Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Steel prices will be reduced from 800 to 200

On July 20, at the press conference for the economic operation of the industrial communications industry held in the first half of the year, the new office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, Chen Yanhai, said that he tried to achieve a large scale through joint restructuring and elimination of backward production capacity. Reducing the number of steel companies, the current number of steel companies will be substantially reduced to about 200.

In response to outside arguments, Zhu Hong, spokesman for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, denied that China's economy will “double bottom”. He said that the growth rate of Chinese industry will exceed 11% throughout the year.

Steel companies face large-scale restructuring

According to incomplete statistics, there are currently more than 1,000 steel companies in China, of which more than 70 large and medium-sized steel enterprises are on the scale.

In late June, the State Council pointed out that it is necessary to nurture 6 to 7 ultra-large steel group with strong strength, and strive to increase the proportion of domestic top 10 steel enterprises in the national output from 44% in 2009 to 2015. More than 60%.

The reporter of the "Daily Economic News" was informed that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology last week issued regulations on production and operation of the steel industry, and made a series of access regulations for steel enterprises in terms of environmental protection, energy consumption, and production scale. Among them, the steel mills will The entry threshold for production scale is set to - 1 million tons of crude steel production by Pu Steel Corporation in 2009, 300,000 tons or more of special steel enterprises, and the ratio of alloy steel is greater than 60% (excluding 100% of alloy steel High-speed steel, tooling and die steel and other specialized enterprises). This move is seen as an important step in managing the excessive growth of production capacity and imperfect management in the Chinese steel industry.

At yesterday's press conference, Chen Yanhai said that through the implementation of regulatory conditions, he tried to further standardize the order of production and operation of the steel industry. The quality, environmental protection, energy consumption, equipment, safety, corporate responsibility, and production scale proposed in accordance with the production and operation standards To regulate, while significantly reducing steel prices.

In terms of the implementation of the regulatory conditions, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will be used as a basis for projects approved and filed by the relevant departments to control the steel industry's investment and excessive growth in production capacity; at the same time, the standard conditions are used as a basis for rational allocation of ore resources; ** and investment in social investment and investment.

Deny economic "secondary bottom"

The debate over whether China's economy has bottomed out has been ongoing. At the press conference yesterday, Zhu Hongren, spokesman of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the fall in industrial growth has not only affected the base of last year but also was the result of active regulation. As a result, China’s economy does not have a “double bottom”. may.

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China, the industrial added value of above-scale industries increased by 13.7% year-on-year in June, which was a 2.8 percentage point slower than that of the previous month. This is the month with the largest drop in monthly growth rate since this year.

"The deceleration of growth rate is not only modest, but also conducive to promoting the adjustment of industrial structure and the transformation of development methods, which will help maintain the stable and rapid development of the industrial economy."

Zhu Hongren stated that stabilizing macroeconomic policies, consolidating and developing the economy and continuing to recover from the good situation remain the main tone of economic work in the second half of the year.

The main orientation of economic policy in the second half of the year is to maintain the continuity and stability of economic policies. At the same time, it also increases the pertinence and flexibility of macroeconomic control, and prioritizes and prevents the occurrence of superposition effects of various unfavorable factors.

According to Zhu Hong’s specific analysis, taking into account the factors of the base of last year, the industrial economy was basically stable. In the first quarter of last year, the growth rate of industrial added value above designated size was 5.1%, and the growth rate in the second quarter was 9.1%; corresponding to the growth rate of 19.6% in the first quarter of this year and 15.9% in the second quarter.

Looking at the monthly trend, due to the monthly increase in the growth rate in the first half of last year, the growth rate in June of this year fell from 20.7% in the first two months month by month to 13.7%, of which the growth rate in June was 2.8 percentage points lower than that in May. This is the month that has fallen the most since this year. The increase in the base rate affects about 65% of the decline in June this year.

Judging from the effect of macro-control, Zhu Hong Ren thinks that policy factors have played a positive role in restraining the excessive growth of some high energy-consuming industries. In the first half of the year, the value-added of the six high-energy-consuming industries increased by 17.2% year-on-year, a decrease of 2.4 percentage points from the first quarter.

Industrial growth exceeded 11% throughout the year

However, Zhu Hongren pointed out that despite the general improvement in the economic situation, there are still many difficulties and problems facing the economy.

First, the prices of energy and raw materials have fluctuated significantly in the first half of the year. Second, the pressure of labor pressure, especially wage costs, has increased significantly. Since the beginning of this year, labor wages in the coastal regions such as the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta have generally risen by 20% to 25%. Third, small companies have seen a significant increase in financing difficulties compared with last year, and there are also some export-oriented processing and manufacturing companies. In particular, labor-intensive companies are more sensitive to changes in the macro environment, and now they are overwhelmed by large orders and long orders. Fourth, although external demand is gradually recovering, the foundation for the recovery of the world economy is still quite fragile, and the export situation with rapid recovery is uncertain, especially in the second half of this year.

Judging from the year-round operating trend, due to the impact of last year's "low before and after high" trend, it is expected that the industrial growth rate in the second half of the year will decline to a certain extent, and the annual growth rate can exceed the 11% expected target set at the beginning of the year.

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Ministry of Commerce: New Foreign Trade Policy Recently Promulgated

Every reporter Liu Xi from Beijing

On July 20, at a regular press conference convened by the Ministry of Commerce, Yao Jian, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce, pointed out that foreign trade has recovered rapidly on the basis of a low base last year, but the situation remains complex and severe. The development situation in the latter part of the year is not optimistic. In the first half of the year, China’s imports and exports totaled 1,354.9 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 43. Among them, exports reached US$705.1 billion, an increase of 35.2%, an increase of 5.7% over the same period of 2008; imports reached US$649.8 billion, an increase of 52.7%, compared to 14.2% in the same period of 2008.

At the same time, in the first half of the year, the value of new contracted contracts for foreign contracted projects in China was 54.94 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 15%; and 190,000 laborers of various types were sent, which was a decrease of 0.4 million over the same period of last year.

In the first half of the year, China suffered a total of 38 cases of trade remedy investigations. In addition, the previous year's high-accused case rulings continued to be implemented. The cumulative effect of multiple cases on exports in the next period should not be underestimated.

Yao Jian said that the growth momentum of foreign demand has slowed down, the pressure on corporate costs has increased significantly, the trade friction situation is still grim and other factors at home and abroad have been superimposed and aggregated, making the development of foreign trade in the late period unacceptable.

In response to Premier Wen Jiabao's talks with Xi'an, foreign-funded enterprises, and German companies, German companies thought that they had encountered an unfair attitude in government procurement. Yao Jian also gave a response.

He said that both the actual opening of the Chinese market and the open field are leading. In terms of market opportunities, we have statistics showing that 55% of the international tenders for mechanical and electrical products are obtained by foreign-funded enterprises; in terms of investment environment and investment approval, we have spent a lot of effort on delegating 90% of the approval authority, and the approval time has been greatly shortened. .

And whether it will issue an opinion in the near future to speed up the transformation of foreign trade development. Yao Jian revealed that a plan has been initially formulated to further promote imports, further optimize the structure of exports and overseas investment, and further promote the extension of the value-added trade chain. We are also working with relevant parties to refine and improve relevant policies and measures.

He also said that in the process of research and discussion, he will pay more attention to how to further promote the coordinated development of exports and imports and strengthen the role of imports; how to further diversify the trade market is not only the traditional European, American and Japanese markets, but also Focus on emerging markets; how to combine traditional trade exports with overseas investment operations; how to focus on brands, marketing and after-sales services, and so on.