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“Henan Province’s 14th Five-Year Plan for the development of strategic emerging industries and future-oriented industries calls for the creation of industrial clusters in the fields of chemicals, new energy, and new materials. The chemical industry must focus on the future directions of industrial development, strive to achieve cluster sizes in the tens of billions or even hundreds of billions, continuously advance industrial transformation and optimization, foster new business models, create new highlights, promote the development of strategically important emerging industries, and enhance the overall competitiveness of the chemical industry. ”Su Dong, executive vice president of the Henan Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association, said recently. Xiangcheng: Building a silicon-carbon new materials industry worth hundreds of billions. According to officials from Xiangcheng County in Xuchang City, most regions across the country are focusing on strategic emerging industries, which puts increasing competitive pressure on leading enterprises. In the development of the new silicon-carbon materials industry, Xiangcheng County also faces some issues and challenges that cannot be ignored. To this end, Xiangcheng County will take action in three areas to strive to build a silicon-carbon new materials industry cluster worth hundreds of billions. First is accelerating development further. Xiangcheng County focuses on key industries such as silicon-carbon new materials and photovoltaic new energy, continuously working to extend, supplement, and strengthen these industrial chains. It seeks out large-scale projects in the fields of emerging industries and advanced manufacturing, and plans to implement six major projects worth over 1 billion yuan each, including the third phase of Pingmei Longi New Energy project for producing 5GW of solar cells as well as anode materials. Once all these projects are completed, they will generate an additional output value of 38 billion yuan, helping to turn the new materials and new energy industries into key sectors for the transformation and development of Xiangcheng County. Second is further innovation and breakthroughs. Leveraging its resource advantages and keeping an eye on the frontiers of technology, Xiangcheng County has further strengthened its cooperation with universities and research institutions such as Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It has established laboratories for the entire coal tar processing chain, joint laboratories for new atomic catalysis materials, silicon material laboratories, and pilot production facilities for aerogel composite materials, in order to expand the development of high-end silicon-carbon materials and achieve significant breakthroughs in the field of chip-making silicon materials. Third is the further deepening of strategy. The **Development and Reform Commission’s Institute of Macroeconomics has been commissioned to develop a comprehensive plan for the establishment of a strategic emerging industries cluster for silicon-carbon new materials in Xiangcheng County, thereby facilitating the reorganization of the industrial structure and putting the development of these new materials on a fast track, with the aim of including them in the **strategic emerging industries development plan. At present, Xiangcheng County is actively working to establish a development framework characterized by connectivity and integration with \"China’s Nylon City\" in Yexian County of Pingdingshan City, as well as with the Pingdingshan High-Tech Zone, so as to ensure mutual support among these areas. The \"industrial corridor\" for advanced materials in southwestern Henan is taking shape. With the development of this industrial corridor, the silicon-carbon new materials industry cluster in Xiangcheng County will become a hub for such materials as well as for the photovoltaic new energy industry in the entire province, serving as an important strategic pillar for building a strong materials industry in the region. Jiaozuo: Promoting the leapfrog development of the lithium battery industry. At the beginning of this year, the Development and Reform Commission of Jiaozuo City issued the \"Plan for the Development of the Lithium-ion Battery New Materials Industry Cluster in Jiaozuo City\". According to the plan, during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Jiaozuo City will aim to build a lithium battery new materials industry cluster worth hundreds of billions. It will pursue leapfrog development of this industry cluster by focusing on six aspects: optimizing the industrial layout, strengthening investment attraction, promoting industrial innovation, enhancing the recruitment of talent and expertise, strengthening market entities, and expanding application areas. In terms of attracting investment, Jiaozuo City will carry out a special \"151\" initiative for on-site investment promotion, actively going out to seek opportunities and bringing in investors, thereby strengthening connections and facilitating the establishment of major projects in the city. To address the shortcomings in terms of talent and infrastructure, Jiaozuo City will focus on establishing a support mechanism for key enterprises in the lithium battery industry, and work to create **-level technology innovation centers for the lithium battery industry as well as quality inspection centers for lithium battery products. “Next, efforts