Youfa Group showed up in Tube China 2026 and attended the 3rd China International Steel Tube & Pipe Conference to explore a new path for steel pipes to go abroad

From 21 to 24 September, Tube China 2026 Exhibition kicked off in Shanghai New International Expo Center. The exhibition gathered thousands of pipe manufacturers, equipment suppliers, engineering owners and upstream and downstream partners from all over the world, showcasing the most cutting-edge technologies and the latest innovations in the industry.

Youfa Group was invited to bring its core products of Hebei Haiqianwei, Huludao Steel Pipe, Cangzhou Longtaidi, Jiangsu Youfa and other enterprises and the group's all-category steel pipe products at exhibition, intensively demonstrating the strength of the one-stop pipeline solution of Youfa Group to the visiting experts and scholars, upstream and downstream partners and industry colleagues.

On 22 September, at the Third China International Steel Tube Conference jointly held by Metallurgical Industry Branch of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade under the guidance of China Iron & Steel Association and Steel Industry and other organizations, Li Maojin, Chairman of Youfa Group and Chairman of China Iron & Steel Association Wire and Pipe Branch and Steel Industry attended the conference and delivered a speech, and had in-depth discussions and exchanges on core topics such as high-quality industry development, internationalization, green and low-carbon transformation, etc.

Li Maojin pointed out that at present, the domestic steel pipe industry is in the stage of deep adjustment, facing multiple pressures such as weak demand, overcapacity, low price internal involution and homogenized competition, and the traditional growth mode of scale expansion has been difficult to sustain. He stressed that, in the face of this situation, China's steel pipe industry must adhere to internal innovation and external competition, rely on product, technology, process and service multi-dimensional innovation to build core competitiveness, rely on the improvement of industrial concentration and the leading and driving of leading enterprises, get rid of vicious inner involution and move towards rational competition.

He said that Youfa Group, as the chair of the sub-committee, will adhere to open sharing, join hands with the majority of member enterprises, promote the industry from "vicious inner involution" to "rational competition", promote the industry from "product export" to "capacity output" upgrading, and jointly explore the new path of industry development led by new quality productivity.

In the following special topic sharing link, Li Xiang, General Manager of Tianjin Youfa International Trade Co., Ltd., combined with more than 20 years of industrial accumulation and overseas business practices of Youfa Group, shared the topic titled "From Scale Trade to Value Going Sea: Changes in Welded Pipe Export and the Breaking Path of Youfa", and elaborated the new ideas of current welding pipe export changes and breaking the situation of Youfa Value Going Sea.

She said that Youfa Group has established overseas offices in the United Arab Emirates, Australia, Costa Rica, etc. The Group has arranged export business since 2010, gradually established an online and offline integrated overseas expansion customer system, formally established a professional export trading company at the end of 2025, and implemented the Group's strategy of "offshore layout, trade first".

In her view, China's welding pipe enterprises should abandon the old road of internal towards external involution, complete the transformation from scale trade to value export, and realize the transformation from "selling out" to "selling out with value". She said that in this transformation process, we must adhere to the compliance baseline, build a global brand on the basis of sustainable development, abandon the idea of low price competition, strengthen industry self-discipline, transform compliance capabilities into common competitive elements of the industry, and build a benign industry ecology.

She emphasized in particular that the globalization of Youfa is not the output of excess capacity, but the creation of the second growth curve of the enterprise based on the capacity layout, product upgrading and channel construction, rejecting the internal involution and even the external involution. This is a new expression of Youfa Group's strategy of "manufacturing oriented, customer-oriented and global market oriented".

Standing in front of the restructuring window of the world's steel pipe industry, Youfa Group will continue to adhere to the technical innovation to improve the added value of products, respond to the industry transformation with green and low-carbon, link overseas customers with global services, enhance anti-cyclical capacity with industrial chain coordination, and walk alongside upstream and downstream partners in a more open attitude, so that more overseas users can see the "Youfa Value" behind the steel pipe and make "China Steel Pipe" more stable, farther and stronger in the global market.