How big is the gap between China and the world's chemical industry?

We have always believed that with the continuous production of China's integrated enterprises in recent years, the scale of China's chemical industry is growing rapidly, but everyone knows that there is still a huge gap in scale and sales between China's top chemical enterprises and the world's top chemical enterprises. While the scale of China's chemical enterprises is growing slowly, the world's top chemical enterprises are growing rapidly.

Pingtou learned that China has now become the world's main production base of chemicals, the production capacity of most bulk chemicals is the world's first, such as MDI, propylene, acrylic acid, maleic anhydride, butanone, PTA, PX, vinyl acetate, glass fiber, etc., and the production capacity of some chemicals is in the process of rapid growth, such as PDH, PBAT, PLA, polyethylene, polypropylene, etc. In spite of this, only six Chinese chemical companies have been selected in the global ranking.

Some people say that at present, China's chemical industry, like the Japanese chemical industry, is moving from agglomeration to scale. Moreover, the level of China's chemical industry has only reached the level of the chemical industry in Europe and the United States and other developed countries in the 1950s and 1960s, and there is still a huge gap between Europe and the United States in some core chemical production processes, as well as fine chemicals and new materials.

Therefore, in what areas does China's chemical industry have a big gap with developed countries? What are the advantages of China's chemical industry? How long will it take to catch up?

01, there are major drawbacks in the field of refining and chemical integration

Pingtou Brother saw that in the field of large chemical industry, such as refining and chemical integration projects, there are many places in China to use foreign technology, such as large ethylene, aromatics combined, atmospheric and vacuum pressure and catalytic cracking processes, many companies use Honeywell technology or catalyst provided in the integration project, and patented technology also needs to be purchased from international giants. As a result, China's own technology cannot be applied on a large scale, and there is no actual production and operation data as a reference for improvement and correction.

In addition, Chinese enterprises want to develop this technology, pay money and land, and foreign parties only provide technology and support for shares, but the construction situation is generally not smooth, and the products are not qualified for a long time, resulting in losses every day of the joint venture project, which is forced to return the Chinese capital. However, as soon as the Chinese side withdrew, the products were instantly qualified and the construction went smoothly. This also shows that the control of foreign parties in the core production process is far more than the level of Chinese production process, so as to use this "inferior" routine.

Pingtou brother believes that although China's current level of production technology is growing rapidly, in recent years, few projects have been heard of landing and industrialization, and most advanced technologies remain in the "paper talk" stage. The technologies that dare to try are mostly state-owned enterprises such as Sinopec, petrochina and China Coal.

02, China still has a long way to go in the field of fine chemicals

In the field of fine chemical industry, China's chemical production enterprises lag behind the developed countries in Europe and the United States, mainly the developed countries in Europe and the United States strictly control the production technology of this fine chemical industry, and do not cooperate with domestic enterprises, relying on national policy loopholes, and implement wholly-owned construction production in China. Some domestic enterprises will choose the "gray" way to obtain production technology, such as the method of "digging people" or buying drawings.

However, many domestic enterprises can not fully understand the drawings, and in order to improve efficiency and reduce costs, so as to abandon the automation equipment, which has brought a lot of "cottage" fine chemical production equipment can not be used. Jiangsu Xiangshui incident is an example, the process of interlocking problems, was found out and did not rectify, and finally led to a tragedy.

03. China's chemical industry lacks the motivation for catalyst research

For the catalyst field of China's chemical industry, it is upgraded to the field of national security, the current gap between China's catalyst and European and American countries is large, some in the core catalyst field, is monopolized by a few companies in the world, resulting in a significant gap between domestic catalysts and the international market. Therefore, for China's chemical catalyst field, as long as foreign countries continue to supply, China basically has no motivation to carry out research and development and improvement.