PODCAST: China’s key planning meeting has huge implications for chemicals

BARCELONA (ICIS)–China is expected to unveil far-reaching plans which will impact the chemical industry around the world at this week’s Fifth Plenum meeting.

• China could come to dominate global plastics recycling technology
• Could dominate global renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs)
• Build global alliance of countries which believe human activity creates climate change
• Big strides in cleaning up China’s environment
• More petrochemical self-sufficiency
• Expansion of Belt and Road initiative
• Rapid action on pandemic, allies to receive vaccines
• Growth of domestic self-sufficiency and poverty reduction

China’s fifth plenum meeting takes place 26-29 October.

Podcast interview with Paul Hodges, chairman New Normal Consulting; Nigel Davis, ICIS Insight editor, and John Richardson, ICIS senior consultant, Asia.