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(Focus Interview): The second session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference concluded today (March 10).
During this year's Two Sessions, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized the need to promote green and low-carbon economic and social development, inject new momentum into high-quality development, and create new advantages when attending the joint meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
When participating in the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation, the General Secretary also emphasized the need to actively promote high-end, intelligent, and green industries.
Green development is the foundation of high-quality development, and new productivity itself is green productivity.
The construction of a beautiful China depends not only on strict ecological and environmental protection, but also on the green and low-carbon transformation of industries.
In today’s program, we continue to follow the General Secretary’s two sessions.
On the afternoon of March 6, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the members of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, the scientific and technological circles, and the environmental resources circles who attended the second session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and participated in the joint organizing meeting to listen to opinions and suggestions.
At the joint meeting, the General Secretary emphasized on resource and environmental issues that members of the environmental and resource circles must make new contributions in strengthening ecological and environmental protection and supporting high-quality development with high-level protection.
Zhang Ganlin, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference: "The General Secretary used simple language to describe some of the achievements our country has made in the field of ecological environment since the 18th National Congress, and pointed out that we must maintain our composure and use science and hard work to solve problems bit by bit. "
Fu Shenglei, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference: "Ecological protection is the foundation and prerequisite for development, and high-level protection is the support for high-quality development. This is also the action guide for our work."
Cao Rong, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference: "The general secretary said that members of the environmental resources community have great responsibilities and great potential. It also reflects the general secretary's emphasis on the construction of ecological civilization. This also provides a fundamental basis for us to perform our duties later."
Environmental resources is a newly added sector in the 14th CPPCC National Committee.
Environmental resources are also an area of great concern to General Secretary Xi Jinping.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the guidance of Xi Jinping’s thoughts on ecological civilization, “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets”, “ecology is priority and green development”, “man and nature coexist harmoniously”, “people live up to the mountains, and the mountains will live up to the people”. "It is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, guides new practices, and brings about new changes.
Gao Jifan, a representative of the National People's Congress: "The photovoltaic industry has gone from technology, market, and equipment at that time to today's market size, technology level, production and manufacturing, and industrial chain perfection. It ranks first in the world and leads the world."
In the first "Representative Channel" on March 5, Gao Jifan, a representative of the National People's Congress, director of the National Key Laboratory of Photovoltaic Science and Technology, and founder of Trina Solar, shared the photovoltaic industry's role in green development based on the development of the company. effect.
At the Jiangsu delegation station, the reporter met Gao Jifan.
In 1997, Gao Jifan started his business in the green energy field of photovoltaics.
In 2002, his company responded to the construction of photovoltaic power stations in the electricity-free rural areas in western China and went to Tibet to build independent photovoltaic power stations to deliver electricity to local people.
The story that happened there still leaves a deep impression on him.
Gao Jifan: "When we pushed up the photovoltaic power station gate and turned on the electricity, the whole village suddenly lit up. When a little Tibetan girl saw the electric light for the first time, the look of surprise and excitement in her eyes is something I will never forget."
In the past ten years, our country has persisted in implementing new development concepts, and the photovoltaic industry has entered a golden period of development.
Gao Jifan leads the company to seize opportunities and continuously make technological innovations and breakthroughs.
His company has set world records for battery conversion efficiency and module output power 25 times.
In this process, Gao Jifan also witnessed the continuous innovation of my country's photovoltaic industry, the development process from small to large, from weak to strong.
Let the data speak for how rapidly my country's clean energy has developed.
In the past 10 years, my country's clean energy consumption has increased as a proportion of total energy consumption from 15.5% in 2013 to 25.9% in 2023, and the energy consumption structure continues to transform towards clean and low-carbon.
As of the end of 2023, my country's renewable energy power generation installed capacity reached 1.516 billion kilowatts, accounting for 51.9% of the country's total installed power generation capacity, historically exceeding thermal power installed capacity.
Among them, the installed capacity of solar power generation exceeded 600 million kilowatts, and the installed capacity of wind power generation exceeded 400 million kilowatts.
Wang Jun, deputy to the National People's Congress: "In Jinchang City, where I am located, the proportion of new energy power generation has reached 74.8%, which has a major role in promoting the implementation of the 'double carbon' strategy."
Xue Jingxia, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference: "China is a responsible major country and has made remarkable achievements in the field of renewable energy, making China's contribution to the world's response to climate change."
The development and utilization of clean energy can be said to be an epitome of my country's ecological priority and green development.
The changes in the ecological environment are around each of us.
At the "Ministerial Channel" of the two sessions, Huang Runqiu, Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, introduced my country's brilliant achievements in the ecological environment last year: the average concentration of PM2.5 in cities at the prefecture level and above nationwide was reduced by 3 micrograms/cube compared with the 2023 target. meters, the proportion of surface water sections with excellent quality across the country reached 89.4%, 4.4 percentage points higher than the goal of the 14th Five-Year Plan.
