China Unveils Ambitious Plan to Build Zero-Carbon Industrial Parks

The Chinese government has issued a comprehensive policy to promote the construction of zero-carbon industrial parks across the country. The plan, aimed at implementing the decisions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, aims to steadily promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality. The policy focuses on eight key tasks to accelerate the transformation of the park's energy structure, promote energy conservation and carbon reduction, adjust and optimize the industrial structure, strengthen resource conservation and intensive use, improve and upgrade infrastructure, strengthen the application of advanced technologies, improve energy and carbon management capabilities, and support industrial parks to strengthen reform and innovation.

Key Takeaways:

• The policy aims to support the construction of zero-carbon parks by coordinating the use of existing funding channels and encouraging various regions to provide financial support.
• The plan requires provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government to accelerate the transformation of the park's energy structure, promote energy conservation and carbon reduction, and adjust and optimize the industrial structure.
• The policy encourages the development of emerging industries with low energy consumption, low pollution, and high added value, and explores the "green-to-green" model of using green energy to manufacture green products.
• The plan requires the development of a national zero-carbon park construction list, with the National Development and Reform Commission reviewing construction plans and determining the first batch of national zero-carbon park construction lists.
• The policy encourages industrial parks to participate in the power market in the form of virtual power plants (load aggregators) to improve resource allocation efficiency and power system stability.

Statistics:

• The policy aims to promote the development of renewable energy in zero-carbon parks, with a focus on the development and utilization of renewable energy in the park and its surrounding areas.
• The plan requires the establishment of energy consumption and carbon emission management systems in the park, and the promotion of the diagnosis and evaluation of energy efficiency and carbon efficiency of enterprises.
• The policy targets the elimination of backward production capacity, backward processes, and backward products and equipment in the park, with a focus on promoting energy conservation and carbon reduction transformation and energy-consuming equipment updates.
• The plan requires the promotion of the application of advanced and applicable technologies in zero-carbon parks, with a focus on the creation of demonstration application scenarios around low-carbon, zero-carbon, and negative-carbon advanced and applicable technologies.

Sources:

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+ https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/zhengceku/202507/content_7031090.htm ( original Chinese news release)