Wedoany.com Report on Mar 16th, Recently, six departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the "Work Plan for Stabilizing Growth in the Building Materials Industry (2025-2026)," charting a clear path for the industry's development over the next two years. The plan explicitly states that by 2026, the goal is to achieve operating revenue from green building materials exceeding 300 billion yuan, with significant improvements in the green, low-carbon, and digital development levels of the building materials industry.
Regarding capacity control, the plan emphasizes a strict prohibition on new capacity for cement clinker and flat glass. New construction and renovation projects must strictly implement capacity replacement plans. This measure aims to curb vicious competition stemming from traditional overcapacity at its source and promote the orderly exit of outdated and inefficient capacity. Simultaneously, the plan requires accelerating the shift in risk warning for photovoltaic rolled glass capacity from project management to planning guidance, fostering structural optimization in the building materials industry.
On the technological innovation front, the plan proposes expanding the advanced inorganic non-metallic materials industry, accelerating efforts to address weaknesses and leverage strengths in areas like advanced ceramics and superhard materials, and cultivating characteristic and advantageous resource industries such as graphite, fluorite, and magnesite. The plan also deploys an "Artificial Intelligence+ Building Materials" initiative. It prioritizes deploying scenario models for typical unit operation requirements in industries like cement and flat glass, training and building large-scale models for the building materials industry, creating smart factories and green building materials data nodes, and promoting intelligent upgrades in the building materials industry.
Digital transformation is one of the key directions of this policy. The plan explicitly calls for accelerating the digital and green transformation of the building materials industry, releasing systematic solutions for digital transformation in key sectors, and cultivating a batch of "Six-Zero" demonstration factories—benchmarked by "zero purchased electricity, zero fossil energy, zero primary resources, zero carbon emissions, zero waste emissions, and zero frontline employees." This initiative aims to promote adaptive transformation and large-scale upgrades in key business scenarios, enhancing the overall competitiveness of the building materials industry.
In terms of expanding consumer demand, the plan proposes continuously carrying out green building materials promotion activities in rural areas and implementing policies for government procurement support for green building materials to improve construction quality. It also calls for intensifying and expanding the scope of the home renovation and kitchen/bathroom "renewal" action, supporting local governments in including green building materials in the policy scope for consumer goods trade-in programs, and increasing policy subsidies for products like ceramic thin tiles, smart toilets, integrated bathrooms, energy-saving doors and windows, and age-friendly building materials. The plan also includes launching an initiative for "good materials supporting good houses," strengthening the alignment of production and application standards, expanding the application of high-quality insulation materials, soundproofing materials, waterproof sealing materials, and other building material products, thereby opening up new market space for the industry.
Regarding standards leadership, the plan specifies the formulation and revision of mandatory national standards for the burning performance of safety glass for construction, thermal insulation materials for construction, and energy consumption limits per unit product for glass fibers. It also calls for developing quality traceability systems for cement, safety glass, waterproof membranes, thermal insulation materials for construction, etc., promoting the alignment of production and application standards, and fostering standardized development in the building materials industry.
Furthermore, the plan proposes promoting high-level international cooperation. It suggests leveraging the advantages of green, low-carbon technology and equipment in cement and flat glass, strengthening industrial cooperation with countries and regions participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, jointly establishing R&D institutions and green building materials parks, guiding the coordinated "going global" of building materials products, technologies, and standards, and expanding the international market space for the building materials industry.
