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IT Home reported on November 4 that, to promote the conservation and efficient use of various resources, safeguard national resource security, and accelerate a comprehensive green transition in economic and social development, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Water Resources, and the National Government Offices Administration issued the Action Plan for Implementing a Comprehensive Conservation Strategy on November 4.
IT Home learned that the plan calls for deeper efforts to conserve energy and improve energy efficiency. It says energy conservation should remain a priority in work to reach peak carbon emissions and achieve carbon neutrality, and calls for higher-standard, higher-quality work on energy conservation and carbon reduction. It focuses on addressing problems including the indiscriminate launch of projects with high energy consumption and high emissions and insufficient efforts to tap the potential of energy-saving and carbon-reduction retrofits, while continuously improving energy-use efficiency.
The plan calls for vigorous efforts to save energy in key areas. Focusing on key industries such as steel, nonferrous metals, petrochemicals, chemicals, and building materials, it calls for industry-specific energy-saving and carbon-reduction retrofits to continually improve energy efficiency. It calls for actively advancing energy-saving and carbon-reduction retrofits of existing buildings and promoting the development of ultra-low-energy buildings at scale. It calls for promoting energy-saving, low-carbon means of transport, appropriately refining limits on vehicle energy consumption, and vigorously developing new-energy heavy-duty trucks and ships powered by green fuels. It also calls for stepping up efforts to tap the potential of energy-saving and carbon-reduction retrofits in public institutions and promoting third-party management models such as energy performance contracting. It calls for energy-saving and carbon-reduction retrofits of infrastructure such as computing facilities, communications base stations, and equipment rooms, while optimizing the energy mix. It calls for improving the efficiency of energy production, strengthening measures such as low-carbon retrofits of coal-fired power units, and steadily reducing the overall rate of power loss across the grid. By 2030, energy consumption per unit of value added by industrial enterprises above the designated size is to fall by more than 10% compared with 2025, and energy-saving and carbon-reduction retrofits in key industries are to deliver savings equivalent to more than 150 million metric tons of standard coal.