The State Council Announces The Adjustment And Revitalization Plan Of Nonferrous Metals Industry

Nonferrous metals industry is an important basic raw material industry. It has many kinds of products, wide application fields and high industrial correlation. It plays an important role in economic construction, national defense construction, social development and stable employment.

In order to cope with the impact of the international financial crisis and implement the overall requirements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on ensuring growth, expanding domestic demand and adjusting the structure, ensuring the smooth operation of the non-ferrous metal industry, speeding up the adjustment of industrial structure and promoting industrial upgrading, the plan is formulated as a comprehensive action plan for the non-ferrous metal industry.

The planning period is from 2009 to 2011.

Since twenty-first Century, China's nonferrous metals industry has been developing rapidly, making remarkable progress in technological progress, improving the quality of varieties, eliminating backward production capacity, developing and utilizing overseas resources, expanding the scale of production and consumption, and becoming the largest non-ferrous metal producing and consuming country in the world.

In 2008, the total output of ten non-ferrous metals in China was 25 million 200 thousand tons and the total consumption was 25 million 170 thousand tons. Copper, aluminum, lead, zinc and nickel accounted for 20%, 32.7%, 37.8%, 33% and 9.5% of global output respectively, and the total consumption accounted for 27.2%, 32%, 35.7%, 35.7% and 35.7% of global consumption respectively.

Enterprises above Designated Size completed industrial added value of 576 billion 600 million yuan, accounting for 1.9% of GDP nationwide, and 3 million people directly engaged in non-ferrous metal production.

Since the second half of 2008, with the deepening impact of the international financial crisis on the real economy, China's nonferrous metals industry has been greatly affected, the prices of products have fallen sharply, production has been declining, domestic consumption is weak, the liquidity of enterprises is tight, and the industry is losing money.

At the same time, the deep-seated contradictions of China's nonferrous metals industry are still outstanding. Some products are overcapacity, the industrial layout needs to be adjusted, the degree of industrial intensification is low, the level of resource support is not high, the ability of independent innovation is not strong, the level of recycling is relatively low, and the elimination of backward production capacity is arduous.

It should be noted that after many years of rapid growth, the non-ferrous metal industry is bound to make a big adjustment objectively.

At this stage, the important role of nonferrous metals industry in realizing urbanization, industrialization and informatization has not changed. As a key supporting material for the development of modern high-tech industry, the status of the non-ferrous metal industry has not changed, and the fundamentals of industrial development have not changed.

We should make full use of the current favorable opportunities to speed up the elimination of backward production capacity, promote merger and reorganization of enterprises, raise the level of technology and key material processing capacity, promote the pformation of growth mode, and realize the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure.

At the same time, we should guide enterprises to "go out" and actively use overseas mineral resources.

(1) guiding ideology.

Comprehensively implementing the spirit of the 17th CPC National Congress, guided by Deng Xiaoping theory and the important thought of "Three Represents", thoroughly implementing the Scientific Outlook on Development and adopting comprehensive measures to stabilize and expand the domestic market in accordance with the general requirements of ensuring growth, expanding domestic demand and adjusting the structure. Taking the control of total quantity, eliminating backward production capacity, strengthening technological pformation and promoting enterprise restructuring as the focal point, we should promote the adjustment and optimization and upgrading of non-ferrous metal industrial structure, make full use of two domestic and foreign resources, focus on recycling, vigorously develop circular economy, improve the ability of resource support, and promote the sustainable development of nonferrous metals industry.

(two) basic principles.

We must adhere to the combination of crisis management and industrial revitalization.

Efforts should be made to solve the current difficulties faced by the nonferrous metals industry, ensure market stability, protect advanced productive forces, protect key enterprises, protect major varieties, and promote stable operation of industries; make full use of various favorable factors by market mechanism, speed up industrial restructuring and raise industrial competitiveness.

We must adhere to the combination of total control and optimized layout.

According to the energy, resources, environment, market and other conditions, we must strictly control the expansion of capacity, speed up the elimination of backward production capacity, promote the reorganization of upstream and downstream enterprises, support the development of deep processing in the central and western regions with resources and energy advantages, and optimize the industrial layout.

Adhere to the combination of independent innovation and technological pformation.

Accelerate the pformation of key technologies from introduction, digestion, absorption and innovation, from focusing on single technology research and development to integrated innovation.

