Papermaking, Printing, Die-Cutting and Corrugated Equipment Included in China's 2009 Encouraged Import Catalogue

The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Commerce have jointly issued the Notice on the Catalogue of Technologies and Products Encouraged for Import (2009 Edition). According to the notice, the 2009 edition was prepared under State Council work arrangements to expand imports of advanced technologies, key equipment and components, and important resource-based products and raw materials. It took effect on the date of issuance, while the three authorities' earlier Notice on Issuing the Catalogue of Technologies and Products Encouraged for Import (Fagai Gongye [2007] No. 2515) was repealed at the same time. The NDRC, together with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Commerce, will adjust the catalogue when necessary.

The catalogue consists of four sections.

Section One covers advanced technologies encouraged for introduction.

This section mainly refers to advanced technologies not yet mastered in China, as well as advanced technologies introduced for key construction projects approved or verified by the state. Technology introduction includes importing foreign advanced proprietary technology through outright purchase or licensing, or obtaining independent intellectual property rights and mastering advanced proprietary technology through cooperative development. Interest subsidies are provided for introducing such advanced technologies.

For the light industry sector, the list includes:

Advanced papermaking machinery production technology with a width of more than 6 meters and a speed of 1,200 m/min;

Manufacturing technology for formic acid pulping continuous cooking system equipment with a capacity of more than 300 tons/day;

Manufacturing technology for APMP high-yield pulping production lines with annual output of more than 100,000 tons;

Manufacturing technology for chlorine-free pulp bleaching equipment;

Manufacturing technology for alkali recovery equipment;

Production technology for high-speed labeling machines with a capacity of 60,000 bottles/hour or more;

Battery and key material manufacturing processes and equipment technology (including advanced power batteries such as lithium-ion batteries, mercury-free alkaline manganese batteries and solar cells; key materials include cathode materials and separators for advanced power batteries such as lithium-ion batteries);

Manufacturing technology for slush-molded nickel alloy electroformed molds;

Waste battery recycling and treatment processes and equipment technology that meet environmental protection requirements;

Waste home appliance shredding and sorting technology, etc.

Section Two covers important equipment encouraged for import.

This refers to important equipment that China cannot yet independently develop and manufacture but that is urgently needed across the national economy, as well as key components that cannot be produced domestically and must be imported for making major technical equipment whose development is encouraged by the state. Interest subsidies are granted for importing such products.

In the light industry sector, the list includes:

Machinery for making cellulose pulp;

Pulp sheet machines: web width ≥3200mm, operating speed ≥100m/min;

Paper machines (excluding associated winders and calenders): web width ≥3000mm, operating speed ≥350m/min;

Machinery for making paper or paperboard;

Molding machines for pulp, paper or paperboard products;

Die-cutting machines: rotary platen production speed ≥6,000 sheets/hour; flatbed platen production speed ≥4,500 sheets/hour;

Web offset presses for newspapers: single-width machines >65,000 folio sheets/hour, double-width machines >140,000 folio sheets/hour (printing speed refers to sheets printed per single web path and single width), web width ≥787mm;

Commercial web offset presses: speed per single cylinder >45,000 folio sheets/hour (printing speed refers to sheets printed per single web path and single width), web width ≥880mm;

Sheet-fed offset presses: folio sheet-fed single-sided multicolor offset presses >16,000 sheets/hour, sheet size ≥720×1020mm; folio sheet-fed double-sided multicolor offset presses >13,000 sheets/hour, sheet size ≥720×1020mm; full-size and larger-than-full-size sheet-fed single-sided multicolor offset presses >13,000 sheets/hour, sheet size ≥1000×1400mm; four colors and above;

Corrugated board production equipment: speed >140m/min, board width >2.2m, seven layers or more;

Ceramic metal halide lamp production equipment, etc.

Section Three covers key industries encouraged for development.

These are mainly selected from the encouraged category of the Catalogue for Guiding Industrial Structure Adjustment (2005 Edition), as well as fields designated for key support and development in the Several Opinions of the State Council on Accelerating the Revitalization of the Equipment Manufacturing Industry and in adjustment and revitalization plans for key industries. Interest subsidies are granted for production equipment and components imported under investment projects that comply with national industrial policy and special plans (excluding products in the catalogue of products not eligible for tax exemption). Because a relatively large number of equipment and components are involved, import interest subsidies for this section are handled by reference to the tax reduction and exemption management approach for equipment imported under encouraged-category investment projects.

Section Four covers resource-based products and raw materials.

The import of resource-based products and raw materials is encouraged, and interest subsidies are granted for their import.

——This article is reprinted from China Packaging Network (pack.cn), original link: http://news.pack.cn/show-362263.html