Hebei will reduce steel production capacity by 14 million tons this year

On January 7, reporters learned from the third session of the 13th Hebei Provincial People's Congress that Hebei will continue to promote industrial transformation and upgrading, and this year plans to reduce steel production capacity by 14 million tons. The reporter learned that Hebei strictly implemented the standards of environmental protection, energy consumption, water consumption, quality, technology and safety, and forced excess capacity to exit. In 2019, a total of 14.02 million tons of steel production capacity will be cut and withdrawn, and Langfang steel production capacity will be fully cleared. In addition, 10.06 million tons of coal, 3.34 million tons of cement, 6.6 million weight boxes of flat glass, 3.19 million tons of coke and 500000 kilowatts of thermal power were reduced.

In 2020, Hebei will deepen the supply side structural reform, continue to use market-oriented and rule of law means to reduce production capacity, at the same time, it will implement a series of three-year action plans for industrial transformation and upgrading, implement 1000 provincial-level key technological transformation projects, and achieve a new round of technological transformation and full coverage of Industrial Enterprises above designated size. At the same time, we will deepen the action of "industrial enterprises +", and promote the penetration of industrial design into various links of the industrial chain, such as product research and development, appearance design, processing and manufacturing. In addition, Hebei will focus on 10 major directions such as information technology industry, deeply implement the three-year action plan for the development of strategic emerging industries, and build a number of advanced manufacturing clusters with international competitiveness. Accelerate the construction of emerging industry demonstration bases such as Beijing Tianjin Hebei big data comprehensive test area, Zhangjiakou renewable energy demonstration area, Shijiazhuang high-end biomedical industry cluster area, and accelerate the construction of xiong'an digital economy innovation and development demonstration area.