The steel industry accelerated the pace of upgrading

The above measures of Hesteel are the epitome of the steel industry actively promoting low-carbon transformation. The China Iron and Steel Association issued the "Dual Carbon" Vision and Technology Roadmap for China's Steel Industry "and established the Steel industry low-carbon work Promotion Committee. Leading enterprises have issued low-carbon development action lines, and actively promote the research and development and demonstration of large-scale decarbonization technology routes.

He Wenbo, executive chairman of CISA, said that the steel industry should unswervingly promote ultra-low emission transformation, implement energy conservation and consumption reduction, and promote low-carbon transformation.

At present, 30 enterprises with 172 million tons of crude steel production capacity have completed ultra-low emission transformation and evaluation and monitoring of the whole process, and 22 enterprises have completed partial transformation.

With the transformation of ultra-low emissions in full swing, air quality has improved significantly in areas with concentrated steel production capacity. Taking Hebei, the largest steel province, as an example, the concentration of PM_2.5 in 2021 decreased by 62.5% compared with 2013, and the number of heavy pollution days decreased by 87%.

The work of energy conservation and consumption reduction in the steel industry is also deepening. According to statistics, in 2021, the comprehensive energy consumption of key large and medium-sized iron and steel enterprises per ton of steel reached 549 kilograms of standard coal, down about 53 kilograms of standard coal from 2012; The recycling level of waste heat and energy in key large and medium-sized iron and steel enterprises has been significantly improved, and the dispersion rate of coke oven gas and blast furnace gas has decreased by about 41% and 71%, respectively, compared with 2012.

Increase industrial concentration

For a long time, the number of enterprises, low industrial concentration, resulting in China's steel industry external procurement of raw materials without the right to speak, the internal steel market competition disorder, has become one of the "pain points" restricting the high-quality development of the industry.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong guidance of national policies, the merger and reorganization of the steel industry has been steadily promoted, and regional integration has been accelerating.

In 2020, China Baowu Steel production of more than 100 million tons, "million tons of steel aircraft carrier" shock debut. Behind this is the leading iron and steel enterprises restructuring and integration of the good play. In 2016, Baosteel Group and WisCO Group jointly restructured to establish China Baowu, and then China Baowu restructured Anhui Masteel and Shanxi Taigang, occupied Chongqing Iron and Steel, and hosted China Steel Group.

In August 2021, Angang restructured Bensteel and the crude steel production capacity of Angang Group reached 63 million tons, ranking second in China and third in the world. Thus, the steel industry has formed a new pattern of "Baowu in the south and Angang in the north".

In the first half of this year, in the face of the severe situation of the steel market, the crude steel production of Angang Group fell faster than the industry average, the profit decline was lower than the industry average, and the enterprise achieved stable development.

"Saddlebook recombination goes deep and solid, and amplifies the synergistic polymerization efficiency of '1+1>2'." Dai Zhihao, general manager of Angang Group, said that Bensteel has achieved four new changes: a substantial increase in operating efficiency, the implementation of unprecedented major reforms, the upgrading of enterprise management, and a significant increase in the sense of happiness of employees. In the first half of this year, the net profit of Bensteel increased by 16.2% year-on-year, and the asset-liability ratio decreased by 14.24 percentage points compared with the pre-restructuring.

In order to ensure industrial safety, Angang Group, as the steel enterprise with the most resource advantages in China, vigorously implemented the "dual-core" strategy of steel and mining, and accelerated the "Cornerstone Plan" project. In the first half of the year, the iron concentrate production of Angang Group increased by 3.17% year-on-year, and the contribution of the mining sector to the group's benefit has reached more than 50%.

Leading by flagship enterprises, the steel industry accelerated and became stronger. The proportion of crude steel production of the top 10 domestic steel enterprises in the country has increased from 35.9% in 2016 to 41.5% in 2021. At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other three departments issued the "Guidance on Promoting the high-quality development of the Steel industry", and proposed that by 2025, the development level of industrial agglomeration has been significantly improved, and the concentration of the steel industry has been greatly improved.