China News Service, March 17. According to the Chinese Government website, recently, the General Office of the State Council issued a notice on forwarding the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development's "Work Plan for Accelerating Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction in the Building Sector" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice" ).

The notice mentioned that by 2025, the energy conservation and carbon reduction system in the construction field will be more complete, green building standards will be fully implemented in new urban buildings, and the area of ​​new ultra-low energy consumption and near-zero energy consumption buildings will increase by more than 20 million square meters compared with 2023, and both will be completed. The area of ​​energy-saving renovation of existing buildings has increased by more than 200 million square meters compared with 2023. Electricity consumption accounts for more than 55% of building energy consumption. The renewable energy replacement rate of urban buildings has reached 8%. Positive progress has been made in energy conservation and carbon reduction in the construction field.

  The full text of the notice is as follows:

The General Office of the State Council forwarded the notice to the National Development and Reform Commission,

Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development's "Accelerating the Promotion of Construction Sector"

Notice of "Energy Saving and Carbon Reduction Work Plan"

  The people's governments of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, all ministries and commissions of the State Council, and all agencies directly under the State Council:

  The National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development's "Work Plan for Accelerating Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction in the Construction Sector" has been approved by the State Council and is now forwarded to you. Please implement it conscientiously.

Office of the State Council

March 12, 2024

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Accelerate the promotion of energy conservation and carbon reduction work plans in the construction sector

National Development and Reform Commission Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development

  The construction sector is one of the main areas of energy consumption and carbon emissions in our country.

Accelerating the promotion of energy conservation and carbon reduction in the construction sector is of great significance to achieving carbon peak carbon neutrality and promoting high-quality development.

This plan is formulated in order to implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and accelerate energy conservation and carbon reduction in the construction field.

1. Overall requirements

  To accelerate the promotion of energy conservation and carbon reduction in the construction sector, we must be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party, comprehensively implement Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, completely, accurately and comprehensively implement new development concepts, and strive to promote high-tech Quality development, adhering to the concept of conservation priority, problem orientation, and system, taking the carbon peak and carbon neutrality work as the guide, continuing to improve energy utilization efficiency in the construction field, reducing carbon emission levels, accelerating the improvement of the quality of green and low-carbon development in the construction field, and constantly satisfying the people people’s needs for a better life.

  By 2025, the energy conservation and carbon reduction system in the construction field will be more complete, new urban buildings will fully implement green building standards, the area of ​​new ultra-low energy consumption and near-zero energy consumption buildings will increase by more than 20 million square meters compared with 2023, and energy-saving renovation of existing buildings will be completed The area will increase by more than 200 million square meters compared with 2023. Electricity consumption accounts for more than 55% of building energy consumption. The renewable energy substitution rate of urban buildings has reached 8%. Positive progress has been made in energy conservation and carbon reduction in the construction field.

  By 2027, ultra-low energy consumption buildings will be developed on a large scale, energy-saving renovation of existing buildings will be further promoted, the energy consumption structure of buildings will be further optimized, a number of green, low-carbon and high-quality buildings will be built, and significant results will be achieved in energy conservation and carbon reduction in the construction field.

2. Key tasks

  (1) Improve the energy conservation and carbon reduction level of new urban buildings.

Optimize the energy-saving and carbon-reducing design of new buildings, make full use of natural lighting and ventilation, adopt high-efficiency energy-saving and low-carbon equipment, improve the thermal insulation and fire protection performance of building envelopes, and promote the deployment of energy management systems in public buildings and qualified residential buildings.

Vigorously promote ultra-low energy consumption buildings, encourage government-invested public welfare buildings to be constructed according to ultra-low energy consumption building standards, and areas with conditions such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the Yangtze River Delta should accelerate the large-scale development of ultra-low energy consumption buildings.

Increase the proportion of star-rated green buildings in new buildings.

Strictly implement the responsibilities of all parties in the project construction, focus on the review of construction drawings and project acceptance, strengthen the energy conservation review of construction projects with an annual operating energy consumption of 1,000 tons of standard coal (or power consumption of 5 million kilowatt hours) and above, and strictly implement building energy conservation Mandatory standards for carbon reduction.

  (2) Promote the renovation and upgrading of existing urban buildings.

Organize and implement energy efficiency diagnosis, conduct comprehensive surveys of existing urban buildings, and establish a city-level building energy-saving and carbon-reducing renovation database and project reserve.

