![A worker shows stainless steel 0.02 millimeters thick at a company in Taiyuan City, the capital of North China’s Shanxi Province, Aug. 8, 2018. The company started mass production of the advanced 0.02-millimeter-thick, 600-millimeter-wide stainless steel, which is said to have wide applications in a range of fields, including aerospace, automotive, electronics and computers. Sources said due to difficult production techniques, China used to import the product from Japan and Germany. (Photo: China News Service/Wei Liang)](http://www.ecns.cn/hd/2018/08/10/b39af5f1ca324a0a88a83018f3367dd0.jpg)
A worker shows stainless steel 0.02 millimeters thick at a company in Taiyuan City, the capital of North China’s Shanxi Province, Aug. 8, 2018. The company started mass production of the advanced 0.02-millimeter-thick, 600-millimeter-wide stainless steel, which is said to have wide applications in a range of fields, including aerospace, automotive, electronics and computers. Sources said due to difficult production techniques, China used to import the product from Japan and Germany. (Photo: China News Service/Wei Liang)
![A worker shows stainless steel 0.02 millimeters thick at a company in Taiyuan City, the capital of North China’s Shanxi Province, Aug. 8, 2018. The company started mass production of the advanced 0.02-millimeter-thick, 600-millimeter-wide stainless steel, which is said to have wide applications in a range of fields, including aerospace, automotive, electronics and computers. Sources said due to difficult production techniques, China used to import the product from Japan and Germany. (Photo: China News Service/Wei Liang)](http://www.ecns.cn/hd/2018/08/10/02941dc1967c4d06b0ab32fd029bc4b0.jpg)
A worker shows stainless steel 0.02 millimeters thick at a company in Taiyuan City, the capital of North China’s Shanxi Province, Aug. 8, 2018. The company started mass production of the advanced 0.02-millimeter-thick, 600-millimeter-wide stainless steel, which is said to have wide applications in a range of fields, including aerospace, automotive, electronics and computers. Sources said due to difficult production techniques, China used to import the product from Japan and Germany. (Photo: China News Service/Wei Liang)
![The production line of 0.022-millimeter-thick stainless steel at in a company in Taiyuan City, the capital of North China’s Shanxi Province, Aug. 8, 2018. The company started mass production of the advanced 0.02-millimeter-thick, 600-millimeter-wide stainless steel, which is said to have wide applications in a range of fields, including aerospace, automotive, electronics and computers. Sources said due to difficult production techniques, China used to import the product from Japan and Germany. (Photo: China News Service/Wei Liang)](http://www.ecns.cn/hd/2018/08/10/f252096bd6054563b3186f25b6438164.jpg)
The production line of 0.022-millimeter-thick stainless steel at in a company in Taiyuan City, the capital of North China’s Shanxi Province, Aug. 8, 2018. The company started mass production of the advanced 0.02-millimeter-thick, 600-millimeter-wide stainless steel, which is said to have wide applications in a range of fields, including aerospace, automotive, electronics and computers. Sources said due to difficult production techniques, China used to import the product from Japan and Germany. (Photo: China News Service/Wei Liang)
![The production line of 0.022-millimeter-thick stainless steel at in a company in Taiyuan City, the capital of North China’s Shanxi Province, Aug. 8, 2018. The company started mass production of the advanced 0.02-millimeter-thick, 600-millimeter-wide stainless steel, which is said to have wide applications in a range of fields, including aerospace, automotive, electronics and computers. Sources said due to difficult production techniques, China used to import the product from Japan and Germany. (Photo: China News Service/Wei Liang)](http://www.ecns.cn/hd/2018/08/10/96b98cd7f2764bceabf0917e168a386f.jpg)
The production line of 0.022-millimeter-thick stainless steel at in a company in Taiyuan City, the capital of North China’s Shanxi Province, Aug. 8, 2018. The company started mass production of the advanced 0.02-millimeter-thick, 600-millimeter-wide stainless steel, which is said to have wide applications in a range of fields, including aerospace, automotive, electronics and computers. Sources said due to difficult production techniques, China used to import the product from Japan and Germany. (Photo: China News Service/Wei Liang)