On June 30, the rumors of the merger of Sinopec Group and Sinochem Group were finally settled. Ren Jianxin, chairman of China National Chemical Corporation, announced his retirement. Ning Gaoning, chairman of Sinochem Group, also served as chairman of China National Chemical Corporation.
It is understood that if Sinochem and China National Chemical Corporation merge successfully this time, it is following China Power Investment Corporation and National Nuclear Technology (National Power Investment), Shenhua Group and Guodian Group (National Energy Investment Group), China National Nuclear Corporation and China Nuclear Construction Corporation (CNNC). The fourth energy industry restructuring of central enterprises.
According to public information, Sinochem Group is the fourth largest oil central enterprise in China. Its main business segments include energy, chemical, agriculture, real estate, etc. In 2017, Sinochem Group's operating income exceeded 500 billion yuan for the first time. China National Chemical Corporation is the largest in China. The basic chemical manufacturing enterprise, the main business is chemical new materials and specialty chemicals, basic chemicals, petroleum processing and refining products and other six business segments.
According to statistics, in 2016, Sinochem's revenue was 395.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.9%, and the total profit was as high as 8.07 billion yuan. Compared with Sinochem's eye-catching transcript, China National Chemical Corporation's profitability is not ideal. 2016 In the year, China National Chemical Corporation's revenue was about 300 billion yuan, but its net profit was only 2.5 billion yuan. The net profit margin was less than 1%. As of 2016, the total assets of China National Chemical Corporation were about 377.6 billion yuan, and the total liabilities were about 305.8 billion. Yuan, the asset-liability ratio has reached more than 80%.
According to industry insiders, although China National Chemical Corporation has a high asset-liability ratio, if China National Chemical Corporation and Sinochem Group merge and can digest a series of high-quality acquisitions, the combined turnover will exceed 100 billion euros. , become the world's largest chemical company.
In fact, since October 2016, the news of the merger of China National Chemical Corporation and Sinochem Group has been reported. However, due to the acquisition of Syngenta, the world's largest pesticide company by China National Chemical Corporation, the merger of 'two transformations' appears to In June 2017, China National Chemical Corporation officially completed the $490 super-merger case, the total debt scale increased sharply, and the rumors of 'two-chemical' merger were once again rampant. In March 2018, Ning Gaoning said that Sinochem did not China Chemical Industry Group's planned merger.
It is worth mentioning that Sinochem and China Chemical have strong business complementarity, mainly in the chemical business and agricultural business. Sinochem Group is an important natural rubber production and supplier in the world, while China National Chemical Corporation is in 2015. After completing the acquisition of Pirelli, an Italian tire manufacturer, the tire production capacity has ranked first in the country and fifteenth in the world. This means that Sinochem has become the upstream company of China National Chemical Corporation. However, China National Chemical Corporation is in the rubber industry. In terms of plastic machinery manufacturing, the total capacity ranks third in the world. It is the upstream enterprise of Sinochem's natural rubber and rubber chemicals business. In addition, in many chemical raw materials and chemicals business, the two companies are closely linked.
Xu Baoli, a researcher at the SASAC Research Center, said that once the two central enterprises are formally merged, they will be able to achieve a combination of upstream and downstream at the business level, promote the further improvement of the company's industrial chain, and form a more stable trading relationship than at present. However, how to combine the multi-sector, multi-business two leading chemical companies with high efficiency, and how to effectively enhance market competitiveness after the merger, the industry chain is more closely integrated and more complete, and how to form a more stable trading relationship. These are still to be explored.