Special issue on selected papers from HVDP 2018

This special issue contains the selected papers from the 2018 National Conference on High Voltage and Discharge Plasmas (HVDP 2018) in Nanjing, China, 12-14October, hosted by the Committee of Plasmas and Applications, China Electrotechnical Society. Over 650 participates from more than 150 universities, research institutes, and enterprises all over China attended the conference and delivered 458presentations, including 32 invited talks, 260 oral presentations and 196 posters.This well-established event provides a full scale assembly of contributions from areas of high voltage, pulsed power technology as well as basic theories and applications of discharge plasma.