On February 17, the Chinese government website released the full text of the “Opinions of The General Office of the State Council on Strengthening Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction in the Internal Combustion Engine Industry” issued by The General Office of the State Council on February 6 (hereinafter referred to as the “Opinions”). The “Opinions” put forward the overall requirements and goals of energy conservation and emission reduction of internal combustion engine products in China by 2015, 11 key areas and tasks, and a number of policy measures. According to the requirements of the Opinions, by 2015, energy-saving internal combustion engine products should account for 60% of the total number of internal combustion engine products in the whole society. Xing Min, executive vice president and secretary-general of the China Internal Combustion Engine Industry Association, said in an interview with our reporter that it is the first time in history that The State Council has issued a work guideline on products in a professional field.

Before the Spring Festival, the executive meeting of The State Council has just made a decision to accelerate the upgrading of oil quality and strengthen the supervision of oil quality, and after the Spring Festival, the Chinese government network issued the “Opinions of The General Office of the State Council on Strengthening energy conservation and emission reduction of the Internal Combustion Engine Industry” (hereinafter referred to as the “Opinions”). In the view of the outside world, for the haze pollution weather that has swept large areas of the country recently, from automobile fuel to internal combustion engine energy saving and emission reduction, the release of the two documents can be described as very timely.

As the mobile power source led by the automobile, China’s internal combustion engine has also become the world’s first production and marketing country like the automobile. However, compared with the international advanced level, China’s internal combustion engine products still have a relatively obvious gap in energy conservation and environmental protection indicators. Therefore, in order to strengthen the energy conservation and emission reduction of the internal combustion engine industry and products, promote the conservation of petrochemical resources and improve air quality, The General Office of the State Council issued a special opinion on strengthening the energy conservation and emission reduction of the internal combustion engine industry. According to Xing Min, executive vice president and secretary-general of the China Internal Combustion Engine Industry Association, it is the first time in history that The State Council has issued a work guideline on products in a professional field.

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The reporter saw that the purpose of the “Opinions” is to reduce energy resource consumption, reduce pollutants and carbon dioxide emissions, and will be promoted in several aspects such as accelerating the research and development, application and industrialization of new technologies for energy conservation and emission reduction of internal combustion engines, promoting the diversified application of alternative energy sources of internal combustion engines, and promoting the development of remanufacturing industry. In order to achieve the purpose of reducing the fuel consumption rate of internal combustion engine, improving the energy saving and emission reduction level of internal combustion engine products in China and the international competitiveness of internal combustion engine industry.

In the total volume target, the Opinions put forward: By 2015, energy-saving internal combustion engine products accounted for 60% of the total number of internal combustion engine products in the whole society, compared with 2010, the fuel consumption rate of internal combustion engine was reduced by 6% to 10%, saving 20 million tons of commercial fuel, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 62 million tons, reducing nitrogen oxide emissions by 10%, and using alternative fuels to save 15 million tons of commercial fuel; Cultivate a number of key enterprises for remanufacturing engines for automobiles and construction machinery; Realize the localization and large-scale production and manufacturing equipment of high-efficiency, energy-saving and environment-friendly internal combustion engine main engine and its components; Establish a system of energy conservation and emission reduction policies, regulations and standards for internal combustion engine products.

In the key areas and tasks, the “Opinions” are classified according to the passenger car, diesel engine and light and micro vehicle diesel engine and medium and heavy commercial vehicle diesel engine, automotive engines also include the industrialization of key components, internal combustion engine manufacturing process energy saving, alternative fuel internal combustion engine product development and internal combustion engine product remanufacturing. The “Opinions” strive to make breakthroughs in several major engineering projects such as high-pressure injection of diesel engines, direct injection of gasoline engines, turbocharging, small and lightweight, and alternative fuel applications, and achieve by 2015: All the newly produced automotive diesel engines apply high-pressure fuel injection systems, and the fuel consumption rate is reduced by 5% to 8% compared with 2010; 30%~40% of the newly produced automotive gasoline engine products use in-cylinder direct injection fuel system, and the fuel consumption rate is 8%~10% lower than that in 2010; The penetration rate of multi-cylinder diesel engine supercharging technology is more than 90%, the application ratio of efficient supercharging technology in automotive diesel engines is 100%, and the application ratio in automotive gasoline machines is more than 30%; More than 20% of the newly produced multi-functional (miniature) passenger cars use small-bore multi-cylinder diesel engines to replace 500,000 high-energy-consuming large-bore single-cylinder diesel engines; By promoting the use of natural gas single fuel, dual fuel and biodiesel internal combustion engines, to replace 10 million tons of commercial fuel; By promoting the application of methanol fuel internal combustion engines, it has achieved a number of specific goals such as replacing 5 million tons of commercial fuel.

In the process of the overall transformation and upgrading of China’s manufacturing industry, the internal combustion engine industry is once again duty-bound to play the role of a pioneer. Xing Min told reporters that the “Opinions” after the release of the key in the implementation of the whole industry, at this stage the association will focus on working with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other competent departments and industry experts, business leaders, as soon as possible to develop a solid and feasible implementation plan.

For the question of whether the key projects put forward by the reporter have specific starting points, Xing Min told reporters that the several key projects mentioned in the “Opinions” have all been implemented to the relevant enterprises, and the targets mentioned in the total amount and the specific targets in the sub-projects are also formulated in accordance with the “Twelfth Five-Year” development plan of China’s internal combustion engine industry after several rounds of research and discussion. As for the catalogue of energy-saving products for internal combustion engines mentioned in the “Opinions”, the catalogue of eliminated products, and the research, formulation and introduction of financial support policies for promoting energy-saving and environmentally friendly commercial vehicles, etc., it is necessary to enter the implementation phase after the introduction of relevant supporting policies.