The industry has received national-level guidance! On November 11th, the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Notice on Further Accelerating the Systematic Layout and High-Level Construction of Pilot-Scale Platforms in Manufacturing," injecting strong momentum into the industrialization process of industries such as cutting-edge new materials and energy electronics.
The "Notice" clarifies that by the end of 2027, my country will have basically established a modern pilot-scale platform system, initially forming a national manufacturing pilot-scale service network with multi-entity participation, multi-field layout, and multi-level services, further strengthening the capacity of high-level pilot-scale platforms.
Regarding key tasks, the "Notice" proposes to systematically promote the construction of pilot-scale platforms according to the approach of "strengthening a batch, activating a batch, and supplementing a batch," highlighting their public service attributes, clarifying construction paths, and promoting implementation in accordance with the "Guidelines for the Construction of Pilot-Scale Platforms in Manufacturing (2025 Edition)" and the "Key Points for the Construction of Pilot-Scale Platforms in Manufacturing (2025 Edition)."
01 Energy Electronics and Cutting-Edge Materials Become Key Focuses of Pilot-Scale Platform Construction
According to the simultaneously released "Key Directions for the Construction of Pilot-Scale Platforms in Manufacturing (2025 Edition)," two major directions are emphasized:
Cutting-Edge Materials: The document calls for the establishment of pilot-scale platforms for key common technologies such as micro/nano fabrication and preparation technologies, chemical vapor deposition/atomic layer deposition technologies, chemical solution synthesis technologies, physical vapor deposition technologies, and ammonia-hydrogen conversion catalysis technologies. It aims to promote industrial breakthroughs in key materials such as metamaterials, single/double-walled carbon nanotubes, nanomaterials, two-dimensional semiconductor materials, graphene, perovskite materials, quantum dot materials, organometallic hydrides, metal-based single-atom alloy catalytic materials, superconducting materials, and liquid metals.
Energy Electronics: The document clearly focuses on advanced photovoltaic technologies such as perovskite photovoltaic cells and tandem photovoltaic cells, as well as novel battery technologies such as all-solid-state batteries, sodium-ion batteries, aqueous batteries, and key battery materials. It emphasizes tackling common key technologies, testing and verification, and pilot-scale production, aiming to improve the conversion efficiency of advanced photovoltaic cells and solve the bottleneck problem from prototype development to large-scale manufacturing. It is worth noting that perovskite was highlighted twice in the official construction guidelines: in the "Frontier Materials" direction, a breakthrough in its industrialization is required; in the "Energy Electronics" direction, a focus on perovskite photovoltaic cells, tandem photovoltaic cells, and other technologies is explicitly required.
This clearly indicates that perovskite has officially risen from a focus of academic research to a key target for national-level industrialization promotion.
02 Pilot-Scale Platform
Bridging the Key Link from Laboratory to Production Line
The "Guidelines for the Construction of Pilot-Scale Platforms in Manufacturing (2025 Edition)" clearly states that pilot-scale platforms in manufacturing are carriers that provide services for the transition of samples from the trial production stage to the production process. Their main function is to meet the needs of manufacturing development, promote the industrial application of scientific and technological achievements, and provide comprehensive, professional services and systematic solutions such as design verification, functional performance verification, process verification, adaptation verification, and production verification, ensuring that laboratory results can be transformed into stable, reliable, and mass-producible mature technologies.
This policy direction presents a crucial opportunity for enterprises to build core competitiveness. Zhongmao Green Energy Technology, deeply rooted in the fields of cadmium telluride and perovskite thin-film solar cells, is currently in a crucial window of opportunity to strengthen its integrated capabilities across "materials R&D, equipment manufacturing, process verification, and technological breakthroughs." By participating in or leading the construction of pilot-scale platforms, the company can accelerate process maturation, reduce mass production risks, and seize market opportunities.
The "Notice" also emphasizes preventing a rush to invest and avoiding redundant construction. This indicates that resources will be more inclined to flow to platforms and companies with solid technology, clear planning, and genuine public service capabilities; pioneers and doers will receive more support.
This document from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology not only points the way for the pilot-scale testing and industrialization of cutting-edge photovoltaic technologies such as perovskite, but also provides a systematic support framework. With technological breakthroughs and favorable policies in place simultaneously, upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry chain should seize the opportunity to jointly promote the maturity of next-generation photovoltaic technologies and share the era's dividends of green energy development.