The iron and steel industry is an important basic industry of the national economy, an important support for the construction of a modern and powerful country, and an important field for achieving green and low-carbon development. In recent years, China's iron and steel industry has deepened the supply-side structural reform, actively resolved excess capacity, made the industrial structure more reasonable, and made positive progress in green development and intelligent manufacturing.
China's economy has shifted to a stage of high-quality development, which has put forward new requirements for the scale and structure of the steel industry, variety and quality, intelligent manufacturing, low-carbon and environmental protection. It should be noted that China's iron and steel industry still has problems such as high pressure of overcapacity, insufficient industrial safety and security capabilities, the level of green and low-carbon development needs to be improved, and low industrial concentration. In recent years, China has attached great importance to the high-quality development of the steel industry, and various regions and iron and steel enterprises are also actively seeking transformation and upgrading.
The "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of the Iron and Steel Industry" proposes that by 2025, the iron and steel industry will basically form a high-quality development pattern with a reasonable layout structure, stable resources, advanced technology and equipment, outstanding quality brand, high level of intelligence, strong global competitiveness, and green, low-carbon and sustainable development.
To achieve this goal, we need to take multiple measures at the same time, make efforts in many ways, and give full play to the dual role of enterprises and enterprises. It is necessary to strengthen the main position of enterprise innovation, create a collaborative innovation ecology integrating production, education, research and application, focusing on key common technologies such as low-carbon metallurgy, clean steel smelting, thin strip casting and rolling, efficient rolling, process control based on big data, energy conservation and environmental protection, as well as general special equipment and parts such as advanced electric furnaces, special smelting, and high-end testing, increase investment in innovation resources, and cultivate corporate brands and product brands with greater influence in market competition.
* In terms of guidance, we should play a leading role, do a good job in top-level design, and improve the implementation path. Strictly implement laws and regulations on environmental protection, energy consumption, quality, safety, technology, etc., continue to do a good job in reducing capacity, improve the long-term mechanism for preventing overcapacity, and prevent the resumption of production of resolved excess capacity. At the same time, we should optimize the industrial layout, promote the extension of the chain and strengthen the chain, enhance the degree of industrial agglomeration, coordinate and establish the upstream and downstream cooperation mechanism of new steel materials in key areas, build industrial alliances in key areas, and cultivate leading enterprises. Strengthen the construction of standard technology system, formulate basic national standards and industry standards, cultivate and develop a number of advanced and applicable high-level group standards, and meet the needs of the market and innovation.
This article**:Economy** Author: Shi Huien, member of the Party Committee and director of the Development Research Department of the Metallurgical Industry Economic Development Research Center).