Building a beautiful China is an important goal of comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
At present, the structural, root-cause, and trend pressures on my country's ecological and environmental protection have not been fundamentally relieved.
So how to promote green development in the future?
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the joint meeting of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference that we should promote green and low-carbon economic and social development.
Strengthen resource conservation and intensive recycling, expand the path to realize the value of ecological products, actively and steadily promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality, inject new momentum into high-quality development and create new advantages.
The development of new energy is the key to promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of the economy and society.
Feng Xingya, a deputy to the National People's Congress, is the general manager of Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.
In 2011, his company began to develop new energy vehicles.
Feng Xingya: "The biggest difficulty is the decision-making difficulty. Traditional cars are the main source of income. New energy vehicles are a new industry that needs to be cultivated. It is not profitable, but if we do not make new energy vehicles, there will be no future. In 2014, Mr. The secretary proposed at that time that the development of new energy vehicles was the only way for China to move from a major automobile country to a powerful automobile country."
Out of national strategic considerations, in 2017, GAC Group separated new energy vehicles from its traditional automobile business and developed it as a separate strategic segment.
Up to now, GAC not only has industry-leading, world-leading, independently developed new energy vehicles, but has also built the only lighthouse factory for new energy vehicles in the world.
In recent years, not only GAC, but also many automobile companies have realized that new energy vehicles are an effective way for my country's automobile industry to achieve overtaking in corners in international competition.
At the same time, the contribution of new energy vehicles to people's green lifestyle and reduction of carbon emissions also allows companies to find their own value.
Zhu Huarong, deputy to the National People's Congress: "The carbon emissions of a new energy vehicle are more than 40% lower than that of a traditional car. If the entire fleet is new energy vehicles, it means that our carbon emissions will be significantly reduced. I think new energy vehicles will The development has created a new change in the energy structure, especially for clean energy sources such as photovoltaics, hydropower, and wind power, which have the greatest promotion value."
New energy vehicles are the main direction for the transformation, upgrading and green development of the global automobile industry, and are also the strategic choice for the high-quality development of my country's automobile industry.
With the support of the national system, my country's new energy vehicles have overcome many major technical difficulties and achieved rapid development in a short period of time.
Although the development of my country's new energy automobile industry has achieved certain results, there are still problems such as insufficient supply of key core technologies and support capabilities that need to be improved.
This Spring Festival, problems such as difficulty in charging, battery attenuation caused by low temperature, and difficulty in getting new energy vehicles out of the island have revealed that there are still many pain points for new energy vehicles that need to be solved.
The key to solving the pain points of new energy vehicles lies in the battery.
Chen Jun, deputy to the National People's Congress and vice president of Nankai University, has led his team to research and develop technology in the battery field.
At the "Representative Channel" on March 8, he shared good news with everyone.
Chen Jun: "In the next one to two years, we will break through the research and development of 600 watt-hour per kilogram solid-state batteries so that electric vehicles can run more than 1,000 kilometers on a single charge. At the same time, in terms of fast charging, low-temperature performance and safety performance, It will also be greatly improved.”
Breaking through the bottlenecks in the development of new energy vehicles requires not only innovative breakthroughs in related research fields, but also the support of supporting construction of related infrastructure.
On March 4, my country’s first smart charging and swapping demonstration zone for electric vehicles was built in Jiangsu.
This demonstration area will rely on intelligent algorithms. The system will comprehensively analyze and judge the actual status of charging parking spaces, charging prices, queue waiting times and other information, and then push the optimal charging plan to car owners.
New energy vehicles are only one aspect of green development.
Building a beautiful China is a systematic project.
General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward a series of requirements at the joint meeting, emphasizing once again that "we must keep the bottom line of land and space development and protection, improve the ecological environment zoning management and control system, and consolidate the ecological foundation for high-quality development. Comprehensively and accurately implement precise pollution control, scientific "Pollution Control and Pollution Control in accordance with the Law" points out the path of green development that coordinates the promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion and growth.
Representatives and committee members all expressed their intention to work hard and work hard to turn ideas into solutions and turn beautiful visions into happy realities.
At this year's Two Sessions, many foreign friends are particularly interested in how China develops a green and low-carbon economy.
Because China has set a series of benchmarks in the global green development field: we have built the world's largest clean power supply system, we are the world's largest exporter of new energy vehicles, and our total export volume of "three new" products last year It broke through the trillion-yuan mark for the first time, and so on.
In the eyes of foreign friends, "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" not only sets a new development path for China, but will also help achieve global green development and sustainable development goals.
As one representative said, the "gold content" of industry cannot be separated from the "green content" of development.
Only by consolidating the ecological foundation for high-quality development can the new picture of Chinese-style modernization be more beautiful.