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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 12 (Xinhua) - Moving towards Green, State owned Assets and Central Enterprises Shine the Ecological Background of High Quality Development

Xinhua News Agency reporters Wang Xi and Liu Yujia

Water and grass are intertwined, green trees provide shade, and numerous egrets or branches inhabit or dance, adding vitality to the factory with dense pipe galleries and storage tanks... In the factory area of Sinopec Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Company in Ningbo, Zhejiang, there is a natural habitat for egrets, where thousands of egrets breed and thrive every spring and summer.

The "egret flying in petrochemical enterprises" has become a beautiful business card for the ecological protection of Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Industry, and also reflects the exploration and practice of state-owned enterprises with overseas investment moving towards greenery. In recent years, state-owned and central enterprises have steadfastly taken the path of ecological priority, green and low-carbon development, and the "gold content" and "green content" of development have been continuously increasing.

Zhenhai Refining and Chemical has launched a global slow live broadcast, showcasing real-time panoramic views of bird reproduction and habitat in the park. This is a screenshot of the live broadcast on June 11th.

Accelerate the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure

As the backbone of the national economy, the overall industrial structure of central enterprises is biased. Starting from this objective reality, state-owned assets and central enterprises should firmly grasp the key force of industrial structure transformation and upgrading, and implement a green and low-carbon transformation strategy.

Innovate the drainage system of mining roads to achieve water recycling and reuse; Upgrade the sprinkler system to triple the dust reduction effect; Ban coal-fired boilers, implement air heating, and reduce coal consumption by 8000 tons per year... At the Nanfen open-pit iron mine of Benxi Iron and Steel Group, a subsidiary of Ansteel Group, the large-scale technological transformation continuously enhances the new atmosphere of this century old mine.

"Relying on digital technology, we are developing projects such as unmanned vehicle driving and remote control of hook machines, and the mine will enter a new stage of intelligent mining," said Li Bin, the manager of Nanfen Open pit Iron Mine.

Statistics show that from 2016 to 2022, central enterprises have resolved a total of 16.44 million tons of steel overcapacity and 119 million tons of coal overcapacity. Coal power enterprises have completed the task of ultra-low emission transformation of coal-fired units, chemical enterprises have constructed "zero discharge" projects for wastewater, and building materials enterprises have strengthened the recycling of solid waste and hazardous waste.

Traditional industries are accelerating their transformation, and emerging industries are also accelerating their layout. In the past five years, the average annual growth rate of investment by central enterprises in new energy, new materials and other fields has exceeded 20%. The digital transformation action plan and the 5G application "Sailing" action have been deeply promoted.

As the industrial structure continues to shift towards high-end and low-carbon, the high-quality development of central enterprises is becoming more and more green.

Transformation of Energy towards Green and Low Carbon Direction

Swallowing catering waste oil and spitting out bio aviation kerosene - At Zhenhai Refining and Chemical, the first domestic bio aviation coal industrial plant has been able to achieve large-scale production. Mo Dingge, Secretary of the Party Committee of Zhenhai Refining and Chemical, introduced that compared with traditional aviation kerosene, bio aviation coal can reduce carbon dioxide emissions throughout its entire lifecycle by more than 50%.

It is understood that since the beginning of this year, airlines such as China Eastern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines have used sustainable aviation fuel from Zhenhai Refining to complete multiple flight operations, safeguarding the blue sky and white clouds with practical actions, and promoting the sustainable development concept of "energy conservation, carbon reduction, and green flight".

Guided by the "dual carbon" goal, state-owned assets and central enterprises coordinate energy supply and green transformation, continuously promoting the accelerated transformation of energy structure towards green and low-carbon direction.

——The efficiency of energy and resource utilization continues to improve. Strengthening the clean and efficient utilization of coal, central coal-fired power enterprises have fully completed the task of ultra-low emission transformation, and the unit coal consumption for power supply has been reduced to 294 grams of standard coal per kilowatt hour.

——Renewable energy has increased in quantity and quality. The installed capacity of clean energy accounts for over 49%, and more than one-third of central enterprises are expanding into the hydrogen energy industry, steadily promoting the integrated development of hydrogen production, storage, transmission, and utilization.

——Presenting a brilliant "transcript" for energy conservation and emission reduction. In 2022, the energy consumption intensity and carbon dioxide emission intensity of central enterprises decreased by 4.5% and 3.9% respectively year-on-year, while the emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, chemical oxygen demand, and ammonia nitrogen decreased by 8.4%, 12.9%, 11.2%, and 7.0% respectively year-on-year.

Carbon reduction has a "sharp weapon", and ensuring supply has a "confidence". The State owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council has urged relevant central enterprises to firmly shoulder the main responsibility of ensuring energy and electricity supply, and to play a "combination punch" in increasing production and supply, stabilizing the market and prices. According to data from the State owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, in 2022, central power generation enterprises ensured 63.1% of the country's electricity supply with 54.7% of the unit capacity.

Technological innovation empowers green development

On June 2nd, in Taizhou, Jiangsu, the National Energy Group's carbon dioxide capture, utilization, and storage project was put into operation, with a carbon dioxide capture capacity of 500000 tons per year;

On the same day, after on-site inspection by an expert group, it was confirmed that the world's first offshore wind power desalination seawater in-situ direct electrolysis hydrogen production technology pilot test was successful at the Xinghua Bay offshore wind farm in Fujian;

On June 4th, in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, the design power of the "Taihang 110" heavy-duty gas turbine of the China Aerospace Group passed product verification and appraisal. Compared with thermal power generation units of the same power, it can reduce carbon emissions by more than 1 million tons per year

In recent days, a group of green, low-carbon and hard technologies have made breakthroughs, reflecting the enthusiasm and vitality of central enterprises in green technology innovation.

"Technology is a powerful tool to solve environmental problems and also a support for the green and low-carbon development of industries." The relevant person in charge of the Social Responsibility Bureau of the State owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission stated that in recent years, state-owned and central enterprises have fully played the role of enterprise innovation entities, strengthened the construction of innovation systems and policy guarantees, and continued to make new progress in the construction of original technology sources in the green and low-carbon field.

It is understood that in the next step, central enterprises will focus on key and difficult issues such as difficulty in replacing traditional processes, difficulty in tapping the potential of existing technologies, and high investment and application costs of new technologies. They will adhere to a dual approach of tackling and applying key core technologies in the green field, accelerate breakthroughs and innovative applications, and provide strong technological support for green development.