中国建筑玻璃与工业玻璃协会会长 张佰恒
Whenever I talk about the glass industry, I always feel proud. Compared with other building materials products, the development history of glass is more memorable. Glass is the art of "fire and earth", and archaeological discoveries have a history of 5,000 years of development. my country began to master glass manufacturing technology in the Western Zhou Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago. But until the modern glass industry, glass has always been an extremely precious and rare substance. The word "glass" has a diagonal jade next to it, indicating that my country used to treat glass with a cultural attitude of "jade worship".
From aristocratic products to ordinary people's homes, it became a production and daily necessities for the benefit of mankind, thanks to the industrialization of glass manufacturing, that is, from that time, glass became a member of the building materials family. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the glass industry has developed rapidly, and the output has increased from 900,000 weight boxes to more than 900 million weight boxes. my country has become the world's largest glass manufacturing and application country; product applications have already extended from traditional architectural lighting, wind and rain protection to buildings. In the fields of energy saving, aerospace, photovoltaic new energy, transportation, electronic information, modern agriculture and other fields, the glass industry plays the role of a cornerstone industry in economic and social development. Based on the unique properties of glass, we also believe that the future development potential is still very huge, and glass is definitely inseparable from the industrial mission of benefiting mankind.
The glass industry is an integral part of the national economy. From the perspective of application, it is not only a raw material industry, but also a civilian production industry. Glass is indispensable in our daily life. It is difficult to imagine what our life would be like without glass. It is an emerging industry. Through the development of technology, the performance of glass has been continuously improved, and its application in electronic information, solar energy utilization, building energy saving, high-end equipment manufacturing and other fields has become more and more extensive, and the status of new glass materials has been continuously improved.
Compared with other types of building materials, glass has its own characteristics; but from the perspective of industrial attributes, it cannot get rid of the natural attributes of resource and energy-consuming industries. This industrial attribute is in conflict with the trend requirements of new production and lifestyles such as ecological civilization, green and low carbon, etc. to some extent. Most of the misunderstandings we hear about the industry from time to time stem from this. In addition, it is also necessary to deal with the "growing pains" in the process of rapid development, such as the serious overcapacity that has not been eradicated for a long time, the cyclical difficulties that cause the industry to rise and fall, and the disruption of the industry development order from time to time, etc. These are obviously contradictory. The value existing in the industry does not meet the fundamental requirements of high-quality development.
Fostering strengths and avoiding weaknesses, taking into account social responsibilities, realizing industrial value, improving development quality, and serving social development, this is a mission and a test for our generation serving the glass industry. On October 23, 2020, at the sixth member congress of China Building Materials Federation and the first council of the sixth session, Yan Xiaofeng, secretary of the party committee of the Federation, put forward the new concept of building materials industry development and the The new goals have also brought new ideas for the high-quality development of the glass industry.
"Easy to develop products, benefit mankind" and "accelerate thirteen comprehensive improvements" are an interrelated overall planning layout. The former is the goal, the latter is the measure, which will jointly form the building materials industry in 2035 and a longer period of time. Top-level design for quality development. Combined with the development of the glass industry, I would like to talk about some understandings and discuss with you.
The understanding of the meaning of "good business, good products, and the benefit of mankind" starts with careful words. Appropriate, what is safe, suitable, should be; industry, large version, industry, career. Combined together, it literally means that both the social environment and the natural environment are suitable for people to engage in economic activities, cultural activities, production and life. Shang, from above, advocating, pursuing; quality, taste, quality, grade. Combining them together means continuous improvement and pursuit of excellence.
From the perspective of behavior subjects, “Yiye Shangpin” involves both the “industry” as a supplier and the “industry” as a receiver, corresponding to industry and market, supply and demand. From the logical relationship, the former is the cause and the latter is the effect, the former is the path and the latter is the goal.
Appreciate Secretary Yan Xiaofeng's more refined and accurate expression: "Yiye" means that our industrial development must meet the requirements of ecological civilization, meet the requirements of safe development, meet the requirements of the common interests of the industry, and meet the urgent needs of the majority of building materials workers requirements, in line with the requirements of the people. "Shangpin" means that our building materials products should be synchronized with technological iteration, walk with civilization development, match market demand, and be compatible with the ecological environment. "Benefiting human beings" means that our building materials industry should improve our position, open our minds, and provide newer, better, more applicable, healthier, and better products for human beings through invention, creation and innovation on the basis of "Yiye Shangpin". Safe building materials products make a pioneering contribution to the progress of human civilization, thus making due contributions to the building materials industry for the realization of the country's long-term development goals and safe and high-quality development.
