Chemical industry in China
The chemical industry in China is one of China's main manufacturing industries. It valued at around $1.44 trillion in 2014, and China is currently the largest chemicals manufacturing economy in the world.[1]
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The chemical industry is central to modern China's economy. It uses special methods to alter the structure, composition or synthesis of substances to produce new products, such as steel, plastic, and ethyl. Chemical industry provides building materials for China's infrastructure, including subway, high-speed train, and highway.
Prior to 1978, most of the product was produced by the state-owned business, and the share in product outputted by state-owned business had decreased in 2002.
The Chinese chemical industry is also one of the world's largest producers of both controlled and non-controlled
History
The modern chemical industry was born after the
Medical chemistry
Tu Youyou | |
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屠呦呦 | |
Born | December 30, 1930 Zhejiang, China | (age 93)
Nationality | Chinese |
Known for | Discover qinghaosu |
Awards | 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Medical chemistry |
Shennong has tested hundreds of herbs to find their medical value, and have written "The Divine Farmer's Herb-Root Classic". This book recorded the efficacy of 365 medicines derived from plants, animals, and minerals and gave rarity ratings and grade. Shennong's work led the way to Chinese medicine. In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen wrote "Compendium of Materia Medica" which contained more than 1,800 kinds of drugs. It also described the nature, flavor, form, type and usage in disease cure of over 1000 herbs. The book is considered as the primary reference work for herbal preparation.[6] These works were significant to the development of traditional Chinese medicine, and they laid the foundation for modern Chinese medical chemistry.
Tu Youyou is a pharmaceutical chemist of China. She discovered qinghaosu (artemisinin) and applied to cure malaria. Qinghaosu saves millions of lives in South China, South America, Southeast Asia, and Africa. It is an important breakthrough in the medicine area last century, and Tu Youyou received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Lasker Award in Clinical Medicine for her work. She is the first Chinese female to receive a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[7]
Agriculture chemistry
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China's agriculture production efficiency boosted in the 20th century, because of the application of chemical pesticides and fertilizers. In 1909, Franklin Hiram King, US Professor of Agriculture, made a tour of China. His book "Farmers of Forty Centuries" described China's farming. This book inspired many Chinese farmers to conduct ecological farming and use fertilizers.[8] Beginning in 1978, the Chinese government created the Family Production Responsibility System and encouraged farmers to use fertilizer.[9]
Chemical material
According to statistics, by 1984, there were actually about 9 million chemical substances in the world, of which about 43% were materials. Although the number of materials is large, if classified according to chemical composition, it can be summarized into three categories: metal materials, inorganic non-metal materials and composite materials.
Metal
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Steel is an important metal material in the chemical industry of China. In 2016, the annual production of steel of the world is 1621 million tons, of which 804 million tons are produced in China (49.6%), 105 million tons are produced in Japan (6.5%), 89 million tons are produced in India (5.5%), 79 million tons are produced in US (4.9%).[12]
China's production of steel increased from 100 million tons in 2000 to 250 million tons in 2004. It caused rising demand for raw materials which is necessary for steel production, included pig iron, iron ore, scrap metal, lime and dolomite, coke and coal. The price of iron ore increased by over 70% from 2004 to 2005. Thus, in December 2005, China decided to limit production of steel to not more than 400 million tons per year within five years, in order to lower the increasing rate of raw material prices.[13]
Non-metal
In 2016, China ethyl alcohol and other basic organic chemicals markets and plastic materials and resins market were valued at $137 and $184 billion respectively, which had 9% and 10% growth rates.
China is the largest producer and exporter plastic materials market in the world. The main driver of this market is the expanded application of ethanol in China. The demand for ethanol in China is about 2.3 million tons now.[14]
China has a key operating division, Chenguang Institute, which has developed a number of advanced
Composite material
The composite material is new structural material. It is characterized by a combination of
Companies
China has a company which is the top 3 chemical companies all over the world. That is Sinopec. It has $43.8 billion in chemical sales in 2015.
