Here we provide you with two sets of convincing data. According to the statistics of titanium associations of various countries, in 2010, the world produced more than 110000 tons of titanium materials, including more than 30000 tons in China and the United States, nearly 10000 tons in Japan, Russia, and Europe, and about 5000 tons in South Korea and Taiwan respectively. Titanium consumption in other parts of the world is very small; More than 50% of titanium in the United States, Russia, and Europe are used in aviation, more than 50% in Japan are used in traditional industrial fields (such as chemical industry, metallurgy, electric power, construction, etc.), and more than 50% of titanium materials in China are used in the chemical industry. Only about 10% of titanium is used in aerospace.
The above two sets of data show that the more developed countries, the larger the industrial scale, the greater the amount of titanium used, the more advanced the technology, the more titanium products are used in the aerospace industry, and the more high-end materials are used.
Another evidence of the above conclusion is that the more advanced aircraft use more titanium. For example, its consumption rate of earlier Boeing 747 aircraft and empty 300 aircraft is no more than 4%, while its consumption rate of recent widebody large passenger aircraft, Airbus 380 is 10%, empty 350 is 14%, and Boeing 787 is 15%. The consumption rate of the third generation fighter is about 20%, while the consumption rate of the fourth generation fighter is 40% (such as the F-22 of the United States).
The 12th Five Year Plan and the 13th five-year plan will still be a period of strategic opportunities for China. Despite all kinds of difficulties, the pace of development of the Chinese people is irresistible. We will overcome all kinds of difficulties and maintain the healthy and rapid development of the national economy. In the next 5 ~ 10 years, China will use the strength of the whole country to implement its own major projects such as large aircraft program, fourth-generation aircraft program, lunar exploration program, Tiangong project, nuclear power project, and marine development project, and titanium is the key supporting material for these major projects. Considering the increasing demand for titanium materials in the fields of the chemical industry, metallurgy, electric power, medical treatment, and automobile, we reasonably believe that China's titanium industry still has great development space and a great future.
