Development of silicon

In 2011, China's industrial silicon output was 1.36 million tons, with a year-on-year growth of 15.2%. The industry realized product sales revenue of 39.201 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 46.43%. Since 2008, the average annual growth rate has exceeded 20%, and the total profit has reached 3.352 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 77.05%. From January to June 2012, there were 305 enterprises in China's silicone industry, an increase of 19.61% over the same period last year; There were 65300 employees, a year-on-year increase of 19.03%.

From the perspective of business scale, in the first half of 2012, the industrial asset scale was 32.445 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 34.42%. The sales revenue was 28.395 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 56.98%, and the total industrial output value was 28.897 billion yuan. From the perspective of operating efficiency, in the first half of 2012, the silicone industry realized a product sales profit of 2.862 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 27.20%, and a total profit of 1.544 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 1.87%. On the whole, the overall operation of China's silicone industry in the first half of 2012 was good, and the assets and production and sales scale achieved rapid growth.

From the perspective of organic silicon consumption, the data shows that the domestic consumption of industrial silicon in China totaled 610000 tons in 2011, with a year-on-year growth of 27.1%, of which organic silicon consumption accounted for 32.79%, a decrease of 3.67 percentage points over the previous year. The consumption of aluminum alloy castings also decreased, while the consumption of metallic silicon by polycrystalline silicon increased by nearly 10 percentage points.

From the perspective of import and export, customs statistics show that China's industrial silicon export volume in 2011 was 541,000 tons, down 5.8% year on year. The export to Japan was 161000 tons, down 4.7% year on year; Export to South Korea reached 96000 tons, up 24.6% year on year; Exports to Europe totaled 98000 tons, down 14.1% year on year. The total import and export volume reached 1.075 billion US dollars, including 779 million US dollars in imports and 295 million US dollars in exports. The trade deficit reached 484 million US dollars, and the trade gap narrowed year on year;; From January to May 2012, the accumulated export volume of domestic industrial silicon was 187400 tons, of which the largest export volume was Japan, 61500 tons, accounting for 32.8% of the total export volume; The second is South Korea, with the export volume accounting for 14.7%; The top 10 countries accounted for 76% of total exports. In recent years and for a long time to come, the strongest demand for organic silicon comes from Asia. The growth center of demand will be China and the Pacific region, with an average annual growth rate expected to reach 10% - 15%. With the development of China's electronic and electrical, construction, machinery, metallurgy, automotive, chemical, textile, medical and other industries, the consumption of organic silicon in China will still grow at a growth rate of more than 20% and become the fastest growing market in the world.