The steel industry has a long way to go to speed up industrial concentration

Since the reform and opening up, the rapid development of China's steel industry has helped the Chinese economy achieve the fastest growth in the world.Today, in the steel industry to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, experts pointed out that the steel industry has broad prospects for development, but also faces severe challenges, building a higher level of steel power is still a long way to go, the current must attach great importance to the steel industry structure adjustment, speed up the improvement of industrial concentration.

Gao xiangming, chairman of the China iron and steel association, recalled that the steel industry is an important basic raw material industry, and China's steel industry is growing with the prosperity and prosperity of new China.In 1949, when new China was founded, China's steel output was only 158,000 tons, less than one thousandth of the world's steel output at that time.

The party and the state take the iron and steel industry as a major strategic support to realize the transformation from an agricultural country to an industrial country and make great efforts to develop the iron and steel industry.During the first five-year plan period, the state invested nearly half of the 156 Soviet aid projects in steel, forming a complete steel industry system through systematic construction.

After 30 years of development, China's crude steel output exceeded 30 million tons in 1978, accounting for 4% of the world's steel output, ranking the 5th in the world.

After the reform and opening up, China's steel industry ushered in a golden period of development in history.In 1996, steel output exceeded 100 million tons, becoming the world's largest steel country.Since 2003, it has scaled several steps of 100 million tons, exceeding 800 million tons in 2013 and 900 million tons last year, accounting for 50 percent of the world's steel output.Since the founding of the People's Republic of China 70 years ago, the growth of steel production, variety and quality has strongly supported the development of the national economy.

By the end of 2018, China had produced 12.18 billion tons of steel.Since the reform and opening up, 11.46 billion tons have been produced.Since the net export of steel in 2006 to the end of 2018, the net export of steel is equivalent to 710 million tons of crude steel, and the steel used in China for 70 years has reached 11.47 billion tons.

At the meeting, wu xichun, an adviser to the China iron and steel association, lamented that without the steel, it would be impossible to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and the per capita housing area in China's cities and towns would not increase from 8.3 square meters in 1949 to 39 square meters in 2018.Without this steel, the urbanization rate of nearly 60 percent would not have been achieved.Without the steel, there is no 131000 kilometers of railway especially 30000 km of high-speed railway and 4.86 million kilometers of roads and about 143500 km highway, there can be no has built more than 6000 km of urban rail transit, there can be no more than 230 civil aviation airport, it is impossible to produce 29 million vehicles, it is impossible to become the world shipbuilding powers and the world's first manufacturer of home appliances, engineering machinery manufacturing power, power generation and substation equipment manufacturer, the world's first manufacturing power, more than 200 kinds of industrial production in the world first.

In the magnificent 70 years, the biggest achievement of China's iron and steel industry is that under the leadership of the communist party of China (CPC), China adheres to the reform and opening up and embarked on the development road of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The market demand drives the development of China's iron and steel industry, and strongly supports the rapid growth of national economy and the continuous improvement of people's living standards.

Looking into the future, the iron and steel industry has broad prospects for development, but also faces severe challenges, to build a higher level of steel power, there is a long way to go, it needs unremitting efforts.Wu xichun thinks, current must pay great attention to structural adjustment of iron and steel industry, accelerate raise industry concentration degree.The adjustment of organization structure is the most general and fundamental adjustment among all kinds of structural adjustment of China's iron and steel industry.At present, it is the best time for the adjustment of industrial layout and the adjustment of enterprise organization structure to improve the industrial concentration ratio to meet the various preparations for the fourth industrial revolution.