National Development and Reform Commission: Compared with 2012, my country's energy consumption per unit of GDP will drop by 26.4% in 2021

　　China News Service, September 22. On the 22nd, the National Development and Reform Commission held a press conference to introduce the work related to the construction of ecological civilization.

Liu Dechun, director of the Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection of the National Development and Reform Commission, introduced that compared with 2012, my country's energy consumption per unit of GDP will drop by 26.4% in 2021, carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP will drop by 34.4%, and water consumption per unit of GDP will drop by 45%. , the output rate of major resources increased by about 58%.

　　Liu Dechun introduced the historic achievements of China's ecological civilization construction since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of my country, especially the actions and achievements in promoting the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.

　　First, the environmental quality has been significantly improved.

Over the past decade, the National Development and Reform Commission has continued to significantly increase investment in environmental protection, intensify efforts to build environmental infrastructure, and has allocated a total of more than 100 billion yuan from the central budget to support the construction of environmental infrastructure, which effectively guarantees a good fight against pollution.

Compared with 2012, in 2021, the national sewage treatment capacity will double, the industrial solid waste disposal volume will increase by about 50%, the harmless treatment capacity and actual treatment volume of urban domestic waste will increase by 116% and 62% respectively, and the domestic waste collection in natural villages will increase by 116%. The coverage rate of the transportation and disposal system has remained above 90%.

In 2021, the ratio of days with good air in cities above the prefecture level will reach 87.5%, the average concentration of PM2.5 will drop by 34.8% compared with 2015, and the proportion of surface water I-III sections will reach 84.9%, and soil pollution risks will be effectively controlled.

　　Second, the quality and stability of the ecosystem have steadily improved.

Over the past ten years, the National Development and Reform Commission has adhered to the integrated protection and restoration of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasses and sands, built a natural reserve system with national parks as the main body, promoted the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, and implemented large-scale land greening actions. , a total of 960 million mu of afforestation have been completed, accounting for a quarter of the world's artificial afforestation, and efforts are made to strengthen ecosystem stability and biodiversity protection, and build a strong ecological security barrier.

In 2021, my country's forest coverage rate will reach 24.02%, and the forest volume will reach 19.493 billion cubic meters, making it the country with the largest growth in forest resources in the world; the comprehensive vegetation coverage of grasslands will reach 50.32%, and the wetland protection rate will reach 52.65%; The proportion of land area reaches 18%.

　　Third, the optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure has achieved remarkable results.

In the past ten years, the National Development and Reform Commission has further promoted the supply-side structural reform, eliminated outdated production capacity, resolved excess capacity, withdrawn over 150 million tons of excess steel production capacity, and banned 140 million tons of strip steel; vigorously developed strategic emerging industries, promoted new industries, new Business forms and new models are booming.

In 2021, high-tech manufacturing will account for 15.1% of the added value of industries above designated size, an increase of 5.7 percentage points over 2012; the added value of the "three new" industries will account for 17.25% of GDP; the new energy industry is the world's leading industry leader in the world The market provides more than 70% of photovoltaic modules; green buildings account for 84% of the new urban construction area that year.

In the first eight months of 2022, the production and sales of new energy vehicles will reach 3.97 million and 3.86 million, respectively, and the number of vehicles will reach 10.99 million, accounting for about half of the world.

　　Fourth, the green and low-carbon transformation of energy has achieved remarkable results.

In the past ten years, the National Development and Reform Commission has further promoted the energy revolution. Based on the basic national conditions of coal-based, it has strengthened the clean and efficient utilization of coal, actively developed non-fossil energy, and continued to deepen the reform of the power system.

In 2021, the proportion of clean energy consumption in my country will reach 25.5%, an increase of 11 percentage points from 2012; the proportion of coal consumption will drop to 56%, a decrease of 12.5 percentage points from 2012; the installed capacity of wind and solar power generation has increased by 12% from 2012. For the first time, the power generation of new energy exceeded 1 trillion kilowatt-hours.

At present, the installed capacity of renewable energy in my country has exceeded 1.1 billion kilowatts, and the installed capacity of hydropower, wind power, solar power and biomass power generation ranks first in the world.

　　Fifth, the utilization efficiency of energy resources has been greatly improved.

In the past ten years, the National Development and Reform Commission has vigorously promoted energy conservation, emission reduction and resource conservation and intensive recycling, established and improved the dual control system for energy consumption, strengthened the management of key energy-consuming units, guided key industries and enterprises to energy-saving transformation, carried out green life creation actions, and vigorously developed circular economy. , implement the recycling transformation of the park, build a recycling system of waste materials, actively promote the conservation of water resources, the utilization of sewage resources and the desalination of sea water, and promote the substantial improvement of the utilization efficiency of energy resources in my country.

Compared with 2012, in 2021, my country's energy consumption per unit of GDP will drop by 26.4%, carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP will drop by 34.4%, water consumption per unit of GDP will drop by 45%, and the output rate of major resources will increase by about 58%.

　　Sixth, the reform of the ecological civilization system was further advanced.

Over the past ten years, the National Development and Reform Commission has steadily promoted the construction of an ecological civilization system in accordance with the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council.

Drafted and submitted to the Party Central Committee and the State Council for printing and distributing the "Opinions on Accelerating the Promotion of Ecological Civilization Construction", implemented the relevant arrangements of the "Overall Plan for the Reform of Ecological Civilization System", formulated a modern environmental governance system, a pilot national park system, an ecological protection compensation mechanism, and household waste classification. A series of reform plans such as the system and the extended producer responsibility system, establish a beautiful China construction evaluation index system, explore the pilot project of ecological product value realization mechanism, and promote the construction of Fujian, Jiangxi, Guizhou, and Hainan national ecological civilization pilot areas, and form a batch of replicable The reform experience promoted can provide reference for the reform of the national ecological civilization system.

　　Liu Dechun said that my country's historic achievements in ecological civilization construction in the past ten years are a major contribution to global sustainable development and a practical action to jointly build a clean and beautiful earth.

　　Liu Dechun also said that at present, my country's ecological civilization construction has entered a critical period in which carbon reduction is the key strategic direction, the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction is promoted, the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development is promoted, and the improvement of ecological environment quality has changed from quantitative to qualitative.

The National Development and Reform Commission will conscientiously implement the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, take the "dual carbon" work as the lead, coordinate the promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion and growth, comprehensively strengthen resource conservation and environmental protection work, and accelerate the formation of green and low-carbon production. lifestyle, and strive to build a modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.

(Zhongxin Finance)