will continue to optimize the development environment for the lithium battery new materials industry in Jiaozuo, further improve the industrial ecosystem throughout the entire life cycle of lithium batteries, and establish an important cluster of lithium battery new materials industries in the province. This will contribute to helping the province transition from being a major producer of basic materials to a leader in advanced materials, as well as to building a world-class new materials industry base worth trillions of dollars. ”The Jiaozuo Development and Reform Commission stated. Puyang: Developing new functional materials with regional characteristics. “Leveraging its strong foundation in the chemical industry, Puyang will continue to emphasize innovation-driven development, digital empowerment, green transformation, and cluster development. By making use of chemical management expertise, technical personnel, and a range of innovation platforms, it will facilitate the integration of traditional chemical industries with cutting-edge technologies, enabling ‘new growth’ to emerge from existing industries and thus fostering the development of industrial clusters for new functional materials with regional characteristics.” ”A responsible official from the Puyang Development and Reform Commission said that by 2024, the city’s new functional materials industry will have developed into a framework characterized by a comprehensive innovation system, a rational regional layout, and close coordination among upstream and downstream sectors. The scale of the cluster is aimed at exceeding 60 billion, with the goal of fostering 2 leading enterprises with a value of over 5 billion yuan and 10 enterprises with a value of over 2 billion yuan. Strive to reach advanced domestic levels in key areas such as new carbon-based materials, biodegradable materials, and green coatings, and establish a competitive advantage in strategic and critical material sectors including green additives, high-end polyolefins, and electronic chemicals. It is understood that, focusing on the key areas of the new functional materials industry cluster, Puyang City has planned and implemented 41 key projects with a total investment of 47.5 billion yuan. Among them, there are 29 projects under construction with a total investment of 38.12 billion yuan; 12 projects are planned to be constructed, with a total investment of 9.38 billion yuan. Zhoukou: Steadily advancing the biodegradable materials industry cluster. According to officials from the Zhoukou Development and Reform Commission, with the implementation and strengthening of environmental protection policies, biodegradable materials represent an emerging industry with significant economic benefits as well as low-carbon ecological advantages, thus holding great market potential. To this end, the Zhoukou Biodegradable Materials Industry Cluster has proposed a development strategy of \"based in Henan, targeting the whole country and reaching the world, in order to build a world-class biodegradable materials industry cluster.\" To achieve this goal, the industrial cluster will carry out advanced processing and comprehensive utilization of corn, develop supporting projects as well as initiatives to extend, strengthen, and optimize the industrial chain, and leverage the advantages of enterprises in the cluster to steadily advance its development. Zhoukou aims to establish a biodegradable materials industry cluster with core competitiveness on a national level during the 14th Five-Year Plan period; by 2025–2030, it seeks to turn this cluster into a world-class biodegradable materials industry cluster with an output value of 100 billion yuan. Specifically, from 2022 to 2024, an investment of 6.42 billion yuan will be made to complete 13 key projects worth over 100 million yuan each, including the construction of a plant capable of producing 60,000 tons per year of biodegradable polybutylene terephthalate adipate (PBAT), 10,000 tons per year of lactide, and 150,000 tons per year of polylactic acid, as well as a heating center for industrial clusters and the Henan Province Biodegradable Materials Industry Research Institute. These projects are expected to generate an annual output value of 13.5 billion yuan from core business activities and profits and taxes amounting to 3.3 billion yuan. Between 2025 and 2030, it is planned to establish a bio-degradable materials industry cluster with an output capacity of millions of tons in Dancheng. At the same time, investments will be made to set up factories in Henan, across China, as well as in Southeast Asia, West Asia, Eastern Europe, South America, North America, etc., with the aim of turning the Zhoukou bio-degradable materials industry cluster into a world-class cluster with an output value of 100 billion yuan. “We will leverage the pilot production base for nanomaterials in Henan Province to accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in this base, exploit the unique competitive advantages of the nanomaterials industry, and create a comprehensive service park that combines a startup incubator, an entrepreneurship park, and an industrial park. By 2035, achieve a nanomaterial industry cluster worth hundreds of billions. By then, Jiyuan will have more than 100 projects operating in its industrial parks and startup parks, with the total output value aiming to reach 100 billion yuan. ”The head of the Development, Reform and Statistics Bureau of the Jiyuan Demonstration Zone said.