In the 26-page document, MIIT outlined the main goals for environmentally-sustainable industrial development over 2021-2025 and listed the tasks considered crucial to achieving them.
The targets include reducing carbon emissions per unit of industrial growth by 18% by 2025, with carbon emissions from key industrial sectors such as steel, non-ferrous metals and construction materials manufacturing to be cut significantly, the guide said.
The emission intensity of pollutants from key industries needs to be reduced by 10%, MIIT says, while energy efficiency and resources utilization should be improved substantially. By 2025, energy consumption per unit of industrial growth should decline by 13.5% and the re-utilization of solid waste at industries producing commodities should reach 57%.
In order to achieve these targets, MIIT asked key sectors to accelerate the drafting of their plans for meeting the 2030 carbon peak that should include a clear timeline and roadmap.
Under the plan, MIIT also requires industrial sectors such as steel, cement and petrochemicals to increase their use of clean energy, such as hydrogen power, biofuel and refuse-derived fuel.
As part of the ministry’s goal of also encouraging resources recycling, the plan referred to the establishment of “a batch of large, integrated processing and distribution centers” for steel and base metals scrap.
By 2025, China’s recycling volumes of steel scrap and non-ferrous metal should reach 320 million tonnes and 20 million tonnes annually, according to the guideline, with the volumes of secondary copper, aluminum, and lead reaching 4 million tonnes, 11.5 million tonnes and 2.9 million tonnes respectively.
Clean production at industrial sectors is also emphasized in the plan, with MIIT stressing that by 2025, some 530 million tonnes/year of steel capacity must meet the ‘ultra-low’ emission standards already benchmarked for all steel production processes – from ironmaking to steel rolling to raw materials transportation and stocking.
The guideline encourages the adoption of non-blast furnace-based iron making and other low-carbon steel making and rolling technologies as a means for attaining clean production, Mysteel Global noted.
In the meantime, by 2025, some 460 million t/y of coke capacity and around 4,000 non-ferrous melting furnaces should complete their transformation to clean production too.
The plan also promotes digitalization at industrial sectors to better coordinate energy and resources consumption and monitor carbon and pollutant emissions.
MIIT said policies favoring ‘green’ industrial development will be established accordingly, and will include easier financing in areas of energy conservation and environmental protection, development of new energy, and carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies.
Written by Olivia Zhang, zhangwd@mysteel.com
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