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On December 27th, the National Development and Reform Commission revised and released the "Guiding Catalogue for Industrial Structure Adjustment (2024 Edition)", which will be officially implemented from February 1st, 2024.

The Catalogue (2024 edition) consists of three categories: encouraged, restricted, and eliminated categories, with a total of 1005 entries, 352 encouraged categories, 231 restricted categories, and 422 eliminated categories. Among them, there are 12 encouraged categories, 13 restricted categories, and 17 eliminated categories in the petrochemical industry (10 outdated equipment and 7 outdated products).

Encouragement mainly refers to technologies, equipment, and products that play an important role in promoting economic and social development; Restrictions mainly refer to outdated process technology that does not meet industry access conditions and relevant regulations, which is not conducive to safe production and achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals. It is necessary to urge the transformation and prohibition of new production capacity, process technology, equipment, and products; The elimination category mainly refers to outdated processes, technologies, equipment, and products that do not comply with relevant laws and regulations, seriously waste resources, pollute the environment, pose serious safety production hazards, hinder the achievement of carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals, and need to be eliminated.

In the encouraged categories of the petrochemical industry, the new version integrates 12 major categories, including mineral resource development, inorganic salts, pesticides, coatings and dyes, resins, rubber, specialty chemicals, silicon materials, fluorine materials, tires, bio based materials, and green and efficient technologies, to provide more specific and practical guidance.

1. Mineral resource development: Exploration, development, and comprehensive utilization of scarce chemical mineral resources such as sulfur, potassium, boron, lithium, and bromine, as well as the comprehensive utilization of low-grade phosphate and fluorite ores, beneficiation tailings, and associated resources.

2. Inorganic salts: development and application of comprehensive utilization technologies such as waste hydrochloric acid to produce chlorine gas, new clean production processes for chromium salts, fully enclosed high-pressure water quenching slag and non secondary pollution phosphorus mud treatment yellow phosphorus production processes, nitric acid and semi water dihydrate phosphoric acid production processes, development and application of comprehensive utilization technologies for phosphogypsum, production of high-quality potassium fertilizers and new fertilizers.

3. Pesticides: Development and production of efficient, safe, and environmentally friendly new varieties, formulations, specialized intermediates, and adjuvants of pesticides, production of chiral and stereostructural pesticides using directional synthesis methods, and development and production of new biopesticides and technologies.

4. Coatings and dyes: Environmentally friendly and resource-saving coatings with low VOC content, used for high-performance coatings and supporting resins in key fields such as large aircraft, high-speed rail, large ships, new energy, electronics, etc., and for the development and production of new dyes, pigments, printing and dyeing auxiliaries, and intermediates in fields such as photodiagnosis and treatment, photoresist, liquid crystal display, photovoltaic cells, raw material coloring, digital inkjet printing, functional chemical fiber dyeing, etc.

5. Resin: Used for the production of ethylene and other products through electric heating steam cracking technology, high-performance barrier resins such as ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer resin, the development and production of special polyolefins such as polyisobutene, ethylene octene copolymer, metallocene polyethylene, and key raw materials such as high carbon alpha olefins, the production of special engineering plastics such as aromatic ketone polymers, polyaryletherketone, liquid crystal polymers that meet 5G applications, electronic grade polyimides, as well as the development and application of blending modification and alloying technologies, the development and production of degradable polymers, and the development and production of new polyamides such as long carbon chain nylon and high temperature resistant nylon.

6. Rubber: Development and production of 10000 ton liquid butyl rubber, functional group modified solution polymerized styrene butadiene rubber, hydrogenated nitrile rubber, high vinyl polybutadiene rubber (HVBR), integrated rubber (SIBR), butadiene rubber, isoprene latex, development and application of synthetic rubber chemical modification technology, wet (liquid phase) and low-temperature continuous rubber mixing technology, development and production of thermoplastic elastomer materials such as thermoplastic polyester elastomer (TPEE) and hydrogenated styrene isoprene thermoplastic elastomer (SEPS), and development and application of new natural rubber.

7. Specialized Chemicals: Development and production of electronic chemicals and key raw materials such as low VOC content adhesives, environmentally friendly water treatment agents, new efficient and environmentally friendly catalysts and additives, functional film materials, ultra clean and high-purity reagents, photoresists, electronic gases, new display and advanced packaging materials.

8. Silicon materials: development and production of new organic silicon monomers such as phenyl chlorosilane and vinyl chlorosilane, phenyl silicone rubber, phenyl silicone resin, and hybrid materials.

