my country's plastics processing industry has entered a new stage of development

After the rapid development of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", my country has become a major producer, consumer and exporter of plastic products in the world.

Since entering the "13th Five-Year Plan" in 2016, accelerating the transformation and upgrading of the plastics processing industry, improving the independent innovation capability of the plastics processing industry and the popularization of new materials, new technologies, new equipment and new products have become the top priorities of my country's plastics industry. .

2017 is an important period for my country's plastic processing industry to become strong. The plastics processing industry takes the promotion of supply-side structural reform as the main line, focuses on improving the quality and efficiency of the industry's development, adheres to innovation-driven, facilitates the transformation of kinetic energy, and achieves fruitful results.

2018 is the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. my country's plastics processing industry has entered a new stage of development that is more dependent on technological progress. The global innovation pattern and industrial transformation will further accelerate. The global manufacturing industry has entered a period of intelligent transformation, forcing the development of the plastics processing industry. The plastics processing industry presents the development trend of functionalization, lightweighting, ecologicalization and micro-molding.

How to interpret these achievements and prospects? Zhu Wenwei, acting chairman of China Plastics Processing Industry Association, accepted an exclusive interview with this newspaper.

Steady and steady progress

In 2017, the plastics processing industry focused on promoting the supply-side structural reform, focusing on improving the quality and efficiency of the industry's development, insisting on innovation-driven, assisting the transformation of kinetic energy, and achieved fruitful results.

Zhu Wenwei said that the national plastics processing industry has actively adjusted its structure and changed its mode, so as to achieve steady progress and steady progress, the structural adjustment has been significantly accelerated, and foreign trade has continued to improve. What aspects are these achievements embodied in? Zhu Wenwei introduced them one by one with detailed data - the simultaneous improvement of speed and benefits. In 2017, the national plastic products industry summary statistics enterprises completed a total output of 75.1554 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 3.44%, and the growth rate increased by 0.78 percentage points compared with the same period of the previous year; 15,350 enterprises above designated size completed a total of 2,280.836 billion yuan in main business income, a year-on-year increase. 6.74%, the growth rate increased by 0.63 percentage points over the same period of the previous year; the main business income accounted for 9.41% of the light industry industry, accounting for 1.96% of the national industry. The accumulated total profit was 135.468 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.81%, and the growth rate was 2.51 percentage points lower than that of the same period of the previous year; the total profit accounted for 8.52% of the light industry industry and 1.8% of the national industry.

The structure layout is more reasonable. In 2017, the output of plastic products in the ten eastern provinces and cities reached 41.8105 million tons (accounting for 55.63%), a year-on-year increase of 2.61%. The plastic products industry in the eastern region has grown steadily. Among them, the output of Shandong Province and Fujian Province has been greatly improved, with a year-on-year growth rate of 10.02% and 7.36% respectively. Although the growth rate of production in Guangdong Province is -1.22%, the main business income and total profit have been greatly improved, and it has entered the stage of winning by quality. The output of plastic products in the six central provinces was 18.0656 million tons (accounting for 24.04%), with a year-on-year growth rate of 5.05%. Among them, Jiangxi Province, Anhui Province, and Henan Province had higher output growth rates of 16.78%, 11.21%, and 7.18%. The output of plastic products in the twelve western provinces and regions was 13.3894 million tons (accounting for 17.81%), with a year-on-year growth rate of 8.44%. The growth rate of output in the central and western regions is higher than the national average level and is in a stage of rapid growth.

The market space continues to expand. In 2017, the foundation for my country's foreign trade to stabilize and improve, the development potential is gradually being released, and the import and export of my country's plastic products industry will continue to grow. The cumulative export value of the national plastic products industry was 62.729 billion US dollars, an increase of 8.62% year-on-year, accounting for 10.46% of the light industry export value; the import value was 18.576 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 7.22%, accounting for 11.42% of the light industry import value; total import and export value. It is worth 81.305 billion US dollars, and the trade surplus is 44.153 billion US dollars. Driven by favorable policies, advantageous companies have "going out" one after another, setting up factories abroad, especially in countries along the "Belt and Road", to expand into new markets, such as Kingfa Technology Co., Ltd., Guangdong Lesso Technology Co., Ltd. and other companies have come to India and other countries Set up a factory.

Enterprise integration is accelerated. With the in-depth advancement of environmental protection and the impact of rising raw material prices and labor costs, some small and micro enterprises that cannot occupy the market with product innovation and quality function improvement are once again faced with the dilemma of being "shuffled" out, while large and medium-sized enterprises In the dilemma, we have the courage to innovate, and the development momentum is good, showing the situation that the strong are getting stronger and the weak are getting weaker, and the industry transformation and enterprise integration are accelerating.

