In the market economy environment, some methyl monomer production enterprises have withdrawn from the field due to backward technology or industrial restructuring; while key enterprises such as Xinghuo Chemical Plant, Xin'an Chemical Group Corporation and Jilin Petrochemical Company have accelerated their development, some silicones. Manufacturers of downstream products and companies in related industries are also involved in the construction of methyl monomer production units.


     In the new century, the world's organosilicon monomer production is accelerating its transfer to China. In 2004, Dow Corning and the German Wacker Company established a joint venture in China to invest in a 190,000 t/y siloxane project in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu; China Bluestar Group acquired the Rhodia Company's silicone business in 2006. It became the world's fourth largest silicone production company; in 2007, Zhejiang Xinan Group signed a joint venture agreement with Meitu High-tech Materials Group of the United States to jointly build a 100,000 tons/year organosilicon monomer project in Zhejiang Jiande. So far, four of the world's top five silicone monomer producers have achieved “Made in China”.


    At the same time as the scale of production continues to expand, the level of organic silicon production technology in China has also increased significantly. In 2006, the actual annual production of hot vulcanized silicone rubber and room temperature vulcanized silicone rubber exceeded 100,000 tons respectively, completely breaking the situation that foreign products occupy most of the domestic market, and realized technology in high temperature glue and room temperature glue. The products are exported in large quantities. By the end of 2017, China's methyl monomer production capacity reached 2.7 million tons.


In pursuit of high-quality development, China's organic silicon industry has no new capacity to put into production in 2018. Existing enterprises have upgraded their production capacity to 3 million tons per year through technological transformation and bottlenecks, ranking first in the world. China has become a veritable A major producer of silicones.