(Source: Daily Economic News 2026-04-23)
On April 22, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council released the “Opinions on Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction at a Higher Level and with Higher Quality” (hereinafter referred to as the “Opinions”).
The "Opinions" pointed out that energy conservation and carbon reduction should be integrated into all aspects of the entire process of economic and social development, energy conservation and carbon reduction should be done at a higher level and with higher quality, resolutely curb the unreasonable growth of total energy consumption, continue to improve the efficiency of energy resource output, effectively reduce carbon emissions from the source, and provide a strong guarantee for achieving carbon peak carbon neutrality and accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.
The "Daily Economic News" reporter noticed that the "Outline of the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China" proposed that by the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan", "carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP will be reduced by 17%."
Innovative development of green electricity direct connection, smart microgrid and other business formats
In terms of coordinating energy conservation and carbon reduction and energy green transformation, the "Opinions" propose to properly handle the relationship between energy conservation and carbon reduction and energy security, scientifically regulate total energy consumption, strictly control fossil energy consumption, further promote coal and oil reduction and control, strengthen the management of new coal and oil demand, actively promote the clean replacement of existing coal-fired boilers, industrial kilns and other coal-using equipment, promote the replacement of bulk coal in an orderly manner, and promote the gradual peaking of coal consumption and oil consumption.
Reasonably control the installed scale and power generation of coal power, vigorously develop non-fossil energy and new energy storage, accelerate the construction of new power systems, scientifically deploy pumped hydro energy storage, innovatively develop green power direct connection, smart microgrids and other business formats, promote the consumption of green power, and promote the new clean energy power generation to gradually cover the new electricity demand of the whole society.
Improve energy production efficiency, promote efficient fossil energy mining technology and equipment, strengthen energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation and flexibility transformation of coal power, reasonably determine the dispatch sequence and peak load adjustment depth of coal power, continue to improve the efficiency of wind and solar power generation and the energy conversion efficiency of energy storage devices, and steadily reduce the comprehensive line loss rate of the power grid.
Dong Xiucheng, Executive Dean of the China International Carbon Neutral Economic Research Institute, w88 casinoIn a telephone interview with a reporter from the "Daily Economic News", he said that the national energy conservation and carbon reduction goals during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, including our commitment to the international community and NDC (China's new round of nationally determined contributions), are some rigid indicators. In order to accomplish these goals, specific guidelines for action are necessary. “I think the promulgation of the “Opinions” is an action guide for China to achieve energy conservation and carbon reduction in the short to medium term, making our next work more feasible.”
The reporter noted that in terms of strengthening support and guarantees for energy conservation and carbon reduction, the "Opinions" proposed that in combination with the carbon peak and carbon neutrality target requirements, industrial development needs and technological progress, we should accelerate the improvement of energy consumption and carbon emission limits in key industries, energy efficiency of key energy-using products and equipment, and other standards, and gradually increase indicator requirements.
Formulate and implement a number of national standards for energy conservation and carbon reduction around new fields and new business formats, and continue to improve supporting standards for energy and carbon emission measurement, monitoring, and certification. Consolidate the data basis for standard formulation and revision, and strengthen standard implementation evaluation feedback. Improve the green product certification and labeling system, strengthen the management and application implementation of energy efficiency labels, and establish a product carbon label certification system.
Support the development of green, low-carbon, intensive recycling computing facilities
Focusing on energy conservation and carbon reduction in key areas, the "Opinions" pointed out that industrial energy conservation and carbon reduction should be strengthened. Comprehensively improve the energy efficiency level of key industries such as steel, nonferrous metals, petrochemicals, chemicals, and building materials, focus on production processes, main processes, key equipment, etc. to conduct in-depth energy conservation and carbon reduction diagnosis, and organize the implementation of a number of industrial energy conservation and carbon reduction projects. Deepen energy conservation and carbon reduction in industrial parks, promote the co-construction and sharing of heating, cooling and other infrastructure, strengthen energy exchange and cascade utilization among enterprises, support cross-industry coupling and efficiency improvement such as steel co-production and refining and chemical integration, carry out the construction of ecological industrial parks, and promote the overall optimization of the park's energy system and the intensive conservation and recycling of resources.
Strengthen building energy conservation and carbon reduction. Strictly manage the energy efficiency of new buildings, optimize the energy-saving and carbon-reducing design of buildings, promote the large-scale development of ultra-low energy-consuming buildings, and build safe, comfortable, green and smart "good houses". In conjunction with the renovation of old residential areas and clean heating, we will actively promote the energy-saving and carbon-reducing renovation of existing buildings and strengthen the management of energy-saving and carbon-reducing building operations. Establish a building energy efficiency rating system. Optimize the energy consumption structure of buildings, advance the construction of photovoltaic integration in buildings in an orderly manner, and promote the replacement of waste heat resources and non-fossil energy heating according to local conditions. We will further promote the reform of heating metering, rationalize heating prices in an orderly manner, support the renovation of aging heating pipe networks and other facilities and equipment and the intelligent upgrade of heating systems, and strive to improve the energy utilization efficiency of all aspects of heating.
Promote energy conservation and carbon reduction in transportation. Vigorously develop railway and waterway transportation, continue to improve the efficiency and green level of road transportation, improve the efficiency of civil air traffic control operations, and actively develop multimodal transportation. Continue to promote the construction of green transportation infrastructure, improve the green and intelligent level of transportation stations, highways and other facilities and equipment, and improve the network of charging and swapping stations, shore power and other facilities. Build zero-carbon transport corridors. Promote energy-saving and low-carbon transportation vehicles, reasonably optimize vehicle energy consumption limit requirements, actively develop electric (hydrogen energy) heavy-duty trucks and green fuel ships, and support the blending and substitution of clean and low-carbon fuels.
Accelerate energy conservation and carbon reduction of digital infrastructure. Promote energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation of infrastructure such as computing power, communication base stations and computer rooms, promote optimization and upgrades of equipment selection, cooling architecture, cabinet power density, system intelligent operation strategies, etc., and continue to improve energy efficiency per unit of computing power and energy efficiency per unit of information flow. Strengthen the evaluation, demonstration and source control of computing infrastructure projects, strictly integrate energy efficiency indicators such as electric energy utilization efficiency into management, improve the level of renewable energy consumption and waste heat resource recycling, and support the development of green, low-carbon, intensive recycling computing facilities.
“Our country’s energy structure determines that we are an economy with high energy consumption and high emissions. We have been promoting energy conservation and carbon reduction, but it requires a process.”Dong Xiuchengtold the "Daily Economic News" reporter that although there are many ways to save energy and reduce carbon emissions, he believes that the key means include two aspects.
First of all, it is necessary to bring all high-energy-consuming industries into the country’s mandatory carbon emission constraints, which is also known as the carbon market. Carbon emission quotas are set at the national level based on different industries. If a company's annual carbon emissions exceed the total quota, it will have to spend additional money to purchase quotas. If the company's carbon emissions are lower than the total quota, the remaining quotas can be traded in the carbon market. This is to achieve energy conservation and carbon reduction through economic means.
“Another key measure is ‘carbon dual control’, which is total carbon emission control and intensity control. ”Dong Xiuchengfurther told reporters that this is to control the total carbon emissions through administrative means. Each province and municipality has set assessment indicators for total carbon emissions based on actual conditions, and this indicator has been tightened year by year. In this way, it has forced high-emission and high-energy-consuming industries to transform into green. It has also forced local governments to pay more attention to green development and include it in performance assessment indicators. This will enable us to achieve the goals of energy conservation and carbon reduction more smoothly.
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