Accelerated elimination of calcium carbide coking industry

At the beginning of this year, the National Development and Reform Commission announced the list of companies that were eliminated from the second batch of calcium carbide and coking industries. In Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, the eliminated production capacity accounted for about 70% of the total eliminated production capacity. The time for the announcement of the elimination list and the first batch of the previous list was less than three months, indicating that the pace of national elimination of backward production capacity is accelerating.
Calcium carbide and coking are the key industries for energy conservation and emission reduction. The backward production capacity is due to the simple equipment, high energy consumption, and serious pollution. It is the country's focus on governance and elimination in recent years. The Inner Mongolia and Shanxi provinces are the major provinces (regions) for the production of calcium carbide and coke in China, of which the annual production of calcium carbide accounts for more than 40% of the total national calcium carbide production, and coke accounts for more than 45% of the total national production. In these two provinces, there are a large number of small calcium carbide plants and small coking plants with a production capacity of 20,000 to 50,000 tons, which is the focus of mandatory closure.
The elimination of backward production capacity involved a total of 211 enterprises, including 20 companies in the calcium carbide industry, eliminated 22 outdated equipment, eliminated production capacity of 221,400 tons/year, 146 coking industries, eliminated 213 outdated equipment, and eliminated 12.23 million tons/year of production capacity. . Judging from the geographical distribution, the backward production capacity of the calcium carbide industry was mainly concentrated in Shanxi Province, involving 15 companies and 17 equipments. The phase-out production capacity was 107,400 tons/year; the outdated production capacity of the coking industry was concentrated in Shanxi and Inner Mongolia. In Inner Mongolia, there are 75 companies involved and 126 equipments. The phase-out capacity is 3.9 million tons/year. In Shanxi, 34 companies are involved and 34 equipments are used. The phase-out capacity is 4.89 million tons/year.
On October 12, 2007, the National Development and Reform Commission announced the first batch of companies in the calcium carbide and coking industries to eliminate backward production capacity. Total elimination of backward production capacity of calcium carbide was 221,400 tons/year, involving 20 companies and 22 backward equipment, among which Shanxi eliminated outdated production capacity 10.74. 10,000 tons/year, involving 15 companies and 17 equipments; elimination of outdated coking production capacity of 12.43 million tons/year, involving 146 enterprises and 213 outdated equipment, among which Shanxi has eliminated outdated production capacity of 4.89 million tons/year and 34 companies involved. Out of backward production capacity in Inner Mongolia was 4.2 million tons/year, and 76 companies were involved.
In the two elimination of backward production capacity on the list, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia have accounted for a considerable proportion, and calcium carbide, coking are all important pillar industries. Prior to this, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia have carried out centralized remediation work on the calcium carbide and coke industries.
Shanxi's requirements for the calcium carbide industry are: In principle, during the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, the new calcium carbide project will no longer be approved or documented. On the basis of eliminating backward production capacity and equal replacement, the calcium carbide production capacity in the province will be controlled at 2.65 million tons by 2009. By the end of the year, the backward production capacity of 58% of Shanxi's total production capacity will be eliminated. In Inner Mongolia, the calcium carbide industry is subject to a production quota restriction policy. In 2007, the output of calcium carbide in Inner Mongolia was limited to 5 million tons. In the future, it will continue to control and gradually reduce the calcium carbide production area and total production volume. The calcium carbide enterprises with high energy consumption per unit will Without allocation of quotas, companies that have already completed quota production during the year will stop the power supply.
China's calcium carbide industry as a whole has excess capacity. The average operating rate in the country is less than 50%, and the industrial profitability is poor. The backward production capacity not only has high energy consumption and heavy pollution, but also competes with large-scale production capacity for resources and seizes the market. It is understood that after the elimination of outdated production capacity, other scale installations will increase the operating rate to fill the market vacancies and have little impact on the overall supply of calcium carbide.
The coking industry is also facing the same problem. Shanxi is the largest province of coke production in China, with an annual output of more than 90 million tons, while the coking industry is also the largest polluting industry in Shanxi. To this end, Shanxi decided to shut down all backward and illegal coke production enterprises in the province by 2008, shutting down 103 coking projects and eliminating backward production capacity of 24.07 million tons.
Eliminating outdated production capacity, despite having an impact on local GDP, but on the whole, not only protects the environment, but also makes limited resources have been more reasonably applied. Taking the coking industry in Shanxi Province as an example, in the first half of 2007, the main business income of coke enterprises above designated size in Shanxi Province reached 43.117 billion yuan, an increase of 51.4% over the same period of the previous year; and the profit and tax was 5.948 billion yuan, an increase of 1.63 times over the same period of the previous year. At the same time, the industry's energy consumption per unit of 10,000 yuan in industrial added value and energy consumption per unit of GDP for the first time appeared a “double drop”, reversing the passive situation in which energy consumption continued to rise during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period.