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Preface
Today's China is no longer the country that is bullied by others, and China's development is seen by the whole world, which is something we should be proud of.
However, the development of our country is not going well, and as our country continues to grow stronger, Western countries have begun to be afraid of our strength.
Source: "Shi Changxu: From "Material Man" to Strategic Scientist" - China Science Daily 2022-06-01
In order not to let us surpass them, the United States has set up a lot of problems for us, restricted the export of many technologies, and many of our technologies are monopolized by the United States, and there is no way to develop them further.
But there is one person who broke this monopoly and put our country among the top international in one fell swoop, so who is he?
Break the 40-year monopoly of the United States and Japan
In this society where strength represents everything, every country is researching new technologies just to give their country more power.
And in the 21st century today, new materials and new energy is one of the new technologies that can develop national strength, of which carbon fiber is a high-tech new material, although it is only a fiber, but its hardness is far more than steel.
And its weight is much lighter than steel, corrosion resistance is far more than steel, and it also has the thermal and electrical conductivity of steel, carbon fiber can be said to be a very rare new military material.
Today, Continental's carbon fiber technology is very mature, but the road was not smooth before.
Previously, this technology was mainly in the hands of the United States and various Western countries, and in order not to let China surpass them, they adopted various despicable means to monopolize carbon fiber technology.
China did not have access to any information related to carbon fiber, although the mainland was able to manufacture carbon fiber at that time, but both quality and performance were far behind Europe and the United States.
In the face of this situation, our country is also very helpless, so we can only retreat to the next best thing, and spend more than 9 million US dollars to buy two carbonization furnaces from the United States, which consumes huge manpower and material resources, but still achieves nothing, and the development of the mainland has also come to a standstill and stopped.
Just when we were helpless, 80-year-old Shi Changxu stepped forward, led a group of scientists, regardless of physical hardship, always stuck to their jobs, after three Chinese New Year's Eve and day after day and day efforts, China in the direction of carbon fiber to the forefront of the world.
China conquers carbon fiber technology
Shi Changxu is a well-known metallurgical and materials scientist in mainland China, a strategic scientist, and the father of Chinese materials science, he was born in 1920 in a rural family in Hebei.
Although it is a rural family, Mr. Shi Changxu's family can also be said to be a scholarly family, because his father was a talent in the late Qing Dynasty, and he would also teach others to read in ordinary times.
Mr. Shi Changxu has been very studious since he was a child, and his grades after entering primary school are very good.
In 1934, Mr. Shi Changxu, who was only 14 years old, went to university, so it seems that he only took 7 years to complete elementary school, junior high school, and high school, which can be said to be a proper scholar.
After graduating from university, Shi Changxu chose to go to the United States for further study, and he successfully obtained a master's degree from the college in less than a year of study, and also won the McGelhill Award.
Later, when the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, Shi Changxu was very happy, and he resolutely chose to return to the motherland and devote himself to the development of the motherland.
In 2000, the mainland suffered from the monopoly of the United States, unable to produce high-performance carbon fiber, Shi Changxu was already 80 years old at that time, but when he saw that China spent a high price to import products from abroad, but still could not achieve the desired effect, he was like a knife, he made up his mind to let China have the ability to manufacture high-grade carbon fiber.
Soon after, Shi Changxu led his scientific research team to devote himself to the research in this field, and they did encounter a lot of difficulties at first, because before that, not many people in our country had done research in this area, and everything had to start from scratch.
But fortunately, Shi Changxu's scientific research team is full of aspiring scientists like him, and they have all joined him to jointly contribute to the research of carbon fiber in the country.
At this time, the country also realized the importance of developing its own carbon fiber technology, so the state provided a lot of financial support for Shi Changxu and his team.
With the support of the state, Shi Changxu began to lead his research team to begin hard research work, although at this time Shi Changxu was over 80 years old, but he did not take into account his physical condition, always insisted on the job, after three years of research and hard work, they finally developed the first generation of domestic independent high-performance carbon fiber production process.
China has also succeeded in producing carbon fiber components that can be used in launch vehicles and fighter jets through this technology, breaking the monopoly of the West and ranking among the top in the world in one fell swoop.
Yield of carbon fiber
With the unremitting efforts of Mr. Shi Changxu, the national carbon fiber production scale production line of T300 has reached the same level as that of Japan at the same time, and the T700 series products have also reached the international level.
In 2006, the mainland successfully developed a new type of M60J high-modulus carbon fiber, which has been among the top in the world, and the production cost is very low, only about 1/3 of Japan.
As soon as this product was launched, the United States, Japan and other countries were very surprised, because they never thought that China would be able to conquer this technology under the condition that it was completely blocked technology, and the 80-year-old Shi Changxu impressed them.
Nowadays, our carbon fiber technology is still developing, and in 2023, the domestic carbon fiber production is still mainly concentrated in T300 and T700.
Among them, the production capacity of T300/T400 grade carbon fiber accounts for about 60%, the production capacity of T700/T800 and carbon fiber accounts for 35%, and the production capacity of carbon fiber of other specifications accounts for about 3%.
By 2023, China will produce more than 40,000 tons of T300/T400 grade carbon fiber, accounting for about 76%, and the output of T700 and above carbon fiber has reached more than 13,000 tons, accounting for about 24%.
Leading the world
Although it will take some time for China to put the carbon fiber technology into commercial operation after Mr. Shi Changxu's successful research at that time, Mr. Shi Changxu's research has allowed many industries in the mainland to come out of the US blockade.
After decades of hard work, we finally made the world's first T300-class carbon fiber, a technology that was on par with Japan's most advanced technology at the time.
Later, under the leadership of Shi Changxu, the mainland independently developed the T 3T700 level of carbon fiber, breaking the monopoly of the United States and Japan on China's carbon fiber technology, it can be said that the emergence of Mr. Shi Changxu, so that the mainland's carbon fiber technology for many years ahead, he "the father of Chinese materials science" title, well-deserved.
epilogue
Today, the mainland is the world's largest carbon fiber manufacturing country, with the best production capacity of carbon fiber and parts in the country, and our self-developed carbon fiber has been well used in domestic launch vehicles and high-performance fighters.
The reason why China has achieved such achievements is inseparable from the research of Mr. Shi Changxu.
Source: "Shi Changxu: From "Material Man" to Strategic Scientist" - China Science Daily 2022-06-01
Source: "Shi Changxu*" - Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of Jiusan Society 2018-08-23
Source: "Shi Changxu, the Father of Chinese Materials" - Nanjing Municipal People's Government 2011-10-27
Source: "He once made headlines for "making a big fuss about the United States", helping Chinese fighter jets take off! ——Qilihe Financial Media 2022-11-17
Source: "Analysis of China's Carbon Fiber Industry Market Segments in 2024 and the Increase in the Output of High-strength and High-modulus Products [Photos]" - Qianzhan Network 2024-04-29