Abstract: The Second National Symposium on Explosion and Impact Dynamics for Young Scholars was briefly introduced and all of the scientific reports presented at this symposium were reviewed. The scientific reports include three invited talks, 14 thematic invitations and 24 topic invitations, which were divided into five research topics, i.e. Detonation and Explosion Dynamics, Structural Dynamics and Multi-scale High Performance Computing, Material Dynamics and Experimental Testing Techniques, Dynamic Mechanical Behavior of Composite Structures, and Energy Absorption Characteristics and Optimization Design of Lightweight Structures.