| The petroleum plays a very important role in the national economy, and it's an important energy source developing the economy of the modern society. Along with the rapid progresses of the modern civilization and technology, petroleum, petroleum products and petrochemicals are been used more and more widely in the industry, agriculture, transportation, national defence and so on, and has been infiltrated into the more deep and extensive field. The extending need of petroleum and the absolute shortage of petroleum, boil up the instability of the petroleum market, and also bring up the serious challenge to the safety of the world energy.World petrochemical industry changes in a periodic and fluctuating way, petrochemical market is bound up with the macroeconomy closely. As the quick development of the world economy and intense competition in the international, the world petrochemical industry presents many new trends: production becomes more and more centralized;the structure of industy is more reasonable;the multipole pattern is increasingly obvious;the multinational company becomes one of the main power in the petroleum market;the innovation of technology push the petrochemical industry making further advancement;environmental protection and sustainable development bring upped more requests to the petrochemical industry.The Chinese petrochemical industry started accompany with the growing of the People of Republic of China. Our petrochemical industry have reach a plateau of development and supported the national economy effectively, since the nation was established more than 50 years ago, especially from the reform and opening. But it still exsits many problem,such as the shortage of petroleum resources, industrial structure is unreasonable, volume of the work is small, behind in technological development, less competitive. Face the new challenge and the new opportunity, our petrochemical industry should adjust the structure of industry quickly, optimize the allocation of resources, increase innovation of technique, engage in the international management actively, and achieve the jumpment of our petrochemical industry. |