The sudden outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic has made various industries pay unprecedented attention to ensuring the stability of the industrial supply chain, and the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee will ensure the stability of the industrial chain and supply chain as one of the "six stability" tasks to be strengthened. For the steel industry, in the face of various sudden crises, how to ensure the stability of the industrial supply chain and establish an efficient, collaborative and integrated industrial supply chain is a major event that must be laid out at present and in the future.

　　Focusing on this topic, the reporter of "China Metallurgical News" during the second (expanded) meeting of the sixth session of the Iron and Steel Association, connected some entrepreneurs and experts in the steel industry and related upstream and downstream industries on and off the site, and asked them to express their insights and collide with sparks of ideas.

　　1. How can steel enterprises ensure the stability of the supply chain of the steel industry?

　　Hou Jun: China has the world's largest, longest and most complete industrial chain. The steel industry should build a stable industrial supply chain, especially to ensure the stable supply of raw materials, in order to ensure the safety of the entire industrial chain. Steel enterprises should enhance the sense of urgency and pressure to establish a modern industrial supply chain, increase cooperation with upstream enterprises, adopt new technologies such as modern Internet, big data, digitalization, intelligence, and blockchain, integrate financial services, open up all upstream links, and build a scientific, smooth, mutually beneficial and win-win supply chain.

　　Zhang Zhixiang: From the perspective of steel enterprises themselves, first, they must look inward and continuously improve their core competitiveness through scientific and technological innovation. This year, Jianlong Group proposed to closely follow the three sources of scientific and technological innovation, namely, high-quality projects, cost reduction and efficiency increase, and customer demand, increase investment in scientific and technological innovation, integrate relevant high-quality scientific and technological resources in the industry, and strengthen the strength of the scientific research team.

　　Second, strengthen cooperation with high-end suppliers. By strengthening internal and external coordination and linkage, optimize supply chain management and improve the stability of the supply chain. In addition, through stable cooperation, mutual trust can be strengthened and cooperation between the two sides can be deepened. Jianlong Group's supply chain procurement platform launched this year is precisely to strengthen the coordination and linkage with high-end partners in the supply chain.

　　Third, we should be customer-oriented, in-depth study of market demand and customer needs, and accurately locate the service direction. This year, Jianlong Group put forward the "Double 50" strategy - screening 50 key customers who have cooperated with each other and 50 key customers under development, establishing a high-level communication mechanism, in-depth understanding of customer needs, and accordingly establishing the research direction of various process varieties research institutes, and truly implementing the customer-centric.

　　Through the above measures, we will establish a community of destiny with the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, improve the ability of the industrial chain to jointly respond to risks, and finally establish an efficient, coordinated and integrated steel industry supply chain.

　　Li Shiping: First of all, steel enterprises should work hard to improve their internal skills, strengthen their health, and enhance their ability and ability to resist market risks. If we develop better, we will have more excellent partners to jointly build a stable supply chain and form a more benign steel ecosystem.

　　Secondly, steel enterprises should take the initiative to deal with the "black swan event". In recent years, most steel enterprises have experienced major "black swan events" such as the global financial crisis, ice disasters, and tariffs imposed by the United States.

　　Thirdly, steel enterprises should accelerate the use of 5G technology to build a more stable information supply chain. Through the application of 5G technology, a full-process visual information system for steel enterprises can be built, which can display the whole process dynamics of the supply chain in real time, on the spot and in real time, give early warning of possible risk points, and conduct multi-dimensional evaluation of supply chain partners, and continuously optimize to form a more stable supply chain.

　　Finally, in terms of resource security, China's iron and steel industry's dependence on foreign countries has reached 80%, and China has become the world's largest iron ore consumer and importer.

　　Lu Xianzhong: The problem of the industrial chain is actually a big problem. Judging from the experience accumulated over the years, it is very important to localize equipment, and only by insisting on having our own things can we be invincible, and at the same time, our own development level will also be improved. In addition, it needs to be strengthened in enhancing the core competitiveness of products. 2. On the basis of ensuring the stability of the industrial supply chain, how to strengthen the ability of the industrial supply chain to cope with risks, and establish an industrial supply chain with efficient and coordinated integrated development?

　　Hou Jun: The steel industry should not only build a stable industrial supply chain, but also build a safe and efficient steel industry ecosystem. The safe and efficient steel industry ecosystem is a win-win ecosystem jointly built by multiple parties, which must abandon the "courtyard thinking" and "exclusive thinking", break the traditional company business boundaries, resource control methods, and scale expansion models, and use a vibrant innovation ecology to achieve cross-industry and cross-regional collaborative innovation, form an open business boundary, resource aggregation-oriented development model, share the professional resources and capabilities of various enterprises, and jointly create collaborative value of the ecosystem.

