China's petrochemical industry is in a critical period from big to strong

China's petrochemical industry is in a critical period from big to strong

Cai Ronghua, Director of the Petrochemicals Department of the Department of Industrial Coordination of the National Development and Reform Commission, disclosed at the "2009 Industrial Development Analysis Conference" that the revised "Petrochemical Industry Adjustment and Revitalization Plan" will be officially issued in the near future.
The planning for the adjustment and revitalization of the petrochemical industry was deliberated and adopted in principle at the State Council's executive meeting on February 19, but its specific content has always been "Let's see the stairs ringing and no one is down." Regarding the relevant content of the "Petrochemical Industry Adjustment and Revitalization Plan," Cai Ronghua, Director of the Petrochemicals Division of the Industrial Coordination Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, disclosed at the 2009 Industrial Development Analysis Conference held on March 22 After the "Petrochemical Industry Adjustment and Revitalization Plan" will be officially issued in the near future. The petrochemical industry strives to achieve stable operations in 2009. In the next three years, the petrochemical industry will become more rational.
The coal chemical industry enthusiasm needs to be answered. In response to a question concerning the “whether or not the coal chemical industry policy will change”, Cai Ronghua said, “The next three years will focus on the existing coal chemical demonstration projects and will no longer be a large-scale development. After the completion of the coal chemical and demonstration projects, the development of the next coal chemical industry will be considered and an appropriate control may be required."
The current demonstration projects of coal chemical industrialization in China include Shenhua Baotou’s 600,000 tons of coal-based olefins, Zhongtian Hechuang 3 million tons of coal-made dimethyl ether, Xinjiang Guanghui 1 million tons of coal-made dimethyl ether, China Coal Heilongjiang 600,000 Tons of coal to olefins, Datang Keqi 4 billion square meters of coal to natural gas, Datang Fuxin 4 billion square meters of coal to natural gas, and Ordos Hui to 1.6 billion square meters of coal to natural gas.
At present, in some areas, regardless of water resources, ecological and environmental carrying capacity, one-sided emphasis on the proportion of coal resources, coal chemical projects come alive. In a speech titled “The Idea of ​​Restructuring and Revitalizing the Petrochemical Industry”, Cai Ronghua mentioned that “the coal chemical industry is in urgent need of guidance. We must steadily carry out the demonstration of coal chemical industry, persist in controlling the total production capacity, eliminate backward technologies, protect the ecological environment, and develop a cycle. Economic, energy-saving, and full-cycle energy efficiency evaluation policy, and resolutely curb the blind development momentum of coal chemical industry, focusing on existing coal-to-oil, coal-to-olefin, coal-to-dimethyl ether, coal-methane gas, coal-to-ethylene glycol And other demonstration projects."
The scale of coal chemical projects is large, the investment is also huge, and it also has great impact on coal and water resources. If it is blindly built, it will bring great hidden dangers to the security development of the industry, and it will also have a negative impact on local economic and social development. Some large coal chemical projects use 45,000 tons of water a year, which is equivalent to half the flow of a small river. Cai Ronghua further stated that “we have proposed to do a good job in coal chemical projects in the past few years and we will make reasonable planning and reasonable construction in light of local coal and water resources.”
China's petrochemical product consumption is still growing. Since 2000, the petrochemical industry's industrial added value has grown at an average annual rate of about 20%, and the main product output ranks among the top in the world. In 2008, China’s petrochemical industry owned 29,700 enterprises with an output value of 5.5 trillion yuan. It paid only a refined oil consumption tax of 250 billion yuan annually; the industrial added value was about 1.25 trillion yuan, accounting for about 4% of the country’s GDP; and the completed investment was about 6600 yuan. Billion yuan, accounting for 3.8% of the country; among the total industry, the Yangtze River Delta, Bohai Rim, and the Pearl River Delta account for about two-thirds of the total; oil refining, ethylene, fertilizers, and high-end products account for 80%. 50% of product supply and demand balance, 30% of products are in short supply, and 20% of products are oversupply.
For the future industry situation, Cai Ronghua analyzed that “China's petrochemical product consumption is still in a period of growth. The rigid demand for oil products, fertilizers, and pesticides persists for a long time. The potential of high-end petrochemical products has a huge market. The petrochemical industry is in the process of changing from big to strong. In the period, the comprehensive advantages of industrial revitalization still existed, and the trend of industrial development remained unchanged.Therefore, the petrochemical industry should seize the favorable factors such as the current market supply and demand mitigation, construction costs and other favorable factors, use the market to force mechanism, speed up the structural adjustment, industrial upgrading , further bigger and stronger."
The reporter learned that the future will focus on eliminating 1 million tons or less of inefficient, low-quality, backward oil refining equipment. Listed on the list of eliminated products are chemical fertilizers with backward technologies and irrational use of resources, and a number of highly toxic and high-risk pesticides. The backward production capacity of calcium carbide, methanol and other products also includes one of them.
Cai Ronghua emphasized that "In the future, we will strictly control the construction of projects with overcapacity products. The relevant government departments are paying close attention to the development (repair) of relevant industrial policies, standards, and catalogs, and using comprehensive measures to accelerate the elimination of backward production capacity."
Cai Ronghua revealed that he is working hard to establish a national fertilizer reserve. Improve the central and local two-level chemical fertilizer off-season commercial reserve system, support the backbone enterprises of fertilizer production to reserve ammonium phosphate and urea, and improve the dynamic adjustment mechanism of comprehensive subsidies for agricultural resources. He said: "Because of the asymmetric production and consumption of chemical fertilizers, the annual fertilization season for fertilization varies greatly from south to north. The South probably started spring plowing at the end of the Spring Festival, but the North will go to April or May, even to The end of May. Fertilizer is a seasonal demand product and must have a relatively complete reserve system."
The contents of commercial reserves of refined oil were included in the forthcoming “Planning and Revitalization of Petrochemical Industry”. Cai Ronghua said that the commercial reserve of refined oil will refer to the practice of crude oil commercial reserve, and the methods and systems for the commercial reserve of refined oil will be studied and formulated as soon as possible. At present, China's reserve of refined oil is mainly used for military use and disaster relief. “From the perspective of adjusting the market, we need to further expand the reserves of refined oil products. It is difficult to control the market without having one month's consumption reserve.” The plan also involves accelerating the construction of reserve facilities and raising the national reserves of refined oil products. Collect and store key corporate oil products.