Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, National Development and Reform Commission

Guiding Opinions on Promoting the High Quality Development of the Casting and Forging Industry

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Unicom installed [2023] No. 40

All provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, cities under separate state planning, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, industry and information departments, development and reform commissions, and ecological environment departments (bureaus):

Casting and forging is an indispensable process link in the equipment manufacturing industry, an important support and basic guarantee for the innovative development of many host products and high-end equipment, and is related to the security and stability of the supply chain of the equipment manufacturing industry chain. In order to better promote the high-quality development of the casting and forging industry, and continuously enhance the support and guarantee role of the equipment manufacturing industry, the following opinions are put forward.

General 1. requirements

(I) guiding ideology

Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the First and Second Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, adhere to the better integration of effective markets and promising governments, and promote the high-quality development of the casting and forging industries. The theme is to ensure the safety and stability of the equipment manufacturing industry chain supply chain, and strive to improve the independent innovation capabilities of the casting and forging industry, improve the quality and efficiency of the industry, comprehensively enhance the competitiveness of the industrial chain, and provide solid support for accelerating the new industrialization and building a manufacturing power.

(II) basic principles

Adhere to innovation-driven. Put scientific and technological innovation at the core, strengthen the dominant position of enterprise innovation, promote the in-depth integration of enterprise-led industry, university and research, break through a number of key core technologies, accelerate high-end intelligent transformation, and improve the level of independent innovation.

Adhere to market orientation. Give full play to the decisive role of the market in the allocation of resources, and respect the status of enterprises as the main body of the market and the right to make independent decisions. Give better play to the role of the government, build a fair and orderly market competition order, and create a good development environment.

Adhere to green development. The system thinking is firmly established, and the green concept is integrated into the whole process of casting and forging production.

Adhere to quality first. Give full play to the leading role of standards, strengthen the main responsibility of enterprise quality, improve the quality control ability of the whole production process, improve product quality, realize the improvement of industry quality and efficiency, and ensure the safety and stability of the industrial chain supply chain.

(III) development goals

By 2025, the overall level of the casting and forging industry will be further improved, and the ability to ensure the security and stability of the equipment manufacturing industry chain supply chain will be significantly enhanced. The industrial structure is more reasonable, and the industrial layout and production factors are more coordinated. Breakthroughs have been made in high-end castings and forgings in key areas, and a number of core technologies with independent intellectual property rights have been mastered. Advanced technology such as integrated die-casting, mouldless casting, sand 3D printing, ultra-high strength steel hot forming, precision cold-temperature hot forging, lightweight high-strength alloy and other advanced technology technologies have been industrialized. Build more than 10 industrial clusters with demonstration effects, and initially form a good ecology for the coordinated development of large, medium and small enterprises, and the upper, middle and lower reaches of the industrial chain. The effect of intelligent transformation is highlighted, creating more than 30 intelligent manufacturing demonstration factories. Cultivate more than 100 green factories, the casting industry particulate pollution emissions will be reduced by more than 30% compared to 2020, the annual recycling of casting waste sand will reach more than 8 million tons, and the energy consumption per ton of forgings will be reduced by 5% compared to 2020.

By 2035, the overall level of the industry will enter the international advanced ranks, form a complete industrial technology system and continuous innovation capabilities, the resilience of the industrial chain supply chain will be significantly enhanced, the level of green development will be greatly improved, and a group of world-class high-quality enterprise groups will be cultivated and formed An internationally competitive advanced manufacturing cluster.

2. key tasks

(I) improve industry innovation capability

1. Carry out key core technology research. We will promote the construction of a technological innovation system with enterprises as the main body and the combination of production, study, research and application. Encourage enterprises to carry out collaborative research with upstream host equipment companies, universities, and scientific research institutes, and promote collaborative innovation in the upper, middle and lower reaches of the industrial chain, integration and innovation of large, medium and small enterprises, and the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements. Focus on national strategy and industrial development needs, through the implementation of industrial foundation reengineering projects, support key core technology research, break through the industry's urgently needed advanced basic technology and equipment, key basic materials, key software, etc., make up for the shortcomings of the industrial chain, and strive to improve the equipment manufacturing industry The resilience of the industry chain supply chain enhances the impact resistance of the industrial system.

