Media interview: The "disease" of the plastic runway industry, each of us has a copy-Zhao Wenhai
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2017-12-22 16:15
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Two years later, when I saw him again, he was as confident, calm, reserved and thin as ever, and his brow added more or less thinking. Mr. Zhao Wenhai is a recognized authority in China's stadium facilities and construction industry and a "star entrepreneur"-I always try to mobilize all the knowledge of physics, chemistry and polymer synthesis that I have learned in my life, but I often have the embarrassment of not understanding his professional terms during interviews.
Two years ago, when I had a "marathon" interview with him in his office, I was impressed by his concentration, willpower and careful judgment, considering his age and exuberant energy-which turned into deep inner admiration. He often uses the most pioneering words in this industry to express his insights, and he can always give the most forward-looking judgments and interpretations of national policies, just as the torch boss Zhao Ganxiang said,
"Zhao Ge is the most in-depth explorer in our stadium construction industry."
Although the years have aged for another two years, I still admire his sharpness. Even if he only understands some industry phenomena and events through online news, his analysis is so accurate and thorough-and for the more and more direct information stimulation I provide, the more fully his understanding and intuition will be better.
In the past year, the "drug runway" incident has attracted the attention of the whole world. Under the background of the implementation of a number of favorable policies for national fitness and sports industry, if there were no such incident, China's plastic runway industry would have been like artificial grass at this time, which is playing hot with globalization and the international market. However, at this time of China's plastic runway industry, but is taking time and trust crisis gone with the wind to do gambling.
It is not difficult to find mistakes, but it is difficult to find one mistake after another over the years. With the intervention of Xinhua News Agency and CCTV, in just two weeks, the campus plastic runway odor incident was instantly detonated. The plastic runway industry has finally become attached to words such as "disintegration" and "collective death"-no longer regarded as impossible by the market.
Yes, I asked Zhao Wenhai in a way that unexpectedly opened the interview box:
Who will cry for the plastic runway industry?
"Yes, in the past year, our industry, as you can see, has been scraping bones and healing."
I know that such questions make it difficult to systematize Zhao Wenhai's way of answering at the beginning. Because the original appearance of this industry is not like this. The author's good memory about everything in this industry is the moment when I tried to wash my hands with the waste water distilled after the factory circulation in his production base of Changhe Group surrounded by birds. "Can the discharged waste water be used to grow flowers or irrigate vegetation?" I was even more surprised that he could often ask his subordinates such questions-in the past ten years, he has been pursuing a kind of advanced realm of industrial production.
However, he is sensitive. In fact, he smelled a strange smell in this industry as early as 2010.
"Six years ago, by chance, I accompanied one of my engineering clients to visit a school's stadium. He told me that the current runway was tasty and harmful to children's body. Even some school PE teachers would rather give up the plastic runway that had been built and teach indoors... This, to be honest, is really unheard." Zhao Wenhai told me so.
In response to the current market feedback on "plastic runway safety issues", Zhao Wenhai believes that at the moment, the plastic runway industry urgently needs more complete, scientific, and reasonable national standards-but in the process of self-purification of the entire industry, it should be Based on science, strictly prevent the emergence of insufficient strength and overcorrection.
regarding the "poison runway" incident, zhao wenhai told this reporter:
"Each of us is a witness and a participant."
According to industry sources, after a week of precipitation after the "problem runway" incident, the national education system began to conduct a comprehensive investigation and inspection of the built runway, and all runway projects under construction or already established were suspended. For a time, the national campus plastic runway construction and bidding work into a state of stagnation. This market, which occupies more than half of the production capacity output in the stadium construction field, has closed the door to the entire industry because of the "problem runway" incident. Followed by the introduction of more stringent plastic runway standards in relevant places.
Zhao Wenhai believes that this incident can be compared with the "melamine" incident.
-"Milk itself is non-toxic, and the serious consequences are the additives used in violation of regulations."
Before the melamine incident in 2008, milk testing was actually only aimed at protein content, and there was no limit requirement for illegal additives such as melamine in the standard. After the "poisoned milk" incident, the national standard quickly included the detection of harmful substances-the same as the existing plastic runway testing standards, which did not specifically target the content of toxic substances, volatile organic substances and gases.
Zhao Wenhai firmly believes that standards are always in the process of advancing with the times and constantly improving. As long as newly discovered harmful substances can be quickly added to the mandatory standards, or corresponding restrictions and management measures can be made for certain harmful phenomena, it can be further avoided. Inferior products mixed into the campus, causing poisoning to children, and helping the market to achieve self-purification.
Zhao Wenhai also responded to the recent social clamor of "demanding the eradication of all runways", "plastic runways out of campus" and "restoring sand playgrounds and slag runways. He believes that this kind of market reaction is normal, but we must also understand that chemical products are not the enemy of health.
"Polyurethane itself is non-toxic. This incident mainly reflects the problems of imperfect national standards, lax supervision and the urgent need to improve the business ethics of enterprises in the industry, which have nothing to do with the plastic products themselves, which have been applied and demonstrated for decades." Zhao said.
