In December 2025, China officially sealed the Hainan Free Trade Port, triggering full enforcement of its zero tariff, low tax rate, simplified tax system regime. While this marks a milestone for national-level institutional opening, the impact on energy and chemical markets will be far from universa

In 2025, China delivered around 5% GDP growth, broadly in line with the official target. Behind this headline, the familiar "property + infrastructure" growth model is giving way to a structure driven more by consumption, exports of high-tech and green equipment, and targeted investment in energy an

PP output is anticipated to keep rising in 2026 due to the continual capacity expansion, but the growth rate will be not high, amid rising maintenance loss, and as no additional units will be seen in the first half of the year.

As China approaches the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026–2030), the refining and basic chemicals sector is entering a structurally different phase from the past decade.The policy focus is shifting away from encouraging new capacity toward managing existing capacity through economic and regulatory co

China PA6 export market showed a strong growth trend in 2025, as lower prices resulting from weaker supply-demand fundamentals made the export arbitrate opportunities available.