Construction and steel, as the pillar industries in China, are important engines driving the development of the national economy. In recent years, China’s construction and steel industry has been facing a new stage of development, anchoring the goal of 3060 “dual carbon” and continuously transforming and upgrading.
At the recently concluded National People’s Congress and National People’s Congress, multiple committee representatives proposed proposals and suggestions for the high-quality development of the construction and steel industry. Yuan Silang, a representative of the National People’s Congress and Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the China 22nd Metallurgical Group, proposed to promote new steel structure residential buildings, expand the application scenarios of the steel industry, and further promote the deep integration of the construction industry and the steel industry; Deepen the reform and innovation of the construction industry, increase the promotion of Prefabricated building and accelerate the industrialization of new buildings; Suggestions include strengthening the construction of the industrial worker team in the new era, cultivating highly skilled craftsmen from major countries, and deepening the strategy of strengthening the country through talent.
Recently, Yuan Silang accepted an exclusive interview with a reporter from Pengpai News (www.thetaper. cn) to deeply interpret the above suggestions and analyze and predict the current development situation of China’s steel and real estate markets.
Steel structure housing is an important development direction for China’s current new urbanization construction
Pengpai News: You have brought suggestions for promoting steel structure residential buildings during this year’s two sessions. Currently, steel structure buildings account for a relatively low proportion of the total building volume. What is the reason for this? What are the advantages of steel structure buildings compared to others?
Yuan Silang: The main reasons can be roughly summarized into four points:
Firstly, policy support needs to be further strengthened. The construction cost of steel structure residential buildings is relatively high, and the development goals and planning measures of steel structure residential buildings are not very clear for local governments. The relevant support policies are insufficient, and some policies are difficult to implement, specifically manifested in the lack of substantive preferential support and assistance for developers and owners.
The second reason is that the structural system and types of steel structure residential buildings are relatively limited, and the advantages of being suitable for modern residential buildings with increasingly diverse functions and more flexible building layout are insufficient. There is a lack of eye-catching pilot projects. People have insufficient understanding of most hidden advantages such as anti-corrosion and fire prevention in steel structure residential buildings, resulting in low market recognition and weak purchasing desire for existing steel structure residential buildings.
The third is that there are common problems with the components of the enclosure wall panel, with low user satisfaction. The existing enclosure wall panel components have common problems such as single function, high thermal conductivity, and high carbon emissions of raw materials. There is no integrated green wall panel that can adapt to multiple thermal zones in terms of load-bearing, fire prevention, sound insulation, and insulation.
Fourthly, there is a lack of efficient technology integration solutions, and the integration level of existing structures, electromechanical, kitchen and bathroom, and decoration is not high. The process of self decoration by homeowners is relatively complex and costly. For system integration control, there is no efficient technology integration solution for large space steel structure residential buildings that revolves around standardized structural components, peripheral protective materials, interior building materials, and other green building material industry nodes.
Steel structure residential buildings have outstanding advantages such as energy conservation and environmental protection, good comprehensive benefits, high assembly, and good seismic performance. They are an important development direction for China’s current new urbanization construction and the best path for the steel industry to “hide steel in the people”.
Pengpai News: Are there any shortcomings in steel structure buildings that need to be further supplemented?
Yuan Silang: Efforts should be made to fill the gaps in the following aspects:
One is to implement policies and provide financial support. Especially in the initial stage of the development of steel structure residential buildings, local governments at all levels should strengthen the implementation of policies and financial support, encourage universities and large enterprises to strengthen deep cooperation, further increase investment in scientific research, and solve the obvious shortcomings of existing steel structure residential buildings. Intensify the deep integration between construction and steel enterprises, led by standardized products of residential hot-rolled steel structures, promote the transformation and upgrading of the entire industrial chain of steel structure residential buildings, connect the design, production, production, construction and other links of standardized products of hot-rolled steel structures, enrich the product types of the steel industry, increase sales, and reduce production costs.