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A list of the top 20 China's chemical corporation by
No. | Companies |
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1 | SINOPEC
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2 | China National Petroleum Corporation |
3 | China National Offshore Oil Corporation |
4 | China Zhonghua Group co. LTD |
5 | China National Chemical Corporation
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6 | Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum co. LTD |
7 | Henan Energy Chemical Group co. LTD |
8 | China Pingmei what energy chemical industry group limited liability company |
9 | Zhejiang Rongsheng Holding group co. LTD |
10 | Zhejiang Hengyi Group co. LTD |
11 | Shandong Dongming Petrochemical Group co. LTD |
12 | Wanda Holding group co. LTD |
13 | Lihua Yi group co. LTD |
14 | Jiangyin Chengxing Industrial Group co. LTD |
15 | Yuntianhua Group co. LTD |
16 | Shanghai Huayi company |
17 | China Chemical Engineering co. LTD |
18 | Yangquan Coal Chemical Industry Group co. LTD |
19 | Shandong Jingbo Holding co. LTD |
20 | Shandong Haike Chemical Group co. LTD |
Chinese companies plan to go into the specialties side of the market, and some of them already become one of the players in the market, such as Zhejiang NHU, a vitamin maker; Yantai Wanhua, an isocyanates maker; and Bairun, the leader in the Chinese flavors-and-fragrances market.[18]
Development tendency
Overview
The chemical market value of China had increased in the past 30 years. In 2015, it represented about 30% of the chemicals demand all over the world.[19]
China's demand growth of the chemical industry has slowed down from the two-digit rates in the past 10 years, but it still has 60% growth for the global demand from 2011 to 2020.[18]
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As of the end of November 2011, there were 24,125 enterprises above designated size in the China national chemical industry, with a total output value of 6.0 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 35.2%, accounting for 58.61% of the total output value of the whole industry. In the first 11 months of 2011, the fixed assets investment in the chemical industry was 861.721 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 26.9%, which was 5.5 percentage points higher than the industry average, accounting for 70.12%. In the first 10 months of 2011, the total profit of the chemical industry was 320.88 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 44.4%, accounting for 47.1% of the total industry profits. The annual output value of the chemical industry is expected to be about 6.58 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 32%, and the total profit is 350 billion yuan, an increase of 35%. In 2011, the added value of the chemical industry increased by 14.8% year-on-year, and the growth rate slowed by 1% year-on-year.[20]
A list of China chemical industry's main products in 2011 shows below.[20]
Products | Output (million tons) | Increase rate |
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Ethylene | 15.28 | 7.40% |
Plastics
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47.98 | 9.30% |
Synthetic rubber | 3.49 | 13.10% |
Synthetic fibers
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30.96 | 13.90% |
Caustic soda
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24.66 | 15.20% |
Soda ash
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22.03 | 13.40% |
Synthetic fertilizer
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60.27 | 12.10% |
Pesticide | 2.65 | 21.40% |
Calcium carbide | 17.38 | 22.30% |
Government policy goals
China government set up policy goals to solve the unemployment issue and boost the economy, in order to against the increasing population. The government's policies and goals have progressed as the economy was opened up in 1978. It can be divided into three periods:
1978-1990: China's market was opened to the world in 1978, and the government knew the importance of the chemical industry, so permitted the foreign direct investment get into domestic but control heavily. Meanwhile, China's domestic chemical demand increased, so most companies decided to invest in produce.
1990-2000: Multinationals were allowed to enter the Chinese market, to join the chemical produce cooperate with Chinese firms.
2000-2011: Foreign direct investment in this period has not to limit, while multinationals booming because China became a major exporter for chemical in the world.[19]
Environmental pollution
China's chemical industry has developed over the past 40 years, from an economic backwater to the largest chemicals manufacturing economy, that consumes raw materials and energy. This change has helped hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty but polluted China's
China government has made efforts to fight the pollution. Free
Chemical industries in China are starting to research and develop
See also
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