On June 13th to 14th , 2024 (the 8th) National Pipeline Industry Chain Conference was held in Chengdu. The conference was hosted by Shanghai Steel Union under the guidance of Steel Pipe Branch of China Steel Structure Association. The conference deeply focused on the current market situation of the pipeline industry, changes in the downstream demand market and macro-policy trends, and many other hot topics in the industry. Industry experts from all over the country and steel elites in the pipeline industry chain gathered together to jointly explore new modes and new directions for high-quality coordinated development of the industrial chain.

As one of the co-organizers of the conference, Xu Guangyou, deputy general manager of Youfa Group, said in his speech that all enterprises in the steel industry chain have a certain symbiotic relationship. Facing the industry’s downward cycle, enterprises should cooperate with each other to jointly overcome the 3-5 year adjustment period.

He also said that in view of the current industry situation, Youfa Group actively explores the innovative service model of steel pipe supply chain with steel pipe products and services to reduce costs, improve efficiency and increase value for users, and earn the money we should earn while helping users save money. At present, relying on the group's transparent pricing mechanism and better comprehensive cost can reduce the comprehensive cost for large end users and improve the installation efficiency. At the same time, through the innovation system of supply chain service, providing high-quality supply guarantee ability, seven production bases, more than 4,000 sales outlets and 200,000 vehicle logistics platforms, the advantages of completeness, speed, Excellence and good will be fully brought into play, which can help users improve efficiency in an all-round way.

Finally, he stressed that the ultimate goal of Youfa Group is to take Youfa Group as a model and service terminals as a starting point to build an industry "symbiotic" development model that can benefit every node enterprise in the pipeline industry chain, and promote the high-quality development of the entire steel industry chain with a new industrial ecological community.

Kong Degang, deputy director of the market management center of Youfa Group, also shared the theme of "Review and Prospect of Welded Pipe Industry" and made a wonderful analysis of the pain points and future trends of the current welded pipe industry. In his view, the current welded pipe market is saturated, overcapacity and fierce competition. At the same time, the upstream steel mills are strongly priced and lack the awareness of industrial chain symbiosis, while the downstream dealers are too scattered, their strength is weak. In addition, the shrinking sales radius of steel pipe products, slow progress in lean enterprise management and intelligence have seriously troubled the development of the industry.

In response to this situation, he suggested that industrial chain enterprises should strengthen cooperation, ensure development through cooperation, promote long-term development through compliance, and actively embrace the industrial Internet to find new opportunities for high-quality development. As for the market trend in the second half of the year, he believes that industrial chain enterprises should focus on two major factors: demand mismatch under policy stimulus growth and supply contraction under capacity reduction, and adjust inventory and sales strategies in time.

In addition, at this conference, Dong Guowei, deputy general manager of Youfa Group Sales Company, also gave a detailed introduction to the overall demand solution for steel pipes of terminal enterprises of Youfa Group for the representatives of enterprises attending the conference. In the face of the new situation in the industry, all the resources of Youfa Group are allocated around providing customers with the service plan of "reducing costs + increasing efficiency + increasing value" to create the concept of all-staff service with lifelong value for users. He said that Youfa Group's steel pipe demand solution for terminal enterprises combines the advantages of Youfa Group's sunny and transparent pricing mechanism, professional team's embedded service, timely and efficient logistics distribution, customized exclusive warehouse and quick response after-sales guarantee, so that users can save time, worry and enjoy the best supply chain service with less money through iterative service upgrade.

In the future, Youfa Group will continue to expand its circle of friends for the coordinated development of industries, unite the consensus on the coordinated development of industries, and at the same time, adhere to the principle of taking users as the center, from serving users to symbiotic development with users, and be the outsourcing provider of centralized purchasing services for users, providing users with unique lifelong value, providing more "Youfa schemes" and "Youfa modes" for the efficient and coordinated development of the industrial chain, and making unremitting efforts for the value jump of China steel pipe industrial chain.