Resolve difficulties and achieve breakthroughs

In 2017, in the face of profound changes in the innovation and development of the global plastics industry, while the plastics processing industry has achieved extraordinary performance, it also encountered many major difficulties and severe challenges: sharp price increases of raw materials, strictest environmental protection rectification, ban on waste, etc. Zhu Wenwei said that colleagues in the plastics industry across the country rose to the challenge, actively forged ahead, further increased independent innovation, accelerated industrial upgrading and other measures to cope with the pressure of development, and achieved development and breakthroughs amid difficulties and challenges.

"The rise in costs makes enterprises pay more attention to technological progress and technological innovation." Zhu Wenwei said, "Due to the domestic environmental protection rectification and the promotion of supply-side reforms, a large number of low-end production capacity have been eliminated, and the supply of waste has been reduced due to the ban on the entry of foreign waste. In 2017, the price of plastic raw materials generally rose sharply, but the price of products did not rise accordingly, which brought severe challenges to the production of enterprises. Faced with this pressure, enterprises paid more attention to technological progress and technological innovation, and continuously improved their own technology. Development level: On the one hand, through technological progress, technological innovation and other means, actively develop new products, increase product added value, and improve profitability; on the other hand, strengthen technological transformation, improve automation level, improve production efficiency, reduce costs, and manage Innovation, reducing the company's internal operating costs and offsetting losses caused by raw material price fluctuations."

And environmental governance makes enterprises pay more attention to cleaner production. According to Zhu Wenwei, since 2017, with the rise of environmental protection to the national strategic level, the national supervision on air pollution control and environmental protection has continued to increase, and the central and local environmental protection supervision of enterprises has become more and more frequent. In order to survive and develop better, the plastic products industry is gradually standardized, the awareness of environmental protection is enhanced, focus on cleaner production, pay more attention to the greening of products, and accelerate the pace of product transformation and upgrading.

Overcapacity forces product transformation and upgrading. Zhu Wenwei said that the problem of overcapacity of low-end products is still serious. There are many similar general-purpose products on the market, and the middle and low-end products account for the vast majority, while relatively few high-tech and high-value-added products are available. The price war in the competition compresses the profit space, and causes the problem of low-quality and inferior products disrupting the market order. Enterprises in some industries are actively promoting automation transformation to improve the technological and quality level of products. For example, the modified plastics industry has changed from the pursuit of expanding production scale to seeking refinement and strength; it has shifted from making similar and general products to directional processing and personalized production. BOPET, BOPP, cast film and other industries are actively replacing imported products, expanding new product application fields, increasing the application of high-end products, and making differentiated products, personalized products and special products. The results are remarkable, and the industry has begun to recover.

Policies guide efforts to promote the development of related industries. "The state has promulgated new policies such as banning the entry of foreign waste and promoting the reform of the management system for the import of solid waste, and enterprises in the plastic recycling industry are gradually transforming into domestic waste plastic recycling and processing or setting up factories abroad. With the rapid development of the e-commerce industry, the logistics and express delivery industry has emerged. There is a large amount of 'white garbage', and the state requires express packaging bags to use biodegradable plastics, and a series of environmentally friendly materials that can be completely degraded under natural conditions, such as PHA bio-based degradable plastics, will usher in good development opportunities." Zhu Wen Wei said.

Adhere to innovation and green development

2018 is the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Zhu Wenwei told reporters that my country's plastics processing industry has entered a new stage of development that is more dependent on technological progress, the global innovation pattern and industrial transformation will be further accelerated, the global manufacturing industry has entered a period of intelligent transformation, which will force the development of the plastics processing industry, and the plastics processing industry will be functionalized. Lightweight, ecological and micro-molding trends. In 2018 and for a period of time in the future, the plastics processing industry should follow the "Guiding Opinions on the "Thirteenth Five-Year" Development Planning of the Plastics Processing Industry, "Guiding Opinions on the "Thirteenth Five-Year" Development of the Technological Progress of the Plastics Processing Industry" and "Made in China 2025". Develop multi-functional, high-performance materials and additives, and strive to achieve new breakthroughs in material functionalization, greening and environmental friendliness; speed up the development and application of green, energy-saving and efficient new processing and molding processes and technologies; speed up plastic molding equipment focus on high-end products, and accelerate the proportion of mid-to-high-end products.

It is understood that in order to lead the development of the industry and gather strength in the industry, the China Plastics Processing Industry Association launched a two-year China Plastics Processing Industry Science and Technology Innovation Year (2017-2018) activity. In 2018, we will focus on implementing the "Guiding Opinions on the "Thirteenth Five-Year" Development Plan for the Plastics Processing Industry" and the "Guiding Opinions on the "Thirteenth Five-Year" Development of Plastics Processing Industry Technological Progress" to promote the industry to improve quality, increase varieties, and create brands. , strengthen group standards work, continue to hold expert academicians and industry chain summit forums, and will hold activities such as the Plastics Processing Industry Science and Technology Conference and the 3rd China International Plastics Exhibition in Nanjing in October 2018 to explore innovations in technological systems and mechanisms, promote Supply-side structural reforms will speed up the industry's progress towards mid-to-high-end, and promote the stable development of the plastics industry.