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Recently, the China Nonferrous Metals Society organized a scientific and technological achievement evaluation meeting. Led by Academician Gui Weihua of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the evaluation panel, composed of experts from the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, renowned universities, and enterprises, assessed the scientific and technological achievement, "Key Technologies for Digitalization and Intelligent Manufacturing of Aluminum Alloy Body Structures," a project led by the China Aluminum Materials Research Institute. After questioning, document review, and collective discussion, the expert panel unanimously agreed that the overall technology of the project has reached the international leading level. This project closely addresses the needs of automotive lightweighting development, breaking through a series of key technologies such as digital structural design of all-aluminum bodies, intelligent equipment development, and digital material selection. It overcomes industry challenges such as the bottleneck of digital design for lightweight body structures and connection assembly, the lack of intelligent material selection calculation methods for body aluminum, and the high difficulty of digital twins for heat treatment and full-chain data governance. The related technologies and products have been applied in several major domestic OEMs, effectively promoting the domestic substitution of automotive aluminum sheets, achieving independent control of key materials, and obtaining good economic and social benefits.

Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the preliminary list of the first batch of national emerging industry development demonstration bases, which has ended the publicity period. Guangdong Dongguang Technology Holdings Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Dongguang"), a subsidiary of the group, is on the list of demonstration enterprises in the new energy storage manufacturing field. It is reported that a total of 112 companies across the country were selected for the public list this time, including 9 companies from Guangdong Province. In the field of new energy storage manufacturing, only two companies in Guangdong were on the list, namely Dongguan Solar and China Southern Power Grid. This inclusion in the public list of national-level demonstration projects reflects the country's full recognition of Dongguan Solar's innovation capabilities in the energy storage field and the value of the industrial chain. It also provides important opportunities and policy endorsement for Dongguang Solar's accelerated development on the strategic emerging industry track. The establishment of the National Emerging Industry Development Demonstration Base aims to select benchmark companies with outstanding innovation and complete chains to play a leading role in promoting the quality and upgrading of domestic emerging industries. This selection process has gone through independent application, local selection and recommendation, formal review, and multiple rounds of expert reviews. The competition threshold is high, and the selection is full of gold, which fully confirms Dongguan's deep industrial accumulation and comprehensive strength in the new energy storage track.

First, strengthen the equipment manufacturing industry. Accelerate the construction of key projects such as the AUX air conditioning base project and Hanfeng Electromechanical's intelligent home appliance manufacturing project, promoting the rapid and clustered development of the intelligent home appliance industry. Continue to support Hongxing Machinery's capacity expansion, quality improvement, and technological upgrading, continuously expanding the scale of the equipment manufacturing industry. Second, refine the advanced materials industry. Leveraging the research advantages of the Chinalco Zhengzhou Research Institute, support the accelerated development of key enterprises such as Chinalco Qiyuan and Tianma New Materials, driving the clustering of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, and striving to build a major national production base for multi-variety alumina new materials and advanced metal materials. Third, expand the aluminum and aluminum deep processing industry. Adhere to extending and supplementing the industrial chain, supporting Herui New Materials' capacity expansion and efficiency improvement; encourage aluminum deep processing enterprises such as Guangyuan Battery to introduce new technologies, develop new products, and expand into new markets.