2021, the Seventh Central Eco-environmental Protection Supervision Group (hereinafter referred to as the "Central Supervision Group") carried out the second round of eco-environmental protection supervision in Guangxi, and gave feedback on July 16, 2021. Recently, the People's Government of Hezhou City announced the "Rectification of the Second Round of Central Eco-environmental Protection Supervision Feedback in Hezhou City", which mentioned that in recent years, Guangxi has replaced cement production capacity from 18 provinces in the country, and the cement clinker production capacity of 12 projects under construction has reached 17.34 million tons. It is 2.9 times the increment of the 13th Five-Year Plan.
The details are as follows:
Guangxi's energy conservation and carbon reduction targets have not fulfilled the "13th Five-Year Plan" target tasks issued by the state, and the carbon emission intensity requirements have been reduced by 17%, but the actual reduction is only 12%. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the energy consumption of the six energy-intensive industries continued to increase, with the proportion of energy consumption in the total industrial energy consumption rising from 83.2% in 2015 to 89.7% in 2020, and the proportion of coal consumption in the total coal consumption rising from 66.2% in 2015 to 90.9% 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. Time limit for
rectification: by the end of December 2022 (by the end of December 2025, the "14th Five-Year Plan" carbon emission and energy intensity reduction targets will be completed).
Rectification progress: Some of them have been completed, and others are progressing according to the schedule.
Action 8: Completed. We will continue to monitor and diagnose industrial energy conservation around technology, equipment, technology and management for projects that have been completed and put into operation. 10 enterprises such as Hezhou Zhaoxin Hardware Products Co., Ltd. and Guangxi Jinjin Building Materials Co., Ltd. have carried out special supervision and daily supervision, and the results of energy-saving supervision have been announced on the Internet. Every year, industrial energy-saving diagnostic services are organized to find out the key links of energy-saving and emission reduction transformation, tap the potential of energy-saving and emission reduction, and promote enterprises to carry out technological transformation. We will further promote the construction of online monitoring systems for energy consumption of key energy-using units, verify the operation of the established online monitoring systems, urge key energy-using units that have not yet installed online monitoring systems for energy consumption to complete the installation as soon as possible, and ensure that the energy consumption data of key energy-using units are uploaded to the autonomous region-level platform as required. To continuously strengthen the monitoring, analysis and early warning response of the "two high" industries, the comprehensive energy consumption of industrial enterprises in the city in 2022 was 3.0934 million tons of standard coal, down 12.5% year on year, of which the ferrous metal smelting and calendering industry was 176800 tons of standard coal, down 54.5% year on year; Power, thermal production and supply industry 2 million 136 thousand and 400 tons of standard coal, down 14.6% year on year.
Rectification measure 10: The schedule has been reached. Promote the construction of online monitoring system for energy consumption of key energy-using units in strict accordance with the Implementation Plan for the Construction and Promotion of Online Monitoring System for Energy Consumption of Key Energy-using Units in Hezhou City. In June 2022, the Notice on Continuing to Strengthen the Construction of Online Monitoring System for Energy Consumption of Key Energy-using Units was issued to further promote the construction of online monitoring system for energy consumption. At present, 14 enterprises in the city are connected to the system platform of key energy-using units in the autonomous region. In December 2022, Hezhou issued the Implementation Plan of Strengthening the "14th Five-Year Plan" Energy Consumption Double Control and Energy Conservation Potential Tapping Substitution to Promote High-quality Development, and the "14th Five-Year Plan" Energy Budget Management System of Hezhou City, to Co ordinate the promotion of total energy consumption and intensity double control and high-quality economic development. The annual evaluation, mid-term evaluation and five-year assessment mechanism shall be implemented for the completion of the "double control" target of energy consumption of the people's governments of counties (districts), and the assessment results shall serve as an important basis for the comprehensive evaluation of the leading groups and cadres of the people's governments of counties (districts).
