From July 27 to July 31, the 14^th National Conference on X-ray Diffraction & New Materials and ICDD Workshop was held in Henan University.

On the morning of July 29, the Conference started at the International Conference Center of Zhongzhou International Hotel. The Conference invited Liquan Chen, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Jin Zhang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiaolong Chen, director of the Joint Committee on X-ray Diffraction, Thomas Blanton, chairman of the International Center for Diffraction Data (ICDD), Xuelu Wang, vice president of Henan University, and more than 200 experts and scholars from over 100 universities and research institutes in China. The opening ceremony was presided over by Libing Liao, deputy director of the Joint Committee on X-ray Diffraction.

Before the opening ceremony, a one-day workshop was opened to the public for free with an aim of publicize the basic theory and frontier application of X-ray diffraction. Nearly 200 young teachers and students participated in from this workshop.

The Conference lasted for 3 days. At the Conference, there were 20 conference invitation reports, 152 oral reports and nearly 40 poster presentations shown to the audience, which greatly promoted exchanges on the analysis of X-ray diffraction and new material and current situation of related disciplines.

The Conference was attended by more than 6,000 people onsite and more than 10,000 people joining in the branch of the Conference online. This conference further promoted the development of X-ray diffraction and new materials research as well as related disciplines.