Abstract:Trying to find new materials, to improve the performance of anything from microchips to car bodies, has always been a process of trial and error. Materials genetic engineering technology is revolutionary innovation for materials science and engineering research methods. To accelerate the pace of materials development and application, chip manufacturing, high-performance computing, synchrotron radiation and other multi-disciplinary cutting-edge technologies were introduced into materials research. So that, the processes could be completed in a very short time, instead of several years through traditional methods. In this context, the U.S. government first launched “Materials Genome Initiative” to accelerate the development and application of new materials, and maintain global competitiveness in 2011. Almost at the same time, EU started “Accelerated Metallurgy” project with the aim to faster discover alloy formulations using combinatorial principles. In this paper, the two national policies were compared, and implications to China’s related work were put forward.