State Council of China Calls for Eliminating Backward Production Capacity and Se

According to news from www.gov.cn, the website of China's Central Government, the State Council of China issued a notice on further eliminating backward production capacity, with concrete targets set for the near future for such key industries as electric power, coal, steel, etc., as follows:

Electric power industry: By the end of 2010, to eliminate small-sized thermal power generating units with total capacity more than 50 million kilowatts.

Coal industry: By the end of 2010, to close down 8,000 small-sized coal mines of resource consumption, environmental pollution, and incompliance with production safety and industrial policy, eliminating the capacity of 200 million tons.

Coke industry: By the end of 2010, to eliminate small coking plants with the coking chambers less than 4.3 meters high (however, excluding the stamp-charging coke ovens no less than 3.2 meters high).

Ferroalloy industry: By the end of 2010, to eliminate ore furnaces under 6,300 KVA.

Calcium carbide industry: By the end of 2010, to eliminate ore furnaces under 6,300 KVA.

Steel industry: By the end of 2011, to eliminate blast furnaces no more than 400 cubic meters, and both steel converters and electric furnaces no more than 30 tons.

Non-ferrous metal industry: By the end of 2011, to eliminate pre-baking anode electrolysis tanks no more than 100 KA; to eliminate such copper smelting techniques and equipments as closed blast furnaces, electric furnaces, reverberatory furnaces; to eliminate backward lead smelting techniques and equipments such as using sinter pot, sinter tray, simple blast furnace etc, and using sintering machine without coordinated system of acid-making and exhaust-absorption; to eliminate techniques and equipments for zinc smelting and zinc oxide production by calcinations with muffle furnace, manger furnace, horizontal tank, small vertical tank (the output less than 8 tons for single tank per day), and by dust collection with simple condensing facilities..

Building-materials industry: By the end of 2012, to eliminate the outmoded production capacity for cement, such as the production lines using mechanized shaft kilns with the kiln's diameter less than 3.0 meters, using dry hollow kilns (except kilns producing high-alumina cement), using wet process kilns (except kilns for disposing sludge, carbide slag, etc.), using cement mills with diameter less than 3.0 meters (except mills producing special cement), and using earth kilns and ordinary shaft kilns; and to eliminate the backward production of plate glass by horizontal sheet process (including glaverbel glass).

Light industry: By the end of 2011, to eliminate the straw pulp production equipment with annual output less than 34,000 tons, the chemical pulping line with annual output less than 17,000 tons, the paper-making line with waste paper as raw materials and annual output less than 10,000 tons, the backward production technique for alcohol and the alcohol-producing enterprises (except those producing alcohol by waste molasses) with annual output less than 30,000 tons, the production equipment of monosodium glutamate with annual output less than 30,000 tons, the citric acid production equipment incompliant with environmental protection standard, and the leather production line with annual output less than 30,000 pieces.

Textile industry: By the end of 2011, to eliminate the Model 74 dyeing and finishing production line, the pre-process equipments with the service length more than 15 years, batch dyeing installations with the liquor ratio higher than 1:10; to eliminate the outmoded decorating machines, hot melting dyeing machines, hot blast clip tenter, and boarding machines; to eliminate the backward production technique and equipments with high consumption of energy and water; and to eliminate the backward chemical-fiber production such as the Model R531 old-fashioned acid viscose-rayon spinning machines, the viscose production line with annual output less than 20,000 tons, the spandex production technique with wet process and DMF1000 solvent process, the acrylon production technique with DMF solvent process, the semi-automatic winding equipment with polyester filament yarn's spindle shorter than 900 millimeters, and the batch-process polyester equipment.