We should actively adopt advanced and applicable technologies, accelerate technological pformation, improve the level of technological equipment and product quality, increase product variety, and reduce consumption of resources and energy.

Adhere to the combination of enterprise restructuring and institutional innovation.

We should strengthen institutional innovation, eliminate institutional obstacles that affect corporate restructuring, and create a sound institutional environment for promoting the development of non-ferrous metal groups and realizing cross regional and cross industry restructuring.

We should adhere to the combination of resource development and saving and utilization.

Rational exploitation and utilization of domestic non-ferrous metal resources, the development of domestic market, the control of the export of primary products, the encouragement of the export of deep processed products, the "going out" of the enterprises, the development of circular economy, the improvement of the level of recycling and utilization of resources, and the strengthening of resource conservation and comprehensive utilization.

(three) planning objectives.

Striving to maintain stable operation of the nonferrous metals industry in 2009, and enter the track of sound development in 2011, the industrial structure is further optimized, the mode of growth has changed significantly, and the ability of technological innovation has improved significantly, laying the foundation for the sustainable development of non-ferrous metals industry.

1. production has returned to normal level.

In 2009, comprehensive measures were taken to stabilize market demand and production operation. The production and operation of enterprises improved and the main financial indicators improved significantly.

2. eliminate backward production capacity on schedule.

In 2009, 300 thousand tons of backward copper smelting capacity, 600 thousand tons of lead smelting capacity and 400 thousand tons of zinc smelting capacity were eliminated.

By the end of 2010, electrolytic aluminum production capacity of 800 thousand tons could be eliminated.

3., we have achieved positive results in energy conservation and emission reduction.

The DC power consumption of the key aluminum electrolytic plants dropped to below 12500 kwh. The comprehensive energy consumption of crude lead smelting is lower than that of 380 kilograms of standard coal per ton, and the utilization rate of sulfur reaches over 97%. The waste heat is basically 100% recycled and the waste residue 100% is harmless disposed.

Annual energy saving of about 1 million 700 thousand tons of standard coal, saving about 6 billion kilowatt hours, reducing sulfur dioxide emissions of about 850 thousand tons.

4. progress has been made in corporate restructuring.

Formed 3 to 5 comprehensive enterprise groups with strong strength. By 2011, the proportion of the top ten copper, aluminum, lead and zinc enterprises in China accounted for 90%, 70%, 60% and 60% of the total output of the country respectively.

5., the ability to innovate has increased significantly.

We will strive to make breakthroughs in key technologies, energy saving and emission reduction technologies, as well as research and development, production and application technology of high-end products, and promote industrial technological progress, improve product quality and optimize variety structure.

The advanced technology such as oxygen enriched bottom blowing and so on has reached 70% of the lead smelting capacity, and the high-grade copper and aluminum deep-processing products such as frame materials, oxygen free copper and medium plate can basically meet the domestic demand.

6., resources support capability is further improved.

In 2011, the support capacity of copper, aluminum and nickel materials increased to 40%, 56% and 38% respectively. The development and utilization of coal and aluminum symbiosis resources were strengthened, and the scale of production of 1 million tons of alumina was formed. The proportion of recycled copper and recycled aluminum to copper and aluminum increased to 35% and 25% respectively, representing 6 and 4 percentage points higher than that in 2008.

(1) stabilize the domestic market and improve the export environment.

We should actively implement the national measures to expand domestic demand, improve product mix, increase effective supply, and meet the demand for non-ferrous metal products in downstream industries such as electricity, pportation, construction, machinery and light industry.

We should adapt ourselves to the needs of aerospace, defense, military and hi-tech industries, vigorously develop new products and new materials, cultivate new consumption growth points, and stabilize and expand the domestic market.

While continuing to strictly control the export of "two high and one capital" products, we should implement an appropriate and flexible export tax policy to support the export of deep-processing products with high technology content and high added value.

Pilot projects of processing trade were carried out for large copper smelting enterprises conforming to the access conditions of copper smelting industry.

We should speed up the pformation of the export mode and encourage the export of machinery and equipment, pport tools, electronic appliances, instruments and meters and other end products to promote the indirect export of non-ferrous metals.

We should actively respond to foreign trade conflicts such as anti-dumping.

(two) strictly control the total quantity and speed up the elimination of backward production capacity.

Strict implementation of the national industrial policy, in the next three years in principle, no longer approve the construction, expansion and expansion of electrolytic aluminum projects.

