The Environmental Resources Department of the National Development and Reform Commission interviewed the energy conservation authorities of Zhejiang, Anhui, Guangdong and Chongqing provinces (cities)

Recently, the Environmental Resources Department of the National Development and Reform Commission interviewed comrades in charge of energy conservation departments in Zhejiang, Anhui, Guangdong and Chongqing on the lagging progress of energy consumption intensity reduction in the 14th Five-Year Plan.

The interview pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping attached great importance to energy-saving work and made important instructions and instructions on many occasions, demanding that priority be given to saving, that energy-saving work be done at a higher level and with higher quality, and that maximum benefits be achieved at the lowest cost. The reduction of energy consumption intensity is a binding target set in the Outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and also an important symbol to measure the quality and efficiency of a region's economic development. In the first two years of the 14th Five-Year Plan, after deducting the consumption of raw materials and renewable energy, the decline of energy consumption intensity in Zhejiang, Anhui, Guangdong and Chongqing still lags behind the target progress requirements of the 14th Five-Year Plan. The management of high energy consumption, high emission and low-level projects in relevant areas is lax, the work of energy conservation review, energy conservation supervision and energy conservation of key energy-using units is not carried out effectively, there are shortcomings in energy conservation in key areas such as industry, construction, transportation and public institutions, the level of renewable energy consumption needs to be improved, and the situation of energy conservation is very grim.

The interview emphasized that the competent departments of energy conservation in relevant regions should attach great importance to the target task of reducing energy consumption intensity in the 14th Five-Year Plan, strengthen progress management on an annual and quarterly basis, and comprehensively arrange energy consumption, input-output and cost-effectiveness in different cities, industries and enterprises. We should strictly carry out energy conservation review, ensure access to new projects, and resolutely curb the blind launching of "two high and one low" projects. Energy efficiency diagnosis should be carried out in depth, energy-saving technology and financial support should be strengthened, and energy-saving transformation of stock projects should be intensified. We should further strengthen the consumption of renewable energy, improve the level of refinement of energy-saving management, strengthen the guarantee of high-quality development of energy consumption, and resolutely put an end to the "one-size-fits-all" restriction of enterprise electricity consumption in the name of energy-saving and "double carbon". Comrades in charge of energy conservation departments in

relevant regions said that they would fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, thoroughly implement Xi Jinping's thought of ecological civilization, completely, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, comprehensively sort out the progress of energy conservation work, identify the shortcomings that restrict the decline of energy consumption intensity, and take targeted measures. To ensure the completion of the "14th Five-Year Plan" energy intensity reduction target.