In 2013, the trend of building materials industry was mixed

This year's building materials industry can be described as a combination of good and bad: the growth of traditional building materials has been relatively slow, while the development of high-tech, high-value-added new building materials, such as cement products, technical glass, and light building materials, has maintained a strong rise, and structural adjustment has become active. The signal is that there is a serious overcapacity in the cement, glass and other sub-sectors of traditional building materials products and it is urgently needed to contain them.

Under the double factor superposition, the trend of China's building materials industry in the first half of this year was better than expected at the beginning of the year, but the overcapacity and the decline in efficiency still plagued the traditional proportion of traditional building materials products. The building materials industry urgently needs a green transformation.

15% growth guaranteed

In the face of last year's rapid decline in the growth rate of building materials industry production, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released an analysis report earlier this year that the building materials industry will focus on transforming and upgrading traditional industries, nurturing and expanding the inorganic non-metallic new materials industry, and vigorously developing production. *industry. The building materials industry will continue to maintain a steady and rapid development momentum. It is expected that the industrial added value will increase by 12% year-on-year this year.

After half a year in 2013, the trend of building materials industry revealed some positive signals.

Although the growth rates of traditional building materials such as cement, flat glass, and ceramics have been relatively slow, the sub-sectors such as concrete, cement products, technical glass, and lightweight building materials have maintained a strong growth trend, up 30% year-on-year, and the industrial added value of the building materials industry has grown year-on-year. Higher than expected earlier this year.

At the same time, exports of products such as building and sanitary ceramics, building stone, granite stone carvings, glass fiber and products increased slightly at the same time as product prices rose by more than two percent, and the industrial structure was further adjusted.

According to analysis by industry experts, China is currently at an important stage of industrialization and urbanization. The economic transformation and upgrading are in a critical period, and there is great potential and space for development. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, since the beginning of this year, investment in fixed assets across the country has maintained a growth rate of over 20%, and in particular, investments in the secondary industries and the central and western regions where building materials have a significant effect have maintained rapid growth.

Maintaining a reasonable investment scale, strengthening the construction of urban roads, rail transportation, and environmental protection infrastructure, etc. are actively advancing, and domestic effective demand is gradually being released. This will increase the demand for building materials to a certain extent, and the building materials industry is expected to gain business opportunities from it.

Experts predict that the building materials industry is still in a good period of development opportunities. Although there will be no further substantial growth, the overall development is good and it is expected to enter a new stage of development with steady speed and improved efficiency. It is expected that the operating environment of the building materials industry will be relatively better in 2012 than in 2012, and market demand is expected to increase. The building materials industry above designated size will still maintain a growth rate of about 15% this year, but the growth rate of the traditional building materials industry will be lower than the average growth rate of the industry and will face greater downward pressure; concrete and cement products industry, building stone processing industry, light building materials Industry, etc. will maintain a rapid growth of more than 20%.

Excessive capacity

Although the trend in the first half of the year was still unsatisfactory, “the issue of overcapacity in the building materials industry is still worrying. The key issues in the transformation and upgrading have not yet been broken,” said Qiao Longde, president of the China Building Materials Federation.

The traditional building materials such as cement, glass, building sanitary ceramics are in excess of the total amount and the production capacity is seriously in excess, and new production capacity is not really contained. After cement added 94 production lines in 2012, 16 new production lines were added in 2013. Float glass is under construction with 16 production lines. "Overcapacity has become a side call for construction, and the more you shout, the more it will be. This is the biggest harm to the structural adjustment of the industry and the economic operation." Qiao Longde said bluntly.

The pressure of production capacity has caused the decline in the level of benefits of traditional building materials, especially in cement, glass, building and sanitary ceramics, and it has shown that “increase will not increase income, and income will not increase.” Taking cement as an example, the output of products increased by 8.2% year-on-year in the first quarter, and sales revenue increased by 6% year-on-year, but total profits fell by 52% year-on-year. Flat glass production and sales revenue increased slightly, but if technical glass is not counted, it is still the industry-wide loss.

Experts analyze that the interaction between effective demand mitigation and overcapacity conflicts will not change the situation in the short term; the homogenization competition for products is still fierce, and the vicious competition among enterprises has not yet been effectively resolved, and the establishment of a fair competition order remains to be furthered. Deepen reforms.