Recently, the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region issued an announcement on the implementation of the second round of feedback rectification from the Central Eco-environmental Protection Supervision in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. In the annex of the
announcement, "Implementation of the Second Round of Central Eco-environmental Protection Supervision Feedback Rectification Task in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region", it is mentioned that the management and control of the "two high" projects in Guangxi are not effective. The target of energy conservation and carbon reduction
in Guangxi has not fulfilled the target of the 13th Five-Year Plan issued by the state, and the requirement of carbon emission intensity has been reduced by 17%, which is only 12% in fact. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the energy consumption of the six energy-intensive industries continued to increase, and the proportion of energy consumption in the total industrial energy consumption increased from 83.2% in 2015 to 89.7% in 2020. During
the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the impulse to launch the "two high" projects in Guangxi is still strong. In May 2020, in the investigation of major energy-consuming projects in the 14th Five-Year Plan, the autonomous region reported 96 "two high" projects to the National Development and Reform Commission, with an energy consumption increment of 44.89 million tons of standard coal per year. After General Secretary Xi Jinping gave important instructions, Guangxi reduced the number of projects to 48, with an energy consumption increase of about 23.89 million tons of standard coal per year. However, the inspectors found that there are still 63 projects under construction or proposed to increase energy consumption by more than 100000 tons of standard coal per year, which are not included in the final report list, with an additional energy consumption of 19.29 million tons of standard coal per year, of which 43 have been under construction, with an additional energy consumption of 14.03 million tons of standard coal per year. In the first quarter of 2021, the energy consumption intensity of the whole region did not decrease but increased, and the energy-saving situation became more and more serious. The production capacity of
some energy-intensive industries continued to expand. In 2020, the output of flat glass, ten kinds of non-ferrous metals and electrolytic aluminium in the whole region was 4.3 times, 2.6 times and 3.8 times that in 2015, respectively. In recent years, Guangxi has replaced cement production capacity from 18 provinces in China, and the cement clinker production capacity of 12 projects under construction has reached 17.34 million tons, which is 2.9 times the increment of the 13th Five-Year Plan. Although the relevant departments of
the autonomous region have repeatedly issued documents calling for strengthening energy consumption control, most of the requirements for strict control of energy consumption in key industries and key areas, over-specification elimination of production capacity in some industries, and coal reduction and substitution in new coal-consuming projects have not been implemented. The "double control" assessment of energy consumption has relaxed its requirements, weakened its accountability to notification and criticism, and delayed approval has not been strictly implemented. The implementation of
differential electricity price policy is not in place. As early as 2006, the state implemented a differentiated electricity price policy for restricted and eliminated enterprises in ferroalloy and other industries, requiring the implementation of higher electricity prices. However, since 2012, Guangxi's restricted ferroalloy enterprises have not implemented differential electricity prices, and the relevant departments have shirked their responsibilities. In 2018, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the Opinions on Innovating and Improving the Price Mechanism for Promoting Green Development, which put forward higher requirements for the differential electricity price policy, but the relevant departments did not conduct research and combing, resulting in repeated failures of the policy. In the fourth quarter of 2020, the Department of Industry and Information Technology of the Autonomous Region, in the name of surplus small hydropower, allowed a large number of restricted ferroalloy enterprises to participate in special power trading in the case of power supply shortage in winter.