At present, my country has become the world's largest chemical product manufacturer, and it is expected to maintain a relatively high growth rate in the future and further expand its influence. From the perspective of the development trend of the chemical industry, my country's fine chemical industry still has a lot of room for development. Fine chemical industry is currently a strategic focus of the chemical industry development in various countries in the world, and it is also an important development direction for my country's chemical enterprises, and the prospects are still promising.

Development status of fine chemical enterprises

At present, most of the fine chemical enterprises in my country are backward in equipment, technology research and development cycles are too long, research and development efforts are insufficient, capital investment is insufficient, and a perfect innovation system has not been formed. There are very few fine chemicals that are truly practical, and the innovation is not high. No core competitiveness has been formed.

At the same time, the degree of concentration of fine chemicals is very low, and most companies are scattered and it is difficult to produce high-level fine chemicals. The fine chemical industry should be highly integrated with the development of information technology, but the domestic fine chemical industry is still in an awkward position to survive and has no time to consider informatization, which severely restricts the healthy development of the fine chemical industry.

Moreover, most of the companies are "profit only," and do not consider environmental pollution at all, causing a lot of waste of resources. The huge cost of processing the "three wastes" has become a heavy economic burden for the fine chemical industry. It can be said that environmental pollution has not only become a huge challenge facing human sustainable development, but also the biggest obstacle restricting the development of elaborate chemical industry.

Comparison of refinement rates between my country and foreign countries (unit: %)

Source: Qianzhan Industry Research Institute "Report on China's Fine Chemical Industry"

Fine chemical product supply analysis

According to the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” issued by the state, the domestic fine chemical industry self-sufficiency rate should reach 80% or more by 2015. However, judging from the current fine chemical industry self-sufficiency rate, a large amount of capital and technology investment is still needed. Due to technical reasons, domestic progress in new fields of fine chemicals and new chemical materials is slightly lagging behind. The self-sufficiency rate of fine chemicals in the new field of China is 70%-75%, and the self-sufficiency rate of electronic chemicals and other fields is less than 50%. In terms of new chemical materials, the domestic self-sufficiency rate is only hovering at 55%-60%. between. In these high-tech fields, the more high-end and important products, the lower the domestic self-sufficiency rate.

Not only that, the structure of my country's fine chemical products is also not very reasonable. At present, the domestically produced new chemical materials are mainly low-end products, while mid-to-high-end products mainly rely on imports. For example, the price of imported PTFE is about twice the price of exported PTFE.

The new chemical materials produced in my country are mainly general-purpose products, and there is a lack of specialized products for market segments. For example, among the four major types of silicone materials (silicone rubber, silicone oil, silicone resin, and silane coupling agent), developed countries have There are 6-8 thousand specific varieties and brands, but there are only dozens of them in my country.

The comparison between the number of my country's fine chemical companies and the number of new projects from 2009 to 2015 (unit: unit, item)

Source: Qianzhan Industry Research Institute "Report on China's Fine Chemical Industry"

In addition, the market for some environmentally friendly products is still in the early stages of development. Because our country has not yet levied environmental taxes on non-biodegradable ordinary plastics. Compared with traditional plastics, biodegradable plastics are more expensive to use. The market for biodegradable plastics is still in the early stages of development. As a developing country, the ODS substitutes currently used in my country are still mainly HCFCs that have less damaging effects on the ozone layer. In the future, it will be gradually replaced with HFC, which has no damaging effect on the ozone layer.

Fine chemical industry prospects forecast

It is precisely because of the above-mentioned shortcomings that my country's fine chemical industry has more development prospects in the future. As more and more multinational companies invest and build factories in China, the continuous expansion of scale and the introduction of advanced preparation technology will surely bring about the continuous growth of my country's fine chemical market supply.

According to statistics, in 2015, the total industrial output value of my country's fine chemical industry was about 3702.1 billion yuan, an increase of about 10% over 2014. According to the current development momentum, it is estimated that by 2021, the total industrial output value of the industry will reach about 5.9 trillion yuan, and there is still plenty of room for growth.

2016-2021 forecast of the total industrial output value of the fine chemical industry (unit: 100 million yuan)

Source: Qianzhan Industry Research Institute "Report on China's Fine Chemical Industry"

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