9. Fluorine materials: special fluorine-containing monomers such as perfluoroene ethers, high-quality fluororesins such as perfluoroethylene propylene, polyvinylidene fluoride, polytrifluorochloroethylene, and ethylene tetrafluoroethylene copolymers, high-performance fluororubbers such as fluoroether rubber, fluorosilicone rubber, tetrafluoroelastomer, and high fluorine content 246 fluororubber, fluorine-containing lubricating oils and fats, alternatives to ozone depleting substances (ODS) with zero ozone depletion potential (ODP) and low global warming potential (GWP), alternatives and alternative technologies for perfluorooctylsulfonyl compounds (PFOS), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and their salts and related compounds.

10. Tires: High performance radial tires using green technology (below 55 series, with rolling resistance coefficient ≤ 9.0N/kN, wet road relative grip coefficient ≥ 1.25), aviation tires, giant engineering radial tires (above 49 inches), agricultural radial tires, and supporting special materials and equipment are produced.

11. Biobased materials: Development and production of polymer materials, reagents, chips, interferons, sensors, and cellulose biochemical products using non grain biomass as raw materials.

12. Green and efficient technologies: development and application of new technologies for efficient utilization of carbon dioxide (including carbon dioxide methane reforming, carbon dioxide hydrogenation to produce chemicals, carbon dioxide to produce polycarbonates, biodegradable plastics and other polymer materials), clean utilization technologies such as renewable energy hydrogen production and by-product hydrogen substitution for coal hydrogen production, comprehensive utilization of by-products such as carbon tetrachloride, silicon tetrachloride, methyltrichlorosilane, trimethylchlorosilane, trifluoromethane, and development and application of microchannel reaction technology and equipment.

1.Atmospheric and vacuum distillation units with a capacity of less than 10 million tons per year, catalytic cracking units with a capacity of less than 1.5 million tons per year, continuous reforming units with a capacity of less than 1 million tons per year, hydrocracking units with a capacity of less than 1.5 million tons per year, and open delayed coking processes.

2.Cracking of naphtha below 800000 tons/year to produce ethylene, acrylonitrile below 130000 tons/year, purified terephthalic acid below 1 million tons/year, ethylene glycol below 200000 tons/year, styrene below 200000 tons/year (excluding dry gas to ethylbenzene process), caprolactam below 100000 tons/year, ethylene method acetic acid, carbonylation synthesis method acetic acid below 300000 tons/year, natural gas to produce methanol (excluding natural gas with a carbon dioxide content of more than 20%), coal to methanol production plant below 1 million tons/year, acetone cyanoalcohol method methyl methacrylate (excluding hydrogen cyanide produced by acrylonitrile by-product), grain method acetone/butanol, chloroalcohol method epichlorohydrin and chloroalcohol method epichlorohydrin production plant, saponin (including hydrolysate) production plant below 300 tons/year.

3.Production facilities for polypropylene with a capacity of less than 70000 tons/year, polyethylene with a capacity of less than 200000 tons/year, acetylene based (poly) vinyl chloride, ethylene oxychlorination based polyvinyl chloride with a starting scale of less than 300000 tons/year, polystyrene with a capacity of less than 100000 tons/year, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene copolymer (ABS) with a capacity of less than 200000 tons/year, ordinary synthetic latex carboxylated styrene butadiene rubber (including styrene butadiene latex) with a capacity of less than 100000 tons/year, nitrile latex with a capacity of less than 50000 tons/year, solvent based universal adhesive production facilities for chloroprene rubber, styrene butadiene thermoplastic rubber, polyurethane, and polyacrylate.

4.Sulfur based sulfuric acid production with a capacity of less than 300000 tons per year (excluding electronic grade sulfuric acid with a single metal ion ≤ 100ppb), pyrite based sulfuric acid production with a capacity of less than 200000 tons per year, atmospheric pressure method and comprehensive method nitric acid, calcium carbide (excluding those replaced by large advanced process equipment), and potassium hydroxide production facilities with a single line capacity of less than 50000 tons per year.

5.Soda ash (excluding underground circulating alkali production and natural alkali), caustic soda (excluding ion membrane caustic soda equipment that uses industrial waste salt for more than 40%), yellow phosphorus, ammonium phosphate, sodium tripolyphosphate, sodium hexametaphosphate, phosphorus trichloride, phosphorus pentasulfide, calcium hydrogen phosphate, calcium carbonate (excluding particle size of 100 nanometers or less), anhydrous sodium sulfate (excluding salt industry co production and by-products), barium carbonate, barium sulfate, barium hydroxide, barium chloride, barium nitrate, strontium carbonate, white carbon black (excluding gas-phase method and carbon dioxide acidification process), choline chloride production equipment (excluding relocation projects that do not add new production capacity in this item).

