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¡¡Total consumption quantity of titanium dioxide of one country is the important reference mark of social consumption level, and this is because the application fields of titanium dioxide are very broad. It is the important and indispensable raw material in the production of the industries such as coating, plastic, printing ink, paper sheet, chemical fiber, daily chemical, medicine and food, so different industrial developed countries pay more attention to the production of titanium dioxide. China titanium dioxide industry entered the international market competition in early time, and the wax and wane of the international titanium dioxide market impacts the production of China titanium dioxide directly.

¡¡¡¡With the digestion and absorption of titanium dioxide equipments introduced from foreign countries, the technology accumulation of the domesticization construction of domestic large titanium dioxide equipment and the domesticization of large equipment were completed. China titanium dioxide industry developed toward large-scale. In just a few years, the output of China titanium dioxide was from 290 kt in 2000 to 856 kt in 2006, annual growth rate was 32%, and titanium dioxide industry ushered the mature period of development. In 2007, output of national titanium dioxide was about 1 million tons, of which, 0.4 million tons were rutile titanium dioxide. China titanium dioxide industry developed rapidly in recent years, especially the rutile titanium dioxide which developed faster, and the product quality was improved greatly. During the 8 years from 2000 to 2007, market shares of domestic products increased 3.11% year by year. Although development of China titanium dioxide industry wasn’t long, the development speed wais remarkable and achieved the leap from quantity to quality.

¡¡¡¡The current output of China titanium dioxide is only to America. With the continuous enhancing of productivity and quality of titanium dioxide and ferric oxide etc., China is hopeful to become the real international manufacturing center of inorganic pigments.

¡¡¡¡In recent years, the price of energy and raw material increases, meanwhile titanium dioxide in world developed countries has entered mature period of the product, the possibility of increasing production by means of investment is not very big, it is estimated that in the next years, the average annual growth rate will be 1.4%. That makes the transnational corporations place the hope of future development of titanium dioxide in Asia, especially China.

¡¡¡¡Actually, titanium dioxide production has begun to shift to China. At present, there are large chlorination titanium dioxide powder projects which are under construction in Zhejiang, Shandong, Liaonig etc. in China, and it is estimated that these projects will be completed and put into production around 2010. The investors of these projects respectively come from America, Japan, Australia, etc. The productivity of chlorination titanium dioxide powder with advanced production technology will increase obviously, which will make the production quality of titanium dioxide produced by China improved greatly.

¡¡¡¡In the future, with the continuous growth of productivity and output of China titanium dioxide and further promoted product quality, the proportions of titanium dioxide imported by trade form of processing with foreign supplied materials will be increased, export amount of titanium dioxide will continue to maintain strong growth status, and it is expected that China will become the net export country of world titanium dioxide around the corner.

Now, the world market demand for titanium dioxide are increasing all the time, which is mainly from Asia, especially China. With the development of building and coating market, Chinese demand for titanium dioxide increases rapidly, the growth rate is higher than the whole world and keeps double-digit growth, and it is estimated that the growth amplitude will be 10%-15%.