The second is to optimize the selection of infrastructure, based on the existing structural system for full lifecycle optimization, and determine a type of infrastructure selection that is easy to achieve “adjustable unit size and variable function” structural functions; On the basis of the existing system, reduce the number of load-bearing components, optimize node construction, and ultimately achieve indoor large bays and adjustable and variable unit types.
The third is to tackle green enclosure wall panel products and connection technologies, develop multi-functional and integrated green enclosure wall panels and their efficient connection technologies, combine steel and concrete to form composite components, improve their fire resistance limit, and improve their residual bearing performance under and after fires. Create a new type of multifunctional green enclosure wall panel product that can adapt to different thermal zones, including load-bearing, fire prevention, sound insulation, and insulation, to solve the contradiction between wall load-bearing, fire prevention performance, and sound insulation and insulation performance.
The fourth is to develop efficient technology integration solutions, develop a new generation of high-efficiency standardized steel structure residential digital design and delivery technology, as well as a new generation of high-efficiency standardized steel structure residential digital construction technology, forming an intelligent production line for steel structure residential components.
The real estate market is gradually recovering, and the future development of the industry is promising
Pengpai News: How do you view the future development of steel structure buildings?
Yuan Silang: Steel structure buildings account for 5-7% of the total construction volume in China, with steel structure residential buildings accounting for only about 1%. The development space and prospects are broad. Driven by China’s major strategic goal of “double carbon” and the policy of “new urbanization construction”, the construction industry is gradually transforming to industrialization and green sustainable development. As long as we respond to the key factors that restrict the development of steel structure housing, innovate and optimize the existing steel structure housing system, we will certainly accelerate the widespread application and high-quality development of steel structure housing.
Pengpai News: How do you see the current development status and future of the real estate industry?
Yuan Silang: With the end of the epidemic and the return of people’s lives to normal, the current real estate market is gradually recovering, and the overall market trend is showing a trend of high-quality, stable, and healthy development. We can glimpse the future of the real estate industry through policy ports. Throughout the year 2022, the central government continued to implement relevant policies, adhering to policies tailored to the city, reducing commercial loan interest rates, repeatedly lowering LPR basis points, increasing provident fund loan quotas, reducing down payment ratios, and introducing 16 new financial policies… to activate the demand side, stimulate the supply side, stabilize housing prices, land prices, and expectations.
At this year’s two sessions, Minister of Housing and Urban Rural Development Ni Hong also stated in response to reporters’ questions that “we need to stabilize the real estate industry, adhere to the implementation of policies tailored to the city, implement precise policies, vigorously support rigid and improving housing demand, boost confidence, promote the stable recovery of the real estate market, and achieve stable and healthy development
In the context of national policies, the development of the real estate industry has a promising future.
The new stage of the development of Prefabricated building restricts more industries
Surging news: This year, you brought the “Suggestions on Deepening the Reform and Innovation of the Construction Industry, Increasing the Promotion of Prefabricated building, and Accelerating the Industrialization of New Buildings”. In your opinion, how popular is the new industrial construction mode represented by Prefabricated building at present? Can you introduce the advantages of prefabricated buildings?
Yuan Silang: In recent years, with the gradual improvement of technical research on Prefabricated building, rising labor costs and national policy support, China is ushering in a new stage of the development of Prefabricated building. Driven by policies and led by the market, the design, production, construction, decoration and other related industrial capabilities of Prefabricated building have been rapidly improved, and the development of new specialized companies such as component transportation, prefabricated installation and component production has also been promoted. During the “13th Five Year Plan” period, China has built a total area of 1.6 billion square meters of Prefabricated building, with an average annual growth rate of 54%. Among them, in 2021, the proportion of newly started Prefabricated building in new buildings reached 20.5%, and the development of Prefabricated building showed a rapid growth pattern. However, from the perspective of the development of Prefabricated building nationwide, different regions also showed different development trends. Relatively speaking, Prefabricated building in Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan and other cities developed rapidly, and the supporting industry chain was relatively mature, The development of other provinces and cities is relatively slow.
