China News Agency, Beijing, March 8. Question: Why is China's green transformation road stable and far-reaching?
China News Agency reporter Bo Wenwen
Promoting green and low-carbon economic and social development is the key link to achieve high-quality development.
The Chinese government work report this year reiterates that it will promote the green transformation of the development model and accelerate the construction of a new energy system.
At present, under the impact of multiple factors such as the Ukrainian crisis, geopolitics, the game of great powers, and energy market shocks, how should China's green transformation progress in a stable and long-term manner?
Based on national conditions, "establish first and then break"
China's energy consumption structure is still dominated by fossil energy.
The "China Mineral Resources Report 2022" shows that in 2021, China's coal consumption will account for 56.0% of the total primary energy consumption, oil will account for 18.5%, natural gas will account for 8.9%, and non-fossil energy such as hydropower, nuclear power, and wind power will account for 16.6%.
At present, the international environment is changing and the wind is high and the waves are turbulent. "Going steadily" is particularly important for China's green transformation.
Chinese officials have made it clear that the promotion of green transformation must be based on national conditions and "establish first and then destroy", that is, under the premise of ensuring that the energy system dominated by non-fossil energy is in place first, it will gradually replace and eliminate the stock of fossil energy.
Zou Ji, CEO of the Energy Foundation and President of China Region, believes that "establishment first" requires the establishment of a system, including power supply, energy storage, power grid, and grid dispatching capabilities, as well as demand-side user-side regulation capabilities, using information and digital technology to realize wisdom. Grid and smart regulation.
"This is a systematic project, which needs to be comprehensively and balancedly developed through national planning, industrial policies and market mechanisms to coordinate all links."
Zou Ji said that the "post-breaking" is to accelerate the transformation of coal power flexibility, comprehensively consider the orderly withdrawal of coal power, and strictly control the new coal mine coal power capacity.
"In terms of finance, we must ensure a balanced cash flow to avoid financial shocks, and in terms of employment, we must take precautions to solve problems such as job transfer training, job placement, social security, and labor relations, so that we can secure our jobs, consolidate the ballast, and avoid future asset sinking. risk'."
walk on "two legs"
The recently released "China's Carbon Peak Carbon Neutrality Progress Report (2022)" pointed out that under the influence of domestic and foreign factors, the importance of energy security is further highlighted, especially in China's high dependence on foreign oil and gas resources and the long-term friction between China and the United States. In the context of the existence of the "dual carbon" promotion will pay more attention to energy security factors.
Wang Yongzhong, a researcher at the Institute of World Economics and Politics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency that China, as the largest importer of fossil energy, needs to comprehensively and objectively analyze the impact of new trends in the global energy pattern on its own energy supply security, and adopt a scientific and pragmatic approach. countermeasures.
"We must attach great importance to the security of energy supply, increase the production of high-quality coal, reduce the scale of liquefied natural gas procurement, regulate the export of refined oil, and continue to encourage overseas oil and gas investment."
"We need to walk on 'two legs'." Wang Yongzhong believes that to promote green transformation, we must properly handle the relationship between increment and stock. On the one hand, we must vigorously develop renewable energy, increase investment in new energy industries, and encourage the development of the energy storage battery industry. To achieve multi-energy complementarity; on the other hand, we should promote green and low-carbon technologies, promote the clean and efficient use of coal, improve energy utilization efficiency, limit and compress the development of high energy-consuming industries, and encourage the development of light industries such as labor-intensive service industries.
Adhere to the market drive
"The process of green transformation should be driven by market demand." Zhang Yichen, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of CITIC Capital, told a reporter from China News Agency that from the perspective of product form, whether it is to choose electric vehicles or hydrogen vehicles, it should be determined by market demand. promote.
From the perspective of the terminal market form, the determination of electricity prices, the proportion of energy storage, etc., should insist on being driven by market demand to promote the innovation and application of clean energy technologies, and find the best energy transition solutions in full competition.
In July 2021, the national carbon emission trading market will be officially launched.
Zhang Yichen said that China's carbon market is still in its infancy, and there are still some problems, including low carbon prices, enterprises' sensitivity to carbon emissions is not high enough, and the role of the carbon market in guiding emission reduction costs has not yet been fully utilized; The main body of the market is limited, the trading volume of carbon emission rights is not high, and a relatively active market supply and demand mechanism has not yet been formed; there is a lack of unified carbon emission verification and data supervision rules.
In this regard, Zhang Yichen suggested that financial institutions and other market players who are willing to participate should be gradually introduced to participate in carbon trading, and financial derivatives such as carbon futures should be developed and used to increase the activity of the carbon market.
In addition, it is recommended that regulatory agencies strengthen the management of carbon service and consulting agencies, and promote carbon-related industries to strengthen professional team building and talent training in carbon accounting, carbon trading, and carbon data management.
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