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(Summary description)　　With the spread of the world financial crisis to the real economy, China's chemical companies have been hit as never before. Since the end of 2013, imports of foreign low-priced phenolic resins have soared, causing domestic methanol (2638, -14.00, -0.53%) production companies to reduce or shut down on a large scale. The current operating rate is less than 40%. "At this stage and for a period of time in the future, domestic methanol companies are the main competitors of foreign methanol production companies, especially those in East and New Zealand. With the rapid development of the country's economy, the country's demand for methanol has taken the first place in the world. In recent years, The country imports a large amount of methanol every year, which has a huge impact on the domestic market. From the perspective of the distribution of national methanol import sources, the eastern region has the largest amount, accounting for 56% of the total import volume, followed by New Zealand, accounting for 32%, and other countries have a smaller share. The changes in the domestic methanol market are basically the same as those in foreign countries.

　　According to experts, foreign methanol manufacturers have the advantages of large-scale equipment, advanced production technology, and low raw material prices. Recently, tariffs have been further reduced. For example, the tariffs of the 10 ASEAN countries are zero and the tariffs of New Zealand are reduced to 3%, which will undoubtedly make foreign products competitive. Further enhancement. At present, the cost of building large-scale methanol production plants in foreign natural gas producing areas is only 60-80 US dollars/ton. However, most of the methanol production enterprises in the country use coal as the raw material, and the limited scale of gasification equipment and the large area of ​​congenital defects restrict the development of methanol production equipment. The country's largest single set of natural gas methanol plant has an annual output of about 600,000 tons, and most of the single set of natural gas methanol plants have an annual output of 100,000 tons, which is far from the international level. Since most of the national methanol production uses coal-based routes, the amount of acid gas ash emissions is relatively large, and more funds need to be invested in the construction of environmental protection treatment facilities.

　　The large-scale methanol plants in foreign countries that use natural gas as the raw material are basically clean production, which has a small impact on the environment, and the investment in environmental protection is correspondingly small. According to experts, foreign methanol relies on its advantages in low-cost raw materials to be quite competitive, especially compared to the target market, with competitive advantages in terms of price, region, and sales. Zhuan Sun Yuzhu believes that only by further integrating upstream and downstream companies, through scientific management and implementing vertical strategies, can China's methanol companies improve their product competitiveness. Taking Yankuang Group as an example, it should make full use of the advantages of upstream and downstream integration, choose the right time, continue to build large-scale methanol downstream equipment, further stretch the industrial chain, increase marketable high value-added methanol downstream products, and satisfy market demand, thereby increasing The company's overall competitiveness and sustainable development capabilities.