6.The initial scale is less than 30000 tons/year, the single line production capacity is less than 10000 tons/year of sodium cyanide (converted to 100%), the single line production capacity is less than 5000 tons/year of lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide (excluding recycling), the low calcium roasting process for sodium dichromate, the dry process for producing aluminum fluoride, and low to medium molecular weight ratio cryolite production equipment.

7.Nitrogen fertilizers made from petroleum and natural gas are synthesized using fixed interlayer gasification technology to produce ammonia, and copper washing method is used to purify the raw material gas for ammonia synthesis.

8.Production facilities for pesticide raw materials with high toxicity, high residue, and significant impact on the environment or agricultural product quality and safety, including oxytetracycline, tebuconazole, glyphosate, bromomethane, methomyl, aldicarb, carbendazim, sodium dichlorvos, dichlorvos, carbendazim, chlorfenapyr, bromarone, carbendazim, botulinum toxin, imidacloprid, aluminum phosphide, organochlorine and organotin insecticides, fipronil fungicides, sodium nitrophenolate (potassium), sulfonamide, internally absorbed phosphorus, dimethoate, fipronil, butanone, fipronil, cypermethrin, acetamiprid, carbendazim, butyrylhydrazine, etc. The sentence is:.

9.Production facilities for glyphosate, chlorpyrifos, triazophos, paraquat, chlorothalonil, avermectin, imidacloprid, acetamiprid, chloropicrin, metoclopramide, 2,4-D, imidacloprid, thiamethoxam, atrazine, butachlor, dimethyltetrachlorothalonil, herbicides, dicamba, dicamba, glyphosate, cypermethrin, mancozeb, dichlorvos, triazole, propiconazole, ipratropium, paclobutrazol, and dithiocarbamate.

10.Sulfuric acid titanium dioxide (excluding co production process), lead chromium yellow, iron oxide pigments with a production capacity of less than 30000 tons per year, solvent based coatings (excluding encouraged coating varieties and production processes), powder coatings containing TGIC (excluding closed production facilities), and nitrocellulose coating production facilities with VOCs content exceeding 75%.

11.Production equipment for non new functional and environmentally friendly dyes, pigments, printing and dyeing auxiliaries, and intermediates.

12.Hydrogen fluoride (HF, excluding downstream deep processing products for self use, electronic grade and wet process phosphoric acid matching) production plants, methylchlorosilane monomer production plants with an initial scale of less than 200000 tons/year and a single set scale of less than 100000 tons/year, methane chloride production plants with a capacity of less than 100000 tons/year (excluding organic silicon matching) and 100000 tons/year or more without supporting facilities for by-product carbon tetrachloride disposal, difluorochloromethane production plants without supporting facilities for by-product trifluoromethane disposal, sulfur hexafluoride (SF6, excluding high-purity grade) production plants with acceptable uses, and controlled uses such as refrigerant and foaming agent for difluoromethane (HFC-32), 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (HFC-134a), pentafluoroethane (HFC-125). Production facilities for 1,1,1-trifluoroethane (HFC-143a) and 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane (HFC-245fa) (excluding by-product facilities).

13.Production facilities for diagonal tires, power tires (including hand push tires), nylon cord, steel cord with a capacity of less than 50000 tons per year, recycled rubber (excluding atmospheric pressure continuous environmentally friendly desulfurization process), rubber plasticizer pentachlorothiophenol, and rubber accelerator tetramethyl thiuram disulfide (TMTD).

　　1.Atmospheric and vacuum distillation units with a capacity of 2 million tons/year or less (excluding Golmud in Qinghai and those that meet relevant conditions), kettle distillation units that use open flame high-temperature heating to produce oil products, waste 110 old rubber and plastic earth refining processes, tar intermittent production of asphalt, single set crude (light) benzene refining units with a capacity of 25000 tons/year or less, and single set coal tar processing units with a capacity of 50000 tons/year or less.

