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Enhancing the Sustainable Development Ability of Energy Saving and Emission Reduction in China

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2018-06-06

From the north and south of the river to the inside and outside of the Great Wall, people were pleasantly surprised to find that the blue sky is getting more and more, the water is gradually clearing, the mountains are greener, and the air in big cities is getting cleaner and cleaner. These gratifying changes are inseparable from the energy conservation and emission reduction actions across the country in recent years.

Zhou Hongchun, a researcher at the Development Research Center of the State Council, said that since the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the sustainable development strategy has become the consensus of all countries in the world. In order to achieve sustainable economic and social development, the Chinese government, based on the basic national conditions and the main characteristics of the development stage, creatively adopts various practical and feasible measures to promote the transformation of development mode and industrial structure adjustment. Energy saving and emission reduction is one of the important measures.

"The integration of energy conservation and emission reduction, two measures that are both related and different, is itself a kind of institutional innovation. Generally speaking, energy conservation is conducive to environmental protection." Zhou Hongchun said.

In order to save resources, protect the environment and deal with climate change, in April 2007, the State Council held a national teleconference on energy conservation and emission reduction, and Premier Wen Jiabao made comprehensive arrangements for energy conservation and emission reduction. Since then, the State Council has issued a comprehensive work plan for energy conservation and emission reduction, and put forward 45 specific work arrangements. Many provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have established leading institutions and coordination mechanisms to implement the responsibility system and policy measures, and governments at all levels have further strengthened their efforts to promote energy conservation and emission reduction.

In order to implement the goal of energy conservation and emission reduction, China has adopted economic, legal and even necessary administrative means: vigorously adjust the industrial structure, implement key projects, promote advanced technologies and products, promote energy conservation in key areas, develop circular economy, promote market-oriented mechanism, improve economic policies, improve laws and regulations, strengthen capacity building, and carry out extensive publicity.

According to the data provided by the National Development and Reform Commission, during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, the state allocated 225 billion yuan from the central government to support ten key energy-saving projects, the construction of urban sewage treatment facilities and supporting pipe networks, the prevention and control of water pollution in key river basins, and the construction of energy-saving and environmental protection capabilities. Wait, drive the whole society to invest about 1.6 trillion yuan, form an energy-saving capacity of about 0.34 billion tons of standard coal, increase of more than 6500 tons of more than 10,000 tons of urban sewage, and more than 10,000 tons.

In the field of energy conservation in key areas, China has organized and carried out energy conservation actions for thousands of enterprises. These high-energy-consuming large-scale enterprises actively promote energy conservation and emission reduction, and significantly reduce the consumption and waste of energy resources by carrying out energy audits, compiling energy conservation plans, implementing energy efficiency level benchmarking, and announcing the status of energy utilization. During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, these enterprises saved 0.165 billion tons of standard coal.

The reporter learned from Jiangyin Xingcheng Special Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. in Jiangsu Province that this company has established an energy conservation and emission reduction research institute, and has successively implemented a series of projects such as energy management and control, waste heat recovery and power generation, sewage treatment, and sintering machine flue gas desulfurization. Complete the energy conservation and emission reduction tasks assigned by the superior department. Zhang Wenji, general manager of the company, said: "in the past five years, the company has invested 1 billion yuan in energy-saving transformation, saving more than 370000 tons of standard coal, achieving a win-win situation of energy conservation, emission reduction, cost reduction and efficiency increase."

During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, my country strengthened industrial policies and project management, raised the entry threshold for energy conservation and environmental protection, strictly controlled land, environmental protection, energy consumption, credit and other barriers, adjusted export policies for high energy-consuming products, and curbed high energy-consuming and high-emission industries. Excessive growth. During this period, the country shut down a total of 76.825 million kilowatts of small thermal power units with high energy consumption and high emissions, exceeding the installed power generation capacity of the UK for the whole year.

Energy saving and emission reduction can not be separated from the promotion of efficient energy-saving technologies and products. In recent years, the state has issued two batches of national key energy-saving technology promotion catalogues. According to Zhao Jiarong, Deputy Secretary General of the national development and Reform Commission, China has implemented the project of benefiting the people with energy-saving products. In the past three years, China has allocated more than 33 billion yuan of central financial subsidy funds to promote 0.52 billion energy-saving lamps, more than 5000 million high-efficiency energy-saving air conditioners, more than 460 energy-saving vehicles and more than 500 million kilowatts of high-efficiency motors, which directly drives the consumption of more than 500 billion yuan and achieves annual energy saving of 12.5 million tons of standard coal, including about 31 billion kWh and 1.3 million tons of fuel, reduce carbon dioxide emissions of about 30 million tons.

This policy, which benefits thousands of households, not only allows consumers and users to save more than 70 billion yuan in the purchase cost of high-efficiency and energy-saving products (financial subsidies bring economies of scale to drive down terminal sales prices), but also saves more than 130 billion yuan in electricity (oil) costs during the product life cycle.

In May this year, the central government allocated 36.3 billion yuan to promote energy-saving household appliances, high-efficiency lighting, energy-saving vehicles and high-efficiency motors. It is estimated that the consumption demand will be driven by about 450 billion yuan, and the annual energy saving will be about 12 million tons of standard coal, including about 32.3 billion kilowatt hours of electricity.

The use of price leverage also plays a positive role in energy conservation and emission reduction. In recent years, my country has implemented refined oil price and tax reforms, implemented the on-grid electricity price policy for flue gas desulfurization units, implemented a differential electricity price policy for restricted and eliminated high-energy-consuming products, and gave tax incentives to energy-saving, water-saving and environmental protection equipment. The consumption tax rate for passenger cars with different displacements has been adjusted.

In order to promote energy conservation and emission reduction in accordance with the law, China has also revised and promulgated the Energy Conservation Law, the Circular economy Promotion Law, the Cleaner production Promotion Law, and the Water pollution Prevention and Control Law, and formulated regulations on energy conservation in civil buildings and regulations on energy conservation in public institutions. At the same time, the whole country has carried out energy conservation and national action, organized various forms of energy conservation and emission reduction publicity, and the awareness of energy conservation and emission reduction in the whole society has been significantly enhanced.

During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period (2006-2010), through the implementation of a comprehensive plan for energy conservation and emission reduction, my country's energy consumption per unit of GDP was reduced by 19.1, and energy was saved by 0.63 billion tons of standard coal; sulfur dioxide emissions were reduced by 14.29, and chemical oxygen demand emissions were reduced by 12.45, achieving the binding targets set in the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan.

"The experience of energy conservation and emission reduction can be roughly summarized as insisting on the government's vigorous promotion to form a linkage mechanism up and down. China has given full play to its advantage of 'concentrating on big things' and has increased its overall efforts in terms of organizational structure, institutional arrangements, policy measures and project implementation." Zhou Hongchun said.

Zhuang Jian, a senior economist at the Asian Development Bank's representative office in China, who has long studied China's economy, said that China has paid attention to changing the mode of development, structural adjustment and improving the quality of development in the process of development, and has achieved certain results in the field of energy conservation and emission reduction.

Zhou Hongchun believes that while fully affirming the achievements of energy conservation and emission reduction, we should not be complacent. We should realize that the difficulty of energy conservation and emission reduction in our country is increasing, and the cost will increase.

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