The "Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility" is a Major National Science and Technology Infrastructure Facility. It is the first international user experimental facility that integrates extreme conditions including ultra-high pressure, ‌extremely low temperature, intense magnetic fields, and ultrafast optical fields, which can provide synergetic extreme experimental conditions for ‌research into and discoveries of new states of matter, novel phenomena, fundamental laws, as well as the creation of new materials‌.

High-pressure science is one of the advanced and distinct characteristics at Jilin University. As early as 1963, Professor Gou Qingquan, who was the pioneer in high-pressure physics and synthesis research in China, and also one of the founders of physics discipline at Jilin University, initiated the high-pressure science research to address major national demands. In 1989, the National Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials was established in Jilin University with reliance on the Solid State Physics Teaching & Research Division under the leadership of Guangtian Zou―the academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Over six decades of carrying forward the legacy and passing the torch across generations, under the dedicated efforts of numerous pioneering scientists in high-pressure research, a series of international leading representative achievements were obtained in the national key laboratory.

In 2017, the Major National Science and Technology Infrastructure Facility "Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility: High-Temperature and High-Pressure Large-Volume Materials Research System", officially commenced construction at Jilin University, with an investment scale of 192.52 million yuan and an additional floor area of 6,000 square meters. The facility comprises three major experimental subsystems at Jilin University: the Solid Environment High-Temperature and High-Pressure station, the Liquid Environment High-Temperature and High-Pressure station, and the Non-equilibrium High-Pressure station, all of which are supported by a High-Pressure Auxiliary User Laboratory. In addition, a Multi-physical Collaborative Measurement subsystem is synchronously built in Beijing. Solid Environment High-Temperature and High-Pressure station can achieve extreme conditions of ‌0~28 GPa‌ and ‌300~2500 K‌ for millimeter-to-centimeter scale samples, and the station also enables the in situ measurements of transport properties such as electrical and acoustic characteristics. At the Liquid Environment High-Temperature and High-Pressure station, the extreme conditions of 500 MPa and 800 K‌ can be generated in the 100-milliliter reaction chamber and as high as 1.8 GPa and 1000 K‌ conditions can be achieved in ‌the microliter-scale chamber‌, and the in situ spectroscopy measurement systems including Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy are also involved.The Non-equilibrium High-Pressure station is a large-volume high-pressure device capable of achieving spatial and temporal non-equilibrium conditions. It can realize spatial stress loading of 8 GPa in the millimeter-scale cavity and extreme conditions of 10 GPa and 1500 K within an ultra-short timeframe of 20 ms‌. On ‌September 25, 2023, after the on-site testing by experts, the equipment which had completed installation and debugging met or exceeded the acceptance technical indicators, and the facility entered the stage of full-scale open trial operation. On ‌February 26, 2025‌, the facility ‌passed the national acceptance and began to operate officially‌. The "Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility" can not only support the preparation of national strategic materials and the research and development of core technologies, but also promote the cross and integration among different disciplines such as physics, chemistry, materials science, earth science, life science, and planetary science‌. Additionally, it plays a critical role in ‌cultivating high-level scientific talent‌ and ‌enhancing China's original innovation capabilities‌.

In 2020, the Synergetic Extreme Conditions High-Pressure Science Center‌ was established at Jilin University based on the ongoing large-scale facility project, which was then incorporated into the management of the University's talent and academic special zone. The center has an independent graduate student recruitment unit code (‌306‌). Jilin University adopts more flexible management for the center's position setting, staffing, professional title evaluation, assessment and salary distribution. The center has gathered a group of national-level talents and excellent engineering teams in fields such as high-pressure physics, chemistry, geology, materials, and mechanics. During the construction and trial operation periods, it has achieved several high-level scientific and technological innovation results and technical breakthroughs. The large cavity high-pressure device independently developed by the center has broken through the pressure generation limit of commercial large cavity press machines and possesses a batch of key technologies with independent core intellectual property rights. For the first time in the world, it has prepared super-hard amorphous carbon blocks and super diamonds in meteorites, "hexagonal diamonds" in meteorites, and made breakthroughs in research in fiber-reinforced tungsten-based composite materials and high-pressure-induced luminescent materials. It has achieved numerous "breakthroughs in the field of materials" and promoted "scientific research to advance towards extreme conditions and continuously break through the boundaries of human cognition". At the same time, it provides key basic materials for national major demand areas such as high-end manufacturing, precision processing, and nuclear fusion experimental reactors. These research results have been published in numerous international authoritative journals such as "Nature", " Angewandte Chemie International Edition", "Advanced Materials", "Engineering", and a series of national invention patents have also been obtained.