In the midsummer, the south of the Yangtze River is covered with green and verdant trees, and the pavilions are covered with red. From June 24 to 26, the 2025 China Coatings Industry Future Technology Development Conference was grandly held in Suzhou, a famous city in the south of the Yangtze River. Nearly 300 representatives from national ministries and commissions, as well as well-known universities, research institutes and coatings upstream and downstream companies such as Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Jiangnan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Beijing University of Science and Technology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Institute of Marine Chemical Research, gathered together to draw a new coating landscape for the future technology development of China's coatings industry.