The development of private enterprises cannot be separated from the strong support of the government. The picture shows the Central Government, the National Government, and the Central Military Commission. During the visit of the Shandong Dongyue Group, they had a cordial conversation with technical personnel to learn more about the development of new materials. (Zhu Peng photo)

Sinochem New Network News On November 15, the Customs Information Network exclusively issued the list of the top 100 Sinopec Exports in the first half of 2011. There are 37 chemical manufacturers in the finalists. Sinopec subsidiary China International Petrochemical United Co., Ltd. ranked first. Yunnan Yuntianhua Group Co., Ltd. is the highest ranking chemical company and ranks 11th.

It is understood that the Customs Information Network is the top 100 list that has been obtained by sorting the export value of the relevant export enterprises of the petrochemical industry in the country. And this top 100 list also conveys a lot of information.


The products are mostly resource-based. The reporters found that the products that were selected by the top 100 companies were mainly products for production of resource-based chemical products. For example, more than half of the companies are mainly engaged in refined oil and petroleum refining operations. Sinopec and Sinopec, which specialize in petroleum refining operations, and China Shipbuilding Fuel Group, which specializes in the offshore oil supply business, rank among the top 10. There are also some subsidiaries of PetroChina, Sinopec, Sinochem Group and China Shipbuilding Fuel Group in the top 100 list.

Finalist chemical companies are also concentrated in the main fields of phosphorus chemical industry, fluorine chemical industry, titanium dioxide production.

The highest ranked chemical company is Yuntianhua Group, the largest phosphate and compound fertilizer producer in China. The other two major phosphate producers in China, Koufu Group and Kaifeng Group, also ranked top, ranking 24th and 33rd respectively. Among the chemical companies that are shortlisted, companies that specialize in fluorine chemical products are also very eye-catching. A total of 4 fluorine chemical companies were on the list, ranking 41st and 42nd respectively in Changshu San Aifu Zhonghao Chemical New Material Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Suihua Fluorine Chemical Co., Ltd., as well as Shandong Dongyue ranked 52nd. Polymer Materials Co., Ltd. ranked 61st Jiangsu Kangtai Fluorine Chemical Co., Ltd.

According to analysis by industry insiders, the fluorine chemical industry's export ranking ranks high, and the price of fluorine chemical products has risen in the first half of this year. Wang Fengtao, general manager of Juhua Group, told reporters that the popularity of fluorochemical products in the first half of the year was rare in the market in recent years. Not only did the product price increase, but also foreign demand continued to increase. It is understood that the market price of PTFE, one of the main products of several fluorine chemical enterprises as listed on the list, rose along the first half of this year, rising from 11,000 yuan/ton at the beginning of the year to 15,200 yuan/ton at the end of June. 50%. The increase in the prices of export products and the increase in demand in the foreign market have, to some extent, led to the growth in the exports of fluorine chemicals companies. The fluorine chemical industry chain is long. Its products include high-end industries such as nuclear industry, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and lithium batteries, and belong to fine chemical products with high added value. However, industry sources told reporters that China's current large-scale production of fluorine chemical products is mainly refrigerants, hydrofluoric acid, polytetrafluoroethylene and other low-end products, the current exports of fluorine chemicals are also concentrated in the low-end. The high-end products need a large number of domestic imports each year.

Similar to fluorochemical products, titanium dioxide was also very popular in the first half of this year, and export volume and price rose. According to customs data, from January to June, the cumulative volume of titanium dioxide exports was approximately 209,000 tons, an increase of approximately 114,000 tons compared with the same period of the previous year, an increase of 119.4%. With the continuous increase in the cost of raw materials and the strong external market conditions, the domestic price of titanium dioxide has repeatedly hit a record high. In the list, there are two main companies listed on the titanium dioxide company, namely Sichuan Longxi Titanium Industry Co., Ltd. and Henan Lili Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.

Looking at the top-notch domestic enterprises in the petrochemical industry, whether it is a petrochemical company that is mainly engaged in petroleum refining, or a phosphorus chemical company, a fluorine chemical enterprise, or a titanium dioxide enterprise, it is not difficult to find that these enterprises are Resources minerals such as petroleum, phosphate, fluorspar, and titanium are inextricably linked, relying on resources to a certain extent, and the major export products are concentrated in resource-based and low-value-added areas. The list of many export companies also has some connection with the short-term price of the product.

