circuits and high-end equipment, echoing the unfulfilled goals of "Made in China 2025". Leveraging the economies of scale from the unified national market, it will reduce R&D and industrialization costs while embracing the dividends of the ultra-large-scale market.
In scenario integration, closely following the needs of the five core sectors, functional upgrading will be promoted: developing low-dielectric materials for the digital intelligence field, creating nanocarriers for the biopharmaceutical sector, and optimizing silicon-based materials for batteries in the new energy industry, thereby achieving in-depth integration of technology and industry. Meanwhile, responding to the requirements of stock transformation through green transition, high-purity silica will be extracted from agricultural wastes such as rice husks, and silica produced via the carbon dioxide method will be adopted to practice circular economy, seizing the dividends of urban-rural integration.
In institutional empowerment, relying on mechanisms such as increased R&D investment and the "one-third property right" system for achievement transformation, the commercialization of technologies will be accelerated. With the support of the capital market, unicorn enterprises in the silicon materials industry will be nurtured. Utilizing the market-oriented allocation of data factors, the coordination between production and supply chains will be optimized.
In the future, driven by reform and innovation, silica will make breakthroughs in the high-end, functional, and green tracks, becoming an important fulcrum for releasing the dividends of new-quality productive forces and laying a solid foundation for entering the international market.