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Chen Xinwei, President of the Chemical Fiber Association: China's chemical fiber industry has formed a full industry chain development model
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2023-03-23 00:00
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the construction of China's chemical fiber industry system has been continuously strengthened. Not only has the conventional fiber field maintained an international leading level, but high-tech fibers have also achieved significant breakthroughs and entered the ranks of advanced countries. The industry scale also ranks first globally.
Statistics show that the domestic production of chemical fibers has increased from 38.37 million tons in 2012, accounting for nearly 65% of the global total, accounting for 77% of China's total fiber processing, and exporting 2.47 million tons. By 2021, the production has exceeded 65 million tons, accounting for over 70% of the global total, accounting for nearly 85% of China's fiber processing, and exporting over 5 million tons, accounting for over 50% of global trade, firmly ranking first in the world.
With the expansion of scale, the structural adjustment of China's chemical fiber industry is also continuously advancing, especially since the 13th Five Year Plan, advantageous enterprises in the industry have achieved rapid expansion through mergers and acquisitions, and the concentration of the industry has significantly increased. The increase in production capacity concentration in the field of polyester civil filament is particularly prominent, with the production capacity concentration of the first six enterprises reaching 61.5% in 2021, an increase of 27.5 percentage points compared to 2012.
At present, China's chemical fiber industry maintains an international leading level in the field of conventional fibers, with a global leading position in characterizing advanced functional fibers in five aspects - ultra-high performance, intelligence, multifunctional, green and low-carbon, and high added value; Major breakthroughs have been made in high-tech fibers, entering the ranks of advanced countries; We have formed an industrial structure with complete varieties and complete industrial chains, and are the world's most widely covered producer of chemical fiber varieties. Among them, the production scale of traditional varieties such as regenerated cellulose fiber, polyester, nylon, acrylic, and spandex all ranks first in the world. The growth of domestic high-performance fiber production capacity and output during the 13th Five Year Plan period was close to or exceeding 100%, becoming a new economic growth point in the industry.
With the continuous breakthroughs in key industrialization technologies, high-performance fibers and bio based fibers in China have shown strong development momentum. The annual production of high-performance fibers such as carbon fiber, aramid fiber, ultra-high relative molecular weight polyethylene fiber, and continuous basalt fiber has exceeded 10000 tons, ranking among the top three in the global market share; Polyphenylene sulfide fiber, polytetrafluoroethylene fiber and other products have also developed steadily; Lyocell fiber, bamboo pulp fiber, polylactic acid (PLA) fiber, bio based polyamide fiber, bio protein fiber and other bio based fibers have achieved large-scale production; Seaweed fibers, chitosan fibers, PHBV/PLA blend fibers, and hemp pulp fibers have also achieved stable production.
Meanwhile, with the development of refining and chemical integration and the continuous improvement of industrial chain supporting facilities, China's chemical fiber industry has achieved an integrated development model of the entire industrial chain from crude oil refining to chemical fiber textile. By 2021, China's chemical fiber industry has formed a number of large enterprise groups with international competitiveness, such as polyester head enterprises represented by Hengli Group, Rongsheng Group, Hengyi Group, Shenghong Group, Tongkun Group, Xinfengming Group, nylon head enterprises represented by Hengshen Group, Jinjiang Science and Technology, and carbon head enterprises represented by Zhongfu Shenying, Guangwei Composite, Jiangsu Hengshen, Jilin Carbon Valley, etc. Hengli Group, Rongsheng Group, Hengyi Group and Shenghong Group have even entered the Fortune Global 500 list.
In recent years, the new projects of leading chemical fiber enterprises have adopted new technologies, processes, and equipment from around the world, representing the world's leading productivity and promoting China's chemical fiber industry to continue to be at the forefront of the world's chemical fiber industry development.
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