The employee of Jiangxi Guixi Fertilizer Co., Ltd. is packaging and exporting DAP. (photo by Huang Yaozhen)

Private enterprises have many innovation powers Although nearly two-thirds of the companies that are listed as top 100 exporters are state-owned enterprises, private enterprises account for half of the total. The reporter found that although there are not many private enterprises that are listed as top 100 exporters, they have some common points.

First of all, selected private enterprises are leading in their respective fields.

The only private chemical company ranked among the top 50 is Jiangsu Xingye Plastic Chemicals Co., Ltd. and its parent company, Jiangsu Sanfangxiang Group, is one of the largest polyester manufacturers in the world. Shandong Dongyue Chemical Co., Ltd., ranked 51st, and Dongyue Polymer Materials Co., Ltd., ranked No. 52, belong to Shandong Dongyue Group. Dongyue Group is the largest fluorosilicone material production base in Asia, and its leading product in terms of green environmental protection refrigerants and PTFE equipment ranks first in the country. The two titanium dioxide companies that entered the list are all private enterprises. The Sichuan Longxi Group is the largest titanium dioxide company in the country. The company recently announced that it will invest 16 billion yuan to build an ultra-large* phosphorus-titanium integration project with an annual output of 3 million tons of phosphate, 6 million tons of ** and 600,000 tons of titanium dioxide, and pledged to build the world's largest titanium dioxide production base. .

Henan Ji Li Lian Co., Ltd. is the largest exporter of domestic titanium dioxide, and its export volume ranks first in the country for three consecutive years. It is understood that the company's titanium dioxide increased from 54,700 tons in 2008 to 102,000 tons in 2010, and now it has reached 120,000 tons, and its output jumped to the top three in the country.

Ranked 73rd, Shandong Haili Chemical Co., Ltd. is the largest epichlorohydrin manufacturer in Asia and one of the largest adipic acid producers in China. Ranked 83rd, Jiangsu Chengxing Co., Ltd. is the largest fine phosphorus chemical production and sales company in China.

Second, private companies on the list mostly focus on technological innovation.

Henan Shenglilian Co., Ltd. is a national high-tech enterprise and has a provincial-level enterprise technology center. It is the main drafting unit for China's plastic profile, cosmetics, zirconium dioxide and other zirconium products and aluminum sulfate industry standards. Sichuan Longxi Group is also a national leading enterprise in scientific and technological innovation, and is also a circular economy pilot company recommended by the National Development and Reform Commission. Sanfangxiang Group has two state-level high-tech companies, four provincial-level high-tech enterprises and one provincial-level technology center. There are 5 authorized invention patents, 35 national and provincial torch plans, and 60 high-tech products above the provincial level. Among them, new energy-saving PET materials have been recognized as national high-tech products by the National Torch Center. Dongyue Group is a well-known high-tech enterprise in China. It controls a large number of independent intellectual property rights and has broken a number of foreign technology monopolies. The company has been identified as a national key high-tech enterprise and has undertaken many major national projects. Jiangsu Chengxing Group was rated as a national high-tech enterprise as early as 2003.

In this regard, industry sources said that private enterprises do not have an advantage in terms of resources, land, capital, and access to information, so technological innovation has become a breakthrough for private enterprises to become bigger and stronger. At present, more than 65% of domestic invention patents come from private enterprises. More than 75% of technology research and development and more than 80% of technological innovations come from private enterprises. Private enterprises have taken the lead in independent innovation.

Third, the development of these listed private enterprises cannot be supported by national policies. Take Dongyue Group as an example. The development of Dongyue Group has received policy support from the central government to local governments at all levels. Leaders of the Party and the State including Wen Hao, Li Keqiang, and Li Yuanchao visited Dongyue one after another and spoke highly of Dongyue's major independent innovation achievements in the research and development of fluoride silicon materials, especially ion membranes. The Ministry of Science and Technology once sent a person to the site of Dongyue to support the Dongyue Group's perfluorinated membrane project, and listed the research project of perfluorinated membrane materials as a major project of the national “863” project and the research of perfluorinated membrane engineering technology. It is listed as a major project of the national "Eleventh Five-Year" technology support plan. Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government also attach great importance to Dongyue Group. The main leaders of Shandong Provincial Department of Science and Technology made special investigations to Dongyue Group and personally implemented various policies. The Shandong Provincial Government proposed to upgrade the Dongyue Ion Membrane Project on-site office meeting and listed the Dongyue Ion Membrane Project as a “high-tech project” in Shandong Province, which will support the industrialization of the ion-exchange membrane project. The Zibo City Government where the Dongyue Group is located has also given a lot of support. The city leaders have visited the Dongyue site many times to coordinate their difficulties. At the Zibo City Science and Technology Conference, the Zibo Municipal Committee and the Municipal Government also rewarded 50 million yuan of Dongyue Technology Support Fund.

