Panzhihua City Exported 550 Million Yuan of Titanium Dioxide in The First Half of 2023, Accounting for 21.8%. The City’s Titanium Dioxide Industry Is Developing Well.

In the first half of this year, Panzhihua City achieved a total foreign trade value of RMB 2.53 billion, a year-on-year increase of 17%. Among them, imports were 700 million yuan and exports were 1.83 billion yuan. The city's foreign trade import and export maintained a stable and quality-improving development trend.

Both state-owned enterprises and private enterprises achieved growth. The import and export of state-owned enterprises was 1.45 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.8%, accounting for 57.1%; the import and export scale of private enterprises continued to expand, with an import and export of 1.08 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 30.1%, and the proportion increased to 42.9%.

South Africa continues to be Panzhihua City’s largest trading partner. Panzhihua City’s import and export to South Africa is 360 million yuan; Australia is the second largest trading partner, with import and export of 260 million yuan; its import and export to Mexico, the United States and Kazakhstan are 210 million yuan, 190 million yuan and 120 million yuan respectively. Panzhihua City and The trade volume of the above five countries accounted for 45.2%.

The titanium dioxide industry in Panzhihua City is developing well and is facing major development opportunities:

First, Sichuan titanium dioxide faces major strategic opportunities. The country attaches great importance to the development of vanadium and titanium resources in Panxi, and has incorporated the comprehensive development and utilization of vanadium and titanium resources into national strategies three times. The country may include titanium dioxide in national strategic resource reserves. Sichuan Province relies on the advantages of titanium resources to "satisfy what Sichuan can do and meet the needs of the country" ”, the titanium dioxide industry faces major strategic opportunities.

Second, Sichuan Province has listed the vanadium and titanium industry as a key industry for development and support, incorporated the vanadium and titanium industry into green and low-carbon industries, proposed to further deepen the comprehensive development and utilization of vanadium and titanium resources, and formulate policies to specifically support the development of the vanadium and titanium industry.

Third, the number and production capacity of titanium dioxide enterprises in Sichuan Province are among the best in the country. Some advantageous enterprises stand out, the effects of environmental protection management are obvious, resource recycling utilization rates have achieved breakthroughs, the quality of industrial development continues to improve, and bottleneck problems affecting industrial development continue crack, laying a solid foundation for high-quality development of the industry.

Fourth, the company has a good grasp of production technology, environmental protection technology and solid waste recycling technology, and has made important progress in some major technologies, including the titanium extraction from blast furnace slag and the upgrading of Panxi titanium concentrate, which has contributed to the expansion of Sichuan. The scale of titanium dioxide, increasing the proportion of chloride-based titanium dioxide, promoting low-carbon green development and intelligent manufacturing of the titanium dioxide powder industry, and improving the comprehensive utilization rate of resources provide strong support.

Fifth, Sichuan Province, especially Panzhihua, has a good energy structure and outstanding advantages in clean energy, hydrogen energy and photovoltaic energy, and is uniquely positioned to develop the titanium dioxide industry. As an important titanium dioxide production base in the country, Sichuan has cultivated and absorbed a large number of management and technical talents, providing human resource support for industrial development.

The coupling effect of resource endowment and industrial foundation with policies, capital, technology, talents, etc. will continue to stimulate and strengthen the advantages of Sichuan Province's titanium dioxide industry. Some industry experts predict that the world's titanium dioxide industry will move to China, and China's titanium dioxide industry will move to Panxi. The development of the titanium dioxide industry in Sichuan Province has a promising future and a promising future, which is worth looking forward to.