　　Building a safe and efficient steel industry ecosystem is a systematic project, Shandong Iron and Steel Group will be in accordance with the top-level design, point breakthrough, expansion and dynamic improvement of the ideas, empowerment, expansion, and optimization of the circle, with the aggregation of resources as an important means, with openness and sharing as the basic path, and safety and efficiency as the quality requirements, to accelerate the steel industry as the basis of the shaping of the ecological core circle, to collaborative innovation as the starting point to shape the power source circle, to build the chain, supplement the chain, extend the chain, strengthen the chain as the basis, shape the industrial supporting circle, with "digital intelligence mountain steel" The construction is a support and plastic information connection circle, nested layer by layer, and mutually supportive, forming a good industrial ecosystem of "industry + support, platform + service, technology + empowerment".

　　Li Shiping: After nearly 10 years of development, today, most steel enterprises have an annual output of more than 5 million tons, and they are basically major industrial enterprises in their regions, and have the conditions to build an ecosystem covering the upstream and downstream industrial chains. Therefore, steel enterprises should adhere to the concept of "co-construction, sharing, and win-win", integrate and develop all favorable resources around them, and jointly promote the construction of a good ecosystem that is consistent with the development strategy of the enterprise and the future development of the industry, so as to form a more stable industrial supply chain.

　　First of all, it is necessary to strengthen the benchmarking exchanges between steel enterprises, learn from each other, and promote the continuous improvement of the overall management level of the industry. While constantly learning from the advanced in the industry, combined with its own regional characteristics, it will innovate and develop management with its own characteristics in an eclectic way, especially to build an industrial supply chain system with regional advantages, and continuously enhance its ability to resist risks.

　　Secondly, it is necessary to shorten the business process of the supply chain as much as possible, and establish direct cooperative relations with upstream manufacturers and downstream users. On the basis of insisting on payment before delivery, you can directly pay for the goods with upstream manufacturers (especially high-quality resource parties) in advance, on the one hand, to obtain more favorable prices; On the other hand, it can also establish a sustainable strategic cooperative relationship and promote the formation of a mutually beneficial industrial supply chain system.

　　Thirdly, in terms of resource supply and security, it is necessary to further strengthen investment in overseas mines, especially in Africa and other regions and Mongolia and other countries, and improve the independent supply capacity of iron ore; Further strengthen the development of domestic iron ore resources, strengthen iron ore processing capacity, and improve resource utilization.

　　Finally, it is necessary to effectively reduce the production cost of steel enterprises and enhance the vitality of the development of the steel industry. It is necessary to implement the support policies of finance and taxation, finance and social security that have been introduced by the state, and further reduce the logistics costs, procurement costs and time costs of steel enterprises.

　　Li Xinchuang: First, we must continuously improve the ability to guarantee raw materials. The ability to guarantee raw materials is mainly reflected in the stability and rationality of supply sources, supply prices and transportation channels. The state can support the development of competitive mines in China, and steel enterprises can actively expand the scope of cooperative suppliers, diversify supply channels, and ensure the stability of supply sources; By supporting steel enterprises to invest in high-quality mines with strong cost competitiveness in multiple countries and modes, we will increase the supply of equity mines, enhance the right to speak in the mineral product market and stabilize the cost of ore procurement, so as to ensure that the supply price is reasonable; By optimizing the site selection of new projects such as capacity replacement, we will increase the transportation volume of clean and efficient transportation modes such as railways, waterways, and belts, and reduce the impact of uncertain factors such as environmental protection factors and the epidemic on the stability of ore transportation channels.

　　Second, it is necessary to implement the strategy of expanding domestic demand and tap the potential of consumption. This year, the central government has reaffirmed and deployed the firm implementation of the strategy of expanding domestic demand, and must do everything possible to release consumer demand and give full play to the basic role of consumption. From the perspective of unleashing consumer demand, China is the world's largest market, with huge market space and consumption capacity.

　　The third is to effectively reduce costs and enhance the vitality of development. As an asset-heavy industry, steel is particularly important for the integration and management of supply chain resources, and it needs to have the ability to effectively obtain lower-cost resources from the market, so as to enhance the vitality of industrial development and stabilize the supply chain of the steel industry. On the one hand, it is necessary to reduce costs from the integration of upstream and downstream resources, optimization of processes, and organizational collaboration; On the other hand, it is necessary to implement and make good use of the support policies that the state has introduced, such as fiscal and taxation, financial, and social security.

　　Fourth, increase technological innovation and realize the substitution of imported key steel products. Steel enterprises should focus on key steel materials involved in aerospace, high-speed rail, power equipment, marine engineering ships and other national defense and military industries, major projects, and national strategic fields, strengthen basic research and cutting-edge and common technology research and development of steel materials, and form a strong joint force to overcome core technologies and improve key material support capabilities through collaborative innovation of production, education, research and application.

　　Fifth, consolidate and enhance the advantages of the industrial chain and enhance the ability to resist risks. Steel enterprises should continue to improve competitiveness as the core, consolidate the advantages in procurement, production, sales, service and other links, coordinate development with upstream and downstream, and strive to build a closely coordinated enterprise ecosystem, form a mutually beneficial and win-win situation, and improve the anti-risk ability of the industrial chain.

　　——Source: China Iron and Steel News Network