Thanks to these supports, the Dongyue Group, as a private enterprise, has experienced such rapid development. It is not only the top 100 export companies, but also the top 100 companies in China's oil and chemical industry and top 100 Chinese private enterprises. See Dongyue Group's presence.

In the Dongyue Group, we can also see that as long as the state gives support to the policy, the private enterprise will be able to hand in a questionnaire that will satisfy the country.


The economic structure should be adjusted to the current status of chemical exports. Industry experts said that the structure of the petroleum and chemical industries has been constantly adjusted in recent years and has been significantly optimized. However, due to the pattern that has been formed over the years, there are still some problems that cannot be ignored in the industrial structure, product structure, and organizational structure. These problems are reflected in the aspect of exports, and they present the situation in which the enterprises mainly focus on low-value-added products with export resources.

China's crude oil dependence on foreign countries is as high as 50%, but of the top 100 companies that are listed as exporters, more than half of the enterprises are mainly engaged in refined oil and petroleum refining operations. In particular, PetroChina and Sinopec Corp. and its subsidiaries, which specialize in petroleum refining operations. On the one hand, crude oil is imported at a high price, and on the other hand, a large amount of refined oil is exported. Experts say this is due to the unreasonable domestic economic structure.

Han Xiaoping, chief information officer of China Energy Network, pointed out that the current oil industry has firmly grasped the dominance from the exploitation and import of crude oil from the upstream to the refinery in the middle reaches, and to the downstream sales of refined oil. . In the first three quarters of this year, although the two giants claimed that the oil refining industry had lost 64.639 billion yuan, the net profits of the two giants still exceeded 160 billion yuan.

Regarding the export of fluorinated industrial products, a professor-level senior engineer engaged in the fluorine chemical industry said that the main raw material for production of fluorinated industrial products is fluorite (fluorite). The main component of fluorite is ***, which is an exhaustable and non-renewable resource. China's fluorite reserves are 1/2 of the world's, and proved recoverable reserves are only 1/10, while output is as high as 1/2. Due to the scarcity of resources, the country has adopted fluorite export quota measures since 1999, but fluorite is still being exported. From 1999 to 2009, China exported a total of 9.16 million tons of fluorspar. During the period, it exported 780,000 tons of hydrofluoric acid, equivalent to 1.79 million tons of exported fluorspar. The direct and disguised exports of fluorite totaled 10.95 million tons, accounting for approximately 8.4% of the proven reserves of China’s major fluorite resource provinces. The State shall exercise strict total control over the exploitation of fluorite resources and the export of hydrofluoric acid products, gradually reduce the export of primary fluorine chemical products, and avoid the loss of resources in disguise. And to guide the fluorine chemical industry to the production of low-pollution downstream of hydrofluoric acid or pollution-free, high-tech, high value-added fine chemical products direction.

Professor Cao Yiping of China Agricultural University believes that the structure of chemical products is very irrational. It is mainly manifested in primary products and low value-added products, and there are few high-tech products and high value-added products. For example, the fertilizer industry. In recent years, while the domestic production of chemical fertilizers has increased significantly, the amount of chemical fertilizers has also been steadily rising. Some companies regard fertilizer exports as an important way to digest their own production capacity. This is incompatible with the country’s general direction of ensuring domestic agricultural needs and restricting the export of resource products. Fertilizer companies should pursue the diversification of varieties of fertilizer products and produce more special fertilizers, organic fertilizers, and slow-effect fertilizers.

Among the enterprises that were listed among the top 100 exporters, more than half of the enterprises are mainly engaged in refined oil and petroleum refining operations. The picture shows the refinery of a Sinopec refinery.