¡¡¡¡Zhejiang¡¯s petrochemical industry has developed to its
current glory from the scratch ever since the foundation of the PRC. Now it has
become one of the key industries in Zhejiang. According to the statistics of
petrochemical enterprises with an annual sales revenue of over RMB 5 million,
year 2005 sees a total sales revenue of RMB 224.6 billion, tax revenues and
profits of RMB 22.7 billion, profits of RMB 13.5 billion and an export value of
RMB 22.6 billion that are an increase of 35.3%, 20.5%, 18.2% and 32.8% over
those of year 2004 respectively. The industry has a total workforce of 300,000.
Sinopec Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Co., Ltd has become the biggest crude oil
processing base and finished oil export base nationwide; Henghua Group has
become the biggest nitrogen manufacturing base in China after its Phase I and
Phase II fluorin projects and its fluoro resin project are launched into
operation. Zhejiang Xin¡¯an Chemical Group Co., Ltd and Zhejiang Longsheng Group
are both leading in Asia in terms of their production capacity and output of
glyphosate fertilizers and dyestuffs respectively. Qianjiang Biochemical has
become the biggest manufacturer of validamycin A in China. A lot of key
projects, including Teijin Chemical's phase I project of 50,000t/year panlites,
project of Formosa Petrochemical¡¯s downstream products (300,000t/year ABS,
700,000t/year PVC, 600,000t/year IPA, etc), Yantai Wanhua's 240,000t/year MDI
project, Ningbo Yusheng Petrochemical¡¯s 600,000t/year PTA project, Hualian
Sanxin¡¯s 600,000t/year PTA project, etc, have been launched into operation
successively. Zhejiang¡¯s output of dimethyl formamide, engineering plastics,
various accessory ingredients, fodder additives and information-type chemicals
also occupy a big market share in China. ¡¡¡¡As is shown by the statistics of
2005, there are totally 2,146 petrochemical enterprises with annual sales
revenues of over RMB 5 million in Zhejiang. They produce as many as 10,000
different varieties of petrochemical products. Thus a well-established modern
petrochemical industry has come into existence incorporating chemical mining,
manure, pesticide, raw chemical materials, organic chemicals, synthetic
materials, special-purpose chemicals, rubber products, chemical machinery,
petroleum refining and other chemicals. Among all these products, the outputs of
pesticides, dyestuffs, fluorin chemicals, information chemicals, fodder
additives and others are leading in China. Refined chemicals even occupy over
50% of the national output and have always been leading domestically in the past
ten years.
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