The development status and Prospect of China's industrial gas industry in 2019, downstream applications will be increasingly diversified

1、Types and application fields of industrial enterprises

Industrial gas is widely used in steel, shipbuilding, heavy industry, metallurgy, chemical industry, glass, building materials, electronics, petroleum and other industries, and is often compared to the blood of modern industry. According to the different preparation methods, industrial gases can be divided into three types: air gas, synthetic gas and special gas.

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China's industrial gas industry started from the early days of the people's Republic of China to the 1960s. Since the 1980s, foreign capital has entered China's gas market, which has promoted the rapid development of China's industrial gas industry. The traditional application fields of industrial gas mainly include metallurgical industries such as steel making, ironmaking and non-ferrous metal smelting; petrochemical industries such as chemical fertilizer, ethylene, propylene, PVC, man-made fiber, synthetic fiber and silica gel products; welding and metal heat treatment in machinery industry; float glass production in building materials industry, etc.

Industrial gas, known as the "blood" of industry, is one of the basic industrial elements of national economy, which is widely used in the field of industrial manufacturing. The areas where industrial gas consumption is growing rapidly include coal chemical industry, petroleum exploitation, coal mine fire fighting, food quick freezing, fuel industry in national defense industry, electronic and semiconductor production, optical fiber production, superconducting material production, waste water treatment and other environmental protection industries, medical and health care industries, etc. The industrial gas application areas under test mainly include solid nitrogen production, fuel cell production, magnetic material production, hydrogen vehicle production, etc. Among them, metallurgy and chemical industry have the largest demand for industrial gas.

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2、Development status of industrial gas industry

According to the data, the global industrial gas market in 2017 was US $117.1 billion, with a year-on-year growth of 9.03%. It is estimated that the global industrial gas market will reach US $127.2 billion by 2018. After years of development and mergers and acquisitions, the global industrial gas market has formed a market pattern in which a few enterprises occupy the majority of the global market share. There are four major gas companies in the world: Linde (Germany), Air Liquide (France), air product (USA) and Praxair (USA).

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China's industrial gas market began to develop at a high speed in the 1990s. In 2010, the market scale has exceeded 41 billion yuan, in 2015, more than 100 billion yuan, and in 2017, the scale of China's industrial gas market has reached 120 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 8%. It is expected that it will exceed 130 billion yuan in 2018.

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However, compared with the developed countries, the per capita gas consumption of China's industrial gas industry is still at a low level, only 1 / 26 of that of the United States, less than 1 / 20 of that of Western Europe and Australia. There is also a big gap between China and South America and Eastern Europe, and there is still a large space for growth in the future.

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3、Prospect of industrial gas industry

With the rapid development of semiconductor, photovoltaic, electronics and other emerging industries in China, the demand for industrial gas is gradually increasing, and the demand for industrial gas in emerging industries is more diversified. The demand for single gas is small, but there are many kinds of demand, which will further promote the development of China's professional gas supply market.

In the future, the main reasons for the rapid development of China's industrial gas market are: the increasing acceptance of gas outsourcing mode by end users; the continuous demand for industrial gas in the health care industry, electronics and other industries; the continuous expansion of production capacity in the steel and petrochemical industry. As an important part of the global industrial gas market, China's industrial gas market has become a competitive place for multinational companies and local enterprises.

In view of the current developing process of China's gas industry, we should recognize the market situation and development trend; clarify their own positioning, formulate appropriate development strategy; implement the correct business expansion mode and operation mode, create the enterprise culture and organizational structure with Chinese characteristics in line with the development direction of the times; vigorously implement the localization strategy of personnel, dare to employ personnel, and be good at using personnel People; bold decentralization, and be good at using power and so on. Looking at the development trend of the global industrial gas industry, the current Chinese market is not mature, the development pattern and direction is not clear, and most enterprises do not have a clear development direction and strategic positioning. Nevertheless, the competition pattern of China's gas industry will eventually move from disorder to orderly development, and several large gas business groups will support China's gas industry, which is the inevitable way for China's gas industry to move towards orderly development.