　　2.Ammonium phosphate with a production capacity of less than 100000 tons per year (excluding industrial grade) (as of December 31, 2025), sulfuric acid production and sulfuric acid production with a production capacity of less than 100000 tons per year (excluding remote areas), potassium permanganate production by open hearth oxidation method, diaphragm caustic soda production equipment (which can be retained for comprehensive utilization of waste salt), open hearth method and large pot evaporation method for sulfide alkali production process, sodium silicate (sparkling alkali) production process by saltpeter method, and intermittent coke method for carbon disulfide process.

　　3.The saponification processes of epichlorohydrin and epichlorohydrin calcium method using chlorohydrin method (excluding those with a fresh water consumption of no more than 15 tons per ton of product and a waste residue production of no more than 100 kilograms as of December 31, 2025), yellow phosphorus production equipment with a single production capacity of less than 5000 tons/year, calcium roasted chromium compound production equipment, ordinary grade barium sulfate, barium hydroxide, barium chloride, and barium nitrate production equipment with a single production capacity of less than 3000 tons/year, sodium chlorate production equipment with a production capacity of less than 10000 tons/year, calcium carbide furnaces with a single furnace capacity of less than 12500 kVA, open type calcium carbide furnaces, internal combustion type calcium carbide furnaces, high mercury catalysts (with a mercury chloride content of more than 6.5%), and acetylene (poly) vinyl chloride production equipment using high mercury catalysts, and production equipment using mercury or mercury compounds. Sodium methoxide, potassium methoxide, sodium ethoxide, potassium ethoxide, polyurethane, acetaldehyde, caustic soda Production equipment for biological insecticides and local antibacterial agents, ammonia sodium method, and cyanide melt sodium cyanide production process.

　　4.Single line production capacity of less than 10000 tons/year for sodium tripolyphosphate, less than 5000 tons/year for sodium hexametaphosphate, less than 5000 tons/year for phosphorus trichloride, less than 30000 tons/year for feed grade calcium hydrogen phosphate, and less than 5000 tons/year for hydrofluoric acid, wet process aluminum fluoride, and open crystalline fluoride salt production facilities with outdated technology and severe pollution.

　　5.Single line production capacity of sodium cyanide (100% sodium cyanide) below 3000 tons/year, potassium hydroxide below 10000 tons/year, ordinary grade white carbon black below 15000 tons/year, ordinary grade calcium carbonate below 20000 tons/year, ordinary grade anhydrous sodium sulfate below 100000 tons/year (excluding salt industry co production and by-products), lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide below 3000 tons/year (excluding recycling of waste lithium batteries), ordinary grade barium carbonate below 20000 tons/year, and ordinary grade strontium carbonate below 15000 tons/year.

　　6.Half water coal gas ammonia liquid phase desulfurization, natural gas atmospheric pressure intermittent conversion process to produce synthetic ammonia, carbon monoxide atmospheric pressure shift and full medium temperature shift (high-temperature shift) process, wet desulfurization process without supporting sulfur recovery device, fixed layer intermittent gasification device without supporting construction of blowing gas waste heat recovery and comprehensive utilization of gasification furnace slag, urea production facility without supporting process condensate hydrolysis and analysis device, and high-temperature coal gas washing water in open cooling tower with direct contact cooling technology with air.

　　7.Sodium method for the production of paraquat, dichlorvos method for the production of dichlorvos, manual packaging (filling) process and equipment for small packaging (1 kg or less) pesticide products, Raymond machine method for the production of pesticide powder, and pentachlorophenol (sodium) production unit using hexachlorobenzene as raw material.

　　8.The production process of chlorinated rubber using resin and carbon tetrachloride solvent method for coatings directly heated by fire, production equipment for saponins (including hydrolysates) with a capacity of less than 100 tons/year, production equipment for saponins produced by hydrochloric acid hydrolysis method and those with pollutant emissions that cannot meet standards, and iron powder reduction process [4,4-diaminostilbene-disulfonic acid (DSD acid), 2-amino-4-methyl-5-chlorophenylsulfonic acid (CLT acid), 1-amino-8-naphthol-3,6-disulfonic acid (H acid) three products are temporarily suspended].

　　9.Production facilities for diagonal tires with a capacity of 500000 pieces per year or less, 112 tires with natural cotton curtain fabric as the skeleton, dry granulation carbon black (excluding special carbon black and semi reinforced carbon black), natural latex condoms with a capacity of 300 million pieces per year or less, rubber vulcanization accelerator N-oxybis (1,2-ethylene) -2-benzothiazole sulfonamide (NOBS), and rubber anti-aging agent D.

