Recently, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance issued the "Notice of Optimizing and Adjusting the List of National Science and Technology Resource Sharing Service Platforms ([2019] No. 194)", and the "National Materials Corrosion and Protection Data Center" undertaken by the USTB Officially became one of the 20 National Science Data Centers.

In order to implement the requirements of the "Scientific Data Management Measures" and "National Science and Technology Resource Sharing Service Platforms Management Measures", to standardize the management of the National Science and Technology Resource Sharing Service Platforms (abbreviated as National Platform), to improve the science and technology resource sharing service system, and to promote the open sharing of science and technology resources to the society, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance carried out the optimization and adjustment of the original National Platform, and formed a total of 20 National Science Data Centers such as the "National Materials Corrosion and Protection Data Center" and 30 national National Biological Germplasm and Experimental Material Resource Banks such as "National Wild Plant Germplasm Resource Center".

China's materials natural environment corrosion test and data accumulation began in the late 1950s. During these 60 years, Corrosion website work experienced Corrosion Discipline Group of the National Science and Technology Commission, Cultural Revolution interruption, restoration construction, National Nature Foundation National Corrosion website construction, Ministry of Science and Technology basic condition platform construction, and Ministry of Science and Technology National Science and Technology Resource Sharing Service Platforms stages. A number of well-known scholars including Academician Shi Changxu and Academician Hou Xianglin have given long-term strong support to the corrosion website works. Corrosion & Protection Center from University of Science and Technology Beijing, as the lead construction unit, played an important role during the website construction. Under extremely difficult conditions, Professor Wang Guangyong has led the development of corrosion sites for more than two decades and formed a system. For the last two decades, under the leadership of Professor Li Xiaogang, the Corrosion Website has become a standardized network of material environmental corrosion field test stations and evaluation technology system in the new era in China, built a large database and a national shared service platform, which has laid a solid foundation for the development of new equipments and new materials. It has solved several material corrosion problems of major projects in country. During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" and "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" periods, in accordance with the construction policy of "integration, sharing, service, and innovation", the resources of the platform were opened and shared, and scientific and technological support services were continuously provided to all sectors of society, and outstanding results were achieved.

After this optimization adjustment, in the new era, the National Materials Corrosion and Protection Data Center, supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the University of Science and Technology Beijing, is jointly constructed and operated by the civilian population department and the national defense department. The data center focuses on national major engineering construction and strategic new industrial development, as well as major national scientific and technological and economic development needs such as the "Belt and Road", "2025 Advanced Manufacturing", "Marine Strategy", "Manned Spaceflight", "Internet plus". Constructed a long-term national material environmental corrosion and protection data production and accumulation platform system consisting of more than 30 national field test stations and distributed corrosion big data observation test sites; established a new system of environmental corrosion test and evaluation technology consisting of 47 industry group standards and 28 specifications, invented a series of indoor corrosion accelerated test spectrum technology and new equipment based on indoor and outdoor correlations; continued development of ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals, building materials, coating materials and polymer materials, etc. 5 categories, more than 600 kinds of materials, field test data and continuous observation data for up to 35 years. China's largest and most abundant material corrosion database and data sharing platform-"China Corrosion and Protection Network"（www.ecorr.org) was established. This platform is the most important professional data public welfare sharing portal in the field of corrosion and protection, with annual visits exceeding 500,000, and providing testing and data services to thousands of units each year. The objects of sharing include steel, machinery, aviation, aerospace, weapons, ships, petroleum, petrochemicals, water conservancy, electricity, electronics, finance, railways and transportation, and many other materials-related industries, as well as scientific research institutes, colleges, universities, government, defense, etc. It has published the first monograph on "material corrosion informatics" at home and abroad, and published a critical research paper in Nature with the theme of "share corrosion data", and proposed the concept of "Big Data on Corrosion" and its theoretical framework and technical model.

After years of operation services, the National Materials Corrosion and Protection Data Center has established a comprehensive operation service mechanism, stabilizing a dedicated platform operation service team with 23 full-time staffs who have long been engaged in the integration and sharing of data resources and more than 400 materials environmental corrosion data accumulation technicians. In recent years, the platform has undertaken almost all field tests and data acquisition tasks related to materials and equipment related to natural environment corrosion research. The platform continues to provide data support for major national projects such as "large aircraft", "manned spaceflight and lunar exploration project" and more than 100 scientific research projects such as "973" and natural science funds. Through long-term systematic material and soil environmental corrosion tests and data accumulation, it provides important support for the construction and operation and maintenance of major national projects such as the Three Gorges Project, the West-East Gas Transmission Project, and the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. Atmospheric environmental corrosion data has made significant contributions in the selection of key materials and life evaluation of "big aircraft", "Tiangong No. 1 and No. 2", "high-speed railway", "National Grid" and weapons. Materials Marine environment corrosion data and protection technology have been directly applied in major equipment such as "submarine", " aircraft carrier Liaoning ", "carrier-based aircraft" and more than 30 large offshore oil platforms and "201 pipe laying ships". The above engineering applications have produced significant economic and social benefits. Relevant research results won the second award of national science and technology progress in 2009 and 2016 respectively. The field test research and data accumulation carried out by the platform have had an important impact internationally, and have made important contributions to the construction of major overseas projects including the China-Malaysia Friendship Bridge. In 2015, the platform won the Outstanding Institution Award from the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), which is the highest international award in recognition of the world's corrosion research team.

　　Notice link from Ministry of science and technology:

　　https://www.most.gov.cn/mostinfo/xinxifenlei/fgzc/gfxwj/gfxwj2019/201906/t20190610_147031.htm