Ten industrial restructuring and revitalization planning and implementation over the past year, the Chinese steel industry, despite the financial crisis in the phasing out of the haze, but the excess capacity of the contradictions are still outstanding.
2010 highlights the development of the steel industry is still to solve the problem of excess production capacity.
Metallurgical Industry Association China Federation of Industry Deputy Secretary-General, former Secretary Liu Yongchang Iron & Steel had so described to reporters: "excess capacity, like a huge cold air mass will be enveloped in a long time over the steel market, as long as the temperature a slight rebound in the market, it will generate convection, lead to a cold rain the price crushed. "
Three quarters of 2008, China's steel industry by the international financial crisis, there shrinking market, prices plummeted, yields a substantial decline in industry-wide losses. In response to the crisis, in March 2009, the State Council promulgated the "iron and steel industrial restructuring and revitalization plan."
"Eliminating backward production capacity," "product structure adjustment" and "corporate merger and reorganization" has become in recent years, the steel industry and the competent authorities of the most commonly used vocabulary. In fact, China's steel industry due to high demand of crude steel and other related factors, eliminate backward production capacity of the progress has been extremely slow. Who asked not to be named, described the industry: "Over the past year, out and adjust the thunder and rain is actually something small."
By the end of 2009, the State Council jointly issued a number of departments with relevant rules, although greater efforts to eliminate backward production capacity, but the excess capacity and structure of the anomaly is still very serious, seriously hindering the healthy development of China's steel industry. By the end of 2009 a certain forum, Qi Xiangdong, deputy secretary general of China Iron and Steel Association, had predicted: in 2010 the domestic steel production capacity reached 7.2 million tons.
Material Trading Co., Ltd. Beijing Hai Qing Qin Yunlong Manager, told the "China's Sankei Shimbun" Reporter: "Because of the current social pressures are still a great stock, but also continued to increase, so the market demand for even better, it is impossible in a short time consume such a large inventory, In addition, the steel mill's production capacity is continuing to release in 2010, although the demand will improve, but the contradiction between supply and demand will be even more outstanding. "
Eliminate backward production capacity of the root cause little effect, or is currently taking differential pricing and the central financial capital in the form of incentives to eliminate backward, backward elimination mechanism is not perfect, local governments affected by factors such as performance and revenue-driven enforcement is extremely limited.
Liu Yongchang told reporters that excess capacity is actually the main board of the rapid expansion of production capacity, it should be clear understanding of our country and world economic development trends, rational distribution plate, long products production capacity, optimizing product mix, promote sound development of great significance to the industry.
"For the iron and steel industry is concerned, is not a revitalization of quantity, but the revitalization of quality, who make a difference in quality, who would have continued development." Liu Yongchang recommendations.
Journalists have learned to solve the steel industry, the problem of surplus production capacity, in addition to raising the industry barriers to entry, increase out of high pollution and high energy consumption and backward production capacity, the key is to change the current government as the main investment patterns, break through institutional reform of the mechanism local protection, through the promotion of mergers between enterprises restructuring, industry consolidation to increase production, improve the industry concentration degree and the level of enterprise-scale technology that gave birth industries and enterprises is expected to scientifically adjusted according to the economic capacity of endogenous mechanisms. We should step up efforts to adjust industrial structure and guide the rational allocation of economic resources, the transformation of economic growth.
Qi Xiangdong, argued that inhibit excess capacity to achieve the combination of 5: "To curb excess capacity combined with the merger and reorganization; to strictly control the iron and steel assets of incremental assets and integration of a combination of stock; the merger and reorganization and adjustment of the layout of the productive forces combined; to and eliminate backward emission reduction and energy saving, pollution control, developing low-carbon economy integration; to policy guidance and the use of market mechanisms. so to advance the curb excess capacity, to achieve substantive progress. "
