However, judging from the operation of the first three quarters, this year's petrochemical industry is still worth looking forward to. Since the second half of the year, the business performance has improved month by month. In the first half of the year, the average monthly profit of the whole industry reached 71.85 billion yuan, while the average monthly profit of 87.37 billion yuan in August, and the profit in September exceeded 100 billion yuan again. By the end of September, the industry-wide operating income decline narrowed to 2.6%, and the profit decline narrowed to 28.3%. Therefore, this year's industry-wide operating performance will return to a better year in history, and this year is still a year worth looking forward to.
The whole petrochemical industry and the majority of petrochemical enterprises deeply understand and deeply implement the "high-quality development is the first task of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way" proposed by the Party's twenty National Congress, closely surrounding high-quality development, adhere to the core position of innovation in our country's modernization construction, and deeply implement the innovation-driven development strategy. Accelerate the greening, low-carbon and digital transformation of the petrochemical industry. Especially in the face of the serious overcapacity of oil refining and bulk basic products and general materials, while doing a good job of "reduction and replacement" of new refining units and strictly controlling new refining capacity, overall design and optimization of the "oil reduction and increase" program, strictly implement the target requirement that the refined oil production rate of new refining and chemical integration units is not higher than 40%, mainly productive olefins and aromatics. To accelerate the development of world-class petrochemical bases, chemical parks and petrochemical industrial clusters, with extended and strengthened chains as the main measures, and more new chemical materials, high-end fine chemicals, high-performance fibers and high-end membrane materials as the main goals. In the process of transformation and upgrading, the petrochemical industry will continue to enhance its supporting capacity for the new generation of information technology, artificial intelligence, new energy, high-end equipment and aerospace and other strategic emerging industries and fields, and provide strong support and guarantee for Chinese-style modernization.
According to statistics, more than 90% of chemical reactions are related to catalysts, and because of the innovation and continuous progress of catalysts, the continuous upgrading and progress of the world's petrochemical industry are promoted. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was because the German chemist Haber invented the synthetic ammonia catalyst that the large-scale industrial production of fertilizer was realized, which not only made mankind say goodbye to the era of bird droppings as fertilizer, but also brought about a bumper harvest in agriculture and made people say goodbye to hunger. In the 1920s, because two German scientists invented the iron-series catalyst of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, there was the later industrialization of coal to oil, and today's international leading level of modern coal chemical industry in China. It is also because in the 1950s, German chemist Ziegler and Italian chemist Nata invented the Ziegler - Nata catalyst system and realized directional polymerization, polyolefin entered the period of rapid and large-scale industrialization in the world. Later to the 1980s, the success of the research and development of metallocene catalysts made the high performance of polyolefin materials leap to a new level, making ExxonMobil, Nordic Chemical, LyondellBasell and other companies have been ranked in the top of high-end polyolefin spires.
Today's catalyst innovation has always been the top priority in the petrochemical field, is the core of the core, the key of the key, because the success of the catalyst and its catalytic technology innovation often brings revolutionary or subversive changes in technology or process. Today's new energy batteries are mainly lithium batteries, and sodium-ion batteries have been paid attention to because of their raw material cost advantages, better capacity in high and low temperature environments, as well as excellent rate performance and excellent safety, but lower energy density and cycle life are being broken through by accelerating innovation. An important measure to improve lithium electric performance in the past is to add carbon nanotubes, graphene, etc., and an important idea to improve sodium-ion batteries today is layered transition metal oxides. The layered structure is the original innovation of Academician Duan Xue, with profound theoretical foundation, years of research and development foundation and industrialization experience.
The transformation and upgrading of the petrochemical industry in the future depends on the innovation of catalysts, and the birth of many new compounds and high-performance materials also depends on the innovation of catalysts. Today, the international and domestic focus on the development of natural light to decompose water to produce hydrogen, a major technology to obtain green hydrogen, the key and core elements of its innovation is also the innovation of the catalyst. Only when the catalyst innovation of high performance and high energy efficiency conversion rate makes a major breakthrough, can natural light decompose water to obtain green hydrogen achieve the synchronous success of technology and economy, and the dream of green hydrogen becoming the ultimate energy source of mankind can be realized. In addition, the final solution to the future of plastic pollution, which is highly concerned by the international community, also depends on catalyst innovation, the realization of the goal of carbon peak carbon neutrality in response to climate change, and the success of carbon dioxide chemistry depends more on catalyst innovation and breakthrough.
The strategic alliance for technological innovation of Industrial Catalysis Industry shoulders the new mission of new era, new journey, new industrialization and Chinese modernization. Quzhou Resources Chemical Innovation Research Institute is officially inaugurated today, which also opens a new chapter in the innovation and development of the traditional chemical industry base in Quzhou. It is hoped that Quzhou Resources Chemical Innovation Research Institute, Industrial Catalytic Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance and all guests and innovation workers attending the alliance annual meeting and academic exchange will take the inauguration of the Institute as a new starting point, not only to make new contributions to Quzhou, a traditional chemical base with 65 years of history, to revitalize new vitality and vitality through innovation and green and low-carbon transformation. And make greater contributions to the high-quality development of the petrochemical industry and the realization of the goal of a powerful petrochemical country!
