This laboratory has in recent years undertaken more than 60 research projects that were sponsored by State Key Foundation for the Ninth Five-Year Plan Period, the State Foundation for Outstanding Youth Scientists, China National Science Foundation, etc., and the relevant funding for all these projects totals ca. RMB￥12,330,000. Nearly 150 papers were published in famous international journals like Science as well as in domestic core journals. Moreover, 5 monographs were published and 5 state invention patents were awarded, one project was awarded gold prize, two projects were awarded silver prizes, and one project was awarded copper prize, all at the provincial or ministerial level for their scientific achievements. This laboratory currently has one foreign academician with Russian Academy of Sciences, five Ph.D. advisors, one national outstanding youth scientist, and one laureate sponsored by the CAS Program for 100 Outstanding Scientists.

This laboratory enjoys profound international influence in the field of mineralogical research, and maintains close cooperation and exchange relationships with foreign laboratories that are positioned in the forefront in terms of academic excellence in the international academic community. Recently, cooperative research and academic exchange have been successfully conducted between this laboratory and academic institutions in Germany, USA, France, Australia, Japan, etc.

For this laboratory, the major tasks consist of fundamental study on minerals and their physical properties, research and development of key technologies and materials as well as cultivation of high profile talents. Basically, research conducted at this laboratory is based on mineral resources, and is focused on preparation of new mineral materials, R & D of minerals and related materials that enjoy market potentials as well as the industrialization of research achievements, so as to render its services to the national economic construction. Meanwhile, it is planned that GD Key Laboratory of Mineral Physics and Material Research and Development is to be built as an international first level base for mineral physics research and related materials development.

The research orientations for this laboratory include:

1. Basic and theoretical research on minerals and their physical properties, which covers mineral physics, mineral spectroscopy, basic study on microscopic structures, compositions of minerals and new materials, surface chemistry and surface physics of mineral materials, etc.
2. R&D and application of mineral materials, which covers: (1) study on key technologies for development and application of mineral materials such as preparation, processing and application of superfine powder materials, and surface activation, surface modification and interlayer domain injection technologies, etc.; (2) technologies for synthesis of new mineral materials; (3) R&D of functional materials such as functional mineral fillers, environmental engineering materials, catalyzing materials, new and special coating and doping materials as well as high-tech ceramics based on new mineral materials.