Recently, Hubei Jinlong New Materials Co., Ltd. has welcomed two important technological developments: the company has officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Wuhan Textile University to jointly build the "Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Flexible Composite Materials and Advanced Manufacturing Technology". This marks a new milestone for Hubei Jinlong in the field of technological innovation.
Joining hands with top universities to build a new ecosystem of industry, academia, research and application
Wuhan Textile University is an important source of innovation in China's textile technology and a core battlefield for cultivating high-level talents. It has profound research accumulation and extensive application practice in fields such as aerospace products, conventional textile products, and biomedical textile products. As a top expert in the field of textile materials, Xu Weilin, academician of the CAE Member and secretary of the Party Committee of Wuhan Textile University, has been committed to the research of high-performance fiber materials for a long time and has had an important impact in the world.
In September 2025, Academician Xu Weilin led a team of experts to conduct research and guidance in Jinlong, Hubei. Hu Zhili, Deputy Secretary of the Suizhou Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, Zeng Hao, Director of the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, and He Sheng, Deputy Secretary of the Zengdu District Committee and District Mayor, accompanied the entire process. During the research period, Academician Xu Weilin's team visited the Hubei Jinlong Science and Technology Museum and production workshop, gaining a detailed understanding of the company's technological accumulation, production scale, and product application scenarios in the field of flexible composite materials. From transportation canopy materials to emergency protective products, from high-end materials to agricultural green composite materials, the academician team highly recognizes Hubei Jinlong's full industry chain layout and technological innovation achievements.
At the symposium, Rao Jincai, Chairman of Hubei Jinlong, introduced the construction of the company's provincial key laboratory, research on lunar habitation and aerospace research projects, and the development of basalt fiber processing and application technology. Academician Xu Weilin was officially invited to serve as the head of the first academic committee of the laboratory, opening a new chapter of deep cooperation between schools and enterprises.
Strategic signing, focusing on cutting-edge fields of new materials
In December 2025, Hubei Jinlong New Materials Co., Ltd. and Wuhan Textile University officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Both sides focus on cutting-edge fields such as high-performance composite materials and intelligent textile materials, and promote key technological breakthroughs and achievement transformation through joint laboratory construction, technical project research, and talent joint training, accelerating the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into practical productivity. The purpose of this cooperation is to break down barriers to bankruptcy, achieve resource sharing and complementary advantages, and inject new momentum into the high-quality development of the new materials industry.
According to the agreement, Wuhan Textile University will promote cross-border integration through discipline construction, talent cultivation, and deep cooperation with enterprises, with technological innovation as the core, industrial application as the foundation, and school enterprise cooperation as the bridge, strengthen cooperation with fields such as automobiles, new energy, aerospace, etc., and develop high-performance and multifunctional textile new materials. Simultaneously focusing on environmental protection and sustainable development, actively responding to the national "dual carbon" strategy.
Provincial key laboratory unveiling, building high-level innovation platform
On April 23, 2026, the unveiling ceremony of the Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Flexible Composite Materials and Advanced Manufacturing Technology was held at the Hubei Jinlong Flexible Composite Materials Research Institute. Academician Xu Weilin and Hu Zhili, Deputy Secretary of the Suizhou Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, jointly unveiled the plaque for the laboratory.
This laboratory is a high-level scientific research and innovation platform jointly built by Hubei Jinlong and Wuhan Textile University, based on its profound accumulation in the field of industrial textiles and flexible composite materials. The laboratory closely focuses on the national strategy and core industrial needs, focusing on four research directions: structural design and failure mechanism research of flexible composite materials in extreme environments, interface structure and functional coordination mechanism research of multiphase system flexible composite materials, research on the integration and intelligent response characteristics of light/heat/electricity multifunctionality of flexible composite materials, and research on advanced manufacturing processes and green intelligent manufacturing technologies of flexible composite materials. The laboratory is equipped with a research and development team of 40 people, nearly 150 sets of testing equipment and 50 pilot lines, and has a solid scientific research foundation. In the past five years, it has undertaken 28 national and provincial major scientific research projects, won the second prize of the the State Technological Innovation Award, one second prize of the Scientific and Technological Progress Award, and 14 scientific and technological awards in Hubei Province. In the next five years, we plan to invest sufficient funds to promote the transformation and implementation of multiple technological achievements, cultivate emerging industries to achieve significant growth in output value, and make every effort to build a modern and open high-end technology innovation platform.
