China News Service, October 19, National Energy Administration Director Zhang Jianhua said on the 19th that at present, the average power outage time in rural areas has been reduced from more than 50 hours in 2015 to about 15 hours, and the comprehensive voltage qualification rate has increased from 94.96% to 99.7%. The average power distribution capacity has been increased from 1.67 kVA to 2.7 kVA.

Data map: The power supply department inspects power facilities.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Xin

　　The State Council Information Office held a press conference on the 19th to introduce the energy industry's decisive victory over poverty alleviation.

At the meeting, Zhang Jianhua pointed out that the energy poverty alleviation work has achieved remarkable results.

Mainly manifested in four aspects:

　　First of all, rural electricity conditions have been greatly improved.

In 2015, the power construction project in areas without electricity was fully completed, solving the electricity problem of 40 million people without electricity, and taking the lead in realizing electricity for everyone in developing countries.

At the end of 2019, the new round of rural power grid transformation and upgrading project reached the target ahead of schedule. 1.6 million rural motor-driven wells were connected to electricity, involving 150 million mu of farmland; 33,000 natural villages were connected to power and electricity, benefiting 8 million rural residents.

The quality of electricity consumption in central villages in small towns has been comprehensively improved, benefiting 160 million rural residents.

In the first half of this year, the "Three Districts and Three States" and the three-year action plan for the transformation and upgrading of the rural network in Dibian villages were completed ahead of schedule, which significantly improved the basic production and living use of more than 19 million people in more than 210 state-level poverty-stricken counties in deeply impoverished areas. Electrical conditions.

At present, the average power outage time in rural areas has been reduced from more than 50 hours in 2015 to about 15 hours, the comprehensive voltage qualification rate has increased from 94.96% to 99.7%, and the average household power distribution capacity has increased from 1.67 kVA to 2.7 kVA.

　　Secondly, the way of energy consumption in rural areas has undergone profound changes.

The level of electrification has increased significantly. The current rural electrification rate is about 18%, an increase of 7 percentage points over 2012; the utilization rate of refrigerators and washing machines has increased significantly, and the number of air conditioners has more than doubled in 2012. Induction cookers and rice cookers have become common Cooking tools, motorcycles, and agricultural vehicles are gradually being replaced by electric vehicles.

The degree of clean energy consumption continues to increase. In 2018, clean energy accounted for 21.8% of total rural energy consumption, an increase of 8.6% over 2012, and the use of straw and fuelwood decreased by 52.5%.

Electricity, natural gas and biomass energy are used more for heating in winter in northern regions.

The Southern Xinjiang Natural Gas Project has allowed more than 4.3 million people to use natural gas.

Energy security is strong and effective. Farmland motorized wells are all connected to electricity, and agricultural irrigation costs can be saved by more than 10 billion yuan each year. High-power electrical equipment such as threshers and crushers has entered thousands of households.

　　Third, the effect of driving poverty alleviation is obvious.

Photovoltaic poverty alleviation projects have stable income and quicker results, which have obvious effects in directly driving poverty alleviation.

A total of 26.36 million kilowatts of photovoltaic poverty alleviation power stations have been built across the country, benefiting nearly 60,000 poor villages and 4.15 million poor households, generating about 18 billion yuan in power generation revenue each year, and correspondingly resettling 1.25 million public welfare jobs.

The "photovoltaic + industry" has continued to develop rapidly, and new models such as agriculture-photovoltaic complementation and livestock-photovoltaic complementation have been widely promoted, increasing the income of poor villages and poor households.

Energy development and construction have created a large number of employment opportunities for poverty-stricken areas and played an important role in poverty alleviation.

Since 2012, construction of 31 large-scale hydropower stations with 64.78 million kilowatts has been started in poverty-stricken areas, 39 modern coal mines, with an annual production capacity of 160 million tons, clean and efficient coal power over 70 million kilowatts, and a total of more than 100,000 jobs have been created.

Central energy enterprises actively fulfill their social responsibilities and take multiple measures to help fight poverty.

Targeted assistance to 87 impoverished counties, invested a total of 6.04 billion yuan in free assistance funds, helped to build about 11,500 poverty alleviation industrial projects and poverty alleviation workshops, increased the income of poor villages and poor households by 1.52 billion yuan; purchased 1.95 billion yuan of agricultural products in poor areas to help Over 116,000 poor people have been employed.

　　In addition, the potential for development in poor areas has increased significantly.

Energy resource advantages are gradually transformed into economic development advantages.

Since 2012, the accumulated investment in major energy projects in poverty-stricken areas has exceeded 2.7 trillion yuan, which has strongly promoted local economic development and increased fiscal revenue.

For example, a total of 336.2 billion yuan has been invested in power transmission channels in poverty-stricken areas in the west, and the amount of electricity sent out exceeds 2.5 trillion kilowatt-hours, with a direct income of more than 860 billion yuan; new coal mines have cumulatively increased local fiscal revenue by more than 2.8 billion yuan.

The benefits of photovoltaic poverty alleviation have created favorable conditions for strengthening the construction of rural grassroots organizations.

The assets of village-level photovoltaic poverty alleviation power stations are confirmed to the village collectives. On average, each village can increase income by more than 200,000 yuan per year. Many "shell villages" have disposable income, and the rural public service system is constantly improving.

Talent assistance has effectively improved the level of rural grassroots management and the ability to alleviate poverty.

The National Energy Administration and the Central Energy Corporation have sent more than 700 temporary cadres to designated poverty alleviation counties to go to the front line to help poor villages strengthen party building and develop poverty alleviation industries; cumulatively trained 180,000 grassroots cadres and technical personnel.

　　Zhang Jianhua introduced that the National Energy Administration pays attention to the advantages and characteristics of the energy industry, takes the promotion of the development of poverty-stricken areas and increasing the income of the poor as the focus and goal of various policies, and strives to enhance the accuracy of assistance measures, which can be summarized as "four Precise".

　　One is the precision of policy support.

The National Energy Administration gives priority to poverty-stricken areas in terms of energy planning and layout and energy project construction arrangements, especially for projects in deeply impoverished areas.

Cooperate with relevant departments to introduce preferential policies such as priority grid-connected consumption for photovoltaic poverty alleviation, priority granting of subsidies, and non-reduction of electricity prices to ensure that the income of poor households is not compromised.

　　The second is accurate capital investment.

When arranging funds in the central budget, the National Energy Administration, in conjunction with the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments, will focus on poverty-stricken areas.

For example, in the past three years, 35.7 billion yuan of investment in the central budget for the transformation of rural power networks has been basically invested in poverty-stricken areas, of which 22.28 billion yuan in the "three districts and three states" area, accounting for 62.4%.

　　The third is the precision of the attack.

Since the beginning of this year, in order to ensure the completion of the “three districts and three prefectures” and the reconstruction and upgrading of the rural power grids in the villages of Dianbian, the National Energy Administration has organized energy companies to overcome the impact of the epidemic, reverse construction schedules and seize time, and relevant companies have increased investment and dispatched elite troops The strong general, overcoming difficulties in the lofty mountains, completed the task as scheduled at the end of June this year.

　　Fourth, the targeted assistance is precise.

The National Energy Administration regards designated poverty alleviation in Tongwei and Qingshui counties in Gansu Province as an important political task, leverages industry advantages, helps the two counties to turn wind power and photovoltaics into pillar industries according to local conditions, organizes experts to carry out urgently needed technical training for farmers, and cultivates and develops characteristic species Farming industry to increase income.

By the end of June this year, the targeted poverty alleviation targets set at the beginning of the year had been exceeded.