Compared with traditional buildings, Prefabricated building have many advantages. First, Prefabricated building can improve the quality of the project. The traditional cast-in-place construction method still relies on a large number of manual operations, with large construction deviations, many common quality problems, and obvious human factors. The Prefabricated building will construct a large number of parts on the factory assembly line, with standardized operation, high degree of mechanization and good product quality. The installation and connection of on-site component components are operated by industrial workers full-time, and the construction quality is significantly higher than that of cast-in-place methods.
Second, Prefabricated building can improve production efficiency. Factory production is not affected by adverse weather and other natural environments, with a high degree of construction mechanization and automatic control, and a more controllable component processing schedule. In terms of the construction of the main structure on site, the prefabricated steel structure has the same time as the traditional steel structure, and the prefabricated reinforced concrete structure has a slightly longer time than the cast-in-place method. However, combined with the technology of interspersed construction, especially with the industrialized technology such as the prefabricated interior decoration, the comprehensive construction period can be shortened compared with the traditional cast-in-place method.
Third, Prefabricated building can significantly reduce energy and resource consumption during construction, reduce carbon emissions, and have obvious environmental advantages. Compared with cast-in-place construction, Prefabricated building can save water, save materials, reduce construction energy consumption, reduce Construction waste, significantly reduce construction dust and noise pollution, reduce carbon emissions, and reduce carbon emissions throughout the life cycle of the building. With the proposal of the development goals of “carbon neutrality” and “carbon peak”, the advantages of green and environmental protection of Prefabricated building will be further highlighted, and the development of prefabricated industry is expected to accelerate.
Fourth, Prefabricated building can reduce the pressure on labor resources. A large number of manual operations are reduced in an industrialized way, reducing the working intensity of workers, reducing the number of on-site workers by about 30%, making it easier for construction management and technical training, and establishing a stable and high-quality Prefabricated building industrial workforce.
Pengpai News: Are the current bottlenecks restricting promotion more on the industrial or policy side? What do you think should be done about this?
Yuan Silang: At present, the bottleneck restricting the promotion of prefabricated buildings is more at the industrial end. The time for China to vigorously promote Prefabricated building is relatively short, and the development of the industrial chain is not mature enough. Many related industrial chains are still in the exploration stage, and there is no complete and large-scale industrial chain. For example, the industrial standards are not perfect enough, and the degree of standardization is low, leading to high production costs and increased construction difficulties; There is a shortage of professionals in professional positions, and the improvement of product quality is facing bottlenecks; This requires the leading enterprises of Prefabricated building to constantly supplement the chain and strengthen the chain extension, drive the development of the whole industrial chain of the prefabricated industry, and in the process, more need the government’s policy support and guidance, so that the new industrialized buildings can develop rapidly and healthily, and constantly form industrialization and scale.
In this regard, I think first of all, in order to realize the advantages of Prefabricated building, reduce the comprehensive construction cost, speed up the construction progress, and truly realize standardized design, factory production, and mechanized construction, we should actively promote the general contracting model of the project, and promote the organic and deep integration of design, production, and construction. It is recommended to strengthen overall planning, adhere to the combination of market leadership and government guidance, encourage intensive production and operation of enterprises, and strengthen the leading role of leading enterprises in the industrial chain. Support core enterprises to integrate various types of enterprises and resources into the industrial chain, and cultivate a group of leading enterprises at the top of the value chain, with full industry chain appeal and international influence, while vigorously promoting the engineering general contracting management model. Play a driving role in the industrial chain, continuously innovate and break through in technology, products, services, and other fields, deepen collaboration with related supporting industries and enterprises, and lead the deep integration and high-end leap of the construction industry chain.
Second, strengthen the training of skilled personnel, actively promote the Talent management system suitable for the development of Prefabricated building, include Prefabricated building related jobs in the national scope of skilled work, explore the inclusion of Prefabricated building in the continuing education and training of engineering and technical personnel, establish Prefabricated building training bases, promote school enterprise cooperation, and encourage universities and vocational and technical colleges to offer Prefabricated building related courses, Cultivate Prefabricated building technology and management professionals urgently needed by the market, and promote talent training.
