The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility supports about 30,000 experimental projects, helping scientific research and industrial innovation

The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility is the first mediumenergy thirdgeneration synchrotron radiation source on the Chinese mainland. Since opening to users in 2009, it has developed into one of the country’s major largescale scientific facilities. By the end of 2025, it had supported users in completing about 30,000 experimental projects and published about 17,000 papers, covering many fields such as biomedicine, new materials, and semiconductors. The article says that the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility is used not only for basic scientific research, but also extensively serves cultural relic conservation and industrial R&D. For example, through nondestructive testing, it can help study the internal structures of painted artifacts from the Forbidden City, ancient ceramics, and ancient glass, while also providing highresolution structural data for innovative drug development, shortening the experimental and R&D cycle. The report also noted that, as demand from enterprise users has increased, the facility’s open operating hours have continued to grow, showing the important role of large scientific facilities in supporting frontier research and promoting new quality productive forces.