"The most serious landmarks". Taking the newly issued local standards in Shanghai, Shenzhen and other places as an example, the content limit requirements for hazardous substances in the runway part have reached the level of toys for children under three years old exported to Europe and the United States. In other words, according to the new regulations issued by the local government, if the runway is really up to the standard, it can theoretically be bitten by children aged 0-3. In this regard, Zhao Wenhai believes that any sub-industry needs standards to lead, but standards can neither be set too detached nor encourage backwardness, otherwise it will easily intensify social conflicts. High standards are indeed valuable, but excessive requirements will inevitably cause a waste of resources. At the same time, a large part of the overall product quality will be safe and reliable, but some companies whose data cannot meet the new standards will be eliminated-this is also the national standard in the revision process. Market purification factors that are usually considered.
"Whether it is product standard positioning or construction supervision and inspection, whether it is the supervision of which process of sports facilities construction, scientific and reasonable is the most basic requirement."
On the other hand, in his view, the current national standard of plastic runway has not been revised for many years, and there is still a situation that "the high is not high, the low is not low" for certain material requirements.
"For example, the current standard heavy metal content regulations are a bit high, but the detection of harmful toxic components and organic volatile gases that can better reflect health and safety is missing."
This has resulted in the strange phenomenon that some runways that do not conform to the national standard actually have no peculiar smell, and the test results of runways with peculiar smell are qualified. The standard lags behind the market, and the problem forces the market, which is one of the reasons why the "most stringent local standards" have been introduced. Zhao Wenhai said that according to his experience, many of the so-called problem runways that have been eradicated may not be harmful to the human body.
"What does not meet the standard, but has no taste, may also be non-toxic. Some substances only contain one part per million, and there is no reliable basis for talking about harm out of dose."
"At present, whether it is the education system runway self-examination or the second bidding review, or even the various standards that have been issued and will be issued soon, the incident is still inseparable from the government."
As Zhao said, the construction bidding and corresponding supervision of sports venues in the education system are inseparable from the "visible hand" and "supporting hand"-government agencies. However, as mentioned in many media reports, after the cancellation of sports building qualifications, the number of problem runways has gradually increased, the supervision mechanism of bidding links is missing, and there are also some problems in supervision units and testing institutions. The government's opening up the sports construction market and canceling the corresponding qualifications is only one of the reasons for the concentrated outbreak of "poison runway. In Zhao Wenhai's view, the cancellation of qualifications is a market-oriented adjustment of national policies. If subsequent policy guidance and supervision can keep up, protect property rights and adjudicate disputes in transactions, the market can make a smooth transition. Before the cancellation of qualification, due to the professionalism of sports construction, product samples were generally submitted for inspection in the industry. Construction enterprises used fixed manufacturers that had cooperated for many years when selecting products, and the quality assurance could be traced back. After the opening of the market, some new construction enterprises are pursuing low prices. Under the loopholes of imperfect restraint standards and regulatory system, all kinds of three no products or inferior materials that can not be guaranteed will flood the market with shoddy attitude. On the surface, the owner saved the cost, but in fact, the sample block for inspection did not match the actual construction product, thus planting a bomb of safety and quality.
In this regard, Zhao Wenhai suggested that in the future bidding process, we can try to scientifically implement the qualification rating of manufacturers, force the production qualification of material manufacturers, standardize the supervision of production conditions and product quality, increase the process of irregular sampling inspection of products produced by manufacturers, restrain the growth of "Shanzhai materials" and "three no materials", and solve the problem from the source. The government should also strengthen the integrity supervision and innovation encouragement of enterprises, and never take advantage of false propaganda and vicious competition.
Zhao Wenhai believes that the runway is ultimately to protect children from injury in sports. Campus, artificial grass, basketball court coatings and plastic runway, are chemical products in the field of sports applications. Safety and health are the minimum guarantees for their application on campus-the "poison runway" incident continues to ferment in an irrational direction, which is not only harmful to the plastic runway industry, but also damages the collective of the entire sporting goods industry in society. Reputation.
"after all, we need to come up with practical methodology. of course, we can't face problems with the attitude and mentality of 'fighting eyeball'. the ultimate goal of being a sports facility practitioner is to make the industry healthy and the children healthy."
Zhao Wenhai believes that the only thing we can rely on to solve the problem runway may only be the system's quantitative design of the cost of default. Sometimes human nature is the most unreliable-the cost of credit default on the current institutional arrangements is so low that some people will ignore the punishment brought about by moral hazard, making "the gentleman a fish on the knife", thus giving birth to the industry's "bad money drives out good money" strange phenomenon. At the same time, the rapid improvement and introduction of scientific and reasonable new national compulsory standards or industry standards will accelerate the "third technological revolution" in this industry, and innovative, environmentally friendly, and professional excellent products with independent property rights will eventually be The industry brings positive energy and sustainable development health.
On the way back after saying goodbye to Zhao Wenhai, the modern prosperity outside the car window was deeply touched. The history of business is always full of drama: an industry is often looking forward to a limitless future, but it is also a time of crisis; on the contrary, after it encounters decline, bottleneck or even "self-destruction", a market development based on the awakening of the consciousness of the whole society will come instead. The mistrust between people, between people and enterprises, between enterprises and enterprises, threats to life, hidden dangers of security and the reasons that cause our anger will eventually help build a new industry "fuse" mechanism-a new "fuse" mechanism based on society and the whole market.
Source: China Sports Network
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