In the haze governance and environmental incentives, the traditional high pollution paint is accelerating by waterborne paint and other new coatings instead. Deputy Secretary General China CIESC long Dai Guoqing said on 22, 2016 national scale enterprises output 18 million 997 thousand and 800 tons, an increase of 7.2%; while the water paint production and sales, to achieve a 100% growth. In the first half of this year, the paint industry in the construction, production and planning construction projects, water paint accounted for up to 70%.

Many people do not know, everywhere paint is also one of the factors leading to haze. As the paint needs to add organic solvents, the release of a large number of volatile organic compounds, and automobile exhaust, industrial waste gas together, eventually forming ozone and PM2.5 pollution. Water paint can be diluted only by adding water, and the volatile organic compounds are less than 1 / 10 of the paint.

"Waterborne" is an important means of transforming coatings coating industry into green environmental protection." Dai Guoqing held on the same day the first water paint fair said, continue to intensify efforts in environmental protection in recent years, China has imposed by paint consumption tax, making the atmospheric pollutant emission standard paint downstream key industries and a series of initiatives to accelerate the transformation of water paint to paint.

At present, water paint is widely used in steel structure, wooden furniture, automobile and other industries. "Oil to water" has begun to expand the upstream and downstream industry chain of coatings." According to Hong Ding, President of China Institute of chemical industry affiliated water paint research institute, it is estimated that the market demand of water paint will exceed 6 million 300 thousand tons in 5 years.

According to the reporter, the National Stadium "bird's nest" recently updated paint film, the choice of environmentally friendly water paint as paint. Streets and lanes everywhere sharing bicycle "yellow car", also is the water paint brush.

The Ministry of industry and Commerce issued the "key industries volatile organic matter reduction action plan" clearly requirements, by 2018, low (no) volatile organic compounds of green paint products reached more than 60%. People in the industry generally believe that there is still much room for promotion of water paint.

In 2016, the amount of waterborne coatings in China was about 1 million 890 thousand tons, accounting for less than 10% of the whole coating industry." Hong Dingyi believes that with the improvement of water paint performance, the past that it is difficult to replace the petrochemical, railway, ship and other fields of anti-corrosion coatings, and now nearly 70% can also be replaced by water-based coatings.