On February 29, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments jointly issued the Circular of the Green Low Carbon Transition Industry Guidance Catalogue (2024 Edition).
The circular points out that, first, local governments and departments can promulgate and improve relevant policies and measures on the basis of the Catalogue according to their respective regional and field development priorities, encourage and support production, circulation, consumption and other links, and create a good environment for the development of related industries.
2. Relevant departments may, on the basis of the Catalogue, revise detailed catalogues, sub-catalogues or expand catalogues according to the actual work, improve the operability of the Catalogue and guide all sectors of society to better support the development of relevant industries.
3. All localities and departments should do a good job in linking up the Catalogue with relevant supporting policies in light of actual conditions. For the projects that have been started before the issuance and implementation of the Catalogue, the industry category determination can still be implemented in accordance with the Green Industry Guidance Catalogue (2019 Edition); for the projects that have been approved, approved and filed but not started when the Catalogue is issued and implemented, the industry category determination can be implemented in accordance with the Green Industry Guidance Catalogue (2019 Edition) or the Catalogue.
4. Local governments and departments should further strengthen international and domestic exchanges, promote experiences and practices in supporting the development of relevant industries, promote international cooperation in green standards, and gradually establish a mutual recognition mechanism between the Catalogue and relevant international green standards.
Five, encourage financial institutions to provide financial support for domestic projects or activities that meet the requirements of the catalogue, as well as projects or activities in overseas areas such as the "one belt and one road" countries, on the basis of compliance with the law, risk control and business sustainability, and in accordance with the principles of marketization and legalization.
6. The National Development and Reform Commission, in conjunction with relevant departments, will timely adjust and revise the Catalogue in accordance with the major tasks of ecological civilization construction, the progress of carbon peak and carbon neutralization, the status of resources and environment, and the progress of science and technology.
green building material manufacturing
includes energy-saving wall materials." Materials, external wall insulation materials, energy-saving glass, prefabricated building parts, ready-mixed concrete, ready-mixed mortar, green industrial customized home decoration and other green building materials products manufacturing. Building glass, wall materials, thermal insulation materials, waterproof and sealing materials, ceramic tiles (panels) and other products shall meet the requirements of Green Product Evaluation Building Glass (GB/T 35604), Green Product Evaluation Wall Materials (GB/T 35605), Green Product Evaluation Thermal Insulation Materials (GB/T 35608), Waterproof and Sealing Materials for Green Product Evaluation (GB/T 35609), Ceramic Tile (Plate) for Green Product Evaluation (GB/T 35610) and other standards and specifications; ready-mixed concrete shall meet the requirements of Technical Requirements for Environmental Labeling Products-Ready-mixed Concrete (HJ/T 412) and other standards and specifications; Building thermal insulation materials should meet the requirements of the Limits for Hexabromocyclododecane in Building Thermal Insulation Products (GB/T 41077) and other standards and specifications; external wall insulation materials should use foaming agents with zero ozone depletion potential and low global warming potential, and meet the requirements of relevant national and local standards and specifications. Energy-saving renovation and energy efficiency improvement
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boilers (kilns) include energy-saving technical renovation of boilers (kilns) by means of equipment and equipment replacement and renewal, technical renovation, fuel optimization, combustion adjustment and optimization for the purpose of improving the energy efficiency of boilers (kilns). As well as the use of natural gas, renewable energy and other clean energy and factory waste heat, power plant exhaust steam, circulating water waste heat and other thermal resources to replace coal, petroleum coke, residual oil, heavy oil and other fuel boilers (kilns) for heating energy-saving technical transformation. Utilization
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residual heat and pressure includes the adoption of technologies such as saturated steam power generation, flue gas waste heat recovery and utilization, and gas recovery and utilization to recover energy resources such as low-grade residual heat, pressure and gas in industrial production process for power generation, industrial heating or refrigeration, residential heating or production process reuse. The utilization of waste heat shall conform to the requirements of standards and specifications such as the Evaluation Method of Industrial Waste Heat Resources (GB/T1028) and the Guidelines for Cascade Comprehensive Utilization of Industrial Waste Heat (GB/T 39091).
Energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation and energy efficiency improvement
include key industries such as iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, petrochemical industry and building materials, which adopt advanced technologies, processes and equipment to achieve energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation and energy efficiency improvement. After the transformation, it is necessary to reach the advanced value of the national mandatory energy consumption quota standard and the energy efficiency benchmarking level stipulated in the Benchmarking Level and Benchmarking Level of Energy Efficiency in Key Industrial Areas.