2. Develop advanced casting technology and equipment. Focus on the development of advanced casting technologies and equipment such as high-compaction clay sand automatic molding, high-efficiency self-hardening sand casting, precision core molding, shell casting, centrifugal casting, metal mold casting, iron mold coated with sand, lost foam/V method/solid casting, light alloy high pressure/extrusion/differential pressure/low pressure/semi-solid/adjustable pressure casting, silica sol investment casting, short process casting, sand mold 3D printing, etc.

3. Develop advanced forging technology and equipment. Focus on the development of advanced forging processes and equipment such as high-speed stamping of precision structural parts, deep drawing of ultra-high-strength plates, impact hydroforming of high-strength light alloy plates, spinning of complex special-shaped structures, high-speed precision multi-station forging, cold and hot radial forging, stamping composite near-net forming, short-process die forging and free forging, precision forging, powder precision forging, digital sheet metal forming center, digital high-efficiency universal parts processing center, etc.

4. Strengthen the construction of innovation service platform. Optimize and upgrade the construction level of existing R & D and innovation institutions, build a number of industrial technology basic public service platforms, and promote the integrated development of technical basic element systems such as standards, measurement, certification and accreditation, inspection and testing, test verification, industrial information, intellectual property rights, and achievement transformation. Enhance industry-oriented common technical service capabilities. Construction of materials, processes and other databases, process data analysis and optimization services. Encourage qualified enterprises and scientific research institutes to integrate innovative resources, layout and build basic research institutions, and enhance the supply capacity of common technologies.

(II) promote the development of industry norms

1. Promote the optimization of industrial structure. Strictly implement relevant laws, regulations and standards on energy conservation, environmental protection, quality, and safety technology, and policies such as the "Industrial Structure Adjustment Guidance Catalog", and eliminate backward production capacity with backward technology and equipment, substandard pollutant discharge, and insecure production safety in accordance with laws and regulations. Encourage key areas of air pollution prevention and control to step up efforts to eliminate backwardness. Foundry enterprises are not allowed to use coreless power frequency induction furnace, non-magnetic yoke (≥ 0.25 tons) aluminum shell medium frequency induction furnace, water glass investment mold precision casting ammonium chloride hardening mold shell, aluminum alloy hexachloroethane refining and other obsolete processes and equipment. We will speed up the upgrading and transformation of existing projects, promote enterprises to reasonably choose advanced technology with low pollution, low energy consumption and high efficiency, and enhance the competitiveness of the industry. Strengthen the collaborative layout of casting and forging and equipment manufacturing industry, guide qualified enterprises to enter the park for agglomeration and development, enhance the ability of industrial chain supply chain coordination and supporting, and build an industrial pattern with reasonable layout, dislocation and complementarity, supply and demand linkage and coordinated development.

2. Support the construction of high-end projects. We will promote the implementation of the construction of a unified national market and open up the key blocking points that restrict the development of the industry. Guide all localities to plan new or upgraded high-end construction projects in combination with the actual situation, support enterprises to support the production of host plants or major projects, and ensure the safety and stability of the supply chain of the equipment manufacturing industry chain. Strictly examine and approve new construction, renovation and expansion projects to ensure that the procedures for project filing, environmental assessment, pollutant discharge permit, safety assessment, and energy conservation review are clear and complete, and the project construction meets the requirements of relevant national laws, regulations and standards. Strictly implement the total emission control of major pollutants, the total energy consumption and intensity control system, resolutely curb the blind development of projects that do not meet the requirements and low-level repeated construction, prevent blind expansion of production capacity, and effectively promote the optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure.

3. Standardize industry supervision and management. Systematic science and orderly promote the transformation and upgrading of the industry, to avoid policy implementation "one size fits all" and "layer-by-layer". Give full play to the role of industry autonomy and strengthen industry self-discipline. Promote the revision of the Standard Conditions for Foundry Enterprises (T/CFA 0310021) and encourage local governments to guide the standardized development of foundry enterprises with reference to the conditions. Strictly distinguish the characteristics of the production process of the forging industry and the iron and steel industry, avoid the determination of the steel-making supporting forging as iron and steel smelting production, and strictly prohibit the illegal addition of steel production capacity, illegal production of billets and steel ingots in the name of casting and forging and marketing.

