The 8th China International Steel Congress with the theme "reform, innovation and coorperation" was held in Beijing on May 18th. Mr. Su Bo -- vice minister of Industry and Information Technology Ministry, Mr. Liu Shijin -- vice director of Development Research Center of The State Council, Mr. Xu Lejiang -- chairman of China Iron & Steel Association, president and party secretary of Baosteel Group Co., Ltd., Mr. Zhen Junyang -- chairman of World Steel Association, executive consultant of POSCO Korea and other leaders attended the congress and made the keynote address. While Mr. Xu Lejiang was talking about the development and prospect of China international steel industry, he advocated that we shall seize the opportunity, promote the reform, innovation and cooperation, so as to make a contribution for the better future of the world steel industry.

This congress was hosted by CISA, supported by CSM and Worldsteel and undertaken by Metallurgical Council of CCPIT. The main chief leaders from various steel and equipment enterprises at home and abroad communicated with each other focusing on the policy environment, enterprise reform, organizational innovation, business model innovation, market innovation, technological innovation, product innovation and international cooperation, etc.

It is pointed out on the congress that China iron and steel industry has accumulated a lot of conflicts and problems while getting great achievements since the new century. Especially since the beginning of "the 12th five-year plan", with the development of international financial crisis and gradual slowdown of the economic growth of China, various deep-seated conflicts and problems which impact the industry development are increasingly prominent, such as excess capacity of steel industry, low profit, bad guarantee of the raw material and high pressure of energy conservation and environment protection. Only through deepening reform, expanding opening up and strengthening innovation, can the transformation and upgrading be fulfilled. After the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee, comprehensive deepening of the reform and implementation of innovation-driven development strategy have become the theme of economic and social development of China and steel industry development. On the other hand, cooperation between enterprises, industries and countries need to be strengthened urgently to solve the problems of excess capacity, resources and environment, so as to realize sustainable development. Primary purpose of the congress is to promote the steel industry to thoroughly apply and implement the spirit of the 18th CPC National Congress and the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee, comprehensively deepen the reform and opening-up, vigorously implement the innovation-driven development strategy, positively carry out the international cooperation, so as to promote the comprehensive transformation and upgrading of the steel industry and make better service for the national economic construction.

Mr. Xu Lejiang warmly welcomed the friends from iron and steel industry all over the world on behalf of China Iron and Steel Industry Association. He pointed out in his speech that China Iron and Steel Industry, as well as World Iron and Steel Industry have made outstanding contributions to the development of national economy, and fruitful effort for the friendly development of iron and steel industry environment. China Iron and Steel Industry has built a strong and complete system of modern iron and steel industry and owned a complete production process of steel manufacturing through the development since the reform and opening-up policy, especially the development of recent more than ten years. The gap of technical level between the China Iron and Steel Industry and the world advanced countries is gradually narrowing, technical and management innovation abilities are being improved, and the independent innovation system has been preliminarily formed. Under the promotion of reform, opening-up and sustainable economic development of the market economy, various iron and steel enterprises with different forms of ownership are developing synergistically; Product structure, organization structure and technical equipment are being optimized continuously; Management are being innovated ceaselessly; Capability of independent innovation are being improved constantly; Energy conservation and environmental protection level are being promoted continuously. By 2013, comprehensive energy and fresh water consumption per ton steel and the main pollution emissions have declined dramatically, comprehensive utilization rate of the solid waste resources have been increased substantially. Based on green development concept, some demonstration enterprises of the iron and steel industry turned up, such as Tangshan Steel, Taiyuan Steel, Baosteel, Qingshan plant area of Wuhan Steel and Jinan Steel, with international advanced cleaning production and environment friendly technique. Garden-like plants represented by Taiyuan Steel and Tangshan Steel with harmonious development with the city, circular economy and ecological industrial park represented by JingTang Steel, and some high quality private enterprises with harmonious development with villages and towns have been built.

Mr. Xu Lejiang said, while China Iron and Steel Industry satisfies the consumption demand under high-speed development of the national economy, a mass of conflicts and problems are accumulated during the high-speed development, which results in sharp decline of the steel market price in recent two years and rapid downturn of economic benefit of the steel and iron industry. Under double pressure of steel price fall and raw material price rising, production and management of the iron and steel enterprises are facing unprecedented difficulties. After analysis of the main reasons of the problems, Mr. Xu Lejiang emphasized that over a period of time in the future, China Iron and Steel Industry must follow the requirement of general objective of the national economy and social development, take the purpose of meeting the requirement of domestic economic development as the domination, keep a firm grasp on solving of excess production capacity, make the market play a decisive role on the allocation of resources, build a market order with fair competition, deepen the enterprise reform, speed up the transformation of development mode, stick to the green development concept, increase the intensity of independent innovation, comprehensively improve the development quality and efficiency, so as to realize the vision and target of building a modern iron and steel industry featured by resource conservation, friendly environment, sustainable development, strong innovation vitality, good economic benefit and strong competitiveness.

Mr. Xu Lejiang also made a detailed elaboration respectively that resolving of excess capacity is the main focus to solve the difficulties of present iron and steel industry and important grasp to speed up transformation and upgrading and realize healthy sustainable development; speeding up establishment of the market environment with fair competitiveness and playing a decisive role of the market are keys to solve the difficulties encountered during the development of the iron and steel industry and realize the vision and target; Deepening of the enterprise reform, establishment of enterprises' principle position on the market and strengthening of the enterprise vitality are the impetus to speed up structural adjustment of the iron and steel enterprise, change the mode of development and promote the competitiveness; Realization of effective self-discipline of the industry, providing of correct and effective information service for the industry is the important measure to realize orderly development of China Iron and Steel Industry; Energy conservation and environmental protection are the keys of survival and development of China Iron and Steel Industry, green development is the sustainable way for the iron and steel industry; independent innovation will be the important support and driving force for the development of China Iron and Steel Industry.




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