Petrochemical parks explore open cooperation with multinational enterprises

At the "2022 Mayor's Forum" of the China International Petrochemical Conference co-hosted by the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation and the International Chemical Manufacturers Association (AICM) in Ningbo, domestic petrochemical gathering areas have demonstrated their determination and advantages in developing high-end petrochemical industry, saying that they will provide assistance and platform
for domestic and foreign enterprises to open up markets and realize the extension of industrial chain and supply chain.

The industry has a foundation for high-quality development

At the forum, Pang Guanglian, deputy secretary-general of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, pointed out that in the new changes, China's petrochemical industry has bucked the trend and shown many new changes and new characteristics
that are different from the past.

On the one hand, driven by the increasingly strong vitality of the domestic cycle, the petrochemical industry is promoting green transformation in development and achieving greater development in the new concept of green transformation, which is also promoting this traditional industry to undergo all-round and deep-level changes, and green has gradually become the background color
of high-quality development 。 On the other hand, China's petrochemical industry has basically had the foundation for high-quality development, and has formed coastal petrochemical industry clusters in the Bohai Rim, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions that mainly import crude oil and are close to the market; In the northeast and northwest regions, a petrochemical industry base dominated by local crude oil resources has been formed, with increasing industrial concentration and increasingly diversified market participants
.

In the face of the increasingly complex and severe external environment and the transformation of the supply and demand pattern of the industry, the requirements of the industrial chain and supply chain of China's petrochemical industry to achieve stable chain, complementary chain and strong chain are more urgent, and the industry must seize the opportunity and adapt to the changes and development trends of the environment in order to solve the contradiction between the mismatch between the technological level and the rapid development of emerging industries, the mismatch between the rapid growth of the industry scale and the development of international competitiveness, the mismatch between the rapid development of the industry and the level of carbon reduction technology, and the mismatch between the opportunity of information technology and the deep integration of digitalization
。

Petrochemical towns show their respective advantages

At the forum, relevant responsible persons from Ningbo, Neijiang, Beihai, Dazhou, Fangchenggang and other major petrochemical towns introduced their petrochemical industry layout planning and development, and demonstrated their determination and advantages
in developing high-end petrochemical industry.
They have said that they will provide assistance and build a platform
for domestic and foreign enterprises to open up markets and realize the extension of the industrial chain and supply chain.

Hua Wei, member of the Standing Committee of the Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and executive vice mayor, pointed out that in recent years, Ningbo has initially explored the work promotion mode of "leading benchmarking, chemical brain support, and small and medium-sized enterprise learning" around the digital transformation of the petrochemical industry, focusing on building a "breakthrough" in the core industries of the digital economy
.
The 1.
2 million mt/year ethylene project newly put into operation by Zhenhai Refining and Chemical in Ningbo Petrochemical Park took only 22 months from the start of construction to the start of production, becoming the most digital ethylene plant in China and selected as one of the top ten super projects
of central enterprises in 2021.
In the next step, Ningbo will anchor the new goal and new positioning of "building a global intelligent manufacturing innovation capital", adhere to the guidance of digital reform, make two-way efforts on the supply side and demand side, deepen the promotion of benchmarking demonstration, industry promotion, platform empowerment, ecological cultivation and other "government promising", and strive to create a new situation
of digitally-empowered petrochemical industry reform.

Chen Jianjun, vice mayor of Neijiang City, said that in terms of resource endowment, Neijiang shale gas exploration reserves are about 2.
2 trillion cubic meters, and the gas production in 2021 will be 4.
6 billion cubic meters, ranking first in the country
.
On this basis, Neijiang will continue to make good use of natural gas and other resource advantages, and do a good job in the carbon-one chemical industry with natural gas chemical industry
as the main body.

Sun Huanzhi, member of the Standing Committee of the Beihai Municipal Party Committee and executive vice mayor, said that the Guangxi Beibu Gulf Economic Zone is a green chemical industrial park in the forefront of the country, and Beihai will vigorously support the development of high-end energy and chemical industry chain, focusing on the development of olefin industry, aromatics industry, new chemical materials, fine chemicals, etc.
, and extend the development of polyethylene, polypropylene, polycarbonate, polyester and other high-end chemical products based on the industrial chain
.

Cui Dapeng, member of the Standing Committee of the Dazhou Municipal Party Committee and vice mayor, said that Dazhou aims to become the strategic fulcrum of the revitalization of the north wing of the Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle, and has invested 20 billion yuan to build 128 "smart Dazhou" projects, including information infrastructure, industrial development projects, urban management, etc
.

Wang Liejun, member of the Standing Committee of the Fangchenggang Municipal Party Committee and vice mayor, said that Fangchenggang is the first 100-million-ton port in western China, with four 100-billion-level pillar industries such as steel, non-ferrous metals and green new materials, and five 10-billion-level characteristic advantageous industries
such as electronic information, energy and equipment manufacturing.
In the "14th Five-Year Plan", Fangchenggang will focus on the development of new energy battery cathode materials, high-end coatings, food additives, pharmaceutical additives and other high value-added products
.

Wang Xiaosui, consultant of Zhanjiang Municipal People's Government and deputy commander-in-chief of the Special Headquarters for the Construction of Key Advanced Manufacturing Projects in the Economic and Technological Development Zone and Fenyong High-tech Zone, said that Zhanjiang has a world-class petrochemical industrial park on Donghai Island, focusing on the goals of integration, digitalization, low-carbon, high-end, innovation and safety, with BASF and China Science and Technology Refining as the leaders to promote the coupling development of
the petrochemical steel industry.
Among them, the output value of petrochemical industry exceeds 100 billion yuan, occupying an absolute advantage
.
In the future, we will accelerate the development of deep processing systems and adhere to building terminal industrial clusters
oriented by high-end coatings, automotive materials and integrated circuit chemicals.

The park explores cooperation with multinational enterprises

Multinational companies are also important participants
in this forum.
Haotian Bai, Chairman of the Board of Directors of AICM and President and CEO of Air Liquide China, said that as the representative of nearly 70 multinational chemical enterprises in China, AICM is committed to promoting the concept and principles of "Responsible Care" in China, advocating the implementation of cost-effective, technical and risk-controlled policies, and establishing the status and role
of the chemical industry in economic construction.
He hoped that multinational enterprises would have full exchanges and discussions with relevant governments, parks and Chinese chemical enterprises to address the common challenges faced in environmental protection, industrial development and energy transition, and promote the industry to achieve a higher level of sustainable development
.

In the discussion session of the forum, chemical parks and foreign-funded enterprises discussed
three topics: how to help the improvement and development of the industrial chain of the industry, the goals of carbon reduction and carbon neutrality and their realization paths, create a green business environment, and explore Sino-foreign technological innovation cooperation.

More than a dozen senior AIM members from multinational companies such as Air Liquide, Arkema, BASF, Cabot, Clariant, Covestro, Dräger, Evonik, ExxonMobil, Huntsman, INVISTA, LANXESS, Nourion, Kokai, WACKER and other multinational companies shared their views
with representatives of chemical parks.
While introducing their key industries and carbon emission reduction paths, representatives of multinational enterprises also put forward their needs and hopes
for cooperation between local governments and parks.

The relevant person in charge of the park said that foreign-funded chemical enterprises play an important role in the process of improving the local industrial chain, and play a key role
in technology teaching, promotion of advanced systems and management concepts, supply chain optimization, carbon neutrality and innovation.
At the same time, the park also provides assistance and platform
for foreign-funded enterprises to explore the market and realize the extension of the industrial chain and supply chain.