Editor: Lena
In 2017, the Anshan Municipal Party Committee and Government issued the "Anshan Magnesium Industry Innovation and Development Implementation Plan", which began to decide to integrate the local magnesite mines, and strengthened the environmental governance of magnesia-related enterprises. The supply of magnesite products once exceeded supply. , Resulting in the overall price of magnesia market soaring, even reaching 3 times the normal price over the years, beyond the rational range.
In 2018, due to the profit-seeking effect, the production capacity of magnesite companies in Dashiqiao and Haicheng areas increased sharply, which once suppressed the price, but the inventories of each company were also increasing sharply.
In 2019, the mining of magnesite mines in Liaoning was restricted, but 3 million tons of flotation production lines were newly added, and the overcapacity gradually became apparent. Coupled with the decline in demand for high-temperature industries such as steel and cement, the price of magnesia fell again.
Entering 2020, affected by overcapacity and the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the export of upstream and downstream magnesia and magnesium products has been blocked, the sales of enterprises are not smooth, and the inventory backlog has led to a significant decline in output value and added value growth compared with the same period. The magnesite industry has been Keep hovering low.
In the past two years, the prices of products such as fused magnesia, heavy-burned magnesia, and light-burned magnesia have begun to drop significantly. The editor understands that Anshan's magnesite industry has severely shrunk in both its overall sales and profits. There are more than 80 loss-making companies, an increase of 63.3% over the same period last year; the total loss is nearly 490 million yuan, an increase of 8.9 times; The total tax amount was 400 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 39.7%.
According to statistics from the Anshan Bureau of Statistics, in the first half of 2020, 11 of the 219 regulated magnesite companies in Anshan City have been suspended. The city’s magnesite industry completed a total output value of 9.39 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 24.4%; completed sales output value of 9.23 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 24.9%; realized export delivery value of 570 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 3.4%; completed an added value of 3.85 billion yuan, accounting for 20.1% of all regulated industrial enterprises, a year-on-year decrease of 15.4%.