China to Add up to 500 Million Tons of Cement Clinker Production

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--China is currently preparing the plans for the construction materials sector and the cement production sector for the country's 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15), according to Yanhai Chen, the director of the Raw Materials Department of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, at the International Cement Summit 2011 held in Beijing recently.

China will adopt a different policy for the cement industry in coming five years, namely to strictly control the expansion of production capacity in the east and to provide more development space for central and western regions. Merging and reorganization will be further encouraged in the cement industry during the 12th Five-Year Plan.

In the past five years, China's cement production has dramatically increased. The output of cement clinker produced by new-type dry processing in the country's top 10 cement enterprises increased from 141 million metric tons to 528 million metric tons. In the next five years, China will further promote the merging and reorganization in the industry. Several large cement groups with annual cement production of more than 100 million metric tons and about 30 regional large cement enterprises will be established, according to Ming Liu, the division director for the Industrial Coordination Department of the National Development and Reform Commission.

Although cement output in China reached 1.88 billion metric tons in 2010, making China the world's top cement producer, the 12th Five-Year Plant will call for an additional 400 million to 500 million tons, according to a conservative prediction of China Cement Association. China will continue to eliminate 150 million metric ton of inefficient cement clinker production capacity during this time.

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