We must strictly enforce the access standards and filing system, and strictly control the new capacity of copper, lead, zinc, titanium and magnesium.

We will complete the elimination of reverberatory furnace and blast furnace copper production capacity, sintering pot lead production capacity, backward zinc smelting capacity and backward small pre baked electrolytic aluminum production capacity on time.

And gradually eliminate the energy consumption and heavy pollution lead smelting capacity of backward sintering machines.

(three) strengthening technological pformation and promoting technological progress.

The implementation of technical pformation and technology research and development special projects will focus on supporting key enterprises that conform to the state's industrial policies and approve or record construction according to regulations, as well as production enterprises of national defense, military, aerospace and electronic information key materials.

It is necessary to strengthen the research and development of advanced technologies such as short process technology for copper lead zinc smelting, efficient utilization of associated minerals, comprehensive utilization of tailings and red mud, high performance special copper and aluminum production process, regenerative metal maintenance performance, and the key technology of electrolytic aluminum such as tons of aluminum direct current consumption less than 12000 kwh.

It supports high quality and deep processing projects to fill domestic gaps and meet the needs of key areas of national economy.

Adopt advanced and applicable smelting technology to pform and eliminate backward production capacity and raise the level of technology and equipment.

(four) promoting enterprise restructuring and adjusting industrial layout.

Enterprises with strong strength such as copper, aluminum, lead and zinc will be encouraged to reorganize in various ways to achieve scale and collectivization and enhance industrial competitiveness.

It supports large scale backbone enterprises to carry out cross regional mergers and acquisitions, regional restructuring and reorganization of enterprise groups, and supports inter industry restructuring of aluminum enterprises and coal and power enterprises, and encourages reorganization of renewable metal enterprises.

We must strictly control the capacity of resources, energy and environment, and do not have the capacity of non-ferrous metal production in the conditional area. We should promote the mode of aluminum and electricity pool in the energy rich Midwest, especially in areas with hydropower advantages. The aluminum industry base approved by the construction of resources, energy and environmental capacity should extend the industrial chain, develop high-level and deep processing, and enhance competitiveness.

We must firmly implement the non-ferrous metal project designated by the special plan for the reconstruction of productivity and industrial adjustment in the Wenchuan earthquake stricken area.

(five) develop resources both at home and abroad and enhance the ability of resources support.

We should increase the domestic shortage of non-ferrous metal resources geological exploration, increase reserves and mineral reserves.

Large non-ferrous metal enterprises should be encouraged to invest in mine exploration and development and improve the self sufficiency rate of resources.

We should increase overseas resources development efforts to support qualified enterprises to wholly foreign-owned or jointly run mines.

Guide enterprises to abide by the laws and regulations of the host country, respect the cultural traditions and living habits of their countries, fulfill the necessary social responsibilities, and promote local employment and economic and social development, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.

Organize and implement relevant overseas investment projects.

(six) develop circular economy and make good use of recycling.

Supporting the adoption of advanced and applicable technology, developing copper, lead and zinc low-grade ores, associated ores, refractory ores, tailings and smelting slag, improving the comprehensive utilization level of resources, formulating a special plan for the utilization of coal and aluminum resources, grasping the demonstration project of high alumina fly ash utilization, making good use of the waste heat utilization of copper, lead and zinc smelting, and promoting the application of solid wastes such as waste residue and red mud to achieve zero emission of production.

We should speed up the construction of a non-ferrous metal recycling system covering the whole society, and support qualified regional construction of non-ferrous metal recycling market and dismantling the market.

Support qualified enterprises to adopt efficient, low consumption and low pollution technology and equipment, and build a number of production lines with annual output of more than 300 thousand tons of recycled copper and aluminum, so as to promote the scale of resources utilization, technical level and product grade, and reduce the consumption of mineral resources.

(seven) strengthen enterprise management and safety supervision, pay attention to personnel training.

Nonferrous metals enterprises should speed up the establishment of modern enterprise system, improve the corporate governance structure, strictly enforce the industrial policy, enhance the ability of foresight and judgement in the market, enhance awareness of risk prevention and enhance international competitiveness; speed up management innovation, strengthen quality management, strengthen safety production supervision, earnestly implement safety production responsibility system, improve management system and safety operation standard, strengthen energy conservation management and cost management, strengthen enterprise culture and talent team building, pay attention to training high-quality management and technical personnel, and promote sustained and healthy development of enterprises.

(1) improving exports