Capacity expansion and investment rebound are often interpreted as signals of market recovery. The Chinese chemical fiber industry, which is in this state of development, tends to use a more calm and rational attitude, looking back and looking forward.

Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", under the promotion of structural reforms on the supply side, the chemical fiber industry has accelerated the elimination of backwardness and mergers and acquisitions. With the increase in total volume, industrial concentration has further improved, and the voice of leading enterprises has further improved; The output increased steadily. The substantial increase in efficiency has undoubtedly stimulated a rebound in investment. Data show that in 2017, the fixed assets investment in the chemical fiber industry increased by 19.2% year-on-year, which was a significant rebound from 2016, which reversed the downward trend since 2011. In particular, the investment growth rate of the polyester industry and man-made fiber industry was as high as 54.49% and 27.79%. It’s amazing.

"At this stage, we need to clear our minds and go forward. It is easy to wrestle. We used to say that we can become stronger when we grow bigger. Now we realize that we can become bigger when we are strong, and we must have high level and high quality at the starting point. For the first productive forces, we will do a good job around technology, fashion, and green, and advocate a stock premium to build a credit system.” Vice President of China National Textile and Apparel Council, Chairman of China Chemical Industry (601117) Fiber Industry Association Duan Xiaoping, in a new background Under the circumstance, the textile industry has been given a new label of “innovation-driven technology industry, culture-led fashion industry, and responsible-oriented green industry”.

Indeed, as an important part of the textile industry, China's chemical fiber industry has already possessed a strong foundation and comprehensive strength, and has a comparative advantage in international competition. However, compared with the world's chemical fiber technology, China's chemical fiber industry has many problems in the key areas of core technology, such as people, technological innovation capability, high-end technology content, and industry development. Therefore, it is a problem facing the chemical fiber industry to continuously enhance the industrial innovation capability, optimize the industrial structure, promote intelligent manufacturing and green manufacturing, form new kinetic energy, and create new competitive advantages such as differentiation and high added value.

Building a green manufacturing industry system

In this process, green, intelligent, and fusion become the key words.

Ouyang Yuming, Department of Energy Conservation and Comprehensive Utilization of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, believes that with the rapid and large-scale advancement of China's industrialization, the resource and environmental carrying capacity has reached or approached the upper limit. Due to different resource endowments, technical management levels and development stages, the level of green development among enterprises in different industries is uneven, and inefficient production capacity also accounts for a considerable proportion.

“In the case of energy efficiency, we recently released the 2017 energy efficiency leader in key energy-using industries. The data shows that energy-efficient enterprises have 40% more energy consumption than leading-edge companies, and individual companies even exceed 100%.” Ouyang Yan Ming said frankly that the long-established extensive growth mode dominated by speed and scale has been difficult to sustain. It is necessary to speed up the construction of an industrial system of green recycling and low carbon development, and form a spatial pattern, industrial structure and production that conserves resources and protects the environment. Way, lifestyle.

In order to promote the industrial green transformation, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has successively formulated the “13th Five-Year Plan for Industrial Green Development” and the “Guidelines for the Implementation of Green Manufacturing Projects”, which clearly put forward the overall ideas, key tasks and guarantees for comprehensively promoting green manufacturing and accelerating industrial green development. Measures. Since 2016, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has supported 225 key projects with green manufacturing, recommended 454 industrial green credit projects to CDB and other financial institutions, and released 720 green manufacturing demonstration lists, supporting 286 industrial energy conservation and green development standards. Accelerate the revision and formulation, and organized the national major industrial special energy conservation supervision. In the past two years, it has implemented energy conservation supervision for nearly 10,000 key enterprises in key high-energy-consuming industries such as steel, electrolytic aluminum, cement, flat glass, and synthetic ammonia. From 2013 to 2017, the energy consumption of industrial added value of units above designated size fell by 27.5%, and green development achieved positive progress.

In the next step, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will increase its efforts in accordance with the law. In 2018, it will achieve full coverage of high-energy-consuming industries such as papermaking, petrochemicals and ferroalloys; implement green manufacturing projects in depth, promote industry-university-research, strengthen collaboration between upstream and downstream, and promote green key common technology innovation. And industrial application; focus on implementing industrial energy conservation and green standardization action plan, and basically establish industrial energy conservation and green standard system by 2020.

The intensive policy introduction has promoted the green process of the chemical fiber industry, and green fiber and green manufacturing technology have become hot spots in the industry.

Technological innovation in the whole industry chain

“The fiber industry is currently welcoming the 'new horizons', which includes new horizons, new worlds and new realms. In the process of meeting new challenges, technology is still ranked first.” Duan Xiaoping pointed out that “the biggest problem in the high-tech field It is everyone who wants to sink their hearts, and innovation without a theoretical foundation is impossible to make a product. The cold bench often takes 10 years, and the theoretical foundation bench may take longer."

According to industry planning, the focus of science and technology development in China's chemical fiber industry includes ten key tasks: strengthening basic theoretical research, overcoming key key common technologies in the industry, promoting the integration of general fiber intelligence, improving the quality of high-performance fibers, expanding the application of bio-based chemical fibers, and strengthening the cycle. Recycling fiber independent innovation and comprehensive utilization, development of green manufacturing technology, improve the application level of information technology, improve the standard system and clean production evaluation system, and build a team of professional talents.