Basic chemical industry

The basic chemical industry refers to the general term of the industry of synthetic ammonia, sulfuric acid, calcium carbide, caustic soda and other chemicals produced by chemical processes through coal, phosphate rock, lithium ore, fluorite and other raw materials. Basic chemical is a bridge connecting energy, all kinds of basic raw materials and downstream segments of the industry.

According to the characteristics of chemicals, the basic chemical industry can be divided into nine sub-categories: fertilizers, organic products, inorganic products, chlor-alkali, fine and specialized chemicals, pesticides, daily chemicals, plastic products and rubber products.

The basic chemical industry is highly related to other industries and is an indispensable part of the national economy. At present, our country has formed a complete industrial chain with relatively complete types and a basic chemical industry system of considerable scale.

In a sense, the overall strength and technical level of the chemical industry will also affect the overall level and competitiveness of a country's industry to a certain extent, and the manufacturing of basic chemical raw materials is an indispensable important material in the chemical industry chain.

The "basic" characteristics of the basic chemical industry determine that its downstream demand distribution is especially wide, including the textile industry, real estate industry, automobile industry, building materials decoration, etc., and the change in the prosperity of the main downstream industries also has a significant impact on the prosperity of the chemical industry.

In recent years, the overall prosperity of the basic chemical industry has improved, and the revenue and net profit have continued the trend of year-on-year growth. The reason why the industry can maintain a high level of profitability is mainly due to the strong resilience of upstream chemical demand brought about by macroeconomic stabilization, the continuous high pressure of environmental protection leads to further contraction of the supply side, and the strong support of commodity prices for the upward trend of chemical prices.

(1) Industry development pattern and characteristics

The basic chemical industry in our country developed earlier and has a higher degree of marketization, mainly dominated by state-owned enterprises and large private enterprises. In addition, compared with many foreign multinational chemical enterprises, there is still a large technological gap in the production process of our chemical industry, and the economic added value of products is low.

Overall, our national basic chemical industry has the following characteristics:

1, the industry product system is relatively perfect. As the basic industry of industrial production, our country's basic chemical industry started earlier and developed rapidly. At present, the overall technical level, process and output have reached a higher level, and a relatively perfect product system has been formed.

2, energy saving and consumption reduction become one of the main competitiveness of enterprises. The basic chemical industry process technology is relatively mature, with the characteristics of large batch, few varieties and large energy consumption. Enterprises with larger production capacity have stronger energy saving and consumption reduction capacity, larger space and more obvious cost advantages in production. Therefore, energy saving and improving resource utilization have gradually become one of the main competitiveness of enterprises in the industry, and this trend also forces enterprises in the industry to improve production efficiency by improving the production process, adjusting the product structure, improving product capacity and other ways, while reasonably reducing raw materials and energy consumption to maintain product market competitiveness.

3, downstream applications are becoming more and more extensive, and the development momentum of the industry is good. The basic chemical industry is one of the basic industrial industries, and the downstream enterprises have almost penetrated into all fields of the national economy, and played an important supporting role in the development of the entire national economy.

4. Obvious regionalism. Basic chemical products generally have the characteristics of large weight and inconvenient transportation, especially the transportation cost of dangerous chemicals is high, and enterprises close to the raw material supply or the target market have a more obvious cost advantage. Therefore, the market competition in the basic chemical industry has obvious regional characteristics.

(2) Industry competition

The chemical industry in our country belongs to the industry with a high degree of marketization. The competent government departments have formulated and carried out macro-control of the industry in accordance with the national industrial policy, and the industry associations have self-regulated management. The business management and production and operation of the enterprises in the industry are carried out in a market-oriented way.