The "2024 Symposium on Featured Metal Functional Materials and Devices" was successfully held in Lecture Hall 123, College of Resources, Environment and Materials, Guangxi University. More than 200 teachers and students attended the academic conference. The symposium lasted for two days, and the experts and scholars participating in the seminar focused on material innovation to support the national "double carbon" strategy, improve new quality productivity and serve the national new materials industry as the theme, and carried out heated discussions and exchanges around Guangxi characteristic metals and related functional materials and devices in the application fields of new energy, intelligent display, and green catalysis.