More moves are in the pipeline

While making positive progress, the green development of China’s traditional manufacturing industry still faces some difficulties.

Zhao Weidong said that at present, China’s industrial structure is heavy, the energy structure is obviously biased toward coal, the development of some high-energy-consuming industries has not yet entered the plateau period, the large-scale application of energy alternatives and renewable energy is still some time away, and the innovation capacity of green and low-carbon technologies needs to be improved.

The reporter recently learned from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that the next step will be more support measures to further promote the green and low-carbon development of industry.

Tao Qing said that the green manufacturing promotion project will be further implemented. We issued guidelines on accelerating the green development of manufacturing, improved the national, provincial, and municipal benchmarking mechanisms for green manufacturing, and built 1,000 state-level green factories and 50 green industrial parks. We will increase the popularization and application of green smart ships and green building materials, carry out green and low-carbon innovation and development actions for electric power equipment, and actively cultivate emerging industries such as hydrogen energy and new energy storage.

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At the same time, special actions will be carried out to save energy and reduce carbon. Deepen energy-saving monitoring and energy-saving diagnosis services, and carry out demonstration and promotion of industrial green microgrid application scenarios. We will accelerate the construction of a digital carbon management platform and establish a mechanism for digital empowerment, green and low-carbon development.

The policy system of industrial green development will also be further improved. Tao Qing said that adhere to the coordinated promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion and growth, make overall use of various resources such as fiscal, tax, financial and price, and promote enterprises to implement energy saving and carbon reduction technology transformation. Research and formulate new energy vehicle power battery recycling and utilization management measures, and constantly improve the recycling and utilization system.

Zhao Weidong believes that the next step should seize the key of industrial structure adjustment, create a number of advanced manufacturing clusters with obvious low-carbon transformation effects, and build an industrial layout conducive to carbon emission reduction. We will accelerate the digitization of manufacturing processes, strive to break through the key technological weaknesses that affect the green and low-carbon development of industry, and make positive achievements in the research of low-carbon, zero-carbon and negative carbon technologies in key industries, the application of green and low-carbon materials and equipment, and the innovation and diversified utilization of hydrogen energy technologies, so as to improve the coverage and application level of low-carbon technologies in all aspects of various industries. (Reporter Guo Qian Intern Bi Yixun)