Securities Times.com reported: The National Development and Reform Commission issued a document on April 29, stating that in the first quarter of this year, under the guidance of the Party Central Committee and the State Council’s series of policies to seek progress while maintaining stability, the national economy was generally stable, structural adjustments were being made steadily, energy-saving and environmental protection industries were accelerating, and energy-saving. Emission reduction has achieved remarkable results and the quality of development has been continuously improved. In the first quarter, energy consumption per unit of GDP fell by 5.6% year-on-year, and the total emissions of sulfur dioxide, chemical oxygen demand, ammonia nitrogen, and nitrogen oxides continued to decline rapidly.

First, the construction of ecological civilization injects new impetus into energy conservation and emission reduction. In March of this year, the Politburo of the Central Committee reviewed and approved the "Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of Ecological Civilization", which clearly stated that it is necessary to firmly establish the concept of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains", and coordinated promotion of industrialization, urbanization, informatization, and agricultural modernization. And greening. In accordance with the requirements of the central government, each region puts the construction of ecological civilization in a prominent and important position. Fujian Province has put forward 33 implementation opinions and deployed 134 key tasks; Jiangxi Province has issued the "Implementation Opinions on the Construction of Ecological Civilization Pilot Demonstration Zones." ; Chongqing City issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of Ecological Civilization". At the same time, since last year, relevant departments have selected 57 regions to carry out the construction of pilot demonstration areas for ecological civilization, formulated and issued implementation plans, effectively carried out system innovation and model exploration, and implemented a number of engineering constructions, which strongly promoted the in-depth energy conservation and emission reduction work. Unfold.

The second is that the industrial structure has become more optimized. In the first quarter, the growth rate of different industries was fast and slow, and the industrial transformation and upgrading maintained a good momentum. "Fast" is that the added value of the tertiary industry increased by 7.9% year-on-year, 1.5 percentage points faster than that of the secondary industry, and accounted for 51.6% of GDP, an increase of 1.8 percentage points year-on-year. The added value of high-tech industries increased by 11.4% year-on-year, and the equipment manufacturing industry increased by 7.7%, which were 5 and 1.3 percentage points faster than industrial growth respectively. The “slow” is that the production growth rate of high-energy-consuming industries has slowed down. The industrial added value of the chemical, building materials, steel, non-ferrous, and electric power industries increased by 9.5%, 7.6%, 4.2%, 11.5% and 1.2% year-on-year, respectively. It dropped by 2.3, 2.7, 3, 2 and 2.4 percentage points. The growth rate of most energy-intensive products slowed down, among which energy-intensive products such as cement, coke, flat glass, and caustic soda fell by 3.4%, 2%, 6% and 1.2% year-on-year, down 7.4, 1.6, 7.7 and 13.2 percentage points; ethylene and steel output increased by 4.5% and 2.5% year-on-year, down 0.8 and 2.8 percentage points respectively.

The third is to accelerate the development of energy-saving and environmental protection industries. Under the guidance of a series of national policies on energy conservation, emission reduction and environmental pollution control, the energy conservation and environmental protection industry as a whole maintains a relatively rapid growth trend. As of the end of 2014, the number of energy-saving service companies, employees, and output value were 5,125, 562,000, and 265.04 billion yuan, an increase of 5.6%, 10.6%, and 23% over the previous year. There have been breakthroughs in major energy conservation and environmental protection technologies. Some companies have increased their R&D investment, and some advanced and mature technologies have emerged one after another. For example, the emission standard of flue gas desulfurization, denitrification and dust removal technology developed by an environmental protection company can be lower than that of natural gas, and the investment cost is greatly reduced. An enterprise used pyrolysis technology to extract oil and natural gas from coal, and achieved “more coal, less coal” and realized clean and efficient utilization. A company in Tianjin uses waste heat from power generation and some low-grade steam extraction to desalinate seawater to produce 65.7 million tons of fresh water per year. It not only achieves zero consumption of fresh water from thermal power generation, but also supplies water to surrounding areas.

Fourth is the acceleration of ecological and environmental protection projects. Guide all parties to further increase effective investment, actively promote ecological protection and construction, strengthen environmental pollution control of water, air, and soil, and strive to solve outstanding environmental problems that damage the health of the people. Vigorously implement air pollution prevention and control projects, and have completed an investment of 14.5 billion yuan so far, including 8.5 billion yuan in air pollution control and clean production technology transformation projects in key industries, and 5.2 billion yuan in projects such as energy conservation and environmental protection improvement of coal-fired boilers, and waste heat and pressure utilization. The investment in comprehensive utilization of straw is 1.68 billion yuan. The construction of urban sewage and garbage treatment facilities has been accelerated, and the investment of 12.7 billion yuan has been completed so far.

The fifth is to accelerate the implementation of model innovation. The General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Third-Party Governance of Environmental Pollution", implementing a new model in which polluters entrust environmental service companies to carry out pollution control by paying or paying fees as agreed in the contract, focusing on environmental public facilities, industrial parks and other fields. Promoting the professionalization and industrialization of the construction and operation of environmental protection facilities has strongly promoted the development of the environmental protection industry. Vigorously promote the contract energy management model, implement relevant tax preferential policies, increase financial support, and actively support energy-consuming units to adopt contract energy management methods to implement energy-saving transformation.

In the next step, the Development and Reform Commission will work with relevant departments to increase government investment guidance, issue investment plans within the central budget as soon as possible, give full play to the leverage of funds, and increase support for energy conservation and emission reduction. Speed ​​up the improvement of sewage and garbage treatment fee policies, and support the use of corporate bonds, project income bonds, and other methods to raise investment funds. Implement the "Guiding Opinions of the State Council on Innovating Investment and Financing Mechanisms in Key Fields to Encourage Social Investment", create a good policy and market environment, and further encourage social investment, especially private investment, to participate in the construction and operation of sewage and garbage treatment facilities. Give full play to the decisive role of laws and regulations and market allocation of resources, deepen energy conservation and emission reduction, ensure the realization of binding targets, accelerate the construction of ecological civilization, and strive to build a beautiful China.