as a big textile country in the world. In 2015 China’s Polyester consumption up to 37 million 40 thousand tons, but in this huge market of aromatic xylene (PX) upstream of the external dependence of up to 56%, the industrial chain “before xianyihouyang, profits in the import process of loss.

“” 13th Five-Year “period, the growth rate of China’s aromatic industry chain will come down significantly, but the dependence on foreign PX in the current sharp rise of 56% on the basis of the whole industry chain of PX is still the most profitable products.” In August this year, China petroleum and chemical industry association secretary general Yang Ting in the park working committee in 2016 China aromatic industry chain development conference pointed out.

The general office of the State Council issued the “August 3rd general office of the State Council on the petrochemical industry and promote structural adjustment and guidance” to improve the efficiency of the proposed transformation, to ensure the capacity will be significantly enhanced olefins and aromatics based raw materials as one of the development goals. The contradictions are in urgent need of insufficient capacity to ease the aromatics.

PX import 56% highlights the imbalance between supply and demand

PX is mainly used for the production of purified terephthalic acid (PTA), PTA was used for further polyester fiber (polyester), non fiber polyester products such as polyester bottle and polyester film and other products.

As the core of the aromatic industry chain, there is a huge gap in our PX production. Academician of the Academy of Engineering Qian Xuhong said China, apparent consumption of 20 million 810 thousand tons in 2015 PX in China, which imports 11 million 650 thousand tons, an increase of 16.8% over 2014, 56% of foreign dependence. 1~6 months of this year, China imported 6 million 220 thousand tons of PX.

However, the NIMBY effect difficult to break deadlock in our country, PX is restricted by productivity construction. Economic and Technical Research Institute of Sinopec deputy director of consulting optimization center Luo Hongjing pointed out that the future Chinese will import large quantities of PX, is expected to 2020 Chinese is still 6 million tons more than the amount of imports.