Titanium, known as "space metal" and "ocean metal", is an important strategic metal material in the 21st century. Today, titanium and titanium alloy industry chain is also one of the key industrial chains in Shaanxi Province and Xi'an City. Xi'an is playing a "combined fist", comprehensively building a new industrial structure system with structural titanium alloy as the main body, functional titanium alloy intensive processing, titanium alloy equipment and application as branches, and vigorously developing the new material industry and building a strong industrial city. so that the city's titanium alloy processing technology has reached the world's advanced level.

Western Titanium Industry Company is a state-level high-tech enterprise that carries out new product research and development in aerospace ships and other fields under the guidance of major national demand. Is also the main enterprise of Xi'an titanium and titanium alloy industry chain. As a national champion in the manufacturing industry, it has taken the initiative to give full play to the advantages of Qin Chuangyuan platform, actively carry out joint actions with well-known universities and scientific research institutes in Xi'an, and form a consortium with upstream and downstream enterprises. expand the construction of science and technology platform, R & D design, new field development work, solve the "neck" technical problems of major models in many countries, and constantly carry out the localization of key core materials. Solve the equipment bottleneck of the key process links, and create an independent, controllable, safe and reliable industrial chain supply chain. Tianli Composite is a leading enterprise of layered metal composite materials in China controlled by Northwest Nonferrous Metals Research Institute, specializing in the research and production of layered metal composite materials, and has a world-class key core technology of independent intellectual property rights. It is the first unit in China to devote itself to the research of explosive composite technology, and its products are widely used in chemical industry, aerospace, new energy, marine engineering and other fields. In the morning, the reporter saw in the enterprise production workshop that titanium and steel composite materials are speeding up production on the production line. Tianli Composite mainly carries out secondary deep processing of titanium and titanium alloys in the titanium and titanium alloy industry chain, and the products have the advantages of many kinds of metals. In recent years, on the basis of the original three-level innovative R & D platform of "layered Metal Composite National Local Joint Engineering Research Center", "Shaanxi layered Metal Composite Engineering Research Center" and "Xi'an Metal explosive Composite Engineering Technology Research Center", the company has established a "layered metal composite innovation pilot test platform" to provide supporting services for national major projects, important areas and key projects. It has become a comprehensive platform for the research and development, preparation, testing, evaluation and analysis of metal composites. The company has realized import substitution of composite materials in many markets, such as nuclear industry, electronic grade polysilicon reduction furnace, fine chemical industry and so on. It is the only batch supplier in China in the fields of key materials such as titanium steel composite materials for nuclear power projects and titanium-stainless steel transition connection functional materials for Chinese satellites. Shaanxi is a major province of titanium industry, the largest titanium and titanium alloy production base in China, and the scale of titanium processing industry ranks first in the world. At present, Xi'an titanium and titanium alloy industry chain enterprises mainly focus on melting and casting and processing links, belong to the middle reaches of the industry, and are in a leading position in China in terms of technology, equipment, scale and so on. The total output value of Xi'an titanium and titanium alloy industry chain in 2023 is 15.5 billion yuan, an increase of about 12.3% over 2022. Has formed the northwest non-ferrous metals research institute (including western materials, western superconducting) as the industry leader of titanium and titanium alloy cold and hot processing, welding, mechanical processing and near net forming processing industry middle reaches enterprise group. The advantage of industrial cluster is obvious. At present, the university clusters represented by titanium industry research and teaching, such as Northwest Polytechnic University and Xi'an Jiaotong University, have gathered a large number of high-level scientific research talents and achieved a number of key core technological research achievements. The new materials industry, including titanium and titanium alloy industry, is regarded as one of the key industries in Xi'an Modern Industrial layout Plan and Xi'an Strategic emerging Industry Development Plan of the 14th five-year Plan (2021-2025). It is proposed to speed up the layout of frontier new materials, such as non-ferrous materials, and enhance the supporting capacity of the new materials industry to the development of strategic emerging industries. In order to continuously expand the "territory" of the titanium industry, Xi'an is playing a "combined fist" and comprehensively building a new industrial structure system with structural titanium alloy as the main body, functional titanium alloy, titanium alloy intensive processing, titanium alloy equipment and application as the branch.