The on-site update meeting for the Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center by the Ministry and the City was held. It was attended by Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee Mr. Cai Qi, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology Mr. Wang Zhigang, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor Mr. Chen Jining, Director of the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee Mr. Li Wei, Chairman of the Municipal Committee of the CPPCC Mr. JI Lin, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee Mr. Zhang Yankun, and relevant comrades from central departments including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Ministry of Education.

On the morning of the 20th, the leaders first came to the National Center for Materials Service Safety of USTB, and inspected five experimental device groups that have been rated as "International Leading" in acceptance and international evaluation, including the high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor environment, natural atmosphere, multiphase flow, special regional environmental structural materials, mechanical-chemical multi-field coupling environmental structural materials test equipment. The National Science Center was expected to serve major national scientific and technological tasks, focus on the main battlefield of economic and social development, and play the role of major scientific and technological infrastructure.

USTB Chancellor WU Guilong, President YANG Renshu, Vice President WANG Weicai, Director of the Collaborative Innovation Center of Steel Technology and Academician of the Academy of Engineering MAO Xinping, National Science Center Commander ZHANG Weidong and members of the National Science Center were participated.

The Materials Service Safety Assessment Facilities project (MSAF for short) is one of the twelve major national scientific and technological infrastructures built during China's Eleventh Five-Year Plan period approved by the National Development and Reform Commission. The project was established by USTB as a legal person, the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, and Harbin Institute of Technology as participators. In 2008, the National Development and Reform Commission approved that, relying on this project, USTB would take the lead in preparing for the establishment of the National Center for Materials Service Safety (NCMS), responsible for the construction, operation and development of the project. The National Science Center is expected to have a total investment of 1.32 billion yuan, and the actual investment 1.5 billion yuan will reach 500 researchers and 2,000 graduate students in the future.