2024-11-04
Collaborative cooperation and common development, Youfa Group was invited to attend the Steel House website 2025 steel industry chain development situation meeting.
From November 1st to 3rd, the Steel House 2025 Steel Industry Chain Development Situation Conference was held in Nanjing, Jiangsu. This conference is jointly organized by the steel house and a number of well-known enterprises in the industrial chain. The conference deeply focused on the new changes, new challenges and new opportunities of the iron and steel industry under the transformation of the new and old kinetic energy of the macro economy. Through the collision and heated debate of experts, scholars and enterprise elites from the iron and steel industry chain, the conference broadened a new path and pointed out a new direction for the future development of the iron and steel industry.
As one of the co-organizers of this conference, Xu Guangyou, deputy general manager of Youfa Group, was invited to attend the conference and delivered a speech. In his view, it is not an exaggeration to describe the steel market in 2024 as "cold wind". In the face of declining demand and downward price trends, steel industry chain companies must prepare for "winter" in advance.
Xu Guangyou, Deputy General Manager of Youfa Group
As for how to "spend the winter", he also gave his own suggestions based on the development experience of Youfa Group. On the one hand, we must learn to gain more profits through service value-added. On the other hand, it is necessary to seize the opportunity window of accelerated evolution of China's iron and steel industry from economies of scale to quality and efficiency, actively plan the layout of the "new to green" development strategy, create a green development engine, and build the core strength of green competition.
In addition, he also said that in the face of the new situation in the industry, industrial chain enterprises should take the initiative to change their identity, from traditional manufacturers and distributors to supply chain service providers, use systematic supply chain service solutions to promote service advancement and value leap, and embrace future development with a brand-new industrial ecosystem. His speech and views were strongly resonated and highly recognized by the representatives of the participating enterprises, and bursts of warm applause broke out from time to time.
At the same time, Han Weidong, senior consultant of Youfa group, also shared the theme entitled "opportunities and challenges of great changes in the iron and steel industry" on hot topics such as the development situation of the iron and steel industry in 2025. In the process of sharing, he made a wonderful and brief analysis of the structural increase and decrease of different varieties and downstream demand under the production capacity of the steel industry at this stage. He stressed that the healthy development of the current steel industry must be established under the new market order and upstream and downstream supply chain system. In this process, both steel mills and steel traders usher in the transformation of business methods, deepen the coordinated development of the industrial chain, and reconstruct a new business model that meets the needs of the market.
Han Weidong, Senior Advisor of Youfa Group
He also pointed out that under the influence of the downward trend of steel prices, the biggest risk of the current industrial chain enterprises still comes from their own debt problems and losses. How to resolve the debt crisis and improve the level of profitability is still the key to the breakthrough of corporate difficulties. After carbon emissions, especially the steel industry is included in the national carbon trading market, carbon emissions will become a new starting point for the steel industry to "help the superior and eliminate the inferior", and green and low-carbon development has become a necessary topic for the industry. He called on enterprises in the iron and steel industry chain to attach great importance to this change, and only by doing a solid job in green and high-quality development will they not be eliminated by the market.
For the late market adjustment and 2025 steel price trend, he believes that under the influence of macro-positive support and fundamental weakening game, the late market will be in the strong expectations and weak reality between repeated tug-of-war, steel prices will probably be adjusted mainly to range shocks. For 2025Steel Price TrendHe said that with the continuous development and implementation of macro policies, the overall situation should be slightly better than 2024, but it should not be overly optimistic. We should focus on the price fluctuations of raw materials such as iron ore and the expected progress of demand recovery. In his view, with the shift of the focus of demand to the manufacturing industry and the slow recovery of the real estate industry, the plate market in 2025 may be slightly better than that of long materials, and industrial chain enterprises can layout ahead of time and adjust their business strategies.
In addition, during the conference, "Steel Supply Chain Model Innovation", "Steel House Website 2024 Autumn Report", "The 28th Iron and Steel Enterprise Market Information Joint Conference", "Steel: Low Carbon Environmental Protection, Structural Adjustment, Model Innovation" and other thematic sub-forums were held at the same time to conduct concentrated exchanges and discussions on hot topics in the current industry.
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