‎—Our Company Selected for the 2025 Key Category of the China Returnee Entrepreneurship Program

Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security announced the 2025 list of key projects under the China Returnee Entrepreneurship Program. Pengyao Technology (Changchun) Co., Ltd. was successfully selected, becoming the first project in Jilin Province to receive key-category 

funding in the past five years. This milestone marks a new step forward in the integration of high-end talent and strategic new-material industries in the province.

National-Level Endorsement of the Highest Caliber
‎        Chosen from outstanding candidates nationwide, Pengyao’s selection for the key category signifies that its technological innovation, industrialization capacity and strategic potential have gained authoritative, state-level recognition. The grant also positions the company to play a greater role in China’s strategy of “self-reliance and strength in science and technology.” The incoming support will inject fresh momentum into R&D and industrialization, accelerating Pengyao’s high-quality growth.

Mastering Critical Technology, Breaking Foreign Monopoly

With the rapid expansion of nuclear energy, nuclear medicine, integrated circuits and other strategic emerging industries—and against the backdrop of shifting global geopolitics—radiation-shielding materials that are controllable at home have become essential to national security and technological progress.

High-abundance boron isotopes, prized for their unmatched neutron-absorption performance, are globally scarce strategic materials protected by extremely high technical barriers. Leveraging the research strengths of Jilin University’s State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry and the team’s deep industrialization experience, Pengyao has created an innovative multi-step continuous separation technology for high-abundance boron isotopes and achieved domestic production of nuclear-grade boron isotope materials. This landmark accomplishment not only breaks a long-standing foreign blockade but also surpasses existing performance benchmarks through novel processes, placing “Made in China” at the global forefront of this critical material for the first time.

Looking Ahead: Powering National Strategy

Pengyao was previously named a “New-Quality Productivity Industrial Demonstration Base” by the China Productivity Society. The new key-category grant represents another major milestone.

Going forward, Pengyao will stay focused on nuclear-functional new materials, increase R&D investment, accelerate technology iteration and commercialization, and deepen collaborative innovation with central SOEs and research institutes. The goal is to build a globally competitive Chinese brand for high-end materials, foster an independent, controllable and sustainable industrial system, and contribute “Pengyao Power” to national energy security, defense security and scientific self-reliance.