The new steel policy is available: three major highlights and two major restrictions

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's first real iron and steel enterprise policy is about to be released. According to informed sources, the National Development and Reform Commission held a meeting on the 20th to officially announce the "Steel Industry Development Policy."
"It is a major event in the development of China's steel industry. It will play an important guiding role in the future development of China's steel industry and is an important cornerstone for promoting the healthy development of the steel industry." One of the major players in the steel industry policy, Li Xinchuang, vice president of China Metallurgical Planning Research Institute, said.

There are many external arguments about the specific chapters and number of new industrial policies. Some people say that they are 8 chapters and 36 articles, while others say that they are 9 chapters and 37 articles. However, informed sources told reporters that the finalization of the new industrial policy may be 9:40.

Three highlights

Authorities revealed to reporters that the three most prominent points of the new industrial policy are industrial planning layout, technology industry access, and circular economy.

In terms of industrial layout, in view of the current unreasonable layout of China's steel industry, the industrial policy particularly emphasizes that the adjustment of the layout of the steel industry should be combined with urban development. In order to comprehensively consider the market distribution, mineral resources, energy, water resources, transportation, environmental capacity and the use of foreign resources, it is necessary to rely on existing enterprises with conditions, mergers and acquisitions, relocation, and transformation and expansion in areas with comparative advantages. . "This is very important. This has not been seen in previous policies," said a person in charge of the Steel Association.



In view of the fact that the actual production capacity of China's steel industry has basically met domestic needs, the industrial policy stipulates that, in principle, new steel joint ventures, independent ironworks and steel mills will not be built separately, and independent rolling mills will not be advocated. The new production capacity should be combined with the elimination of backward production capacity. In principle, the steel production capacity will not be greatly expanded. Important environmental protection zones, severely water-deficient areas, and large urban areas will no longer expand the production capacity of iron and steel smelting. Existing enterprises in the region should combine the organizational structure, equipment structure, product structure adjustment, implement pressure production, relocation, and meet environmental protection and resources. Savings requirements.

At the same time, industrial policies stipulate that large steel enterprises should be mainly distributed in coastal areas. Inland steel enterprises should combine the local market and the status of ore resources to determine the production of mines, not to expand the scale of production, and to achieve sustainable production as the main goal of enterprise survival. This has actually shown that the development of China's steel industry is aligning with the international market, because international steel mills are basically distributed in coastal areas.

In terms of industry access, industrial policies have also set fairly strict standards in order to ensure the upgrading of the steel industry and achieve sustainable development and prevent low-level redundant construction. According to authoritative sources, the industrial policy requires existing enterprises to strive to achieve through technological transformation: the construction area of ​​the sintering machine is 180 square meters or more; the height of the coke oven carbonization room is 6 meters or more; the effective volume of the blast furnace is 1000 cubic meters and above; The capacity is 120 tons and above; the electric furnace has a nominal capacity of 70 tons and above. In the construction of steel projects in the coastal deep-water port area, the effective volume of the blast furnace should be more than 3000 cubic meters; the nominal capacity of the converter is more than 200 tons, and the steel production scale is 8 million tons or more.

The technical and economic indicators of the iron and steel combined enterprise should also reach: the comprehensive energy consumption blast furnace process of ton steel is less than 0.7 tons of standard coal, the electric furnace process is less than 0.4 tons of standard coal, the ton steel consumption new water blast furnace process is less than 6 tons, and the electric furnace process is lower than 3 tons, water recycling rate of 95% or more.

In addition to the above two points, the circular economy concept introduced the steel industry policy for the first time. "The new industrial policy also combines China's constantly evolving market and puts the development of circular economy at an important position for the first time." A person in charge of the Steel Association stressed.

Li Xinchuang pointed out that the iron and steel industry is an intensive industry that consumes energy, water resources and mineral resources, and is also the industry with the most potential, the most conditions and the most urgent need to develop a circular economy.

A person close to the National Development and Reform Commission revealed that the country hopes that in 2010, the comprehensive energy consumption per ton of steel in the whole industry will drop to 0.73 tons of standard coal, ton of steel with comparable energy consumption of 0.685 tons of standard coal, and tons of steel consumption of new water of less than 8 tons; The figures were reduced to 0.7 tons of standard coal, 0.64 tons of standard coal, and tons of new steel consumption of less than 6 tons. That is to say, in the next ten years, the iron and steel industry will achieve moderate development of the total amount under the premise of reducing the total water consumption and increasing the total energy consumption.

In addition, according to the "Wall Street Journal" report, a person in charge of the Steel Association said that the most striking thing about industrial policy is that it also wrote the issue of foreign investment controlling rights for the first time. The source revealed that the industrial policy stipulates that foreign steel enterprises must meet the annual output of more than 10 million tons, or reach 1 million tons of special steel. It also stipulates that when foreign businessmen cooperate with Chinese capital, foreign capital cannot be controlled.

