Looking at the Scale Economic Benefit of Domestic Paper Industry from "Ton of Paper Profit"

According to statistics from related departments, in 2000, there were 10 companies with a total profit of over 100 million yuan in the national paper industry. The average production scale of these 10 companies was 224,000 tons for 1 year. They are all large-scale papermaking companies in the country and these 10 papermaking enterprises ( Each ton, the same below product price is 5455.71 yuan (RMB, the same below), the unit product profit tax 1183.88 yuan, unit product profit 838.88 yuan. It can be seen that the average sales price and profitability of the products of these 10 companies are very high in the domestic paper industry, and the profits and taxes of the unit products account for 21.7% and 15.28% of the sales revenue, respectively.

Let us take a look at Shandong Province, which is the first place in China's papermaking industry. According to statistics of large and medium-sized paper-making enterprises in the province’s top 16 economies, the unit product price is 5108.03 yuan, the unit product profit tax is 936.24, and the unit product profit is 630.69 yuan. The profits and taxes per unit of product revenue accounted for 18.33% and 12.35% of the sales revenue respectively, which were 66.93% and 93.4% higher than the provincial average of the same type of indicators. The per capita annual profit of the employees of the 16 papermaking enterprises reached 25,931.89 yuan. Shandong paper industry average 2.79 times.

There are about 200 small and medium-sized and private paper-making enterprises in Shandong Province. The 200 paper-making enterprises have a unit price of 3757.41 yuan, a unit product profit tax of 274.48 yuan, a unit product profit of 94.02 yuan, and a unit product profit tax and profit of 7.31 percent of sales revenue respectively. % and 2.50%. The per capita annual profit of workers is 2,169.38 yuan, which is 23.36% of the province's average level, and is 8.36% of the 16 large and medium-sized paper-making enterprises in the province.

It can be seen that small and medium-sized paper companies generally have low product prices, low added value, low profitability, and generally low pollution control capabilities.