Only technological innovation can save my country's copper processing industry
In 2015, my country's copper processing industry mainly showed the following characteristics: The growth rate of production capacity and output did not decrease. In 2015, the output of copper products in my country reached 14.987 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 25.2%, an increase of 14.42% over the previous year. The provinces with the largest increase in output were Shandong, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Jiangxi, and Jiangxi ranked first in copper output. Big province. From the analysis of product consumption structure, the latest data shows that the current largest application market for copper processing materials in my country is copper cables for the power industry, and consumption accounts for about 50% of the total copper market consumption.
The investment in fixed assets has not been effectively controlled. In 2015, my country's non-ferrous metal processing projects completed a fixed asset investment of 330.341 billion yuan, accounting for 49.99% of the completed investment in the non-ferrous metal industry. It is still the hottest investment in my country. Among them, 553 copper rolling processing projects are completed, and the project investment is 52.567 billion yuan. Yuan, an increase of 35.44% over the previous year, accounting for 15.91% of the fixed asset investment completed in the manufacturing and rolling of ferrous metal alloys.
During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, my country has completed a total of 370.15 billion yuan in non-ferrous metal alloy manufacturing and rolling plus fixed asset investment, an average annual increase of 44%. The total investment completed in the first three years of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" was 737.29 billion yuan, equivalent to twice that of the five-year period of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", indicating that under the current situation, the control of non-ferrous metal production capacity expansion is not effective. At the same time, it can be seen from the top ten provinces and regions in terms of completed investment that production capacity is shifting to the central and western regions, effectively solving regional imbalances.
Import and export trade hardly improves. According to statistics, in 2015, my country imported 649,000 tons of copper processing materials, a year-on-year decrease of 3%; exports were 489,000 tons, a year-on-year decrease of 0.8%. It can be seen from the above data that the world's developed economies have insufficient demand for non-ferrous metals, and my country's non-ferrous metals export situation is slowly recovering. The formulation of short-term plans, annual plans, and investment plans should not have high expectations of the international market, and should still stick to domestic demand. At the same time, my country's non-ferrous metal processing industry is gradually showing the effect of promoting technological progress and industrial adjustment, and its dependence on high-precision processing materials such as special alloys, high-precision strips and rolled copper foils in developed countries has decreased.
Inefficient operation is still the main theme of the economic operation of the copper and aluminum processing industries. The latest data shows that the profit of processing enterprises accounts for a relatively high proportion of the total profit of the non-ferrous metal industry, but the profit margin of main business income is only 4%.
From the perspective of the entire non-ferrous metal industry, due to weak domestic and foreign non-ferrous metal demand, the prices of most varieties fluctuate at low levels. Due to factors such as the rigid increase in production cost factors, companies generally have difficulties in operating, with increasing losses and negative growth in profits from main activities. However, in terms of realizing profits, the situation is different. Relatively speaking, state-owned enterprises have declined, while private enterprises have grown; large and medium-sized enterprises have fallen, and small enterprises have grown; mining and smelting enterprises have fallen; and processing enterprises have grown. As far as the processing industry is concerned, although corporate profits have increased from statistical data, the increase is lower than the increase in output and main business income, and the profit margin of main business income is actually declining.
The industry's own efforts are the key
The ups and downs of raw material prices, the intensification of product homogeneity competition, the continuous decline of copper processing fees, and the slow recovery of domestic and foreign economic conditions have led to uncertain market demand, which has kept many copper processing enterprises in the era of meager profit.
"At present, the hope of the development of my country's copper processing industry depends on the improvement of the external environment and the industry's own efforts. The latter is the key and we can control it." Ma Shiguang, Sec