Process improvement and process optimization
include key industries such as iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, petrochemical industry and building materials, aiming at improving production efficiency, reducing resource consumption, reducing pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions. Such as green energy and raw fuel substitution, resource recycling, environmental protection and emission reduction transformation, process optimization and reengineering, low-carbon product development, low-carbon processing of raw materials, breakthroughs in smelting technology, product structure optimization, green low-carbon industrial chain construction, etc.
Digital and intelligent upgrading
includes key industries such as iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, petrochemical industry and building materials, aiming at improving the level of digitalization and intellectualization of industrial production management. For example, the construction of monitoring, management and control systems and databases for energy, carbon emissions, pollutant emissions and important materials, the construction of monitoring, analysis and scheduling systems for key production processes, links and important equipment and systems, the construction of digital, remote and unmanned production management systems, and the application and intelligent transformation of intelligent equipment for production lines.
Carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage
include separating carbon dioxide from waste gas or atmosphere produced in the process of industrial production and energy utilization, recycling it and injecting it into the formation for storage. Such as thermal power plant carbon dioxide capture, carbon dioxide flooding, carbon dioxide geological storage, biomass carbon capture and storage, direct air capture and other technology applications. Greenhouse gas emission reduction
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industrial production processes includes activities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in industrial production processes through process improvement and cleaner production. For example, the cement industry uses non-carbonate raw materials to replace traditional limestone raw materials, the metallurgical industry uses hydrogen as a reducing agent to replace coke, the iron and steel industry uses electric furnace steelmaking route, the glass industry uses advanced float process, and the chemical industry uses sulfur hexafluoride mixed gas and recovers sulfur hexafluoride to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Industrial desulfurization, denitrification and dust removal transformation
includes desulfurization, denitrification and dust removal transformation in iron and steel, cement, coking, boilers, non-ferrous metals, building materials, foundry, petrochemical, chemical and other industries, fine desulfurization of blast furnace gas and coke oven gas, and low nitrogen combustion transformation. According to the performance grading indicators of key industries in heavy polluted weather, the performance grading upgrading and transformation are carried out. It should meet the requirements of relevant national and local air pollutant emission standards. Principles and Requirements for Comprehensive Utilization of Waste Gas in Industrial Parks (GB/T36574), Technical Requirements for Evaluation of Operation Effect of Coal-fired Flue Gas Denitrification Equipment (GB/T34340), Technical Requirements for Evaluation of Operation Effect of Coal-fired Flue Gas Desulfurization Equipment (GB/T34605), Technical Requirements for Evaluation of Operation Effect of Iron and Steel Sintering Flue Gas Desulfurization and Dust Removal Equipment (GB/T 34607) and other standards and specifications. Ultra-low emission transformation
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key industries includes organized emission, unorganized emission and clean transportation transformation of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, ammonia and other pollutants in power, steel, cement, coking and other industries and boilers. The power industry shall comply with the Notice on the Transformation and Upgrading of National Coal-fired Power Units (FGTN [2021] No.1519), the Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Upgrading and Transformation of Coal-fired Power (2014-2020) (FGNY [2014] No.2093), Relevant requirements such as ultra-low emission standards in the Work Plan for Fully Implementing Ultra-low Emission and Energy-saving Renovation of Coal-fired Power Plants (Huanfa [2015] No.164); The iron and steel industry shall comply with the relevant requirements of the Opinions on Promoting the Implementation of Ultra-low Emissions in the Iron and Steel Industry (No.35, 2019) and the Notice on the Assessment and Monitoring of Ultra-low Emissions in Iron and Steel Enterprises (No.922, 2019); Other industries shall meet the requirements of relevant national and local regulations, policies and standards for ultra-low emissions.The unorganized emission control
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industrial factories and mines includes the control of unorganized air pollutants emitted from industrial factories and mines without exhaust funnels, open workplaces and through gaps, vents, open doors and windows and similar openings (holes). According to the performance grading indicators of key industries in heavy polluted weather, the performance grading upgrading and transformation are carried out. It shall comply with the requirements of relevant regulations and policies and relevant national and local standards and specifications. The harmless treatment and disposal