(III) speed up the green development of the industry

1. Accelerate the green and low-carbon transition. Promote green methods throughout the entire process of casting and forging production, develop green raw and auxiliary materials, promote green technology, build green factories, develop green parks, and further promote the recycling of parks. Promote enterprises to disclose environmental information in accordance with the law and accept social supervision. Actively carry out clean production, do a good job in energy-saving supervision and law enforcement, energy-saving diagnosis services, in-depth exploration of energy-saving potential. Encourage enterprises to adopt high-efficiency energy-saving smelting, heat treatment and other equipment to improve the level of waste heat utilization. Promote short-process casting and encourage the casting industry to change to electric furnaces (10 tons/hour and below). Promote the application of waste foundry sand recycling technology, recycling and utilization of scrap metal. Promote the integration of large-scale short-process low-cost forging technology, promote the application of environmentally friendly lubricating media, increase the proportion of non-quenching steel use.

2. Improve the level of environmental protection. Apply for a pollutant discharge permit in accordance with the law, strictly discharge pollutants with a permit, discharge pollutants according to the permit, and implement the requirements of self-monitoring, ledger records, implementation reports, and information disclosure in accordance with the provisions of the pollutant discharge permit. Taking into account the production process, the use of raw and auxiliary materials, unorganized emission control, the operation effect of pollution control facilities, etc., we will build a number of environmental protection benchmarking enterprises that have reached the-level level of performance in response to heavy pollution weather, so as to promote the improvement of the environmental protection level of the industry. Foundry enterprises strictly implement the "Foundry Industry Air Pollutant Emission Standard" (GB 39726) and local emission standards, strengthen unorganized emission control, and cannot stably meet the emission standards, complete the upgrading of facilities within a time limit, and do not have the transformation conditions and still cannot meet the standards after the transformation Yes, it will be eliminated in accordance with laws and regulations. Encourage foundry pig iron enterprises to carry out organized, unorganized and clean transportation ultra-low emission transformation with reference to the ultra-low emission transformation requirements of the steel industry, and support industry associations to publicize the progress.

(IV) promote the industry intelligent transformation

Accelerate the deep integration of the new generation of information technology with the whole process and all elements of casting and forging production, support enterprises to use digital technology to transform traditional process equipment and production lines, and guide key enterprises to carry out remote monitoring, fault diagnosis, predictive maintenance, product quality control and other services. Strengthen the application of numerical simulation technology in process optimization, and promote industry enterprise process innovation, equipment upgrading, management optimization and production process intelligence. Encourage leading enterprises in the equipment manufacturing industry to open up application scenarios, increase innovation in domestic industrial software applications, build digital collaborative platforms, drive upstream and downstream enterprises to implement intelligent manufacturing simultaneously, guide small and medium-sized enterprises to use cloud platforms, and promote supply chain collaborative manufacturing and innovative applications of new technologies and new models. Vigorously carry out intelligent manufacturing demonstration and promotion, sort out and select a number of typical scenarios of intelligent manufacturing in the field of casting and forging, build a number of intelligent manufacturing demonstration factories, and cultivate a number of high-quality system solution suppliers. Strengthen the construction of intelligent manufacturing standard system in the casting and forging industry, and encourage enterprises to carry out intelligent manufacturing capability maturity assessment.

(V) support the development of high-quality enterprises

1. Cultivate high-quality enterprises. Around the key equipment manufacturing enterprises to cultivate and build a number of industrial chain supply chain core enterprises, promote enterprises to deepen the subdivision field, strengthen the development of specialization and differentiation, in the casting and forging industry to drive the formation of a number of specialized and special new "small giant" enterprises and manufacturing single champion enterprises. We will support key enterprises in the industry to enhance their endogenous development momentum and cultivate a number of leading manufacturing enterprises with core competitiveness in the fields of automobiles, internal combustion engines, energy and power equipment, and so on. Give full play to the backbone role of high-quality enterprises in ensuring the security and stability of the supply chain of the industrial chain, organize and participate in the strong chain supplement action of the equipment manufacturing industry, strengthen the advantages of the long board, make up for the weaknesses of the short board, and enhance the stability and competitiveness of the supply chain of the industrial chain. Give full play to the role of the national industry-finance cooperation platform and guide financial institutions to provide precise support to enterprises in the foundry and forging industries.

