After decades of rapid development, China's plastic products industry has undergone tremendous changes. During the 12th Five Year Plan period, China's plastic products industry has been developing in the adjustment, transformation and upgrading of industrial structure. In recent years, China's plastic products industry has maintained a rapid development trend, with the production and sales volume ranking first in the world, among which the plastic products output accounts for about 20% of the world's total output. According to statistics, in 2017, the number of Enterprises above Designated Size in China's plastic processing industry increased by 15350 from 12963 in 2011, while the market competition intensified, the industry concentration was further improved; over the same period, the main business income of Enterprises above designated size increased from 1558.4 billion yuan to 2280 billion yuan, with a compound annual growth rate of 7.93%.
From January to August 2018, the accumulated main business income of plastic product manufacturers was 1242.63 billion yuan, an increase of 6.5% year on year; the total profit was 62.49 billion yuan, an increase of 0.8% year on year.
In recent years, thanks to the "stable foreign trade" policy, the export of domestic plastic products has maintained a good growth trend. According to the statistical data, from 2011 to 2017, China's export of plastic products increased from 7.95 million tons to 11.73 million tons; during the same period, the export of plastic products increased from US $23.468 billion to US $39.81 billion. In general, under the favorable policy, the export of China's plastic products industry will show a stable growth trend.
From March to June 2018, the export volume of China's plastic products showed an upward trend. In June 2018, the export volume of China's plastic products was 1185000 tons, an increase of 11.8% year on year. In July 2018, the export volume of China's plastic products dropped, and in August September 2018, the export volume of China's plastic products picked up; in September 2018, the export volume of China's plastic products was 1183000 tons, an increase of 23.2% year on year.
From January to March 2018, the export amount of China's plastic products decreased significantly. In March 2018, the export amount of China's plastic products was US $25.30 million, down 22.5% year on year. From April to June 2018, the export amount of China's plastic products showed a growth trend. In June 2018, the export amount of China's plastic products was 39.67 million US dollars, up 14.3% year on year. From July to September 2018, the export amount of China's plastic products picked up. In September 2018, the export amount of China's plastic products was US $3.889 billion, an increase of 18.5% year on year.
China's plastic products industry has a high regional concentration, and gradually formed a pattern of rapid development in other regions with East China, central China and South China as the core production areas. The market share of the top six provinces (Zhejiang, Guangdong, Henan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Sichuan) in China's plastic products production is more than half of the national market. Among them, the output of plastic products in Zhejiang Province is 10.7297 million tons, accounting for 13.90% of the national market output of plastic products, ranking the first in China. In the future, with the rapid increase of demand for plastic products in automobile, consumer electronics, medical and other industries, the regional distribution of China's plastic products industry will be more reasonable.
II. Development trend of China's plastic products industry
At present, China's plastic products industry is in a critical period of transition from high-speed growth zone to industrial maturity and towards the middle and high-end of the industry, which has changed from high-speed growth to medium and stable growth. The plastic products industry has ushered in new development opportunities and business situation.
(1) the market space is large, and the industry will continue to grow. With the gradual transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure, the proportion of high-end products will gradually increase, the basic supporting service function will continue to improve, the output of plastic products will continue to grow, the market space will still be large, and the output value can maintain a high growth rate. Under the condition that the basic application field meeting the general needs of the society will maintain a steady growth, the high-end application field In the gradual strengthening, it can be seen that the plastic products industry is still in the rising development stage, and the transformation and upgrading are steadily advancing. The development trend of "plastic instead of steel" and "plastic instead of wood" provides a broad market space for the development of plastic products industry. In the future, with the technological progress and consumption upgrading of modified plastics in China, China's plastic products industry will continue to grow.
(2) in terms of industrial layout, East China, South China and central China are relatively concentrated areas of China's plastic products industry, forming a number of influential industrial clusters. Under the strong promotion of national and local government policies, the construction of industrial clusters will be carried out in the next step around the implementation strategies of green, ecological, low-carbon and recycling, and will extend from simple processing operations to the whole industrial chain with high technology content and high added value. So as to promote the stable, healthy and sustainable development of plastic processing industry cluster and further enhance the overall competitiveness of plastic products industry.
In addition, new molding technologies such as super shear plasticizing, power ultrasonic plasticizing and micro laminating are applied to the plastic processing, which not only improves the processing technology level, but also effectively reduces the energy consumption in the production process. In the future, with the continuous expansion of market demand, new materials and technologies in the plastic products industry will be further promoted
