"13th Five-Year Plan" is a new development route for the plastics industry

In the process of accelerating economic transformation, the plastics processing industry has also entered the new normal of medium-speed growth, ensuring the stable development of the industry, and comprehensively promoting the industry to move toward the middle and high-end has become an important issue in the “13th Five-Year Plan” period. During the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, the plastics processing industry has achieved rapid development in transforming development methods, optimizing industrial structure, improving development quality, and improving the overall level of the industry. However, under the general trend of economic development, the average annual growth rate of the plastics processing industry during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period was 8.41%, which was more than 11 percentage points lower than the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period (20.1%). Especially in 2015, the output value of the plastics processing industry only increased by 0.9%, and the growth rate was the lowest in the past years. The problems of declining industry benefits, unreasonable structure and insufficient innovation ability have become increasingly prominent.

At present, international crude oil prices have plummeted, and the profit of the plastics industry has been squeezed under the premise of loose supply and demand. The price of crude oil fell, the price of new plastic materials also fell, the price difference between new materials and recycled plastics continued to shrink, and the waste plastics industry was also seriously affected. Due to the lack of advanced production equipment in China, the profit margin of plastic enterprises has been greatly reduced, the contradictions have become increasingly prominent, the efficiency of the plastics industry has declined, and business difficulties have increased.

Experts in the industry pointed out that under the new normal of medium-speed growth, the development of plastics processing industry should focus on “high-end” and cultivate new growth points in the industry; to improve production efficiency as the core, and strive to cultivate new competitive advantages in the industry; The primary comparative advantage based on cheap labor shifts to the compound competitive advantage of technology, equipment, capital and talents. It is necessary to focus on the technical direction of “functionalization, lightweight, ecological, micro-molding”, focus on breaking through the three major development bottlenecks of raw materials, advanced molding technology, process and equipment, and focus on high-end strategy to strengthen cooperation based on production, education and research. Innovation and structural public relations, breaking through the key common problems and core technologies that constrain the development of the industry.

Experts said that the "13th Five-Year Plan" pointed out that it is necessary to speed up the development of five high-end special materials for general-purpose plastics, strive to improve the quality of engineering plastic products, accelerate the industrialization of modified composite plastics, special engineering plastics and alloy materials, and make up for domestic one by one. Blank, strive to achieve 70% domestic self-sufficiency rate of engineering plastics by 2020, and self-sufficiency rate of high-end polyolefins is close to 70%, and net export of special polyester engineering plastics with better foundation

By 2020, China will turn from a plastic power country under the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” to a plastic powerhouse, and the plastics industry will be successfully transformed and upgraded. This requires Chinese enterprises to strive to develop new technologies and new products, integrate with the international market, enhance their strength, and strive to achieve world-class levels. Science and technology are the primary productive forces. Under the new normal of economic development, the “13th Five-Year Plan” undoubtedly provides a general direction for the development of the waste plastics industry.