2. Build characteristic industrial clusters. Encourage local governments to cultivate casting and forging characteristic industrial clusters around the layout of the equipment manufacturing industry, improve policy support, and promote the standardized, large-scale, green, and intensive development of clusters. Encourage all localities to combine the characteristics of local industrial clusters, sort out the positioning of industrial development, determine the scale and structure of development, formulate comprehensive rectification plans, and promote production technology, product quality, safe production, pollution prevention (source reduction, process control, end treatment), etc. Cluster upgrading and transformation. Guide the dislocation and differentiated development between clusters, give full play to the leading role of industry backbone enterprises, and promote deep interconnection and collaborative response with the supply chain of the equipment manufacturing industry chain. Improve the construction of public service systems for industrial clusters such as R & D and design, inspection and testing, test verification, 3D printing services, heat treatment, electroplating, spraying, warehousing and logistics, solid waste treatment, personnel training, and financing.

(VI) improve the quality and efficiency of the industry

1. Strengthen standard leadership. Efforts should be made to build and improve the new casting and forging standard system, and promote the coordinated development of national standards, industry standards, local standards and group standards. Focusing on the characteristics and requirements of the development of the industry, benchmarking the international advanced energy efficiency level, and timely carrying out the revision, promotion and application of standards. Establish and improve industry standards and norms for energy consumption, material consumption, pollution prevention, comprehensive utilization of resources and cleaner production, and guide enterprises to develop in the direction of clean, efficient, low-carbon and recycling. Deeply participate in the formulation of international standards, and promote the transformation of standards in advantageous areas to international standards.

2. Improve product quality. Strengthen the construction of enterprise quality assurance system, and promote the application of standards, certification, measurement, testing and inspection, quality control technology in enterprise quality control and quality management. Guide enterprises to carry out quality traceability, risk analysis and quality improvement, and improve quality management. Further strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, guide enterprises to establish a quality-based brand development strategy, and enhance brand image and influence. Encourage industry associations and professional institutions to establish quality control and evaluation standards for the whole process of casting and forging production, and strive to improve product quality stability, consistency and reliability.

(VII) deepen international exchanges and cooperation

Support industry enterprises, academic institutions, industry organizations, etc. to carry out international exchanges and cooperation in the fields of technology, standards, testing and certification, intellectual property rights, and talent training. Promote international cooperation in production capacity and equipment manufacturing, and expand new space for industrial development. Encourage to strengthen cooperation with foreign enterprises in high-end equipment manufacturing, parts manufacturing, etc., and promote qualified enterprises to actively integrate into the global industrial chain supply chain. Attract foreign enterprises in relevant fields to set up research and development institutions in China to jointly carry out advanced technology research and development and achievement transformation.

3. safeguard measures

(I) strengthen the organization and implementation. Relevant departments in various regions should strengthen overall coordination, strengthen the division of responsibilities, solve major problems affecting the high-quality development of the casting and forging industries, and ensure the safety and stability of the equipment manufacturing industry chain supply chain. We will implement a package of policies to stabilize the industrial economy and promote the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, and support the relief of small and medium-sized casting and forging enterprises and the high-quality development of the industry. Relevant enterprises should promote relevant work in a pragmatic manner in accordance with key tasks. Industry organizations should strengthen guidance and services, collect and reflect new situations and problems in a timely manner, and put forward policy recommendations.

(II) create a good environment. Pay attention to demand guidance and standard guidance, and promote the healthy development of enterprises. Enhance corporate social responsibility awareness and industry self-discipline spirit, earnestly fulfill environmental protection, safety and other responsibilities, avoid disorderly low-price malicious competition, and maintain the smooth operation of the industry. Strengthen professional personnel training and employee training. Extensively publicize the experience and practices of high-quality development, strengthen negative warnings of violations of laws and regulations, respond to social concerns in a timely manner, and form a good public opinion environment.

(III) grasp the demonstration lead. Build a high-quality development evaluation system for casting and forging enterprises, dynamically optimize industry enterprises with representative achievements and high development quality in the fields of intelligent manufacturing, green and low-carbon, and make up for shortcomings, and build them into benchmark enterprises. Give full play to the leading role of benchmarking enterprises, carry out in-depth benchmarking work, and lead the high-quality development of the industry.

This opinion shall be implemented from the date of issuance. The original "Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the General Office of the Development and Reform Commission, the General Office of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment on the Prohibition of New Casting Capacity in Key Areas" (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Joint installation [2019] No. 44) was abolished simultaneously.

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

National Development and Reform Commission

Ministry of Ecology and Environment

March 30, 2023