Aiming at the international frontiers of plastic forming fields, under the supports of over 50 important projects such as NSFC, 973, 863 and other National Key Projects, the laboratory focuses on four research topics, viz., local-loading based unequal deformation controlling and integrated precision forming for shape and performance, digitalized precision plastic forming controlling based on through-process, multi-scale modeling & simulation and optimization, force-save near-net-shape plastic forming technology for large-scale, complex and integral components of hard-to-form Aiming at the international frontiers of plastic forming fields, under the supports of over 50 important projects such as NSFC, 973, 863 and other National Key Projects, the laboratory focuses on four research topics, viz., Local-loading based unequal deformation controlling and integrated precision forming for shape and performance, digitalized precision plastic forming controlling based on through-process, multi-scale modeling & simulation and optimization, force-save near-net-shape plastic forming technology for large-scale, complex and integral components of hard -to-form