[October 18 SMM Steel City Morning News] the scope of environmental protection and production restrictions has been further expanded * it is difficult for the car market and the housing market to survive the long and cold winter.

Published: Oct 18, 2019 09:03

Friday, 18 October 2019

Breakfast news

Rising factor

1. Notice on further tightening current Air quality Control measures issued by the people's Government of Tangshan City

A few days ago, Tangshan City issued a Circular on further tightening the current Air quality strengthening Control measures, in which: iron and steel enterprises: from 00: 00 on October 18 to 8: 00 on October 22, on the premise of ensuring safe production, the production load of single blast furnace enterprises in Kaiping District, Guye District, Fengnan District and Fengrun District has been reduced by more than 50%. Other enterprises retain a blast furnace production (used to ensure the maintenance of pipeline pressure and other safety measures); From 20:00 on 20 October to 8: 00 on 22 October, a sintering machine was retained for production. At the same time, the construction sites in Lunan, Lubei, Hi-tech and Kaiping have stopped construction (super green construction, Nanhu cross-line bridge, Tangshan Huahai, station west area and other key municipal construction sites are allowed to be constructed on the premise of "six hundred percent" dust control).

two。 Implementation Scheme of differentiated off-peak production in Industrial Enterprises in Autumn and Winter in Changzhi

The Changzhi Municipal Government of Shanxi Province issued the implementation Plan of differentiated off-peak production of Industrial Enterprises in Autumn and Winter 2019-2020. The implementation time of off-peak production is from 00:00 on October 1, 2019 to 24:00 on March 31, 2020. Among them, the iron and steel industry:

The main results are as follows: (1) by the end of September 2019, CO automatic ignition device will be installed in iron and steel enterprises in the whole city to ensure normal operation, no production restriction and unfinished shutdown regulation.

(2) by the end of 2019, iron and steel enterprises with Bayi Square as the center within a straight distance of 30 km will complete 50% of the production limit of the ultra-low emission transformation of organized and unorganized emission links, and the unfinished shutdown regulation.

(3) by the end of 2019, iron and steel enterprises with Bayi Square as the center and a straight distance of 30 km will complete the production limit of 30% of the ultra-low emission transformation of organized and unorganized emission links, and the unfinished shutdown regulation.

3. Notice on starting Orange warning for heavily polluted Weather in Henan Province

According to the prediction and forecast results of ambient air quality and the requirements of regional emergency linkage, please Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Luoyang, Pingdingshan, Anyang, Hebi, Xinxiang, Jiaozuo, Puyang, Xuchang, Shangqiu and Jiyuan to start heavy pollution weather orange early warning and grade II response at 0: 00 on October 18 to ensure that all control measures are in place. It is necessary to further strengthen pollution control and control in key industries such as cement, iron and steel, coking, carbon, smelting, casting and ceramics, in particular, strengthen the supervision and management of gas-related enterprises, construction sites, heavy vehicles and non-road mobile machinery in and around urban construction areas, so as to minimize the degree of pollution as far as possible.

 

Falling factor

1. The car market and the housing market "collapsed"

On the 17th, 58.com and Anjuke released the "Summary report on the property Market for the third quarter of 2019" that since the beginning of the third quarter of 2019, the confidence index of property buyers has dropped slightly. The fever of finding houses in third and fourth tier cities has dropped significantly, and more than a dozen brand housing enterprises have opened up discounts and promotions. The cooling of the property market has come, "gold nine silver 10" is not enough is the market consensus.

At the same time, on October 16, the all-China Federation of Industry and Commerce Automobile Dealers Association published a "proposal for passenger vehicle manufacturers." according to the all-China Federation of Industry and Commerce Automobile Dealers Association data, 53.5 percent of dealers lost money in 2018, and the loss further expanded in the first half of 2019, with profit dealers accounting for only 29 percent of the total.

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