Develop an annual renovation plan for existing buildings on a city-by-city basis, reasonably determine the timing of renovations, and take into account the safety conditions of the buildings to clarify key energy-consuming equipment such as air conditioning, lighting, and elevators, as well as key contents such as exterior wall insulation and renovation of doors and windows, combined with the energy efficiency of public buildings in key cities Works such as improvement, improvement of community public environment, renovation of old communities, and clean heating in winter in northern areas are promoted as a whole.

Cities included in the central fiscal policy support for clean heating in northern regions in winter must accelerate the energy-saving renovation of existing buildings.

The energy efficiency of the energy-saving renovation part of residential buildings must meet the current standards, and the overall energy efficiency of public buildings without energy-saving measures can be improved by more than 20% after renovation.

  (3) Strengthen energy conservation and carbon reduction management of building operations.

Increase the promotion of high-efficiency and energy-saving appliances and other equipment, and encourage residents to speed up the elimination of inefficient and backward energy-using equipment.

Establish an energy-saving supervision system for public buildings, scientifically formulate energy consumption quota benchmarks, clarify the requirements for renovation of high-energy-consuming and high-emission buildings, publicize renovation information, and strengthen social supervision.

All regions must accelerate the establishment and strict implementation of indoor temperature control mechanisms in public buildings, focusing on public buildings such as office and technical business buildings of public institutions, office buildings of state-owned enterprises, transportation stations, etc., and carry out winter and summer indoor temperature control, energy-using equipment and other public buildings in accordance with the law. Check system operation and other conditions, and seriously investigate and punish illegal energy use.

Regularly carry out debugging and maintenance of key energy-consuming equipment such as air conditioners, lighting, and elevators in public buildings to ensure that the energy-using system operates with low energy consumption and high energy efficiency in all working conditions.

Select a group of public institutions with high energy-saving potential to carry out pilot projects for energy fee custody services.

Promote the construction of digital and intelligent building operation and management platforms, and promote the application of efficient and flexible intelligent control technology.

Promote the entire building group to participate in power demand response and peak shaving.

  (4) Promote the low-carbon transformation of building energy use.

All regions must make overall plans for the application of renewable energy in buildings based on actual conditions, and determine work progress schedules, roadmaps, and construction drawings.

Formulate and improve relevant standards and atlases for integrated building photovoltaic construction, and pilot the integrated photovoltaic construction of new buildings such as industrial plants, public buildings, and residential buildings.

Strengthen the management of photovoltaic system installation in existing buildings.

Promote combined heat and power central heating according to local conditions, support the application of geothermal energy, biomass energy, and solar heating in the building field, and carry out waste heat utilization from thermal power, industry, and nuclear power.

Explore normalized supervision and post-evaluation of renewable energy building applications, and timely optimize the operation strategies of renewable energy building application projects.

Improve the level of building electrification, promote the comprehensive electrification of new public buildings, and increase the popularity of electrification for residential heating, domestic hot water, cooking, etc.

  (5) Promote heat supply metering and charging based on heat supply.

All regions should formulate household-based heating metering renovation plans based on actual conditions, clarify quantitative goals and tasks and renovation time limits, and gradually promote qualified residential buildings and public buildings to charge based on heat metering. Indoor buildings that do not have the value and conditions for heating metering renovation Existing residential buildings can be measured by building.

Newly completed buildings in northern heating areas should meet heating metering requirements.

Accelerate the implementation of two-part heating prices that combine basic heat prices and metered heat prices, and reasonably determine the proportion of basic heat prices and terminal heating prices.

Strengthen supervision and inspection of measuring instruments such as heat meters, gas meters, and electric energy meters.

  (6) Improve the green and low-carbon level of rural housing.

Adhere to the principles of farmers' voluntariness, adapting measures to local conditions, and one policy for each household, promote the construction of green and low-carbon farm houses, improve the thermal insulation performance of the enclosure structures of new farm houses in severe cold and cold areas, and optimize the moisture-proof, moisture-proof, and Thermal insulation, sunshade and ventilation performance.

Carry out energy-saving renovation of existing farmhouses in an orderly manner, and carry out menu-based micro-renovations on house walls, doors, windows, roofs, floors, etc.

Promote the low-carbon transformation of rural energy use, guide farmers to reduce the use of coal, and encourage the use of electricity, natural gas and renewable energy according to local conditions.

  (7) Promote green and low-carbon construction.

Accelerate the development of prefabricated buildings, improve the versatility of prefabricated components and components, and promote standardization, fewer specifications, and more combination designs.

Strict construction safety management to ensure the quality and safety of construction projects.

Actively promote prefabricated decoration and accelerate the construction of green and low-carbon residences.

Give play to the leading role of government procurement and support the promotion and application of green building materials.

