Walking into Guiyang Conch Panjiang Cement Co., Ltd., located in Qingzhen City, Guizhou Province, the factory area is green, the environment is beautiful, the roads are clean and wide, the workshop windows are bright and clean, the air is fresh and pleasant, there is no noise and dust in imagination, it is hard to think that this is a cement production enterprise. According to the person in charge of
the company, Conch Panjiang is the cement plant with the largest single production capacity in Guizhou Province. It has three 4500 t/d clinker production lines with a total clinker production capacity of 5.4 million tons, six cement mills with a cement production capacity of 6.6 million tons, and a 27 MW waste heat power generation system.
In recent years, under the restriction of environmental protection policy and the incentive of green tax system with environmental protection tax as the main body, enterprises have invested 290 million yuan in energy-saving and consumption-reducing transformation, which has optimized energy consumption index, made production line operation more stable and further reduced coal consumption. The enterprise carried out resistance reduction and energy saving transformation for No.2 kiln, and further optimized the process management after the technical transformation; built a new distributed photovoltaic power generation system and a pure low-temperature waste heat power generation system for cement kiln, which greatly reduced the company's purchased electricity and further reduced carbon emissions; invested in the ultra-low emission transformation of wet desulfurization for kiln tail flue gas, and the implementation of ultra-clean emission by electrostatic precipitator.. In 2022, the energy consumption data of the enterprise has reached the national first-class standard, which is in the leading level of the cement industry, and the sulfur dioxide emission has reached the national ultra-low emission standard.
While continuing to increase investment in environmental protection, the tax paid by enterprises has also been reduced. From 2020 to 2022, the company purchased energy-saving, water-saving, environmental protection and safety production equipment, which offset the enterprise income tax by 3.106 million yuan. Enterprises are recognized as the Catalogue of Encouraged Industries in the Western Region and enjoy a preferential tax rate of 15% for the development of the western region, with a reduction of enterprise income tax of 53.43 million yuan. These funds are used for environmental protection expenditure of enterprises, laying a good foundation for enterprises to take the road of green development.
In 2022, enterprises paid 5.3587 million yuan of environmental protection tax, a decrease of 38.46% compared with the same period last year, and the concentration of pollution emissions was lower than national emission standards, enjoying a reduction of 351400 yuan of environmental protection tax, and both pollutant emissions and emission concentrations were reduced.
"Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets". Over the past five years since the introduction of environmental protection tax, Guizhou tax authorities have actively played the role of tax regulation of "green taxes" such as environmental protection tax, guided and supported traditional high-pollution and high-energy-consuming enterprises such as cement manufacturing in their jurisdiction to take the road of innovation, environmental protection and ecological development, and promoted enterprises to obtain "real gold and silver" of tax relief, and injected strong "green kinetic energy" into high quality development. According to statistics, 90 cement manufacturing enterprises in Guizhou Province received a total of 38.0561 million yuan of environmental protection tax from January to September 2023, a decrease of 35% compared with the same period last year, and the reduction and exemption of environmental protection tax reached 16.7092 million yuan only when the concentration of pollution emissions was lower than national emission standards.
With the vigorous promotion of tax authorities, the incentive effect of green tax system has become increasingly prominent, and taking the road of green development has become the active choice of more cement production enterprises. Guizhou Jinjiu Cement Co., Ltd., located in Xiuwen County, Guiyang City, has invested more than 6 million yuan annually in denitrification, desulfurization, environmental self-monitoring, operation and maintenance of on-line monitoring equipment, replacement of dust collector filter bags and maintenance and renovation of environmental protection facilities. From January to September 2023, the enterprise paid a total of 647500 yuan of environmental protection tax, a decrease of 31.37% compared with the same period last year, and the pollution emission concentration was lower than national emission standard, enjoying a reduction of 260400 yuan of environmental protection tax.
In the next step, Guizhou tax authorities will continue to strengthen the publicity and guidance of green taxation, further deepen the fine service and sincere co-governance, comprehensively implement various policies of green taxation, and promote the high-quality development of traditional high-pollution and high-energy-consuming industries such as cement manufacturing.