Eleventh Five-Year Plan for China's Plastics Industry to Make New Progress

During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, the plastics industry continued to maintain a strong growth momentum, the industry scale continued to expand, new products, new technologies, and new materials continued to be introduced. After the financial crisis, export growth gradually recovered, showing a strong growth momentum. Gradually draw closer to the developed countries. The strength of the entire industry continues to increase, and leap-forward development has been achieved. It is now moving from a big country to a powerful country, and from "Made in China" to "Created in China."

The rapid growth of production, consumption, and import and export of plastic products is China's sunrise industry. It is the largest new industry in light industry, and its development momentum is very gratifying. China's plastic products industry has achieved remarkable performance during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period. China has become a truly big country in the world of plastics production, consumption, import and export.

The data show that at present, China’s plastic consumption exceeds 60 million tons, accounting for a quarter of the world’s total plastic consumption of 238 million tons, surpassing the US’s ranking first in the world. The per capita consumption of 46kg exceeds the average level of 40kg in the world and becomes a truly world-renowned plastic producer, consumer, importer and exporter. It is estimated that in 2010, the total output value of the plastic products industry will exceed 1.25 trillion yuan, ranking first in the light industry.

According to Ma Zhanfeng, secretary general of the China Plastics Processing Industry Association, the plastics industry has maintained a growth rate faster than that of the national economy. In the latter part of the financial crisis, demand squeezes have been released and production and sales have performed well. From January to October 2010, the cumulative output of China's plastic products was 45.471 million tons, an increase of 20.5% year-on-year, more than last year's total output, far higher than the approximately 10% increase in 2008 and 2009.

According to Luo Baihui, a researcher at the China International Economic Development and Research Center and a director of the International Mould and Plastics Suppliers Association, from 2006 to 2009, the average growth rate of plastic products in enterprises above designated size was 16.9%. Among them, plastic pipe fittings, plastic woven products and plastic packaging containers are the fastest-growing three major varieties of plastic products, with an average annual growth rate of 26.29%, 24.51% and 22.66% respectively.

On the import and export side, according to the latest data released by the General Administration of Customs, China's exports of plastic products in 2010 increased by 13.2% year-on-year to 7,426,674 tons, and imports of primary-shaped plastics increased by 0.4% year-on-year to 23.91 million tons.

In December 2010, China exported 663,321 tons of plastic products. From January to December, the cumulative volume of exports was 7,426,674 tons, an increase of 13.2% over the same period of 2009.

The data also shows that in December 2010, the primary shape of plastic imports was 2.25 million tons, and the cumulative imports from January to December was 23.91 million tons, a slight increase of 0.4% over the same period of 2009.

The vigorous development of biodegradable plastics During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, China’s scientific research institutions continued to increase investment in the research and development of polymer materials. New results, new technologies, and new processes including the application of energy-saving technologies to plastic machinery have greatly promoted the plastics industry. Technological progress and development.

Over 5 million biodegradable plastic bags of the 7 specifications used in the Beijing Olympics have been composted after serving the Olympics, and they have all turned into water and carbon dioxide within a month or so. The use of biodegradable plastics in the Olympic Games has received good results. It has injected a lot of excitement into the slow-growing biodegradable plastics market in China and opened up a new gap for the biodegradable plastics market. The biodegradable plastics industry is expected to become a A sustainable and emerging industry.

In 2007, the National Standard for Definition, Classification, Labeling, and Degradation Performance of Degradable Plastics was implemented. The introduction of this standard has promoted and standardized the development of China's biodegradable plastics industry, and at the same time it has played an active role in promoting the international market for the export of degradable plastic products in China.

In order to regulate the development of the degradable plastics industry, the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission's New Material Development Center commissioned the China Plastics Processing Industry Association degradable plastics professional committee to draw up and formulate the definition, classification and labeling of degradable plastics around the application of biodegradable plastics in the Beijing Olympic Games. And degradation performance requirements, "degradable plastic garbage bags" and "degradable plastic retail packaging bags" and other three commonly used product industry standards to improve the evaluation system of degradable plastic products.

