In recent years, the graphene concept has been sought after. Graphene is a two-dimensional carbon nanomaterial composed of carbon atoms and sp2 hybrid orbital hexagonal honeycomb crystal lattice. It is the leader of the new material industry and drives the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing. It is reported that China is the second largest graphite resource country in the world, mainly distributed in Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia and Shandong provinces.
The graphene industry has broad prospects and the market scale continues to grow. According to the data, the scale of China’s graphene market soared over 10 billion yuan in 2018, reaching about 28 billion yuan. It is expected that the scale of graphene industry will further expand in 2019, and the market scale will exceed 67 billion yuan. By 2021, the graphene market will reach 200 billion yuan.
Specifically, at present, in the graphene industry, the enterprises involved in application are the most, accounting for nearly 40%. Followed by research and development, accounting for 19%. The number of companies in the technical service and preparation fields each accounted for 14%.
Although the number of graphene enterprises is growing rapidly and involves many aspects of the industrial chain, the overall scale of operations is small, small and medium-sized, start-up companies account for a relatively large proportion, and medium-sized and large-scale enterprises are relatively small, compared with the huge prospect market. There is still a lot of room for development.
In the future, China’s graphene industry regional development will present three major trends:
First, the accelerating integration of industrial resources and the resources of the graphene industry in the eastern coastal areas will be further concentrated to provide a more convenient environment for industrial development.
Second, the policy is favorable. In the future, the demonstration projects of the graphene research institute and the industrial park will be implemented one after another, and the development of the graphene industry is receiving more and more attention.
Third, the graphene industry will exhibit “characteristic and differentiated” development, and the regional division of labor will become more clear.
