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Development Trend Of Steel Industry
China's Steel Industry Opens A New Era Of Transformation
Wang Tie, Director of the Carbon Market Division of the Department of Climate Change of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, stood at the podium of the 2025 International Forum on Carbon Emission Reduction in the Building Materials Industry and announced that the three industries of steel, cement and aluminum smelting will start the first carbon emission quota allocation and clearance and compliance work. This policy will cover an additional 3 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas emissions, increasing the proportion of carbon emissions controlled by the national carbon market from 40% to more than 60% of the national total.
Policies And Regulations Drive Green Transformation
1.The global steel industry is in the midst of a silent revolution. As China's carbon market expands, 1,500 new key emission units have been added in addition to 2,200 power generation companies, with steel companies bearing the brunt. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment has explicitly required companies to strengthen their sense of responsibility, do a good job in data quality management, and formulate scientific plans for the end-of-year quota clearance.
2.Policy pressure is being transformed into a driving force for industry transformation. At a press conference of the State Council, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology emphasized that the deep green transformation of traditional industries should be the top priority, and the steel industry ranks first among the four key industries. The specific path has been clarified: increase the proportion of scrap steel in raw materials, with the goal of increasing this proportion to 22% by 2027.
3.International policies are also reshaping the industry landscape. European green is pushing local steel companies to turn to low-carbon technologies such as hydrogen energy; India is seeking to achieve a production capacity target of 300 million tons by 2030 through national steel policies. The global steel trade map has been redrawn, and tariff barriers and regional protectionism have accelerated the regional reconstruction of the supply chain.
4.In Xisaishan District, Hubei Province, 54 special steel companies above the designated size are building a 100 billion-level industrial ecosystem. Fucheng Machinery has reduced energy consumption by 20% through intelligent refining system transformation, and its products are exported to South Korea and India. The synergy between policy guidance and corporate practice is reshaping the geographical layout and economic logic of steel production.
Technological Innovation, Breaking Through The Limits Of Material Performance
1.Breakthroughs in materials science are breaking the boundaries of steel performance. In July 2025, the Chengdu Institute of Advanced Metal Materials announced a patent for a "heat treatment method for improving the low-temperature impact performance of martensitic aging stainless steel". By precisely controlling the 830-870℃ low-temperature solid solution and 460-485℃ aging treatment process, the problem of steel embrittlement in extreme environments was solved.
2.More fundamental innovations come from the application of rare earths. On July 14, the China Rare Earth Society evaluated the results of the "Rare Earth Corrosion Resistant Carbon Steel Technology Innovation and Industrialization" project. The expert group led by Academician Gan Yong determined that the technology reached the "international leading level".
3.Professor Dong Han's team at Shanghai University revealed the comprehensive corrosion resistance mechanism of rare earths changing the properties of inclusions, reducing grain boundary energy and promoting the formation of protective rust layers. This breakthrough has increased the corrosion resistance of ordinary Q235 and Q355 steels by 30%-50%, while reducing the use of traditional weathering elements by 30%.
4.Key progress has also been made in the research and development of earthquake-resistant steel. The seismic hot-rolled steel plate newly developed by Ansteel Co., Ltd. adopts a unique composition design (Cu: 0.5%-0.8%, Cr: 2%-4%, Al: 2%-3%), and achieves high seismic performance with a damping value of δ≥0.08 through precise temperature control technology, providing new material guarantee for building safety.
5.In the field of special steel, Daye Special Steel and the China Iron and Steel Research Institute jointly built the National Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, and the aircraft engine main shaft bearing steel developed by it has won the CITIC Group Science and Technology Award. These innovations have continuously enhanced the competitiveness of Chinese special steel in the global high-end market.
High-end Special Steel, The New Backbone Of China's Manufacturing
1.China's special steel production accounts for 40% of the world's total, but the real change lies in quality improvement. In 2023, China's high-quality special steel production will reach 51.13 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 7%; in 2024, the total steel production of high-quality special steel enterprises nationwide will reach about 138 million tons. Behind the increase in volume, the more profound is the upgrading of the industrial structure.
