World polyurethane (PU) industry is moving in the technology is improving, the products with each passing day, more and more areas of application of the direction of development, global manufacturing and consumption centers PU positive transfer to China. China bear Seizing an opportunity, scientific planning, limitations, innovation, and stronger doing fine, and built a number of industrial clustering and high-tech and high added value, strong chain, internationally competitive industrial base of PU. Yangtze River Delta is China’s manufacturing center of PU, first in Shanghai, China PU industry industrial park. This is recently held in Shanghai, China 2006 International Conference on PU, PU Shanghai Industry Development Promotion Center chief engineer Mao-Song Huang more than 100 Chinese and foreign business representatives to express views. By the impact of general economic growth, global PU past five years has been to maintain a high growth rate, from 2000 to 2005 the growth rate of 6.7 percent in 2005, global production reached 13.75 million tons PU. Growth is expected over the next five years is 5%, by 2010 global production will reach 16.9 million tons PU. The next few years, growth in the Asia-Pacific region will reach 11% PU in the Chinese market growth will remain at 15 percent, China will become the core of the global PU market. In this context, China’s PU industry is facing what characteristics? Mao-Song Huang that the first large-scale production of PU-based materials, professional evident; the second is the global PU new materials, new technologies, new processes, new applications are emerging, has penetrated into all aspects of daily life and economic fields; Third, companies rely on the Yangtze River Delta PU raw materials, markets, trade and personnel, has formed the basis of PU raw materials from a variety of products to the industry group. Mao-Song Huang said that China is PU manufacturing country, but still non-power, small and medium enterprises and more low-end products and more scattered, small scale. Lack of capacity of independent innovation, has become China’s PU industry, the biggest bottleneck for future development. PU overall technological level of China and Japan, with the United States and Europe still lags far behind developed countries, mainly for the small number of products with independent intellectual property rights, low value-added products, own brand products less less internationally competitive products . The main reason is that China PU Product innovation is not enough investment, institutional mechanism is not perfect. In this regard, Mao-Song Huang proposed that China should accelerate the PU industry group, large-scale, professional direction. Relevant government departments should strengthen industrial planning guidance to encourage cultivation in PU production base in key areas, through industry consolidation, corporate reorganization and restructuring, the combined effect of scale, while fostering a group such as Wanhua, Takahashi petrochemical, Huafeng Group, has strength of the group companies, to encourage private capital investment, enhance the overall national PU industry’s international competitiveness. Currently, to create opportunities for Chinese PU industry base has emerged. Mao-Song Huang said, the big companies, industry associations, research institutions and other co-founded the Shanghai PU Industry Promotion Center, the research based on the Yangtze River Delta, especially in the PU industry base in Shanghai, the idea of ​​building in Shanghai Jinshan Chemical City building China’s first industrial park PU conditions are ripe. First, Shanghai has the unparalleled advantage of raw materials. Shanghai Chemical Industry in the world-class area, from BASF, Huntsman and Shanghai Huayi Group, the annual output of 240,000 tons a joint venture construction of MDI and 160,000 tons TDI device has been put into production, the Bayer-owned construction 350,000 tons of MDI and 160,000 tons TDI plant can be built within two years, by 2008 Shanghai will be the formation of 590,000 tons / year MDI, 32 tons / year TDI production capacity, domestic production capacity accounted for 66% and 60%. In the chemical area, also has an annual output of 50,000 tons HDI, 4 万吨 PTMEG polyether and 60,000 tons of production plant. In this region, the Shanghai Gao Qiao Petrochemical is the current production of polyether polyols largest and most varied, the largest export enterprises; Ningbo Wanhua 160,000 tons MDI plant put into operation, no doubt the stable development of the Yangtze River Delta PU industry can play an important role. Second, the relatively well-developed Yangtze River Delta economic region, is the manufacturing center, China’s automotive, electronics and information industry’s most concentrated areas, coupled with domestic demand for building energy-saving surge of PU foam,wow cd key, PU huge market demand, Shanghai Volkswagen and GM is only under the PU foam and other spare parts business in 2005, domestic sales and export value up to 150 billion yuan. Meanwhile, downstream processing enterprises in the region into a PU film to form a network, many companies a considerable size. SINOMAX Group is the largest PU foam production company, Jiangsu De Fat Group, Wenzhou Huafeng Group, Jiangsu Kunshan Uda Group, has formed a national group of PU synthetic leather industry of Zhejiang has formed a strong chain of spandex, Wenzhou become PU shoes, the main domestic production base liquid, concentrated in southern Jiangsu region of PU paint several large-scale production plant. Third, the central city of Shanghai is building an international, global multinationals and domestic PU PU industry, technology and professional media are flocking focus on Shanghai, select the country and to promote Shanghai as a base for the development of PU in Asia, has been in Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park stationed abroad dozens of new materials research and development center, providing customers with solutions. Many research institutes in Shanghai, powerful research cooperation. It is reported that, in order to give full play to Shanghai PU raw materials and technological advantages, the manufacturing sector to play a well-developed Yangtze River Delta PU regional characteristics, Shanghai Jinshan District, Shanghai PU has decided to build industrial park, through years of hard work, concentration of government, business, industry associations and research institutions all forces, the implementation of group, size, specialization strategy to promote the linkage on the downstream industry chain, the park has gradually built a number of PU key production base of raw materials and products,rift power leveling, mainly non-phosgene manufacturing isocyanate, PU tire, slice and melt-spinning spandex spinning, building materials, energy-saving PU foam, fluorinated PU material, high-performance PU elastomer material, green material and water-based PU foam PU material production and other major projects, plans to form a 5 billion in 2010 to 100 billion in economic scale. Mao-Song Huang said the Shanghai industrial park project PU most innovation technology industrialization projects, some of the world’s advanced level. We can not always go with the back in a foreign country, in some respects to the forefront. Development with Chinese characteristics in the polyurethane industry, in particular, to strengthen cluster development, hoping to get strong support policy. And more domestic enterprises to seize the opportunity to fully enhance the independent innovation capability and core competitiveness, to ensure that the PU industry in global competition companies in an invincible position.