China Zhongwang’s Technical Research and Industrial Engineering of Hard Aluminium Alloy Profiles with Large and Complex Cross-sections Project was officially listed as part of the Advanced Aluminium Processing Technologies Programme that was formally launched by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China in January 2009.  The Advanced Aluminium Processing Technologies Programme, which included 42 other listed projects besides the one from China Zhongwang, would be overseen by China Nonferrous Metals industry Association and be part of the National Science and Technology Support Programme for the Eleventh Five-Year Plan Period.