"Profit for industry, improve products, and benefit mankind", the words are concise and profound in meaning, which embodies the ideology and methodology of dialectical materialism and historical materialism. It is worth our continuous study and in-depth understanding.
"Easy to develop products, benefit mankind" is the new development concept of building materials industry
The communiqué of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China stated in the guiding ideology and principles that must be followed for economic and social development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, "unswervingly implement the new development concepts of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing, Adhere to the general tone of making progress while maintaining stability, take the promotion of high-quality development as the theme, deepen the supply-side structural reform as the main line, take reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force, and meet the people’s growing needs for a better life as the fundamental purpose.”
After the rapid development since the reform and opening up, the glass industry has made progress in many fields, breaking the long-term blockade abroad, overcoming the "stuck neck" technology, and basically satisfying the constantly upgraded consumption of my country's economy, society, technology, market, and humanities. need.
"Easy to work with products, for the benefit of mankind" embodies the value pursuit of the glass industry. On the one hand, the industry itself is a "good product" to achieve a higher level of development, and on the other hand, it is a "good product" for the economy and society, "to meet the people's growing needs for a better life." We closely follow the requirements of "pioneering, innovative, green, sharing, open, and humanistic" proposed by the federation, which not only reflects the practice of the country's new development concept, but also enriches and deepens the value connotation of the glass industry. .
In the past five years, the glass industry, together with its brother industries, has always adhered to policy innovation as the starting point, curbed new production capacity, eliminated outdated production capacity, and promoted the structural reform of the industry's supply side; Coordinate development; focus on quality and efficiency, promote the industry to improve quality and efficiency; oriented to meet the needs of emerging industries such as new energy, electronic information display, modern agriculture, building energy conservation, and expand the field to open up markets; to fully meet the emission standards as a means to force Industrial upgrading, guide the industry to use natural resources scientifically, and protect the ecology to the greatest extent possible. Through the efforts of the past five years, the product quality level, efficiency level, industry self-management and self-development level of the glass industry have been significantly improved; the initial construction can meet the needs of economic construction, product consumption quality, perceptual quality, functional effect , health and safety, service connotation and other material and cultural characteristics of the industrial system. In terms of realized industry value, we are getting closer and closer to our goals, and we are more and more confident.
"Easy to develop products, benefit mankind" to build a new pattern of building materials development
"We must focus on smoothing the national economic cycle, and accelerate the formation of a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other." The new environment of the changing situation, the strategic thinking of reshaping the new pattern of my country's economic development, was identified as the guiding ideology and principles that must be followed for my country's economic and social development at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, pointing out the direction for promoting high-quality economic development, Lay the foundation for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The strategic basis for building a new dual-cycle development pattern is to insist on expanding domestic demand. Since the reform and opening up, my country has implemented an export-oriented economic model of "export-foreign exchange-capital accumulation-investment-scale expansion". The domestic economy mainly relies on investment to drive, and the role of consumption is not obvious. Such a growth model has brought about a series of problems such as overcapacity and waste of resources, and has not given full play to my country's advantages in terms of market size. Under the epidemic, exports, consumption, and investment of the troika that drive the economy have been seriously affected. As a manifestation of the unprecedented changes in a century and the uncertainty of the external environment, the global economy is sluggish, the strategic competition between China and the United States, and trade protectionism is on the rise. , the acceleration of "de-globalization" and other situations may exist for a long time. The development model has shifted to "domestic demand-domestic unified market-distribution-expansion of consumption" and "advanced industrial chain-high value-added-global division of labor", adding impetus to my country's economic development by prospering the domestic economy and smoothing the domestic cycle, which is a response to structural problems. The inevitable choice for problems and long-term challenges.
