How important are chemical companies to a country?

The chemical industry occupies an important position in the national economy of various countries and is the basic industry and pillar industry of many countries. However, due to the variety of chemical industry categories, complex processes, diverse products, the production of pollutants discharged in many types, large quantities, high toxicity, in product processing, storage, use and waste treatment and other links, may also produce a large number of toxic substances, affecting the ecological environment, therefore, the chemical industry is a major polluter. The chemical industry is a double-edged sword, with advantages and disadvantages.

Some netizens have asked:

Can a country do without a chemical industry? Besides, can't we build these factories in foreign countries like developed countries?

Can a country do without a chemical industry? Yes, but big countries can't. At least China should encourage healthy and sustainable development!

For example, the Maldives relies on tourism and fishing alone to support half of the national economy. Such a development model is perfectly fine for small countries, but not for large countries. To be honest, it's not easy to search the Internet for a country with no chemical industry at all. There are more than one billion people in our country waiting to eat, how can we do without a complete industrial base? Ask such a question, it is obvious that the subject of the meaning of chemical industry is not very understanding, I briefly introduce. It can be said that chemical industry is mainly to solve all the problems related to materials in People's Daily life. Yes, it is everything, including the dumplings eaten on New Year's Eve, the material is also inseparable from the chemical industry. What would we eat or wear without chemicals? I don't think even primitive man can get back to the ape way of life.

Eating your mother's milk and scolding her, typical Chinese characteristics.

Chemical industry

From the perspective of people's livelihood:

He is closely related to your food, clothing, housing and transportation, without him you can not even go back to ancient times, only the Stone Age.

From an economic perspective:

In 2015, the chemical industry accounted for more than 20% of the country's total GDP, far more than the GDP generated by real estate. That's because the chemical industry is the basic industry, no chemical building houses where to come from reinforced concrete?

From an environmental perspective:

There will be pollution, but most of it is really a legacy of China's extensive development over the past decades, trading the environment for economic production. But this does not mean that the problem can not be solved, 2015 New Year's Day began to implement the new environmental law and water ten, retreat into the park and other policies, are trying to find a way to solve the problem step by step, eat also have to eat it

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In terms of public perception:

Is demonized too much, a mention of chemical or chemical first reaction is pollution. Take a very sensitive PX project for example, Dalian, Xiamen and other places have made PX issues, the final result is not built, the local people are satisfied.

But how many people know how polluting PX can be? Is it controllable? How to choose the pros and cons? No PX, your house is all wool, cashmere, silk? People just say: Wherever you build it, don't build it next to my house. It's typical to use a cell phone and worry that cell phone radiation will make you infertile.

The consequence of this is that PX has become a monster that everyone shouts about... China currently imports 60-70% or more of its demand from neighboring countries such as South Korea, well, at least imported products. Some time ago, a very hot advertisement: We hate chemical events, which is typical of making people funny and good, but this is the unscrupulous business to see the public's ignorance and fear of chemical industry.

In terms of practical development issues:

According to statistics, many chemical enterprise bosses respond to the three most troublesome problems: process, environmental protection and safety. Do not ask why the process is put in the first place, because the process and device without money, the enterprise can not survive but also talk about a gross environmental protection and safety.

1. Process technology:

Most of China's mainstream chemical processes remain at the technical level of foreign countries in the 8-90's, and there are some mainstream processes in domestic three barrels of oil and nine courtyards, but they are still relatively backward compared with foreign countries. The process of most of the other domestic chemical enterprises is basically to buy foreign process packages or directly use, or slightly modify the same.

At present, advanced chemical processes including agrochemical, pharmaceutical, etc. are mainly in the hands of international giants such as BASF, DowDuPont, Bayer, BASF's research and development investment can reach more than 10 billion US dollars a year, how many chemical companies in China's total annual revenue can reach 10 billion US dollars? It is said that imported drugs are expensive and taxes are expensive, but the problem is that you can't produce them yourself. How many people scold seed transgenic, scold no research and development? Seeds are linked with pesticides. How many domestic enterprises can they do? Is Ren Jianxin spending 300 billion to buy Syngenta really just for himself?