Chemical industry lays out goals for the "Twelfth Five-Year Period"

The process of compiling plans for the development of the chemical industry during the Twelfth Five-Year Period has drawn to a close, with six technological development objectives having been confirmed, according to the Science and Technology Department of China Petroleum & Chemical Industry Federation.

The six objectives are:
1. To significantly raise independent innovation capabilities, making advances across 30-50 key technologies that are currently impeding industry development, developing 8-10 large sets of petroleum and chemical equipment, and upgrading industrial technology to meet international standards;
2. Developing green, high-performance new technologies and products with high added value, accomplishing commercialization, and increasing the fine chemical rate to 50% from its 45% level at the end of the Eleventh Five-Year Period ;
3. Breaking the resources constraint, mastering key and generic technologies in oil and gas exploitation, developing new coal chemical and biochemical industries;
4. Achieving breakthroughs in new strategic industrial technologies, developing a batch of new technologies and products created with new chemical materials, biochemical and energy conservation fields;
5. Fully developing and promoting low-carbon technologies, making concerted efforts at energy conservation work, bringing down per unit consumption of energy-intensive products by 10% compared with consumption at the end of the Eleventh Five-Year Period , putting clean production processes into effect, reducing the aggregate discharge of main pollutants by 10%;
6. Reinforcing the construction of a network for innovation, forming a batch of national strategic alliances, building 5-8 national engineering (technology) research centers, 8-10 national engineering laboratories, and 15-20 national enterprise technology centers.

Corresponding policies and measures have been brought up in plans to ensure the fulfillment of the goals listed above. Measures include further increasing science and technology investment, giving more support to the conversion of key technological projects and boosting their commercial viability. Along with this, greater value will be placed on personnel training, constructing teams equipped with solid science knowledge; strengthening intellectual property awareness, and enhancing the application, protection and management of intellectual property rights.

To support this, a technological innovation system that combines the efforts of enterprises, universities and research institutes will be established, making full use of various resources as well as expanding overseas exchanges and cooperation.

Source: China Chemical Information Net