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industrial solid wastes mainly include the construction and operation of recycling, harmless treatment and reuse facilities for industrial solid wastes such as tailings, fly ash, smelting slag, industrial by-product gypsum, red mud, chemical waste residue and dedusting ash, and the renovation of historical tailings reservoirs. It shall conform to the Guideline for Environmental Design of Industrial Comprehensive Utilization Equipment (GB/T 31513), Terminology for Comprehensive Utilization of Industrial Solid Wastes (GB/T 34911), Standard for Pollution Control on Storage and Landfill of General Industrial Solid Wastes (GB 18599), Relevant national, local and industrial standards and specifications, such as "Standard for Pollution Control of Solid Waste Co-disposal in Cement Kiln" (GB 30485), "Technical Specification for Pollution Control of Manganese Slag" (HJ 1241), "Technical Specification for Application and Issuance of Pollutant Discharge Permit for Industrial Solid Waste (Trial Implementation)" (HJ 1200), etc. The Interim Measures for the Evaluation and Management of Comprehensive Utilization of Industrial Solid Waste Resources and the National Catalogue of Products for Comprehensive Utilization of Industrial Solid Waste Resources (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Announcement No.26, 2018). The treatment and disposal
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hazardous wastes include the construction and operation of facilities for recycling, reduction and harmless treatment of hazardous wastes. It shall comply with the Standard for Pollution Control on Hazardous Waste Incineration (GB 18484), Standard for Pollution Control on Hazardous Waste Storage (GB 18597), Standard for Pollution Control on the Landfill Site for Hazardous Wastes (GB 18598), and Technical Specifications for Collection, Storage and Transportation of Hazardous Wastes (HJ 2025). Technical Guidelines for Hazardous Waste Disposal Engineering (HJ 2042) and other relevant national and industrial standards and specifications.
Noise and vibration pollution control
includes industrial noise and vibration pollution control, traffic noise and vibration pollution control, construction noise and vibration pollution control, social life noise and vibration pollution control, quiet residential and quiet residential area construction, etc. Environmental Quality Standard for Noise (GB 3096), Environmental Vibration Standard for Urban Areas (GB 10070), Emission Standard for Industrial Enterprises Noise at Boundary (GB 12348), Emission Standard for Construction Site Noise at Boundary (GB 12523), Noise Emission Standard for Social Living Environment (GB 22337), General Code for Building Environment (GB 55016), Code for Sound Insulation Design of Civil Buildings (GB 50118) and other relevant standards and specifications. Cleaner production transformation
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key industries includes cleaner production transformation in key industries such as iron and steel, petroleum and petrochemical, chemical and non-ferrous metals, and mercury-free transformation in (poly) vinyl chloride production industries. It is required to comply with relevant regulations and policies and Cleaner Production Evaluation Index System for Iron and Steel Industry, Cleaner Production Evaluation Index System for Nitrogenous Fertilizer Industry (Trial), Cleaner Production Evaluation Index System for Caustic Soda/PVC Industry (Trial), Cleaner Production Evaluation Index System for Aluminum Industry (Trial), Cleaner Production Evaluation Index System for Lead and Zinc Industry (Trial), Requirements of relevant standards and specifications such as Cleaner Production Evaluation Index System for Electrolytic Manganese Industry. The comprehensive utilization of
mineral resources includes the comprehensive development and utilization of energy mineral resources such as oil shale, oil sand and associated natural gas, and the comprehensive development and utilization of low-grade and associated minerals such as iron, manganese and chromium. Efficient development and utilization of copper, lead, nickel, tin, aluminum, magnesium, gold, silver and other non-ferrous metal mineral resources, comprehensive development and utilization of associated minerals, and comprehensive development and utilization of kaolin, bauxite, limestone, gypsum, phosphate and other non-metallic mineral resources associated minerals. The process and products shall meet the requirements of relevant national and local laws, regulations, policies and relevant standards and specifications. The comprehensive utilization
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industrial solid waste includes the application of industrial solid waste in the extraction of valuable components, building materials production, engineering construction (including housing, infrastructure, etc.), subsidence area treatment, goaf filling, ecological restoration, water pollution control, air pollution control and other fields, and the utilization of hazardous waste. For example, the utilization of coal gangue and fly ash in the fields of engineering construction, production of green building materials, ecological restoration of saline-alkali land and desertified land, efficient extraction and overall utilization of valuable components of metal tailings, preparation of sand-source substitution materials and cementitious backfilling from mining waste rocks, application of red mud in road materials and recovery of iron, alkali and alumina. The application of steel slag micropowder and metallurgical ash as concrete admixture in that field of engineer construction, the recovery of valuable components such as rare and scattered metals, rare and preciou metals and the like from smelting slag, chemical waste residues and industrial by-product salt, the recycling of melting and drawing fibers from waste filter bags, the preparation of cement and novel building materials from carbide slag, the utilization of phosphogypsum in the production of cement, soil conditioner, sulfuric acid and novel building materials, The application of desulfurization gypsum and citric acid gypsum in the production of new materials such as green building materials and gypsum whiskers, and the recycling and high-value utilization of industrial by-product gypsum. The process and products shall meet the requirements of relevant national and local regulations and policies as well as relevant standards and specifications. For the evaluation of the technology and products for the comprehensive utilization of industrial solid waste, refer to the Guidelines for the Evaluation of the Technology for the Comprehensive Utilization of Industrial Solid Waste (GB/T 32326) and the Guidelines for the Evaluation of the Environment, Quality and Safety of Products for the Comprehensive Utilization of Industrial Solid Waste (GB/T 32328).
