As one of the mainstays of national economic development, iron and steel has been widely concerned at the "Two Sessions" over the years. What signals does this year's government work report send to the steel industry? Combined with the work tasks in 2022 proposed by the government work report, how should the steel industry make efforts next?

Recently, Shagang Group Party Secretary, Executive Director of the Board, Chairman Shen Bin accepted the online cloud interview of China Metallurgical Newspaper "Meeting Room of Two Sessions” Section. Discussions were held on the steady growth of the steel industry and the balance between supply and demand. Shen Bin said that Shagang will make joint efforts with peer enterprises, and strive to create a green low-carbon transformation and upgrading road through technological innovation and application in the future with Shagang characteristics.

The government work report set GDP growth target at around 5.5 percent for this year，Shen Bin believes that the target is not only the need to maintain reasonable economic growth, but also the need to deal with the external complex situation, which is conducive to the upstream and downstream steel industry to stabilize expectations and increase confidence. To promote the high-quality development of iron and steel industry, cannot do without the growth of quantity, but should pay more attention to the improvement of quality, iron and steel enterprises should seize the opportunity in the "medium-high rate of growth given large economic aggregate ", constantly optimize the industrial layout, vigorously promote reform and innovation, speed up the replacing old growth drivers with new ones, to achieve the goal of manufacturing power by our wisdom and strength.

Shen said the government work report was good news for real enterprises such as manufacturing, including steel mills. As report clearly pointed out, "we will continue to make temporary steps and institutional measures and apply policies for both tax reductions and refunds" in new year, "continue efforts to build China into a manufacturer of quality and steer Chinese manufacturing toward the medium-and high end", to "promote the green low-carbon technology research and development and application, the construction of green manufacturing and service system, promote the iron and steel, non-ferrous, petro-chemical, chemical, building materials industries into energy saving carbon reduction", Have further boosted the confidence of enterprises in the development of the New Year.

On how to balance the good steady growth and the relationship between "double control" "dual carbon", Shen Bin said, as a real enterprise, the implementation of instruction《关于促进钢铁工业高质量发展的指导意见》is priority, through the optimization of energy structure adjustment and improve the efficiency of energy use and promote energy technology revolution, realize the energy consumption per unit GDP decline, We will promote the realization of the "dual carbon" goal in development.

Shen Bin said that China's steel industry has made great progress in process and equipment, technological level, energy saving and low carbon undertakings. However, there is no denying that we are still facing huge pressure from total energy consumption and total carbon emissions, especially in the energy saving and carbon reduction technology innovation bottleneck, which requires the iron and steel industry, research institutes and related industries to tackle the key issues together.

Shen Bin said that Shagang will make joint efforts with industry enterprises, and strive to create a green low-carbon transformation and upgrading road through technological innovation and application with Shagang characteristics in the future. The main methods are: Vigorously promotes the technological process, product structure, energy structure optimization, as well as energy efficiency, recycling and green products increase, at the same time make new breakthrough in low carbon technology, especially give full play to the popularization and application of Castrip process, the third generation of hot metal pretreatment technology on removing Si, P and S - (RIF) research and development and industrialization, deep processing and application of high-end products to ensure the realization of the "dual carbon" target.