　　10.Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) used for controlled purposes such as refrigeration, foaming, and cleaning, excluding those used as raw materials for downstream chemical products, 1,1,1-trichloroethane (methyl chloroform) used for cleaning, mainly producing carbon tetrachloride (CTC), all products using CTC as a processing aid, fluorinated polymer production processes using PFOA as a processing aid, coatings containing DDT, and non closed production facilities using DDT as raw material for triclosan production (to be phased out according to the overall plan requirements of the national implementation of international conventions).

1. Modified starch, modified fiber, multi-color interior wall (O/W type coating with nitrocellulose as the main resin and xylene as the main solvent), vinyl chloride vinylidene chloride copolymer lotion exterior wall, tar based polyurethane waterproof, water-based polyvinyl chloride tar waterproof, polyvinyl alcohol and its acetals interior and exterior wall (106, 107 coatings, etc.), polyvinyl acetate lotion exterior wall coating (including ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer lotion).

2. Interior walls, solvent based wood, toys, cars, and exterior wall coatings containing harmful substances exceeding the standard, as well as coatings containing harmful substances such as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, tributyltin, perfluorooctanoic acid and its salts, perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, and red lead.

3. Under reducing conditions, azo dyes that can decompose and produce 24 harmful aromatic amines (temporarily suspended for non textile applications) and nine carcinogenic dyes (temporarily suspended for applications that do not come into direct contact with the human body).

4. Paint remover containing benzene, phenol, benzaldehyde, and dichloromethane, lithopone, polyvinyl chloride building waterproof joint material (tar type), 107 glue (polyvinyl formal adhesive), clenbuterol, polychlorinated biphenyls (transformer oil).

5. Highly toxic pesticide products: Hexachlorocyclohexane, Dibromoethane, Butylhydrazide, Dichlorpene, Herbicidal Ether, Chlorpyrifos, Tetramethoxam, Fluoroacetamide, Sodium Fluoroacetate, Dibromochloropropane, Dichloropyrifos (Suhua 203), Phosphorus Amine, Glyphosate, Tetramethoxazole, Methamidophos, Methyl Parathion, Monochloropyrifos, Thiocyclic Phosphorus (Ethylthiocyclic Phosphorus), Fumetarsine, Fumetarsine and all arsenic preparations, mercury preparations, lead preparations, water agents with glyphosate content below 30%, Methylthiocyclic Phosphorus, Calcium Phosphide, Zinc Phosphide, Phenylthiophosphorus, Dichloropyrifos, Magnesium Phosphide, Thiamethoxacin, Thiamethoxacin, Thiamethoxacin, Thiamethoxacin Sulfur and phosphorus, methyl parathion, 2,4-dichlorobutyl ester, methyl isofenapyr, azithromycin, glyphosate, nonylphenol (pesticide additive), trichlorfon, chlorfenapyr, and sulfamethoxazole.

6. Products to be phased out in accordance with the overall plan for national implementation of international conventions: Chlordane, Heptachlor, Bromomethane, DDT, Hexachlorobenzene, Metformin, Lindane, Toxafen, aldrin, Dieldrin, Endrin, endosulfan, Fipronil, Decachloroketone, alpha hexachlorocyclohexane, beta hexachlorocyclohexane, hexachlorobutadiene, polychlorinated biphenyls, pentachlorobenzene, hexabromobiphenyl, tetrabromodiphenyl ether and pentabromodiphenyl ether, hexabromodiphenyl ether and heptabromodiphenyl ether, hexabromocyclododecane, perfluorooctylsulfonic acid and its salts and perfluorooctylsulfonyl fluoride, perfluorohexyl sulfonic acid (PFHxS) and its salts and related compounds, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFHxS) OA and its salts and related compounds, decabromodiphenyl ether, short chain chlorinated paraffin, pentachlorophenol and its salts and esters, and polychlorinated naphthalene (exempted for restricted use).

7. Soft edge structure bicycle tire, ordinary conveyor belt with cotton cord as the skeleton material and ordinary V-belt with nylon cord as the skeleton material, manual engraved vulcanization mold for tires, bicycle tires, and motorcycle tires.

According to relevant regulations, for encouraged projects, approval, verification or filing shall be carried out in accordance with relevant regulations; For restricted projects, new construction is prohibited, and existing production capacity allows for renovation and upgrading within a certain period of time; For eliminated projects, investment is prohibited and they must be eliminated within the prescribed period. Those that are not encouraged, restricted, or eliminated, and comply with relevant national laws, regulations, and policies, belong to the allowed category.