Waste gas recovery and utilization
includes energy, raw material and resource utilization of all kinds of waste gas produced in the production process of iron and steel, coking, building materials, non-ferrous metals, petrochemical and chemical industries. For example, raw gas (coke oven gas), blast furnace gas, converter gas, high-sulfur natural gas and other waste gases are recycled for energy and raw materials such as fuel ethanol, and industrial hydrogen, methane, hydrogen sulfide, chlorine, hydrogen chloride, carbon dioxide and other waste gases are purified to produce pure hydrogen, sulfur and carbon dioxide. Waste gas such as high-purity carbon dioxide is recycled by raw material, mineralization and oil displacement, waste gas such as trifluoromethane by-product in the production of hydrochlorofluorocarbons and hydrofluorocarbons is recycled, dust-containing waste gas such as flue gas and kiln waste gas is recycled, and waste heat and pressure are recycled. The process and products shall meet the requirements of relevant national and local regulations and policies and relevant standards and specifications such as the Principles and Requirements for Comprehensive Utilization of Waste Gas in Industrial Parks (GB/T 36574). The construction and operation
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wind power generation facilities include the construction and operation of onshore wind power, offshore wind power and other facilities that use wind energy to generate electricity. Code for Design of Wind Power Plant (GB 51096), Code for Construction and Acceptance of Wind Power Generation Project (GB/T 51121), Technical Code for Connecting Wind Farm to Power System (GB/T 19963), Technical Code for Design of Connecting Large Wind Farm to Power System (NB/T 31003), etc. Requirements of relevant industry standards and specifications. The construction and operation
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solar energy utilization facilities include the construction and operation of solar photovoltaic power generation, solar thermal power generation and solar thermal utilization. Code for Design of Photovoltaic Power Station (GB 50797), Technical Code for Photovoltaic Power System Connected to Distribution Network (GB/T 29319), Technical Code for Stand-alone Photovoltaic System (GB/T 29196), Code for Operation and Maintenance of Building Integrated Photovoltaic System (JGJ/T 264), Technical Code for Application Design, Installation and Acceptance of Domestic Solar Water Heating System (GB/T 34377), Minimum Allowable Values of Energy Efficiency and Energy Efficiency Grades of Domestic Solar Water Heating System (GB 26969) (Level 2 and above), Technical Standard for Application of Solar Water Heating System in Civil Buildings (GB50364), Technical Specifications for Solar Water Heating Systems for Industrial Applications (GB/T30724), Technical Requirements for Water Storage Tanks for Domestic Solar Water Heating Systems (GB/T28746), Technical Standards for Solar Heating Engineering (GB 50495) and other relevant national and industrial standards and specifications. The construction and operation
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biomass energy utilization facilities include power generation, heat supply, gas production and solid fuel production with agricultural and forestry wastes and municipal solid waste as raw materials. Non-grain crops, agricultural and forestry residues, energy plants, waste oil and other wastes are used as the main raw materials to produce biodiesel, bio-aviation kerosene, bio-fuel ethanol, bio-methanol and other biomass liquid fuels, as well as the construction and operation of multi-generation demonstration facilities such as alcohol, electricity, gas and fertilizer. It is required to comply with Code for Design of Straw Power Plant (GB50762), Code for Design of Bio-liquid Fuel Plant (GB 50957), Production Preparation and Production Process Management Standard for Bio-liquid Fuel Construction Project (NB/T13006), Technical Code for Large and Medium-sized Biogas Engineering (GB/T 51063), Standards for Operation and Management of Biomass Gasification Centralized Gas Supply (NY/T 2908), Denatured Fuel Ethanol (GB 18350), Vehicle Ethanol Gasoline (GB 18351), Vehicle Diesel (GB 19147), B5 Diesel (GB 25199) and other national and industrial standards. The technical transformation project of coal-fired coupling biomass power generation shall be implemented in accordance with the Notice on the Construction of Pilot Technical Transformation Project of Coal-fired Coupling Biomass Power Generation (Guoneng Power Generation [2018] No.53).The construction and operation
