(Economic Observation) How will China's "Fourteenth Five-Year" plan be written for green development?
China News Agency, Beijing, June 28 (Xia Bin) China's "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" will start next year. Faced with the impact of the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic and the demands of economic transformation, China must embark on a new road of mutual promotion between "green water and green mountains" and "Jinshan and Yinshan" during the critical period. In this context, how will the “Fourteenth Five-Year Plan” be written for green development?
On the 28th, the China News Service and the Energy Foundation jointly organized the theme "Energy China-China in the next five years: injecting clean and low-carbon energy into high-quality growth in the post-epidemic era". Green development, put forward their respective answers.
Zou Ji, CEO of the Energy Foundation and President of China, said that the epidemic has brought an unexpected new background to the opening of the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan", and the impact will cause a weak market in the early years of the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan". Short-term situation, but this provides another opportunity to turn crises into opportunities, and China can accelerate green and low-carbon transformation and corresponding reforms under the situation of looser economic operation. "This is a window of opportunity for transformation and must not be lost."
He believes that China's new investment field in the future is natural capital, which has a lot of demand and profit potential. It is necessary to internalize the returns of natural capital and establish a continuous incentive mechanism for market entities to invest in natural capital. Along with the reform, natural capital will form a continuous value-added expectation in the future under the role of government public policy and changes in people's demand structure and spending capacity, and more investment will be invested in "green water and green mountains" and low-carbon fields.
According to Du Xiangwan, academician and former vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, China will vigorously develop renewable energy in the future. The development of renewable energy is conducive to the improvement of China’s energy security, energy resilience, and energy independence, the improvement of the ecological environment, and the contribution to responding to climate change and making positive contributions.
Qiu Baoxing, Counselor of the State Council of China, former Vice Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, pointed out that China should take proactive measures during the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" period to reduce urban building energy consumption, rural building energy consumption, urban transportation energy consumption and long-distance transportation energy consumption Wait. In this way, China's future low-carbon development path will become more and more smooth, and a new model of China's low-carbon development can be created.
Xu Lin, chairman of the China-US Green Fund and former director of the National Development and Reform Commission's Development Planning Department, mentioned that China needs to further increase the proportion of wind power and photovoltaic power generation, as well as the proportion of other non-fossil energy sources, and implement greater power substitution, and It is a low-carbon alternative. In this regard, China can steadily reduce the external dependence of oil and natural gas and improve China's energy security.
Zhang Qiang, a professor in the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University, pointed out that compared with other countries, China uses a large amount of bulk coal. The withdrawal of bulk coal from the civil sector is not only related to the management of carbon emissions, but also to the improvement of the living conditions of rural residents.
Zhang Qiang believes that energy poverty is also a type of poverty. Therefore, in the next five to ten years, the official should consider how to provide clean and affordable energy to the poor. It is recommended to increase the use of clean energy in poverty eradication standards. index.
Zheng Zhaohui, chief economist of China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group Co., Ltd., believes that the “Fourteenth Five-Year Plan” period is the turning point for the wind power and solar industry to enter the era of parity, and is a key step for clean energy such as wind power to move toward mainstream energy. The application of new technologies, the enhancement of industry concentration, and the further improvement of the policy environment will accelerate the industry’s transition from extensive to economical in the past to high-quality development, thereby fundamentally establishing the future of clean energy in China’s energy structure status.
Li Xiaojiang, former president of the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, pointed out that in the past 15 years, more than 50% of the newly added urban population in China has not entered large cities, but has achieved urbanization and non-agriculturalization in county-level units. The "half of the country" of China's urbanization began. However, how to make green and low-carbon articles in county-level units has received relatively little attention from professional institutions and enterprises.
Li Xiaojiang bluntly stated that China is a country with a farming civilization tradition and regional culture, and rural areas and small towns will be important areas for future urbanization and green and low-carbon development. (Finish)