In May 24th, the Guangxi Fangchenggang iron and steel base project in Guangxi, China’s south coast, and the Guangdong Zhanjiang iron and steel base project were officially approved. The two major steel projects are expected to be formally started at the end of this month.
Guangdong Zhanjiang iron and steel base project is located in Donghai Island, Zhanjiang city of Guangdong province. The implementation unit is Baosteel Zhanjiang iron and Steel Co., Ltd., the construction scale is 9 million 200 thousand tons of iron, 10 million tons of steel, 9 million 380 thousand tons of steel, the total investment is 69 billion 680 million yuan. The project will be implemented on the basis of accumulative compression of crude steel production capacity of 16 million 140 thousand tons in Guangdong.
The project of Guangxi Fangchenggang iron and steel base is located in the industrial park of Fangchenggang City, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, with the construction scale of 8 million 500 thousand tons of iron, 9 million 200 thousand tons of steel and 8 million 600 thousand tons of steel, with a total investment of 63 billion 990 million yuan. The project will be implemented on the basis of accumulative compression steel production capacity of 10 million 700 thousand tons in Guangxi and WISCO.
Two major projects get “quasi birth certificate”
Because of the international financial crisis and the state’s strict regulation and control of the iron and steel industry, the two major iron and steel projects have not been able to get the “quasi birth certificate”, so it is too late to start. It is understood that in the past few years, in order to allow the project to be approved, Baosteel, Wugang and the government of Guangdong and Guangxi have been communicating with the relevant government departments many times, and the production capacity has been adjusted to 10 million tons.
Last November 7th, things suddenly changed. The “development plan of the steel industry” issued by the Ministry of industry and information, which was issued by the Ministry of industry and information, stressed the need to optimize the industrial layout and change the “north and South light” situation in the development of the iron and steel industry. “The new steel base areas in Bohai and the Yangtze River Delta region are not laid out in principle”, and “to speed up the construction of Zhanjiang” The Fangchenggang coastal steel quality base will completely change the contradiction between supply and demand of steel in southeast coastal areas.
In order to implement the “steel industry adjustment and revitalization plan” and “the” “steel industry” “development plan” in 12th Five-Year, the steel production capacity of the region is compressed, the industrial layout is optimized and the industrial structure adjustment is promoted. The two major projects have finally got the “quasi birth certificate”.
Far-reaching significance to the optimization of the structural layout of the steel industry
The significance of the approval of the two major steel projects is far beyond the enterprise level. These two major projects are major projects of regional industrial transformation and upgrading, regional coordinated development and the construction of modern industrial systems. It is also a major project for China’s steel industry to accelerate the transformation of economic development mode, optimize industrial layout, and promote industrial structure adjustment.
For enterprises, the Zhanjiang project shoulders the important mission of enhancing the core competitiveness of Baosteel’s main industry. “We have been expecting to build two tens of tens of millions of tons of modern steel plants in the two most active coastal areas of the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta,” Xu Lejiang, the chairman of Baosteel Group, said at the group’s 2012 annual working conference. “The new steel plant is the choice we must make.” Choose. ” Wuhan Iron and steel is located in the inland area. After the imported iron ore is transported to the coast, it needs another diversion to the Yangtze River. The transportation cost is much higher than that of Baosteel. To this end, Deng Qilin, general manager of Wuhan Iron and Steel Group, said many times: “Fangchenggang base project is the lifeline of WISCO’s future development.”
From the overall layout of the iron and steel industry, the overall layout of the iron and steel industry in China is characterized by “north and South light” and “East and west”. The southeast coastal areas, especially the Pearl River Delta region, have long transported steel from other places, and the capacity of the 5 provinces and cities around the Bohai region is about 4 million tons, and nearly half of the surplus production flows to the south. Other areas of the main. This unreasonable layout has caused great crowding out and waste of public resources.
For example, the supply and demand of iron and steel in Guangdong has been unbalanced. Guangdong provincial government pointed out that the production of steel in Guangdong, including some low grade steel, less than 20 million tons, more than half of the steel needs to be in the foreign adjustment, the total steel demand in Guangdong will reach 50 million tons, the local steel production capacity is seriously inadequate, the existing production and marketing situation is unreasonable. For example, the plan of 10 million ton grade steel plant is expected to fill the shortage of Guangdong’s capacity and alleviate the industry’s concern about the supply and demand of the Guangdong iron and steel market.
However, the contradiction between supply and demand may be relieved, but it also faces uncertain factors, including a large number of elimination capacity and the need for a certain transition and the successful landing of the new horse project. There is also a problem that needs to be paid attention to: the products of the Fangchenggang project in Wuhan Iron and steel company are similar to the products of the Baoshan steel base in Zhanjiang, which is the same as the high grade electric board and automobile board. According to the development experience of the European Iron and steel industry, it is easy to cause excessive competition between the steel subjects who are too close to each other and weaken their competitiveness. Zhanjiang and Fangchenggang projects are two steel products with similar structure and similar distance. How can we achieve coordinated development in the future? This is a question worthy of serious consideration in the face of the two major steel projects.
It has a major impact on restraining productivity, upgrading the level and layout of exports.
The two coastal iron and steel bases have been formally approved, which is expected to improve the efficiency of steel enterprises, curb the capacity of the industry and promote the optimization of China’s iron and steel industry.
The prominent advantage of large coastal iron and steel bases is that factories built in Hong Kong have advantages of logistics cost, and the transportation costs of raw materials and finished products are reduced. For example, the Fangchenggang iron ore project in WISCO has saved more than 200 yuan per ton of raw iron ore than Fangchenggang from the first part of WISCO. Speeding up the construction of the coastal base will also save a lot of iron ore and coking coal freight.
In addition, the construction of coastal steel bases in Guangdong and Guangxi, the port wharf of Fangchenggang and Zhanjiang are close to 20 meters. At present, the Berthing Capacity of 200 thousand ton and 250 thousand ton cargo ships can be parked respectively.