The development directions for new chemical materials during the 14th Five-Year Plan period have been defined

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Clear directions for chemical new materials during the 14th Five-Year Plan period Author/Source: Sinochem New Network Date: 10-22-2019 Clicks: 83 During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the development of chemical new materials will accelerate significantly, and these materials will become key drivers of industrial progress. The focus of industrial development should be on improving the quality of existing products, accelerating the industrialization of products that are not yet available on the market, overcoming bottlenecks in the supply of key raw materials, developing high-end products at the downstream level, and promoting their wider use. This is the consensus reached by the participants at the 2019 (8th) China Chemical Industry Industry-University-Research Summit Forum, held in Zibo, Shandong from October 15 to 17. Zhao Zhiping, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Deputy Secretary-General of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, said that the era of large-scale expansion of production capacity in the chemical industry has come to an end. In the next five years, while strengthening traditional chemical industries, the focus will be on vigorously developing new chemical materials as a key area for growth in this sector. The development of the chemical new materials industry relies on the guidance of the market; the growth of industries such as new energy vehicles, biology, high-end equipment, new energy, environmental protection and energy conservation, as well as rail transit, urgently requires a wide range of functional chemical new materials to support them. At present, domestic new materials such as high-performance resins, high-performance synthetic rubbers, high-performance fibers, functional membrane materials, and electronic chemicals are far from sufficient to meet market demand; there is a supply shortage and an overall insufficient capacity to meet needs. The domestic production value for these materials amounts to only 400 billion yuan, while the market demand is 1 trillion yuan, meaning that another 600 billion yuan worth of such products still needs to be imported. “The market gap offers tremendous room for growth and market potential. It is expected that by 2025, the average annual growth rate of new chemical materials and high-end specialty chemicals in China will be around 8%, while the average annual growth rate of consumption for most conventional chemical products will be only around 4%. ‘During the 14th and 15th Five-Year Plans period, the development of the chemical new materials industry should focus on improving the quality of existing products, accelerating the industrialization of products that are not yet available on the market, overcoming bottlenecks in the supply of key raw materials, and expanding the development of high-end products and their applications. ”Zhao Zhiping emphasized. At the conference, experts and scholars from the front lines of scientific research, including Peng Xiaojun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a professor at Dalian University of Technology, presented research achievements and industrialization technologies in fields such as fine chemicals, new materials, and environmental protection and energy conservation. They also announced the top 10 green chemical technologies of 2019. The technology for \"developing new chlorine- and fluorine-free polyurethane chemical blowing agents\", invented by Professor Bi Yusu’s team at the Institute of New Polyurethane Materials of Shandong University of Technology, as well as the \"green catalytic synthesis technology for substituted aromatic amine series products\" developed by Professor Li Xiaonian’s team, head of Zhejiang University of Technology, and the \"technology for reducing emissions from sulfuric acid waste streams\" created by Professor Yang Qiang’s team, deputy dean of the School of Mechanical Engineering and Power at East China University of Science and Technology, are among those listed.