вЂњWhen we were preparing the proposals for MGE, we were aware of this, but it wasnвЂ™t until we started working on it that I realized this would be a long-term issue.вЂќ ZhangвЂ™s team struggles to understand the methods of data scientists - a problem, he says, that is common across the world. In essence, ChinaвЂ™s policymakers want to make better use of the information stored in the countryвЂ™s databases about the behaviours of materials, so that new materials can be developed.Д«ut the researchers are still at an early stage. The names are intended to draw comparisons to biological superprogrammes such as the Human Genome Project. Launched in 2016, the MGE aimed to match the scope of the Materials Genome Initiative in the United States, a $250-million federal programme designed to shepherd advanced materials science into industrial applications.

Nature Spotlight on Materials Science in China Such large-scale scientific ventures have become common in China over the past decade, forming key elements of the governmentвЂ™s plan to transform the country into a high-tech economy that can match, and eventually surpass, the worldвЂ™s leading scientific nations. Six years later, his research into materials corrosion has become part of a national 1-billion-yuan (US$150-million) programme to revolutionize the speed and efficiency with which China can develop new materials, known as the Materials Genome Engineering (MGE) project. Looking back, Zhang realizes that the unexpected move worked out well for him. The delay had prompted him to accept a position in China, rather than pursue research on self-healing materials in the United States. The 29-year-old materials scientist was back in China with his wife and son, ready to begin a postdoc at the University of Science and Technology Beijing - one of the countryвЂ™s leading materials institutes. Credit: Wang Xiao/Chengdu Economic Daily/VCG/GettyД«y the time Dawei ZhangвЂ™s study visa to the United States had been renewed, it was too late. A flexi-screen mobile phone is on display at an exhibition in Chengdu last year.

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