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1 Develop Green Technology to Promote the Development of Green Economy 发展绿色科技促进绿色经济发展 PENG Jimin Senior Economist Academy of Macroeconomic Research National Development and Reform Commission P.R.CHINA September 2012 Green Technology, Green New Deal and Green Economy 1. 绿色科技 绿色新政与绿色经济 The essence of green technology is to use modern science and technology to change the application of traditional technological means on resource development, material production, life and consumption, etc. Green New Deal is the guarantee of realizing Green Technology, and Green Economy is the only way to the human sustainable development. 1

2 China Put Forward the Connotation of Green Development 中国提出绿色发展的内涵 The Twelfth Five-year Plan for National Economic and Social development put forward the green development, build a resourceconserving and environment-friendly society Expound the key points and goals, including coping with the global climate change, strengthening the resource conservation and management, developing the cyclic economy vigorously, enhancing the environmental protection, promoting the ecological conservation and restoration, strengthening construction of water conservancy and disaster prevention and mitigation system. The Development of Green Technology in China 2. 中国绿色科技的发展 It mainly introduces the following four parts of content: Environmental protection industry New energy Green building Energy saving and new energy vehicles 2

3 Technology and equipments of energy saving and emission reduction Environmental protection industrial Comprehensive utilization of energy Disposal of sewage and garbage Circular economy Green technology New energy Green Building Clean energy Reproducible Transformation of existing building energy saving Green design for new buildings Energy conservation and new energy vehicles New energy vehicles Others Scientific research -design-production Key Projects of Energy Conservation 节能重点工程 1. Energy-saving transformation project Continue to implement the energy-saving transformation projects such as combined heat and power generation, energy conservation of motor system, energy system optimization, utilization of by-product heat and pressure, boiler (kiln) reconstruction, conservation and replacement of petroleum, building energy conservation, transportation energy conservation, Green lighting, etc. 2. Benefiting the people project of energy-saving products Enhance the subsidy and promotion of high efficiency and energy saving electrical appliances, cars, electric machines, lighting products and so on, expand the implementation scope. 3. The demonstration project of Energy saving technology industrialization Support the demonstration project of the major and critical energy saving technology, such as utilization of by-product heat and pressure and efficient motor products, push the large-scale production of key energy-saving technology and energy-saving application. 4. The promotion project of contract energy management Promote energy-saving company to adopt the contract energy management way to implement energysaving reconstruction to energy consumption organizations. Support and expand the energy-saving service industry. 3

4 Key Points of Environment Management 环境治理重点 1. Construction project of urban sewage and garbage disposal facilities. Accelerate the construction of urban sewage, sludge and garbage disposal facilities, at the same time, construct and assort sewage collection pipelines & network and the garbage collector facilities reasonably. 2. Desulfurization and denitration project Build the desulfurization and denitration devices associated with coal-fired generating units, develop production line of cement installed with denitration devices of which the efficiency is not lower than 60 percent, meanwhile, install desulfurization devices in steel sintering machine and petrochemical industry. 3.The protection, management and repair of the natural environment Management of rivers, lakes, coastal areas and wetlands; protection of ecological barrier, Land desertification and desertification control, prevention projects of geological disasters. 1. Comprehensive utilization of natural resources Key Projects of Cyclic Economy 循环经济重点工程 Support the comprehensive utilization of intergrown mineral resources, bulk solid wastes, such as fly ash, coal gangue, the industrial byproduct gypsum, smelting and chemical waste residue, tailings, construction waste, etc, as well as straws, excrement of poultry breeding and waste wood to cultivate a batch of demonstration bases for comprehensive utilization of resources. 2. Demonstration of the waste commodity recycling system Build 80 demonstration cities of waste commodity recycling system, with reasonable layout of network, standard management, diversified recycling modes, a high recycling rate for the key varieties. 3. Demonstration base of "city minerals" Build 50 demonstration base of "city minerals" with advanced technology, standard environmental protection, normalized management, large-scaled utilization and strong radiation effects. Achieve the recycling, large-scale use and high-value utilization of resources such as scrap metal, waste electrical and electronic products, waste papers, waste plastics. 4. Remanufacturing industrialization Build several gathering zones for remanufacturing industries of national level. Cultivate a series of demonstration enterprises including the remanufacturing of auto parts, engineering machinery, mining machinery, machine tool, office supplies, etc; realize the large-scaled and industrialized development of remanufacturing. Perfect the standard system of remanufacturing products. 5. Transform kitchen waste into resources Build a batch of kitchen waste recovery utilization facilities with high scientific and technological content and good economic returns in 100 cities ( areas ). Carry out the resource utilization and bio-safety disposal of kitchen waste. 6. The cyclic reform of industrial park To implement the cyclic reform in key industrial parks or industry gathering areas. 7. Demonstrate and promote the circulation and utilization technology of resources. Develop several platforms with generality in cyclic economy, professional key technology, complete set of equipment production, application demonstration projects and services. 4