Based on the above-mentioned three types of industry standards, the China Plastics Processing Industry Association degradable plastics professional committee has formulated the full biodegradable plastic film full degradation, degradation and other certification standards, and was approved by the National Standards Committee in May 2008, becoming a national Certification standards. This is the fourth biodegradable plastic film certification standard in the world following the relevant standards of the European Union, the United States, and Japan. It is also the first biodegradable plastic film certification standard in developing countries. This is of great significance in regulating and promoting the development of China's biodegradable plastics industry.

In recent years, in order to further standardize the market of biodegradable plastic products, the government has continuously introduced policies to further regulate the degradation of biodegradable plastics. On the one hand, it severely cracks down on unscrupulous commercial crimes, and on the other hand, it strengthens the policy on the production of biodegradable plastic products. Support and fiscal support.

Since 2005, the Ministry of Finance has arranged 30 million yuan annually for high-tech R&D funds in the packaging industry to support R&D, technological innovation and promotion of high-tech projects in the packaging industry; in 2006, the National Development and Reform Commission launched the promotion of biomass biodegradable materials development. Special fund projects; in December 2007, the General Office of the State Council issued a “plastic limit order” to implement the use of plastic shopping bags for compensation.

In Beijing alone, there are dozens of companies that produce biodegradable plastic products. Some companies are mastering mature technologies that will keep the cost of biodegradable plastic bags and ordinary plastic bags at the same level. They are currently in the late experimental stage, and biodegradable plastic bags are entering The days of citizen families will not be too far away.

The concentration of the construction plastics industry increased with the rapid growth of infrastructure investment, especially since the financial crisis. With the stimulation of 4 trillion investment policies, construction plastics have maintained a relatively high growth rate. According to statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2009, the output of plastic pipes and fittings of enterprises above designated size reached 5.0837 million tons, an increase of 18.92% over the previous year; the output of plastic sheet and sheet reached 3.225 million tons, an increase of 6.37% over the same period of last year; and the output of plastic rod and rod profiles reached 160.37 Ten thousand tons, a year-on-year increase of 19.19%.

Plastic pipe line has been widely applied to construction and drainage, building heating, urban gas transmission, rural biogas transmission, urban tap water, municipal drainage, sewage, rural drinking water transformation, agricultural irrigation, drainage, electricity, communications, mining, industry and many other field.

The plastic pipe industry currently has a processing capacity of more than 6 million tons, a high degree of industry concentration, a large number of large-scale enterprises, and more than 100 companies with a production capacity of over 10,000 tons, and nearly 20 companies have reached or exceeded 100,000 tons of production capacity. .

After more than 20 years of development, the plastic profile and window and door products industry already has more than 10,000 plastic profile production lines, a production capacity of more than 8 million tons, and more than 1,000 production companies. With the support of the national energy conservation and emission reduction policy, in 2009, the domestic market demand reached more than 5 million tons, the actual output was about 4 million tons, and the annual demand for PVC resin was more than 3.5 million tons, accounting for about 40% of the total output of China's PVC resin. Foreign trade exports are mainly concentrated in nearly 20 large and medium-sized enterprises in the country. They are pillar enterprises that lead the development of the industry, leading technology, quality reputation and high reputation at home and abroad.

At the same time, in order to absorb the pressure brought about by excess production capacity, the whole industry is making unremitting efforts in the adjustment of industrial structure, product structure adjustment, and enterprise structure adjustment. Many large and medium-sized enterprises have increased investment in the restructuring of enterprises.

After the financial crisis ebbs and waves, the pace of structural adjustment and technological innovation in the industry is also accelerating. The prosperity of the plastics industry will also increase with the recovery of the national economy. The quality and efficiency of economic operations will also gradually increase, and the industrial cluster will develop even more. obvious.