On October 24, the "2024 China Cement Double Carbon Conference and the 12th Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Technology Exchange Conference" was held in Wuhu, Anhui Province. Zhu Shengli, General Manager of Conch Group, delivered a brilliant speech.
Zhu Shengli said that Conch, as a leading enterprise in the industry, has been actively practicing the responsibility of large enterprises in recent years, keeping a close eye on the goal of "double carbon", insisting on the transformation around green and low carbon, continuously increasing pollution control, continuously promoting energy conservation and carbon reduction, and further developing circular economy. Clean production, carbon emission reduction technology R & D and application, and green industry development scale are all at the leading level in the industry.
Conch concentrates on carbon emission reduction action. Immediately after the national "double carbon" goal was put forward, a carbon peak, carbon neutral action plan and the "14th Five-Year Plan" energy conservation and carbon reduction plan were formulated and implemented, and six specific carbon reduction paths and group carbon neutral road maps were defined, including energy conservation and consumption reduction, fuel substitution, raw material substitution, carbon capture and utilization, and plant carbon sinks. It is planned that by 2050, the subsidiaries in the eastern region will take the lead in achieving carbon neutrality; by 2060, the consumption of non-fossil energy will reach more than 80%, and the whole group will achieve carbon neutrality.
The following is the full text of the speech:
Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, friends,
good morning!
In this late autumn season of "a boat full of autumn scenery, spreading ten miles of lake light", we meet again in the beautiful river city of Wuhu. Exchange energy-saving and environmental protection technologies in the cement industry and seek a green and low-carbon development path for the industry. Here, on behalf of Conch Group, I would like to extend a warm welcome to all the leaders and guests present at the conference! I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to China Cement Network for hosting this event.
On September 22, 2020, the President of Xi Jinping first proposed at the General Assembly of the United Nations that "China's carbon emissions will strive to reach a peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060", and at the Climate Summit in the same year, "By 2030, China's carbon emissions will reach a peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060". China's solemn commitment that carbon emissions per unit of GDP will be reduced by more than 65% compared with 2005 and that non-fossil energy will account for about 25% of primary energy consumption demonstrates the mission of a responsible big country. As a major carbon emitter, the cement industry implements the strategic plan of the General Secretary, speeds up the green transformation and achieves low-carbon development, which is not only the most urgent political task at present and for a long time to come, but also the only way to enhance its core competitiveness, achieve high-quality development and even catch up with the cement industry of western developed countries. As a leading enterprise in the industry
, Conch has been actively practicing the responsibility of large enterprises in recent years, focusing on the goal of "double carbon", insisting on green and low-carbon transformation, continuously increasing pollution control, continuously promoting energy conservation and carbon reduction, and further developing circular economy. Clean production, carbon emission reduction technology R & D and application, and green industry development scale are all at the leading level in the industry.
We focus on reducing carbon emissions. Immediately after the national "double carbon" goal was put forward, a carbon peak, carbon neutral action plan and the "14th Five-Year Plan" energy conservation and carbon reduction plan were formulated and implemented, and six specific carbon reduction paths and group carbon neutral road maps were defined, including energy conservation and consumption reduction, fuel substitution, raw material substitution, carbon capture and utilization, and plant carbon sinks. We plan that by 2050, our subsidiaries in the eastern region will take the lead in achieving carbon neutrality; by 2060, the consumption of non-fossil energy will reach more than 80%, and the whole group will achieve carbon neutrality.
We will focus on tackling key scientific and technological problems of carbon emission reduction. To give full play to the comprehensive advantages of "industry-university-research fund", Anhui Cement Carbon Capture and Conversion Application Innovation Consortium, one technology innovation center and four joint laboratories for energy saving and carbon reduction have been jointly established, and three carbon research institutes and China Carbon Company have been established, thus forming a "double-carbon" R & D and transformation system of "multi-linkage and collaborative innovation". At present, we are relying on the above innovation system to accelerate the research and development of more cutting-edge carbon emission reduction technologies from the aspects of source emission reduction, process emission reduction and end emission reduction, and have also harvested a number of major scientific and technological innovations such as carbon capture, purification and utilization of cement kilns, carbon dioxide energy storage and so on, some of which are the first in China and even in the world.
We focus on the development of "double carbon" industry. With the help of the advantages of cement industry and focusing on the goal of double carbon, many industries have been developed, such as waste heat power generation, co-disposal of garbage and solid hazardous waste, green energy, new energy-saving and environmental protection materials, alternative fuels, biomass charcoal production and so on. The development scale of photovoltaic power generation, industrial preparations, biomass alternative fuels, SCR denitrification catalysts and other industries has ranked in the forefront of the cement industry.
In the new era, the Third Plenary Session of the Twentieth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China put forward the general requirements of deepening the reform of ecological civilization, improving the green and low-carbon development mechanism, and transforming from energy consumption control to carbon emission control. Recently, a series of new low-carbon policies have been introduced, and this year the cement industry has been included in the first control year of the national carbon market. However, in view of the particularity of the cement industry, in order to achieve the goal of "double carbon", we need to pay more sweat and efforts than other manufacturing industries. It is hoped that experts and technical leaders of enterprises will conduct in-depth discussions, gather consensus and strength, and strive to explore a "double-carbon" strategic development path with low operating costs, high technology maturity and obvious comprehensive effects, so as to realize the magnificent transformation of China's cement industry to green and low-carbon.
Finally, I wish this conference a complete success! I wish you all good health and good luck! Thank you all!