Government procurement projects that are included in the implementation scope of government procurement policies to support green building materials and promote construction quality improvement should purchase green building materials that meet the government procurement demand standards for green buildings and green building materials.

Accelerate the promotion of green building materials product certification and application promotion, and encourage all regions to establish a green building materials adoption and application database based on actual conditions.

Continue to carry out green building materials activities in rural areas.

Promote energy-saving construction equipment and coordinate the comprehensive utilization of temporary construction facilities and permanent facilities.

Standardize construction site management and promote the classification, treatment and resource utilization of construction waste.

  (8) Strict management of building demolition.

Promote organic urban renewal, adhere to the simultaneous promotion of "retention, renovation and demolition", and strengthen the repair, renovation, retention and utilization of old buildings.

Strengthen supervision and management of building demolition in various regions.

All regions must grasp the timing of construction and resolutely prevent the waste of energy resources caused by large-scale demolition and construction.

  (9) Accelerate the research and development and promotion of advanced energy-saving and carbon-reducing technologies.

Support the research and development of next-generation building technologies such as ultra-low energy consumption, near-zero energy consumption, low carbon, and zero carbon, and continue to promote ultra-low energy consumption building components, high fire performance exterior wall insulation systems, high-efficiency energy-saving low-carbon equipment systems, and building operation adjustment, etc. Key technology research supports the application of thin-film battery technology and equipment such as perovskite and cadmium telluride in the construction field, and promotes the integrated application of reliable technology, processes and product equipment.

Promote the certification of energy management systems in the construction field, and regularly collect and publish a number of typical cases of the application of advanced and applicable energy-saving and carbon-reducing technologies in the construction field.

Accelerate the large-scale production of mature technology products for building energy conservation and carbon reduction, form a competitive building energy conservation and carbon reduction industry chain, and cultivate leading enterprises in the building energy conservation and carbon reduction industry.

Support qualified enterprises to build building energy-saving and carbon-reducing technology research and development and training platforms, and strengthen practical engineering training for practitioners.

  (10) Improve the statistical accounting system for energy consumption and carbon emissions in the construction sector.

Improve the energy consumption statistics system and indicator system in the building field, and build a cross-departmental building energy data sharing mechanism.

Establish and improve the construction carbon emission accounting standard system, compile the carbon emission accounting standards for the construction industry, construction enterprises and the entire life cycle of the building, and unify the accounting caliber.

  (11) Strengthen the support of laws and regulations.

Promote the accelerated revision of laws and regulations such as the Energy Conservation Law and Civil Building Energy Conservation Regulations.

Distinguish between different stages, building types, and climate zones, formulate and revise a batch of building energy-saving standards in an orderly manner, and gradually raise the energy-saving standards for new urban civil buildings to ultra-low energy consumption levels.

Accelerate the improvement of the prefabricated building standard system covering the entire process of design, production, construction, use and maintenance.

Encourage all regions to formulate local standards that are stricter than national building energy conservation standards based on actual conditions.

Carry out energy efficiency evaluation of new buildings and energy-saving renovation of existing buildings to ensure that the buildings meet the design energy efficiency requirements.

Strengthen building energy efficiency evaluation capabilities.

  (12) Increase policy and financial support.

Improve and implement fiscal, taxation, financial, investment, price and other policies that are conducive to building energy conservation and carbon reduction.

Increase central funds’ support for building energy-saving and carbon-reducing renovations.

Implement preferential tax policies that support building energy conservation and encourage comprehensive utilization of resources.

Banks and insurance institutions are encouraged to improve green finance and other products and services, and support the development of ultra-low energy buildings, green buildings, prefabricated buildings, intelligent construction, energy-saving renovation of existing buildings, application of renewable energy in buildings and related industries.

3. Work requirements

  Relevant departments in all regions must conscientiously implement the deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, fully understand the importance of accelerating energy conservation and carbon reduction in the construction field, effectively improve the working mechanism, refine work measures, continuously improve energy utilization efficiency, and promote high-quality development in the construction field. .

Provincial people's governments must implement the key tasks of this plan in detail based on the actual conditions of the region, clarify the goals and tasks, consolidate the responsibilities of all parties, strengthen overall coordination and policy and financial support, and form a synergy of work.

All regions must adhere to the system concept, coordinate and take into account the interests of all parties, effectively solve possible problems and contradictions, and ensure that the bottom line of people's livelihood is ensured; they must carry out extensive publicity and education on energy conservation and carbon reduction, and guide the whole society to consciously practice simple, moderate, green and low-carbon life Way.