5 Development of New Energy. 2.2 新能源发展 New Energy Industry not only includes the exploitation and exploration of renewable energy sources and clean energy, such as wind energy, solar energy, biomass energy, nuclear energy, tidal energy, etc, but also covers the exploitation and utilization of clean coal technology and unconventional oil and gas resources, such as coal-bed methane (CBM) and shale gas, etc. Clean energy Renewable energy Wind energy source Solar energy Biomass energy Geothermal energy New energy Seas energy source Hydro energy Energy of nucleus Unconventionality natural gas Cleaning coal technology Structural representation of New energy Clearer energy and Renewable energy 新能源清洁能源和可再生能源结构示意图 5

6 The Expected Future of New Energy 新能源未来预期 Solar thermal: predict that the application market will continue to expand. Solar PV cells: predict the battery manufacturing capacity will remain at the present level, domestic market will grow rapidly. Wind power generation: predict it will put equal emphasis on the development of quality and quantity on the basis of continuous growth of industry size. Biomass energy: the direction of efficient and clean utilization won't change, while the industrial policies ans standards will be improved to be perfect. Nuclear power: it will develop rapidly, the construction of nuclear power plants will be expanded from coastal areas to inland. Geothermal energy: will become a new energy investment highlight following solar energy, wind energy, etc. Tidal power: it will mainly emphasize the importance of technical R&D and applicability layout in the future. Clean coal technology: it will continue to promote the innovation of technology, Poly-generation technology will become an important scheme. Unconventional gas: the key point is still the research on foundational technology, the large-scale utilization is accelerated. Green Building 2.3 绿色建筑 Research on greening transformation technology of existing buildings (1): Greening renovation plan and design techniques of existing architectural complex. (2): Integrated technology on greening transformation of existing buildings (3): Research and demonstration of greening transformation construction cooperated with key technologies of existing buildings. Research on the complete application technology of green building materials (1)Applicable to products research and development of functional green building materials characterized by energy saving and fire prevention and high durability (2)Modular technology of building materials (3)Complete technology research and equipment development in using waste to manufacture building products 6

7 Energy Conservation and New Energy Vehicles 2.4 节能和新能源汽车 Development direction At present, China focus on promoting the industrialization of pure electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Popularize the non plug-in hybrid electric cars and energy-saving internal combustion engine cars. Promote the overall skill level of our automobile industry. Focus on the construction of gathered zones for power battery industry to form two or three leading enterprises with production and marketing scale exceeding ten billion watt-hour and excellent R & D and production capacity for critical materials, furthermore, to form two or three backbone manufacturing enterprises in fields of critical materials such as positive and negative electrodes, diaphragm, electrolyte, etc. Meanwhile, enhance the R&D and production capacity of key parts, cultivate two or three backbone enterprises in fields such as driving motor, efficient transmission, etc, and support the development of professional automotive electronic enterprises with participation of completely builded vehicle industry and stronger international competitiveness. 7

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