The Conference will cover topics concerning the following issues:

a. Fundamentals of Steels:

-- Chemical Metallurgy  

-- Physical Metallurgy

b. Ironmaking and Related Technologies:

-- Mineral Processing

-- Iron Ore Agglomeration

-- Coking

-- Blast Furnace Ironmaking

-- Direct Reduction and Smelting Reduction

c. Hydrogen Metallurgy Technologies

d. Steelmaking and Continuous Casting:

-- Hot Metal Pretreatment

-- BOF Steelmaking

-- Electric Arc Steelmaking

-- Secondary Refining

-- Casting

-- Slab Quality

-- Inclusion Control

e. Rolling and Heat Treatment:

-- Billet Treatment

-- Hot Rolling

-- Cold Rolling

-- Finishing Process

-- Thermomechanical Treatment, etc.

f. Near Net-Shape Production

g. Steel Products and Application:

-- Special Steels

-- Structural Steels for Automobiles, Building, Shipbuilding, Energy, Engineering Machinery 

    and Others

h. Digitization and Intelligence of Process:

-- Big Data Analysis and Modeling of Metallurgical Process

-- Quantitative Relationship Model of Composition-Process-Microstructure-Performance for 

    Steel Products

-- Digital Twin and Process Optimization of Steel Manufacturing Process Based on Mechanism 

    Models and Big Data 

 -- AI and Smart Plant

i. Resources and Environment:

-- Resource Conversion

-- CO₂ Capture and Utilization

-- By-product Utilization

-- Environmental Protection Strategy

j. Analysis and Characterization:

-- Online Monitoring

-- Automatic Detection

-- High Throughput Analysis and Characterization