The glass industry has basically gone through a similar development process and is faced with similar development patterns. To build a new development pattern of high-quality development, the dual-cycle strategy should be integrated with the concept of "skilled in business and products for the benefit of mankind". With the goal of safe development, high-quality development, sustainable development, and ecological civilization development, and the vision of serving the needs of human health and a better life, we will promote the transformation of the development mode of the glass industry, the transformation of the industrial structure, and the upgrading of product service functions, continuously improve the organizational management structure, strengthen The modernization of industry governance capacity and governance system, highlighting social responsibility, reshaping the industry image, promoting the scientific, healthy, orderly, comprehensive and sustainable development of the industry, and fulfilling the historical mission of serving social development and the progress of human civilization. It is necessary to actively and dynamically adapt to changes in the business environment, make scientific use of natural resources, protect the ecology to the greatest extent, and empower the development of the industry with new technologies that are changing with each passing day. system.
"Easy to work with products, for the benefit of mankind" embodies an accurate grasp of the current situation and laws of development of the industry
Looking back on the 71-year development history of the building materials industry in New China, from the establishment of the building materials industry system, serving the construction of New China, to "everyone building building materials", low-cost localization, and promoting the great cause of reform and opening up; from "from big to strong, relying on new To "innovate and improve, surpass and lead", the scale, technology and products of the industry have developed rapidly, the product technology and technology are mature, the variety, performance and quality are stable, and the application is popular. At present, the output of the main categories of building materials ranks in the world. In the forefront, flat glass accounts for more than 60% of the world, and photovoltaic glass accounts for more than 90% of the world. It has played the role of "the cornerstone of a great country" in the process of my country's economic and social development.
In a very short period of time, we have gone through hundreds of years of industrial development history in western developed countries and deduced the legendary story of Chinese building materials, which is certainly something to be proud of. However, there is still a long way to go in comparison with the vision and mission of "Easy to work with products, benefit mankind", the new requirements for high-quality development, and the realistic challenges of the industry.
The theory of industrial development cycle tells us that each industry has to go through an evolution process from growth to decline, which is generally divided into four stages: start-up stage, growth stage, mature stage and decline stage. The development of each stage is inevitably affected by various factors such as politics, economy, industrial policy, technology, market, and environment, and presents different characteristics. A mature industry refers to a state of stable demand, stable technology, stable supply, and stable competition pattern after the expansion of its production capacity and production space tends to stop after sufficient expansion to a certain extent. In contrast, my country's glass industry is undoubtedly a mature industry.
However, maturity does not mean the stagnation of industrial development, nor is it an excuse for the existence of many problems. A basic point of view of dialectical materialism, everything is in the process of development and movement, we should look at problems from the perspective of development and solve problems with the perspective of development.
It is necessary to fully realize that while continuously promoting the development of the glass industry towards informatization and intelligence, accelerating the innovation of industrial development methods is still a prominent problem and challenge faced by the industry; Insufficient investment and weak development of emerging industries have become important factors restricting the glass industry to accelerate the transformation of new and old kinetic energy and enhance the level of competition in industrial development; the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development is still relatively common between regions, enterprises and certain links. It is highlighted that the task of energy conservation and emission reduction is arduous, the degree of internationalization is not high, the self-discipline of the industry needs to be deepened, and the ability to resist risks is not strong, etc...
To achieve high-quality development of the glass industry, we must follow the trend, grasp the laws of industrial development and the new changes and requirements of the development environment, identify the direction of "steady growth" for the entire industry, start the "second curve" of industrial development, and accelerate the expansion of industry development. New fields, new demands, new markets. It is necessary to adjust its own positioning according to changes in the situation, and to evaluate, examine and play the inherent value of the industry from a dynamic, long-term and international perspective, and adapt to and meet the needs of social development.
In a nutshell, "Easy to develop products, benefit mankind" is the concentrated expression of the new development concept of building materials in the glass industry. It not only conforms to the development status and development laws of my country's glass industry, but also fully conforms to the party and the country's strategic deployment, which will certainly promote the industry. Sustained brilliance and benefit of mankind.
Theory and practice, concept and direction, the foothold is in practice. It is a systematic project to practice "skilled business and products for the benefit of mankind". As an industry association, a social organization, we must adhere to goal orientation, strengthen responsibility, and promote progress through innovation. Taking "serving members, serving the industry, serving the government, and serving the society" as its own responsibility, it has carried out work from the aspects of strengthening service concepts, building service functions, improving service systems, improving governance structures, and strengthening party building, and implementing and accelerating the "Thirteen Comprehensive Improvements" "planning and layout, to promote the industry to a new stage of modernization, and gradually realize the new development goal of "skilled in business, quality products, and benefiting mankind".
-From "China Building Materials" magazine
