Environmental protection equipment industry: Jinshan exposed sharp corners

Since the recent monitoring of PM2.5 has been heated up, more and more cities in China have begun to join the ranks of monitoring PM2.5. As a monitoring indicator of environmental pollution, PM2.5 highlights the importance of environmental protection to a large extent.

According to monitoring data from the Environmental Protection Agency, from February 2011 to February 2012, the highest urban pollution index in China was Urumqi City, with a pollution index of 103, followed by Lanzhou with a pollution index of 92, and Yan'an ranked third. The pollution index is 84. From the distribution of the top ten cities, almost all of them are located in the north, indicating that the pollution levels of northern cities in China are relatively high, especially dust pollution.

In the early period, at the expense of environmental and energy consumption in exchange for high economic growth, the sense of urgency for environmental protection in China’s official and private sectors has become increasingly evident, and the development of environmental protection must be based on the development of environmental protection equipment industry.

The Jinshan corner China's economic development has entered the middle and late industrialization. The traditional high energy consumption and high pollution production model can no longer meet the requirements of sustainable development. Energy conservation and emission reduction are the inevitable choice for China's economic development and the original driving force for the development of the environmental protection industry. Judging from overseas experience, the government’s emphasis on environmental protection and large-scale investment have generally occurred in the late stage of industrialization. At this stage, economic development has entered a stable stage, improving the quality of life of residents and improving the environment have become the focus of social concern.

After more than 30 years of development, China's environmental protection industry has made considerable progress. With the continuous increase of national environmental protection efforts and the increasingly perfection of environmental protection industry policies, China’s environmental protection industry has evolved from the initial stage of “three waste treatment” to include environmental protection products, environmental infrastructure construction, environmental services, and environmentally friendly products. There are relatively complete industrial systems in areas such as resource recycling. It is expected that at the end of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, the output value of China's environmental protection industry will reach more than 2 trillion yuan.

Environmental protection equipment is an important component and equipment foundation of the environmental protection industry. The extent of its development greatly influences the development of China's environmental protection industry.

The environmental protection equipment industry is a variety of specialized equipment produced for the purpose of environmental protection, including wastewater treatment equipment, waste management and recycling equipment, air pollution control equipment, noise elimination equipment, monitoring instruments and equipment, scientific research and laboratory equipment, Equipment used for nature protection and improving the quality of the urban environment.

2011 domestic consumer market structure of environmental protection equipment industry (unit: %)

After years of development, the product performance and quality of China's environmental protection equipment industry have improved significantly. Domestically produced environmental protection equipment has matured and formed a relatively complete product system. As a sunrise industry, the environmental protection equipment industry is growing into an industry pillar with a certain scale, a large proportion in the machinery and equipment manufacturing industry, a wider service area, a higher input and output, and a major impact on the national economy. First, it has made due contributions to the treatment of environmental pollution, improvement of the ecological environment, and promotion of sustainable use of resources.

According to the data from the National Bureau of Statistics, as of the end of 2011, there were 956 environmental protection equipment enterprises above designated size in China. The scale of production and sales in the industry continued to expand and the business conditions were relatively good. In 2011, the total industrial output value reached 151.05 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 30.74%, and the sales revenue was 1508.68. Billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 30.62%, and a total profit of 10.877 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 25.04%.

After years of development, the performance and quality of China's environmental protection equipment industry have improved significantly. Domestically-developed environmental protection equipment has matured and has formed a relatively complete product system. It can produce air pollution control equipment, water pollution control equipment, and solid waste treatment equipment. Four main types of special equipment such as noise and vibration control equipment, up to more than 5000 kinds of subdivided products and tens of thousands of specifications.

In 2011, the State Council approved the issuance of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” for Environmental Protection and proposed that during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, China’s environmental protection investment demand is approximately 3.4 trillion yuan, which is an increase of 121% during the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period. %, mainly related to eight key projects, including emission reduction projects for major pollutants, improvement of environmental protection projects for people's livelihood, rural environmental protection projects for the benefit of the people, construction of key ecological function areas and nature reserves, biodiversity conservation projects, and key areas Environmental risk prevention and control projects, nuclear and radiation safety and environmental protection projects, construction of urban domestic sewage, and urban and rural drinking water source protection projects, as well as environmental monitoring capacity building projects including PM2.5 monitoring and treatment.

