On December 3, Zhejiang Provincial Pesticide Industry Management Conference was held in Hangzhou. The reporter learned from the meeting that this year's pesticide industry in the province has a good situation. The sales revenue, export delivery value, and profits are double digits compared with the previous year. Growth, in which profit growth reached the highest historical value. However, at the same time, the province's pesticide companies are also facing pressure from many aspects such as national industrial policy restrictions, environmental and factor resource constraints, etc. The issue of industrial development successors can not be ignored.
Can Zhejiang's pesticide industry, which ranks second in the country's second-largest province of production, continue to maintain its original advantages in the new round of competition? Under the dual pressure of environmental protection and energy saving, how can Zhejiang pesticide companies “break shells†and emerge? With these questions, the reporter interviewed Zhou Tufa, director of the Pharmaceutical and Petrochemical Industry Management Office of Zhejiang Economic and Trade Commission.
The promotion of industry quality is an inevitable requirement for economic development In September of this year, the Zhejiang Provincial Pesticide Industry Association organized member companies to visit Jiangsu Province and exchanged views among counterparts. The chief executives of Zhejiang Province have a common feeling: Jiangsu's support for the pesticide industry, especially the leading enterprises, is much greater than that of Zhejiang. In contrast, pesticide companies in Zhejiang not only have great pressure for energy conservation and environmental protection. Due to the scarcity of land resources and the limitations of many industrial policies, the space for the development of pesticide companies is extremely limited, and some companies can only migrate to other provinces, such as Jiangsu and Jiangxi. CEOs can not help but sigh: If you go on like this, it will not take many years. The pesticide industry in Jiangsu, which is already the country's oldest leader, will be far ahead of other provinces. The pesticide industry in Zhejiang will shrink.
In this regard, Zhou Tufa believes that there are indeed certain differences in the requirements for industrial development in different regions, which is determined by differences in the economic development of the provinces. First of all, Zhejiang’s economic development level is relatively high. Last year, per capita GDP ranked fourth in the country, and the demand for industrial structure adjustment and quality improvement was naturally higher. In recent years, Zhejiang Lingang Petrochemical Industry has developed rapidly. New materials and fine chemicals in new fields have become the focus of the development of the petrochemical industry. Traditional fine chemicals, including pesticides, are facing tremendous structural adjustment pressures; second, huge industries. It will inevitably have the support of resource elements such as the environment and energy. Zhejiang is a small province of resources. In 2006, Zhejiang accounted for about 1% of the country’s total land area and 3.5% of the population, which produced a GDP of nearly 7.5% of the country’s GDP. Although the results are commendable, the huge consumption of resources will inevitably lead to new ones. The imbalance: The lack of supply of elements, limited environmental capacity, and the need for industrial expansion have become difficult to reconcile. This requires that traditional fine chemical industries such as pesticides should focus their development on "quality" rather than "quantity" expansion.
At the same time, he pointed out that from the perspective of national policies, the issue of improving the quality of the pesticide industry has caused the country to attach great importance. In October, the leadership of the State Council and the National Development and Reform Commission made important instructions on the structural adjustment of pesticides for agricultural use and pesticides. All indications indicate that in the coming period, the state will also issue a series of administrative measures to promote the structural adjustment of the pesticide industry. If new pesticide companies have higher access thresholds, companies will continue to be more rigorous in their approval review, and the elimination of existing pesticide production enterprises with small scale and low technical equipment level will increase, and the policy pressure faced by pesticide companies will increase. getting bigger.
How to improve the quality of the pesticide industry in Zhejiang The industrial level is low and the technology content is not high, which in turn leads to the prominent contradiction between repeated construction and disorderly competition in the pesticide industry. These are considered to be common problems in Zhejiang and even in the pesticide industry in China. For the pesticide industry how to achieve quality improvement, Zhou Tufa believes that it should start with four aspects:
Pay close attention to the optimization of layout and the improvement of the level of technological equipment of enterprises. If the optimization of the layout is a matter of concern to the government, then the issue of upgrading of technical equipment should become a top priority for pesticide companies. Pesticide production involves many materials, complex reaction processes, and high requirements for equipment. Accelerating the upgrading of technical equipment and striving to achieve a greener production process is an inevitable way to improve the quality of the industry.
Improve corporate innovation capabilities and achieve innovative development. Pesticides and even the development of the entire chemical industry will require us to base ourselves on the existing foundation for a considerable period of time. We will make full use of capacity and seek new development in adjustments and upgrades. Enterprises should make breakthroughs in optimizing construction layout, adjusting product structure, joint reorganization, and management innovation according to actual conditions. In particular, attention should be paid to the development of large-tonnage, low-value-added pesticides and small-tonnage, high-value, refined pesticides. . It is necessary to go beyond its own characteristics, but also to avoid doing everything in one go and not to engage in low-level and redundant construction.
Strengthen business management and actively promote responsible care. The National Petrochemical Association has organized 17 enterprises and parks to implement Responsible Care this year; the provincial government will soon issue "Several Opinions on Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility". Pesticide companies should attach great importance to this and take effective measures. In accordance with the requirements of modern enterprise system, we must actively promote the innovation of institutional mechanisms and accelerate the transition to modern enterprises; we must innovate management methods, optimize management processes, accelerate the integration of information and industrialization, and strive to establish a good Corporate and industry image.
Solidly promote energy conservation and emission reductions. Being in a high-pollution and key energy use industry, pesticide companies should pay more attention to energy conservation and emission reduction. As long as the enterprises are willing to increase investment in technical equipment and waste management, introduce advanced equipment, change the old face of exposure, filtration, transportation, etc., and move toward confined and pipeline production, the image of pesticide companies is dirty, chaotic, and bad. Basic changes can be made.
Industrial upgrading can not be achieved at the same time For the current prominent phenomenon of outflow in the pesticide industry in Zhejiang, Zhou Zhu is also very concerned. He said that industrial upgrading cannot be accomplished overnight. Higher-level industries need higher-level elements to support, strong financial support, high-quality human capital, high-level innovation capabilities, and government services with comparative advantages, but also need time and process. When the comparative advantage of a lower level in a region is lost and the comparative advantage of a higher level fails to be created, the hollowing out of regional industries is inevitable. In the past two years, the number of pesticide enterprises in Zhejiang increased, the foreign investment was basically absent, and the total input of all parties to the pesticide industry was relatively insufficient. The input quality was not high, which restricted the development potential of the pesticide industry. All indications indicated that Zhejiang’s pesticide industry We must speed up the implementation of structural upgrading. We are currently actively conducting research and striving to achieve something.