Baoji High-Tech Zone has prioritized the development of new material industries to optimize its industrial structure and drive economic transformation. It has now formed a high-tech industrial cluster dominated by titanium and titanium alloy new materials, becoming China’s largest titanium industry and new material base. Its titanium processing equipment, technical capabilities, and production capacity rank first nationwide.

Since last year, Baoji High-Tech Zone has seized opportunities from national and provincial industrial restructuring and upgrading initiatives. With the goal of "modernizing traditional industries through high-tech and clustering high-tech industries," it has focused on building regional specialty industrial clusters and product systems, strongly advancing breakthroughs in the titanium industry led by Baoji Titanium Group (BTG). After thorough research, the zone proposed a strategic vision to create a "Titanium Valley" by developing:

A vertical industrial chain spanning "sponge titanium → titanium ingots → titanium processed materials → titanium alloy materials → titanium composite materials → deep-processed titanium products."

A horizontal service chain covering "technology R&D, technology transfer, specialized incubation, titanium material trade, and other intermediary services."

This framework aims to establish "one industrial park with multiple sub-parks, one major industry with multiple sub-chains, and one large cluster with multiple smaller clusters." A total of 43 projects worth RMB 18.9 billion have been identified.

Baoji City has allocated dedicated land for titanium industry development, planning an industrial park for BTG with 16 projects totaling RMB 4 billion. Notable achievements include:

In June 2018, Taiwan’s Walsin Lihwa invested RMB 200 million to build a "special steel plate production project" in the zone. Upon full operation, it produces 60,000–100,000 tons of medium-thick plates annually, generating RMB 2.32 billion in revenue and RMB 250 million in taxes, making it China’s largest medium-thick plate production base.

In August 2018, the National Nuclear-Grade Zirconium Material R&D and Testing Center and nuclear-grade zirconium production line, with an investment of RMB 2.6 billion, broke ground. This project fills China’s gap in nuclear-grade zirconium production.

Currently, 22 key new material projects under construction in Baoji High-Tech Zone have completed investments of RMB 5.2 billion. The cluster hosts over 400 enterprises engaged in R&D, production, processing, trade, and logistics, including 50+ high-tech titanium companies. The zone’s annual titanium industry output and sales exceed RMB 12 billion.

Baoji High-Tech Zone has rapidly emerged as a global leader in rare metal processing (titanium, tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, niobium, zirconium, hafnium), responsible for over 90% of China’s high-end titanium product manufacturing.