It is expected that as China continues to increase its investment in the environmental protection industry, the compound growth rate of China's environmental protection industry is expected to reach 15%-20% in the next five years, and it will become a pillar industry of the national economy around 2020, while the environmental protection equipment industry As a basic industry, the current output value is only the corner of the future Jinshan.

The environmental protection equipment industry, as a policy-guided industry, is still strongly supported by national policies at this stage. At the same time, the state can also support the development of the environmental protection equipment industry through the implementation of income tax incentives and discount interest loans for environmental protection equipment companies.

Twenty-year gap At present, China’s environmental science research has evolved from simple “three wastes” at the beginning to a broader field and has initially formed a scientific system composed of various branches, but compared with developed countries abroad, China The environmental protection equipment industry, due to its low development starting point and backward technology, has caused problems such as low technology content, serious homogeneity, and lack of core competitiveness. Comparing the level of development of Europe and the United States with developed environmental protection industries in the world, at present, China's environmental protection equipment industry is at least 20 years behind in technology research and development, marketing and application.

China's environmental protection equipment industry has developed over the years, but as of now, there are still few companies in the industry that have achieved large-scale production, strong technology dependence, and weak corporate technology research and development capabilities. Until now, they have not been able to truly compete with advanced foreign companies. Excellent company.

In the research and development of environmental protection technologies, there are serious development delays in the aspects of water pollution prevention and control technology, air pollution prevention and control technology, solid waste treatment and disposal technology, physical pollution control technology, pollution restoration technology, and environmental monitoring technology in the field of environmental protection industry in China. This directly leads to the lag in the development level of related environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry.

In terms of water pollution prevention and control technology, there is a big gap between China's overall level and the developed countries, and it is only in the initial application stage. The technical and quality levels of major process equipment are generally poor, while the control technology for persistent pollutants is still blank.

In the field of air pollution prevention and control technologies, the domestic industry is still in the early stage of application, in the areas of technical equipment such as fine dust control technology, development of new desulfurization technologies, development and application of denitration technologies, VOC control, and production of high-temperature filter materials for diesel vehicle pollutants, in heavy metal pollution. Control remains blank.

In terms of solid waste treatment and disposal technologies, urban waste incineration technology, landfill gas power generation technology, high-temperature anaerobic digestion and biogas generation technology, and leachate treatment technology are still in the early stage of industrialization demonstration and application stage, and hazardous waste disposal. The gap between technology and developed countries is even more pronounced. The technology and equipment for the hazardous waste incineration slag and fly ash fusion technology equipment and emergency treatment for hazardous waste pollution accidents are basically still blank.

In terms of physical pollution prevention and control technology, there are few scientific research achievements with independent intellectual property rights in China, and the gap with developed countries is increasing, mainly reflected in noise and vibration source analysis and prediction technology, noise and vibration equipment computer aided design technology, and noise. With the computer-aided manufacturing technology of vibration equipment, high-speed transportation system noise and vibration control equipment research, new materials research and development. However, in the research and development of certain special products such as active mufflers and large-scale vibration control technology products, China's development is also lagging behind, and some of the physical pollution control technologies are still in a completely blank state.

In terms of pollution remediation technology, the research on phytoremediation of polluted soils in China started late, but in recent years, the progress has been rapid. Phytoremediation technologies for arsenic, copper, zinc and other heavy metals and POPs contaminated soil have achieved certain research results, but Large-scale engineering applications still have a certain distance.

In environmental monitoring technology, at present, the analyzers used in the industry for continuous automatic smoke and dust monitoring systems are basically imported. The quality of wastewater continuous automatic monitoring systems can only basically meet the demand, and more than 50% of continuous monitoring instruments cannot Long-term stable operation.

The environmental protection equipment industry is a technology-intensive industry. New technologies, new processes, and new products emerge in the industry. Various technologies and products basically cover all areas of environmental pollution control and ecological environmental protection. China's environmental protection equipment industry technology research and development lags behind, the root cause is the lack of professionals.

As new technologies, new processes, and new products in the field of environmental protection equipment are continually updated and replaced, manufacturers must have enough stable and professional technical personnel to ensure that they continue to have strong expertise in absorption, optimization, reinvention, and application capabilities.

For the environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry, upgrading the technology level is a prerequisite, but after the formation of industrialized production, the development of market development, product marketing, etc., all require the support of talented people. Therefore, we attach great importance to the training of management and marketing talents and realize talents and needs. The docking is an important measure to promote the healthy and sustainable development of the industry.