Recently, at the just-concluded 2023 China International Industry Fair (CIIF, referred to as “CIIF”), the “Zero-carbon Industrial Park Implementation Path Planning and Evaluation” group standard prepared by Schneider Electric, a digital transformation expert in the field of global energy management and automation, was officially released. At the same time, at the Carbon Peak Carbon Neutral International Forum (CCIF) held in Hainan, the “Zero Carbon Factory Creation and Evaluation Specifications based on Blockchain” co-authored by Schneider Electric was also officially released under the joint witness of many enterprises and institutions.

In the face of the severe challenges brought by global climate change to all mankind, “carbon neutrality” has become the common goal of global development. In the post-pandemic era, “digitalization” and “green and low-carbon” have become the engine and theme of global economic recovery. In the face of climate change and the trend of “double carbon”, the construction of “zero carbon factory” and “zero carbon park” has become a key path for enterprises to seek energy efficiency and production efficiency improvement, and achieve net zero emissions in the value chain to move towards zero carbon. To this end, the state has issued a number of policies to guide the construction of near-zero carbon industrial parks, near-zero carbon factories and near-zero carbon cities. All over the country have responded and accelerated deployment, and relevant enterprises and units are also actively exploring, and leading enterprises in various industries have planned to build “zero carbon factories” across the country to benchmark the international advanced level.

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However, due to the lack of unified norms and guidance, the construction of zero-carbon factories and zero-carbon parks across the country is still “uneven” : most of the current zero-carbon factory construction standards are formulated by various localities and industries according to their own characteristics, and lack of universality; At the same time, due to the lack of technical connection and consideration of international standards in the development process, there are shortcomings that can not achieve mutual recognition with domestic and even international. In addition, many problems, such as the lack of carbon data regulation and the lack of universality of technical standards, have also brought many obstacles to the creation and evaluation of zero-carbon factories. At present, the understanding of zero carbon in most parks is still only in the conceptual stage, and there is no systematic, clear idea and practical implementation path on how to build zero carbon parks and how to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional parks to zero carbon. In addition, the number of parks in China is large, the types are wide, and the local economic development level and resource endowment are different, which brings great difficulties to the planning, design and path selection of zero-carbon smart parks.