2.The five cities in southern Jiangsu have formed the world's largest special steel cluster. The special steel and high-end alloy material clusters in Nanjing, Wuxi, Changzhou and other places will have an output value of 821.5 billion yuan in 2023, with an output of about 30 million tons, accounting for 23.5% of the country's special steel production. Behind these figures is a qualitative change in product structure - from ordinary construction steel to high value-added fields such as new energy battery shells, motor shafts, and nuclear power high-pressure boiler tubes.
3.Leading enterprises lead the transformation wave. With an annual production capacity of 20 million tons of special steel, CITIC Special Steel has built a complete high-end product matrix through strategic reorganizations such as the acquisition of Tianjin Steel Pipe. Baosteel Co., Ltd. has continued to make breakthroughs in the fields of oriented silicon steel and high-strength steel, and will launch four top-level oriented silicon steel products globally in 2024.
4.TISCO Stainless Steel has achieved import substitution with 304LG plates for MARKⅢ LNG ships/tanks, establishing a leading position in the high-end stainless steel market. These achievements reflect the evolution of China's special steel industry from "following" to "running side by side" and then to "leading" in some areas.
Zero-carbon Factories And Circular Economy, From Concept To Practice
1.Green steel is moving from concept to reality. Zhenshi Group's Oriental Special Steel Project uses full oxygen combustion technology to reduce the natural gas energy consumption of the heating furnace by 8Nm³/t steel, while eliminating the denitrification process to achieve ultra-low emissions. More importantly, its energy system innovation - the combination of a 50MW/200MWh energy storage system and a distributed photovoltaic power station to build a "source-storage-load" coordinated green electricity supply network.
2.The circular economy model is accelerating in the steel industry. The integrated application of short-process steelmaking solid waste and chromium-containing waste liquid treatment technology enables Oriental Special Steel to meet the "ultra-low" atmospheric emission standards (4mg/Nm³) in Jiaxing. In Hubei, Zhenhua Chemical invested 100 million yuan to build a smart factory, achieving an annual carbon reduction of 120,000 tons; Xisai Power Plant saved 32,000 tons of coal through technical transformation.
3.Digitalization has become an accelerator of green transformation. Xingcheng Special Steel has become the first "lighthouse factory" in the global special steel industry, and Nangang Co., Ltd. has achieved comprehensive interconnection of equipment, systems and data through the industrial Internet platform6. Hubei Hongrui Ma New Materials Company has undergone digital transformation, and workers can manage orders, inventory and quality inspections through electronic screens. After the transformation, the company's output value increased by more than 20%.
4.Xisaishan District has implemented a gradient cultivation system of "advancing and stabilizing regulations - specialization and innovation - single champion - green manufacturing". There are already 20 provincial-level "specialization and innovation" small and medium-sized enterprises, and Daye Special Steel and Zhenhua Chemical have become national single champion enterprises. This hierarchical promotion strategy provides a feasible green development path for enterprises of different sizes.
Challenges And Prospects: The Only Way To Become A Strong Steel Country
1.The road to transformation is still full of thorns. The special steel industry faces complex challenges in the second half of 2025: Although the Sino-US tariff game has eased, the uncertainty of the global trade environment remains; the domestic "general to superior" process is affected by the fluctuations in the rebar market, and the production strategy of enterprises is wavering. In the short term, the contradiction between supply and demand in the industry is difficult to resolve, and prices may remain low.
2.Cost pressure and technical bottlenecks coexist. Although innovative processes such as electrolytic aluminum carbon-free anode technology and steel green hydrogen metallurgy have made breakthroughs, large-scale application still needs time. The Oriental Special Steel project adopts the "melting furnace + AOD furnace" two-step and three-step steelmaking process, and optimizes the material supply model through intelligent algorithms, but such technical investment is still a huge burden for small and medium-sized enterprises.
3.The market opportunities are also clear. The demand for high-end special steel in new energy equipment, electric vehicles, new infrastructure and other fields has surged. Energy projects such as nuclear power and ultra-supercritical units have become new engines for the growth of high-end special steel. These demands have driven China's steel industry to firmly transform towards "high-end, intelligent, and green".
4.Policy support continues to increase. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will issue and implement a new round of work plans to stabilize growth in the nonferrous metals industry, focusing on stabilizing growth and promoting transformation. At the innovation level, deploy and build a large model for the nonferrous metals industry, promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence technology and the industry, and provide new momentum for technological breakthroughs.
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