Curb blind expansion

A person familiar with the Beijing Iron and Steel Research Institute said that no country in the world has specifically formulated such an industrial policy for the steel industry. Li Xinchuang also said that in the past, some policies of China's steel industry were issued by the Ministry of Metallurgy. Only this time was led by the National Development and Reform Commission and passed at the State Council executive meeting.

It is understood that the industrial policy has taken about two years from planning, drafting and finalization. It is full of the efforts of hundreds of people from China Metallurgical Planning Research Institute, Beijing Iron and Steel Research Institute, China International Engineering Consulting Corporation.

A person from the Beijing Iron and Steel Research Institute said that the reason for drafting this policy is mainly aimed at the blind expansion of the steel industry.
In fact, in 1999 China's actual steel output reached 122 million tons, and steel exceeded 117 million tons. "At that time, the state had realized that steel development could no longer emphasize simple quantitative development, but should focus on connotation, efficiency, and structural development. Therefore, it is necessary to have an industrial policy to guide it," said a person familiar with the Iron and Steel Research Institute. Under this circumstance, at the end of 2002, the National Development and Reform Commission reported to the State Council on "Opinions on Several Major Issues in China's Current Steel Industry", and entrusted China International Consulting Corporation, Metallurgical Planning Institute and other relevant units to assist in the investigation and drafting industrial policies.



In mid-November 2003, Ma Kai, director of the National Development and Reform Commission, personally presided over a steel industry symposium with state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and steel associations to study the development of steel and macro-control, and take measures such as administrative, economic, and legal measures to strengthen steel. The urgency of industrial macro-control has reached a consensus. The leaders of the State Council clearly stated in the situation report that we must promptly study and formulate the steel industry policy and strengthen macro-planning, guidance and regulation.

In December 2003, the "Steel Industry Development Policy" was drafted. In the same month, the National Development and Reform Commission convened Baosteel, Anshan Iron and Steel, Taigang and Guangzhou Iron and Steel, Metallurgical Industry Planning Institute, China International Engineering Consulting Corporation, China Iron and Steel Association and other institutions, and the leaders of the Guangdong Provincial Government conducted a large-scale industrial policy in Guangzhou. discussion.

On April 20 this year, Premier Wen Jiabao of the State Council presided over the State Council executive meeting, and finally reviewed and approved the "Steel Industry Development Policy."

Getting started is more specific

The industrial policy has undergone more than 30 revisions of large and small. The famous steel expert Jia Liangqun told reporters that there are only four versions he got.

According to informed sources, compared with the previous discussion papers, the final draft has not changed much in industrial layout and planning, but the final draft is more specific in terms of specific quantity requirements. "The general feeling is that it is more refined than once, and once more prominent than once." Jia Liangqun said.

For example, in the earlier discussion paper, it was mentioned that before 2010, qualified enterprises should be selected to form more than 10 steel joint enterprises with a capacity of more than 10 million tons, and the industrial concentration of steel enterprises with a capacity of more than 10 million tons will reach 50%. In the final draft, it was changed to form two large-scale enterprise groups of 30 million tons in 2010 and a number of large-scale enterprise groups with international competitiveness above 10 million tons. The top ten steel enterprises in the country account for more than 50% of the national production of steel; in 2020, it will reach more than 70%.

“At the same time as the refinement, the final draft has become more relaxed and considerate to some extent.” A person in charge of the final draft of Shagang Group said.

The reporter noted that in the earlier discussion draft, it was stipulated that the equipment of the new or ex situ renovation project must reach the height of the coke oven carbonization chamber of 4.3 meters and above; the effective volume of the blast furnace is 2,500 cubic meters and above; the nominal capacity of the electric furnace is 60 tons. And above.

In the final draft, these numbers were changed accordingly. Because from the current equipment of the enterprise, most companies do not say that they will reach 2,500 cubic meters, or more than half of them will reach less than 1,000 cubic meters. “The 10 million cubic meter standard will also cut our province's production capacity by half.” A former person in charge of the Hebei Metallurgical Association told reporters.

People familiar with the matter said that because the industrial policy will be announced within a few days, there will be no major changes in the basic content.

Such changes can also be seen in the revision of corporate investment. For example, in the discussion draft, there is a requirement that “the proportion of new enterprise funds is not less than 50%”. According to informed sources, this ratio may become 40% in the final draft. Jia Liangqun believes that this is also more in line with the reality of domestic enterprises, because most companies have their own funds at 20% or 30%, so there should be a transitional phase. However, the above statement has not been confirmed by the National Development and Reform Commission.

Nevertheless, how industrial policies will ultimately be tested by practice. A person in charge of the China Mines Federation believes that some of the ideas of industrial policy are good, but it may be difficult to implement.

For example, the issue of foreign holdings is not allowed. Analysts believe that from the perspective of scale, many foreign companies have now reached the conditions, and foreign investment holdings may not affect the diversification of Chinese companies. For another example, the industry believes that certain requirements of industry technology and entry barriers are still a difficult gap for some private enterprises.
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