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new energy storage facilities include electrochemical energy storage such as sodium-ion batteries, lithium-ion batteries, flow batteries, lead-carbon batteries, supercapacitors, compressed air energy storage, gravity energy storage and flywheel energy storage. Construction and operation of demonstration, demonstration and industrialization projects of various new energy storage technologies and composite energy storage technologies, such as thermal power, nuclear power steam extraction and energy storage. It shall comply with the Standard Conditions for Lithium-ion Battery Industry (2021 Edition) (Announcement No.37, 2021 of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology), the Standard for the Management of New Energy Storage Projects (Interim) (Guonengfa Science and Technology Regulation [2021] No.47), Notice on Strengthening Safety Management of Electrochemical Energy Storage Power Station (Guoneng Zongtong Safety [2022] No.37), Implementation Plan for the Development of New Energy Storage in the 14th Five-Year Plan (FGNY [2022] No.209) and other relevant regulations and policies, Code for Design of Electrochemical Energy Storage Power Station (GB 51048), Lead-acid batteries for energy storage (GB/T 22473) and other relevant national and local standards and specifications.
Mine geological environment restoration and ecological restoration
include relying on natural forces or intervening through artificial measures to restore mine ecological problems such as geological environment damage, land damage and vegetation damage caused by mineral resources exploitation. To stabilize the geological environment of the mine, reclaim and utilize the damaged land, and restore and improve the functions of the ecosystem. It is required to comply with the Mine Geological Environment Protection and Land Reclamation Plan and Technical Specifications for Mine Ecological Restoration Part 1: General Principles (TD/T 1070.
Construction and operation
of multimodal transport system and public transit railway and public transit water, including containers, bulk goods, cold chain materials, complete vehicles, Construction and operation of multimodal transport systems for materials such as express mail, construction of integrated freight hubs and special railway lines, and construction and operation of related facilities such as port collection and distribution channels to promote public transit railways and public transit water. The promotion of
green technology product certification includes the promotion of advanced technologies in the fields of energy conservation and carbon reduction, environmental protection, resource recycling, green and low-carbon transformation of energy, ecological protection, restoration and utilization. Certification and promotion of green products such as wood-based panels and wooden floors, coatings, sanitary ceramics, building glass, solar water heating systems, furniture, thermal insulation materials, waterproof sealing materials, ceramic tiles (panels), textile products, wood-plastic products, paper and paper products, plastic products, washing products, refrigerators, air conditioners and washing machines, tires, express packaging products, etc. Certification and promotion of energy-saving products such as computers and photocopiers, certification and promotion of low-carbon products such as Portland cement and flat glass, certification and promotion of water-saving products such as water nozzles and showers, certification and promotion of green building materials such as energy-saving glass and thermal insulation materials, certification and promotion of environmental label products such as electronics, electrical appliances and building materials, certification and promotion of organic products, certification and promotion of green food. Identification and promotion of comprehensive utilization products and remanufactured products of industrial solid waste resources, certification and promotion of sustainable forest management and products, certification and promotion of green transportation infrastructure, certification of sustainable aviation fuel, certification of contract energy management services, etc. Measures for the Administration of the Use of Green Product Labels (Announcement No.20 of 2019 of the General Administration of Market Supervision), Measures for the Administration of Green Building Material Evaluation Labels (Jianke [2014] No.75), Measures for the Administration of Organic Product Certification (Decree No.61 of 2022 of the General Administration of Market Supervision), The Regulations on the Administration of Green Food Labels (revised by Decree No.1 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs in 2022) and other relevant laws and policies require that the green food be marked. The products shall meet the requirements of relevant national and local standards and specifications such as the List of Green Product Evaluation Standards and Certification Catalogue (the first, second, third and fourth batches) (Announcement No.2 of 2018, No.59 of 2020, No.43 of 2021 and No.24 of 2023 of the General Administration of Market Supervision).
Promoting green and low-carbon development is not only an inevitable choice for the cement industry to respond to the challenges of global climate change and implement the sustainable development strategy, but also an inherent demand for the transformation and upgrading of the industry and the realization of high-quality development.
