Photovoltaic output, new energy vehicle production and sales for many years in the world first; A total of 30,000 green products have been promoted, and 3,616 green factories and 267 green industrial parks have been built. Over the past ten years, energy consumption per unit of value added in designated industries has dropped by more than 36%… The dazzling figures record the footprint of China’s accelerated construction of a green manufacturing system in recent years. Thanks to the continuous increase in the supply of green products, the continuous catalysis of digital technology, and the gradual improvement of the technological content of industrial structure, China’s industrial manufacturing has become increasingly green.

“The workshop production tempo has been accelerated by another 15%!”

On May 31, the reporter walked into the GAC ‘an new energy vehicle assembly workshop located in Panyu District, Guangzhou, and saw a new energy vehicle after a series of digital and intelligent production processes such as stamping, welding, painting, and assembly, passing the quality inspection and rolling off the assembly line.

“Previously, the average production time in the workshop was 60 seconds per unit (that is, one car every 60 seconds), but recently, because the order demand exceeds our capacity, the production time has been accelerated by 15% in order to better and faster respond to market demand!” Zheng Chunqi, deputy general manager of GaC Aean New Energy Automobile Co., LTD., told China Electronics News. It is understood that from January to April this year, the cumulative sales volume of GAC Aean new energy vehicles was 119000, a year-on-year growth of 1.2 times.

This busy production scene is a vivid portrayal of the flourishing production and sales of green products such as new energy vehicles in China in recent years. In 2022, China’s new-energy vehicle sales reached 68.87 million units, up 93.4 percent year on year, ranking first in the world in terms of production and sales for eight consecutive years. From January to April this year, China’s new energy vehicle sales reached 2.22 million, an increase of 42.8%, the rise of independent brands and export strength continued to improve.

Industry is a big energy consumer, accounting for 65 percent of the country’s total energy consumption. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to improve the control of total energy consumption and intensity, focus on controlling fossil energy consumption, and gradually shift to the “double control” system of total carbon emissions and intensity. In this battle for industrial green and low-carbon transformation, new combinations of green energy products such as photovoltaic, energy storage and hydrogen energy “shine”, driving industrial processes from hot carbon to electric hydrogen.

Longji green energy landscape complementary project

“At present, our photovoltaic output ranks the first in the world for many years, overtaking hydropower for the first time to become the second largest power source in the country, has entered the ‘low price era’ from the ‘affordable era’; Energy storage is about to be commercialized on a large scale, and the cost of cathode material as a key material for energy storage is also falling. As the cost of photovoltaic wind power and electrolytic cell equipment goes down, it is expected that the contribution of wind energy storage to carbon emission reduction will exceed 80% in the next 20 years.” GCL Group senior partner, GCL technology co-CEO LAN Tianshi pointed out.

By May this year, China had promoted nearly 30,000 kinds of green products, building a green product supply system from basic raw materials to end consumption, according to data from the Research Center for Industrial and Information Carbon and Carbon peak. Annual renewable energy generation is equivalent to reducing domestic carbon dioxide emissions by 2.26 billion tons. Chinese companies account for six of the top 10 global wind power machine manufacturers.

Digitization as an “accelerator” to achieve the goal of “double carbon”

Integrate robot employees into the organization, and identify non-traditional, high-potential carbon reduction processes through artificial intelligence, digital twinning and other technologies; From the headquarters to the grass-roots business units to build their own digital center, digital intelligent cockpit; Set up enterprise big data analysts to create a “digital dashboard”… According to LAN Tianshi, as a green and low-carbon pioneer, all of GCL’s manufacturing processes must be green and digital.

It is not hard to understand GCL making such demands on itself. The rapid development of the digital economy has provided new ideas and new methods to support and empower the green transformation of the economy, and has become an “accelerator” to accelerate the green transformation and achieve the goal of “double carbon”. On the one hand, digitization can conduct real-time detection of the whole process of production and adjust the production operation management mode in time according to the changes in demand, greatly improving the efficiency of resource allocation and contributing to the energy saving, emission reduction and consumption reduction of the whole process of production. On the other hand, digital technology can alleviate the degree of information asymmetry, reduce the uncertainty of enterprises to carry out research and development innovation, and then encourage enterprises to engage in more innovative activities and reduce the carbon emissions per unit of output value.

From the single, single equipment green transformation program to the establishment of a systematic and standardized carbon emission management system, today, more and more enterprises continue to improve their own green low-carbon management level and enhance their competitive advantages through continuous development of new technologies, new equipment, new processes, new models of system research and development innovation and achievement transformation.