en.Wedoany.com Reported - On June 8, 2026, China Rare Earth Group Co., Ltd. and Nankai University signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Tianjin. Liu Leiyun, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Rare Earth Group, and Chen Yulu, President of Nankai University, held discussions and jointly witnessed the signing. The two parties agreed to focus on emerging application scenarios such as interventional brain-computer interfaces, targeted drug release from interventional stents, and turbojet-powered low-altitude aircraft using rare earth materials, conducting multi-dimensional cooperation in basic research, scientific breakthroughs, technology transfer, and talent cultivation.
China Rare Earth Group Co., Ltd. was established on December 23, 2021, in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province. It is a diversified equity central enterprise formed by the restructuring and integration of rare earth assets from Aluminum Corporation of China, China Minmetals Corporation, and Ganzhou Rare Earth Group Co., Ltd., with the introduction of two technology-based enterprises, China Iron & Steel Research Institute Group and China Youyan Technology Group. It is directly supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council. The group is primarily engaged in rare earth resource development, smelting and separation, deep processing, and import and export trade, covering the entire rare earth industry chain, and owns two listed companies: China Rare Earth and China Rare Nonferrous.
The Research Center for Rare Earth and Inorganic Functional Materials at Nankai University was established in April 2018, leveraging the advantageous resources of the School of Materials Science and Engineering and the National Institute of New Materials. It is headed by Professor Yan Chunhua, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In November of the same year, the center was approved to build the Tianjin Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials and Applications, conducting research in areas such as rare earth energy materials, rare earth magnetic materials, rare earth luminescent materials, and rare earth biomedical materials. It features multiple specialized experimental platforms for material synthesis, structure and properties, theory and computation, functional devices, and biomedicine.
At the signing ceremony, Liu Leiyun expressed his hope that both sides would leverage the complementary advantages of the rare earth industry layout and multi-disciplinary innovation momentum to jointly build a favorable innovation ecosystem, cultivate and strengthen new quality productive forces, and collectively serve the national strategic development landscape. Chen Yulu noted that this signing is a significant opportunity for the university to deeply serve the national science and technology strategy. Nankai University will work with China Rare Earth Group to build a collaborative innovation system of "industry-academia-research-application," promoting the implementation of more achievements.
The cooperation focuses on cutting-edge application directions of rare earth functional materials, including interventional brain-computer interfaces, targeted drug release from interventional stents, and turbojet-powered low-altitude aircraft. Among these, brain-computer interface technology has formed an application pattern of "invasive for heavy medical use, non-invasive for general public use" by 2025, with multiple clinical trials conducted in areas such as medical rehabilitation. Rare earth materials, with their unique optical, electromagnetic, and biocompatible properties, have broad application prospects in these emerging technology fields. This industry-academia-research collaboration will provide a technological innovation engine for extending the rare earth industry into high-value-added frontier areas, accelerating China's transition from a major rare earth resource country to a strong rare earth industry nation.
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