Academician appointed, school enterprise collaboration to create a better future
At the unveiling ceremony, Rao Jincai, Chairman of Hubei Jinlong, presented a letter of appointment to Academician Xu Weilin, officially appointing him as Chief Scientist and Director of the Academic Committee to provide top strategic guidance and core technical support for the company's scientific and technological innovation and laboratory construction. To commemorate this deep strategic cooperation, Academician Xu Weilin presented the lunar flag he personally developed to the Hubei Golden Dragon, symbolizing the mission of school enterprise cooperation and joint service to national strategy.
Academician Xu Weilin praised Hubei Jinlong as one of the few leading enterprises in the field of functional flexible composite materials in Hubei Province. It has a solid foundation, leading technology, and broad development prospects in the field of flexible and airtight textile materials, and is expected to become an invisible champion in the industry. He stated that Wuhan Textile University will fully leverage its disciplinary, talent, and national level research platform advantages, collaborate deeply with Hubei Jinlong, jointly attack key technologies, cultivate high-end talents, and help enterprises continue to lead the industry development.
Continuously expanding the technological landscape and consolidating the leading position in the industry
Since its establishment, Hubei Jinlong has grown into a leading enterprise in the canopy material industry and railway transportation reinforcement material industry after more than 30 years of deep cultivation. It is a national high-tech enterprise, a hidden champion demonstration enterprise in the subdivision field of Hubei Province, and a specialized, refined, and new "little giant" enterprise in Hubei Province. The company produces thousands of categories and tens of millions of square meters of tarpaulin, advertising fabric, brushed fabric and other products annually, which are widely used in nine major fields including industry, culture and tourism, transportation, agriculture, emergency response, etc. The product market share remains at the forefront of the industry.
In terms of independent research and development, the company adheres to innovation driven approach, ensuring that multiple new products are launched into the market every year, multiple new technologies are put into production, and multiple types of patents are certified. With outstanding research and development capabilities, the company has successfully been recognized as the "Hubei Engineering Research Center for the Preparation and Application Technology of Spectral Shielding Coating Materials", becoming the only provincial-level engineering research center in Suizhou City for that year. The company continues to increase its R&D investment and has closely cooperated with multiple universities and research institutes such as Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan University of Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Railway Science Research Institute, and China Textile Science Research Institute to build multiple R&D platforms.
In terms of international expansion, Hubei Jinlong vigorously implements its industrial overseas strategy, establishing branches and production bases in Singapore, Kazakhstan, and the Middle East. The overseas market expansion momentum is good, and foreign trade orders from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Russia and other regions continue to grow. The company's products are widely used in fields such as building materials, logistics and transportation, modern agriculture, and cultural tourism. The world's widest six meter wide production line can produce integrated wide materials, integrating advanced technologies such as coating, pasting, and surface treatment, and is widely recognized in the international market.
At the same time, the company is investing in the construction of a high-performance carbon fiber composite material industrial park project, targeting cutting-edge fields such as low altitude economy, and providing high-performance material support for high-end manufacturing. After the project is completed and put into operation, it is expected that the annual new production value will significantly increase, forming a large-scale production capacity for various textiles and carbon fiber composite materials products.
Looking ahead to the future, innovation leads the high-quality development of the new materials industry
With the unveiling of provincial key laboratories and the official joining of academician teams, Hubei Jinlong's scientific and technological innovation system has entered a new stage of platformization, systematization, and high-end development. The laboratory will focus on key areas such as extreme environmental protection, intelligent function integration, and green manufacturing, accelerate breakthroughs in a number of key core technologies, continue to promote the strengthening, supplementation, and extension of the industrial chain, and contribute the "golden dragon power" to China's flexible functional composite materials industry moving towards international first-class and to the country's high-level scientific and technological self-reliance.
