Some Advices on Hastening the Structure Adjustment of Cement Industry

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Updated 2006-05-23

These days, the Announcement of Some Advices on Hastening the Structure Adjustment of Cement Industry was issued by State Development Planning Commission, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Land and Resources, Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Business, People’s Bank of China, State Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision, and State Environmental Protection Administration. The announcement figures out that cement is one of most important raw materials in building of national economy, and our cement industry has developed very fast in these years, but there are also several problems of overplus and unreasonable structure. Now promoting the structure adjustment has become a significant but rough task during the eleventh-five years, so the government brought out the advices to direct the cement industry.
 
In the Advices, it brings out some directions and targets for the cement industrial structure adjustment, in which, it is said that till 2010, the cement anticipative output should reach 1.25 billion tons, the rate of new dry process cement reaches to 70%, bulk cement 60%, and the elimination of certain outdate production capacity is about 250 million tons cumulatively. In addition, the average production scale of cement plants should be brought up to 400 thousand tons from 200 thousand; the cement plant number decrease to 3500; and the production scale of top 10 cement plants should be above 30 million tons, in which, the productive concentration ratio increases to 30%, while the top50 cement plants should be 50%. The Advices also mentions that the clinker heat consumption of new dry process cement should decrease to 110 kg standard coal per ton from 130 kg, the productive lines of cogeneration should reach 40%, and the energy consumption should be reduced 25%. Otherwise, it requires reducing the discharge amount of dust greatly, applying the industrial waste slag (including fly ash, blast furnace cinder, etc.) above 250 million tons per year, and bring up the capacity factor of limestone resource to 80% from 60%.
 
Additionally, the Advices illustrates that we should make and perfect policies, hasten structure adjustment, support the development of large enterprises, encourage the companies to compete in world market, reinforce the management of the quarry resource, and develop the sustainable economy to urge the development of our industry in a healthy way.

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