Recently, the State Council convened a theme conference on the topic of “Advanced Manufacturing and 3D Printing”, inviting Mr. Lu Bingheng, the top scholar of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and other specialists concerned to discuss the issues of expediting the development of advanced manufacturing and 3D Printing.

Premier Li Keqiang, as the host of this conference, pointed out that to turn to the new page of glory and success of China manufacturing, an indispensible step was to accelerate the implementation of strategies—“Made in China, 2025” and “Internet”. 3D Printing plays a crucial role in sustaining the development speed and quickening the equipment update, allowing China to narrow the gap between developed countries and oneself.

As to the Aviation Industry in China, 3D Printing is instead, not a brandnew concept. As early as 3 decades ago, 3D Printing was put into researches, which gained fruitful results to propel its practice in reality. The high quality metal powder, with high degree of purity, high degree of sphericity and controllable size & granulariry, lies first in developing the 3D Printing and its industrialization. In this field, the Avic Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials owns the core top technologies of atomization powder and near net shape forming, supporting oneself to be the top supplier of metal powder for 3D Printing in the line. The bearing strength of metals to a certain extent determines the applied range of 3D Printing in the field of aeronautical structure. Repair and Remanufacture is another crucial direction of application for 3D Printing.

The inferior strength of Aviation products produced by 3D Printing lies on limited market for promotion and weak comparative market advantage. To weakening this inferiority, Internet should be the platform for 3D Printing to turn its technology advantages to equipotent market potentials, since Internet allows more talents from different corners to create a far more colorful blueprint.