A symposium on “Research and Application of New Thermoelectric Materials”, which was sponsored by Shanghai Ceramic Society, was held in Shanghai on Dec. 24th, 2010. More than 50 participants coming from famous research institutes, universities and enterprises attended this symposium. This symposium has got support from Chinese Materials Research Society and Shanghai Association for Science and Technology. Three young researchers from Zhejiang University, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics Chinese Academy of Sciences and Wuhan University of Technology performed their fantastic reports with novel informative content and then communication discussion between the researchers and the participants was carried out.