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DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA'S INDUSTRY
In 2008, confronting various severe challenges such as international and domestic macro-economic situation and complicated changes of shipping markets, rapid fluctuation of the prices of raw materials including steel and Renminbi appreciation, the shipping industry proactively coped with them, thus the overall economic operation performed quite smoothly and major economic indicators continuously maintained rapid growth.
In 2008, the shipping industry accumulatively realized the total industrial production of RMB414.2b, up by 59.73% year-on-year; the nationwide accomplished shipbuilding amounted to 28.81 million deadweight tons, up by 52.2% year-on-year, with the global market shares rising from 22.9% in 2007 to 29.5%, and the newly accepted orders and the holding shipbuilding orders are 58.18 million deadweight tons and 204.60 million deadweight tons respectively, accounting for 37.7% and 35.5% of the global markets.
In 2008, the nationwide accomplished shipbuilding amounted to 28.81 million deadweight tons, up by 52.2% year-on-year, up by 21.8% from the same period of 2007; the newly accepted shipbuilding orders reached 58.18 million deadweight tons, down 40.9% year-on-year; the holding shipbuilding orders 204.60 million deadweight tons, up by 28.7% year-on-year. Consequently, China’s accomplished shipbuilding and holding shipbuilding orders have kept rapid growth for six years in a row, with three big indicators having fully surpassed Japan, ranking the second in the world.
With respect to export, in 2008, the export delivery value accomplished by China’s shipping industry enterprises stood at RMB212.2b, up by 56.1% year-on-year. The accomplished export ships stood at 21.07 million deadweight tons, up by 41% year-on-year, accounting for 73.1% of the total. The whole year’s ship export reached USD19.57b, up by 59.9% year-on-year.
In terms of import, in 2008, China totally imported 2517 ships, down 2.3% year-on-year, slightly declining compared with the growth of 2007, with the tendency of decline quite obvious.
From January to November of 2008, the nationwide shipbuilding industry enterprises above designated size reached 1240 ones, completing main business revenues of RMB300b, up by 56.4%, with the growth declining by 5.9% compared with 2007. Among them, the shipbuilding industry stood at RMB202.7b, up by 53.3% year-on-year; the ship auxiliary products manufacturing industry RMB32.8b, up by 78.6%; ship repair and ship dismantling industry RMB63.5b, up by 55.9% year-on-year.
From January to November 2008, the shipping industry realized profits totaling RMB28.34b, up by 50.5%, with the growth falling by 7.1% compared with 2007. among them, the shipbuilding industry stood at RMB18.2b, up by 56.5% year-on-year; the ship auxiliary products manufacturing industry RMB1.8b, up by 97.9% year-on-year; the ship repair and ship dismantling industry RMB8.4b, up by 32.9% year-on-year; the enterprises running in the red reached 191 ones, with the amount of loss being RMB1.06b, up by 103.3% from the same period of 2007.
Though Chinese shipping industry development generally maintains a good tendency, the impact of the international financial crisis on it has appeared, such as difficulty in shipping finance, significant decline of orders of new ships and increase of risks in performing contracts of ship delivery, thus the production and operation of shipping enterprises confront increasing difficulties, and in the coming 2-3 years, the development of the shipping industry will meet severe challenges.
STATUS OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT
According to the statistics of MOFCOM, 48 foreign investment projects in Shipbuilding industry(Shipbuilding Industry (Code C375) hereinafter is in accordance with the National Economic Industrial Classification (GB/T4754-2202）.) were newly set up in 2009, 45 less than that of the same period in the last year, and the amount of the actual utilized foreign capital reached USD 661,780,000, down by 15.95％
year-on-year. The number of newly established foreign invested enterprises and the amount of the actual utilized foreign capital accounted for 0.2％and 0.74％
of the national total number or amount of foreign capital absorption in the Shipbuilding industry during the same period.
According to the source of foreign capital, calculated by the amount of the actual utilized foreign capital, in 2009, countries or regions: Korea Rep, Singapore, Hong Kong, Br. Virgin Is, Malaysia ranked No.1 to No. 5 in the Shipbuilding industry regarding the amount of FDI, accounting for 33.25%, 21.99%, 15.81%, 8.02%, 4.53% of the total amount of the actual utilized foreign capital of the industry separately.
In Shipbuilding industry in 2009, ten Asian countries/regions (Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Korea) newly set up 31 enterprises in China, with the actual utilized foreign capital of USD 548,880,000, down by 53.03％
and down by 20.28％
separately year-on-year. The number of the newly established enterprises and the actual utilized foreign capital accounted for 64.58％
and 82.94％
of the national total number or amount of foreign capital absorption in the same period.
The EU newly set up 3 enterprises in China, 70 less than that of the same period last year; the actual utilized foreign capital reached USD 16,360,000, down by 20.93％
year-on-year. The number of the newly established enterprises and the amount of the actual utilized capital accounted for 6.25％
and 2.47％
of the national total number or amount of foreign capital absorption in the same period.
According to regional foreign capital absorption, 48 foreign-invested Shipbuilding enterprises were newly set up in the Eastern area, with actual utilized foreign capital of USD 660,700,000, accounting for 100% and 99.84% of the national total number or amount of foreign capital absorption in the same period. In the Eastern area, Jiangsu Province, Shandong Province and Liaoning Province ranked among the tops with respect to actual utilized foreign capital, had 24, 5 and 8 newly established foreign-invested enterprises separately, with the actual utilized foreign capital of USD 268,340,000, USD 126,970,000 and USD 117,740,000, accounting for 40.55%, 19.19% and 17.79% of the total amount of the actual utilized capital of the industry in the Eastern area separately.
According to utilizing manners of the foreign capital, newly established projects of Shipbuilding industry in 2009 are as follows: 18 Chinese-foreign equity joint venture projects, 30 wholly foreign-invested projects. The amount of the actual utilized foreign capital reached USD 269,410,000 and USD 392,370,000 separately．
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