Third, strengthen the supervision of Prefabricated building industry. Improve the admittance system of component manufacturers, improve the supervision system of prefabricated components, promote the product certification of Prefabricated building components and building component components, promote the hierarchical management system of building component manufacturers, standardize and guide the healthy and orderly development of the industry; Promote the informatization, digitization, and intelligence construction of the construction industry, establish a mechanism for utilizing cross departmental, cross industry and other diverse data, leverage the value of social data resources, and establish an information chain analysis and quality traceability mechanism for the construction industry.
Accelerate the formation of a new pattern of “North South Correspondence” in the metallurgical market
Pengpai News: What more profound changes will the construction of a unified national market bring to the steel industry or steel industry chain?
Yuan Silang: At present, the fundamentals of China’s long-term economic improvement have not changed. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Central Economic Work Conference and the National Two Sessions have all deployed and issued a package of economic stabilization policies. The establishment of a unified national market by the country can effectively break through the problems of local protection and market segmentation, break through key bottlenecks that restrict economic circulation, promote the smooth flow of commodity factor resources on a larger scale, and establish an efficient, standardized, fair competition, and fully open market environment.
In the context of a unified national market environment, the steel industry will inevitably form a high-quality development pattern with reasonable layout structure, stable resource supply, advanced technology and equipment, outstanding quality brands, high intelligence level, strong global competitiveness, and green, low-carbon, and sustainable development. The steel industry is accelerating its green and low-carbon transformation under the dual control of total energy consumption and intensity. After undergoing major adjustments, the real estate industry has entered a “major reshuffle”, and the real estate market is shifting towards a stock improvement mainly focused on urban renewal. The metallurgical market and infrastructure construction market, which focus on investment areas such as two new and one heavy industries, emerging industries, green environmental protection, and social livelihood, contain broad development space.
Pengpai News: In this process, what opportunities do steel industry chain enterprises need to seize?
Yuan Silang: The national unified market has the characteristics of efficient regulation, fair competition, and full openness, which has released clear signals and stable expectations to the vast market entities. As a metallurgical and construction enterprise in the steel industry chain, we need to seize development opportunities:
One is to explore and innovate, while consolidating the northern metallurgical market, increasing the development of the southern metallurgical market, and accelerating the formation of a new pattern of “north-south coordination” in the metallurgical market; Accelerate the development towards the high-end of the metallurgical market, forge core competitiveness in the advantageous field of “iron steel coke rolling”, and further polish the golden signboard of the “world-class metallurgical construction national team”.
The second is to accelerate the promotion of technological innovation and digital upgrading, use information technology and digital means to promote convenient and efficient work, focus on strengthening the application of digital scenes such as smart construction sites and smart factories, use digitalization to create core brand business advantages, and deeply promote professional integration.
The third is to focus on building an enterprise brand with good faith and reputation. In the national unified market, more and more attention has been paid to the integrity management of enterprises, the integrity performance of projects and the construction of the Social Credit System. Therefore, the brand value and the integrity value must be organically combined, so that the enterprise brand with good faith and reputation can be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people for a long time, to build a “hundred year old store” with an evergreen foundation, and to win customer respect and recognition.
Creative work is easily replaced by AI, and efforts are made to cultivate independent and creative skilled talents
Pengpai News: You have also brought another suggestion regarding strengthening the construction of the industrial worker team in the new era. In recent years, the employment trend in China has shifted, with some young people more inclined to work in the service industry, and the phenomenon of job shortages in secondary industries has become increasingly prominent. What do you think of this phenomenon? How to make the second industry attractive to young workers?
Yuan Silang: The factors that modern young people consider for employment are more diverse. With the rapid development of China’s service industry, young people have broad employment prospects, with relatively free working hours and flexible.
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