China's papermaking industry is facing pressure in 2013

As is known to all, traditional manufacturing industries such as paper making and chemical industries have suffered in recent years and their performance has been unsatisfactory. Taking Chenming Paper as an example, the company's 2012 earnings report showed that in 2012, the company achieved a net profit of approximately RMB 210 million to RMB 260 million, a year-on-year drop of 57% to 65%. The company said that the main reason for the sharp decrease in 2012 results compared with the same period of the previous year was mainly due to “because of the sluggish economy of papermaking industry, the sales price of the company's products was lower than the same period of last year and the gross margin of products dropped.”

Shandong Haihua’s 2012 performance forecast indicates “loss”. It is expected that the 2012 net profit loss will be 5.2 billion yuan to 540 million yuan. The company stated that the cause of the loss is “because of the impact of the macro economy, the demand of downstream companies is not booming, leading to the company’s leading products. The sales price and sales volume have fallen sharply from the same period last year."

The business itself has experienced a downturn, but it also faces the pressure of environmental pollution management, which can be described as “somewhat worse” for listed companies. In fact, the manufacturing industry will inevitably involve groundwater pollution. “Companies do not know that it will cause pollution, but it takes money to remediate pollution. If it is to be remedied, it must be paid by the company itself.” Feng Dajun, an environmental analyst at Galaxy Securities, told Securities Daily reporter. He suggested that companies with low emissions of pollutants can introduce water pollution treatment machines, and some manufacturing-intensive industrial parks need to build water pollution treatment plants. Feng Dajun also stated frankly that if a special water pollution treatment plant is built, the operating expenses must be considered and the cost is "difficult to estimate."

Enterprises, governments, and the public jointly treat pollution. “The prevention of groundwater pollution needs to combine the three forces of the enterprise, the government, and the public to jointly make a good seal for water pollution prevention. The three are indispensable,” Hou Yuxuan told reporters. He suggested that enterprises should increase their investment in sewage treatment equipment. The government should formulate penalties that are in line with reality and have a warning role. The public plays a supervisory role for their own interests, so that polluting companies do not want to behave. As for the regulatory level, Hou Yuxuan believes that the environmental protection department should first be independent of the local government department, and the environmental protection department should supervise the company in accordance with the company's effluent discharge standards regulations.

A few days ago, the Ministry of Environmental Protection has identified six major pollution-control industries, including thermal power, steel, petrochemical, cement, non-ferrous metals and chemical industries, as well as key control areas for 47 prefecture-level cities and above, including 19 provinces, municipalities and cities. New emissions projects for coal-fired industrial boilers, thermal power plants, iron and steel, petrochemical industries, and coal-fired industrial boilers have special emission limits.

The "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution" stipulates that "the use of infiltration wells, seepage pits, fissures and caverns shall be prohibited, waste water containing toxic pollutants, sewage containing pathogens, and other wastes shall be prohibited"; The competent environmental protection department of the local people's government shall order illegal activities to be stopped, take control measures within a certain period of time, eliminate pollution, and impose fines; if overdue does not take remedial measures, the competent department of environmental protection may appoint units with the ability to remedy to take care of them, and the expenses incurred by the offenders Assume; impose a fine of more than 50,000 yuan and less than 500,000 yuan."