How can the steel industry achieve high - quality development?

How can the steel industry achieve high - quality development?

Zhang Haideng, Deputy Director of the Raw Materials Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, analyzed and believed that the high - quality development of the steel industry should focus on four aspects:

First, make every effort to promote the stable development of the industry. It is necessary to truly place stable growth in a crucial position, fully tap the potential of the domestic demand market, expand new consumption areas, and promote the upgrading of steel consumption. Give play to the synergy of the industrial chain, coordinate production factors, ensure supply, and stabilize prices, and continuously enhance the resilience and security level of the industrial chain and supply chain.

Second, continue to consolidate the achievements of steel capacity reduction. It is necessary to uphold integrity and innovation, inherit and consolidate the successful experience of steel capacity reduction, strictly implement capacity replacement, strictly prohibit the addition of new capacity, strengthen industry self - discipline, and improve the long - term mechanism of marketization and the rule of law. Continuously pay attention to the new demands and changes in the transformation and upgrading of downstream industries, increase innovation efforts, strengthen cooperation in the upstream and downstream industrial chains, and continuously improve the guarantee capacity of steel materials to ensure that the supply and demand of the industry always maintain a dynamic balance.

Third, continuously increase the concentration of the steel industry. It is necessary to further deepen the reform of the mixed - ownership system, continue to strengthen mergers and acquisitions, build several world - class steel enterprise groups, and form a number of world - advanced leading enterprises in professional fields. Through mergers and acquisitions, change the "small, scattered and disorderly" situation of the steel industry in some regions.

Fourth, accelerate the promotion of high - end, intelligent, and green development. It is necessary to increase the intensity of digital and intelligent transformation, comprehensively popularize energy - saving, environmental - friendly, efficient, advanced, and applicable process technology and equipment, fully promote the implementation of ultra - low emission transformation, as well as the clean and efficient utilization of energy and technology research and development, vigorously develop the circular economy, promote the research, demonstration of hydrogen metallurgy and low - carbon metallurgy process technologies, implement the high - quality development leading project of electric arc furnace short - process steelmaking, and promote the high - quality and efficient utilization of scrap steel resources.