The State Council strives for energy-saving and environmental protection industry

According to the person in charge of the Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection of the National Development and Reform Commission, in order to accelerate the development of energy-saving and environmental protection industries, the state will adopt a series of measures to strengthen restraint and encouragement and create a favorable market and policy environment for the development of energy-saving and environmental protection industries.

Recently, the State Council issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Energy-saving and Environmental Protection Industries" (hereinafter referred to as "opinions"). This is another major measure that the new government has adopted to ensure steady growth, structural adjustment, reform, and people's livelihood. It is also a major measure that is both beneficial to the current and beneficial long-term. It eases the bottleneck of resource and environment, expands effective demand, and transforms economic development. The methods, the promotion of industrial transformation and upgrading, and the enhancement of the endogenous development drive are of great significance. The "Opinions" proposed the development goals for the past three years, including the total output value of energy-saving and environmental protection industries in 2015 reached 4.5 trillion yuan.

In order to achieve the above goals, China will improve its laws and standards, focusing on improving legislation, strengthening law enforcement, and improving standards so that potential market demands are released and the role of expanding effective domestic demand is truly played. At the same time, China will continue to strengthen its responsibility for energy saving and emission reduction, improve the statistics, monitoring, and assessment system for energy conservation and emission reduction, and use the assessment results as an important part of the comprehensive evaluation and evaluation of leading groups and leading cadres, and incorporate it into government performance management and implement the accountability system.

China will increase investment in the central budget and the central government's special energy-saving and emission-reducing funds for energy-saving and environmental protection industries, and continue to arrange state-owned capital operating budget expenditures to support enterprises in implementing energy-saving and environmental protection projects. Local people's governments at all levels must raise awareness and increase investment in the research, development, and promotion of major energy-saving and environmental-friendly projects and technical equipment to solve outstanding problems.

"As a policy-driven industry, energy conservation and environmental protection have repeatedly received high-level attention and become an important choice for stimulating effective domestic demand and promoting economic restructuring and upgrading," said Feng Liang, deputy inspector of the Central Development and Reform Commission of the National Development and Reform Commission. He said that the energy conservation and environmental protection industry refers to an industry that provides a material basis and technical guarantee for saving energy resources, developing a recycling economy, and protecting the ecological environment. It is one of the seven strategic emerging industries that the country has accelerated to foster and develop. According to the “Opinions”, the four major industrial areas that need to be developed during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period include key areas of the energy conservation industry, key areas of resource recycling industry, key areas of the environmental protection industry, and energy conservation and environmental protection service industries.

In the key areas of energy-saving industries, the "Opinions" pointed out that it is necessary to focus on the development of energy-saving technologies and equipment such as boiler kilns, electric motors and dragging equipment, waste heat and pressure utilization equipment, energy-efficient products such as efficient lighting products and energy-saving automobiles, and contract energy management. The main mode of energy-saving service industry.

In the key areas of the environmental protection industry, the Opinions clarified that environmental protection technologies and equipment focusing on sewage treatment, garbage disposal, air pollution control, hazardous waste and soil pollution control and monitoring equipment should be developed. At the same time, it is necessary to focus on the treatment of urban sewage, waste gas from thermal power plants, hazardous waste and medical waste disposal, and to promote the professionalization, marketization, and socialization of the construction and operation of environmental protection facilities.

Experts believe that energy saving and environmental protection mainly involves sub-sectors such as atmospheric treatment, solid waste treatment, sewage treatment, ecological restoration, and contract energy services. Judging from the degree of benefit and time, atmospheric governance will usher in a series of policy catalysts in the second half of the year. It is expected that areas such as the revision of the Air Pollution Prevention Act, elevation of industrial emission standards, adjustment of energy constrains such as coal-restricted coal, and automobile exhaust gas treatment will be further developed in the second half of the year. The policy details were issued. Solid waste, especially waste incineration, has a huge market. It is conservatively expected that the "12th Five-Year Plan" garbage incineration market will have a capacity of nearly 80 billion yuan.