Original title: Heavy documents in the steel industry will issue experts’ suggestions for six directions to carry out low-carbon actions
Our reporter Liu Meng
On January 10, Lv Guixin, a first-level inspector of the Raw Materials Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at the third meeting of the sixth general meeting of the China Iron and Steel Association that the quality of industry development should be further improved. Recently, the “14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Raw Materials Industry” (hereinafter referred to as the “Plan”) has been released, and the “Guiding Opinions on Promoting the High-Quality Development of the Iron and Steel Industry” and the “Implementation Plan for Carbon Peaking in the Iron and Steel Industry” will be released in succession. In the next step, it is necessary to further promote the merger and reorganization of the industry, and improve the green, intelligent, high-end and service-oriented level of the industry.
Wu Qi, executive director of the Wuxi Digital Economy Research Institute, told the Securities Daily reporter that the above policy plan has formulated the corresponding overall requirements, main measures and key tasks for the steel industry based on China’s carbon peaking goal, which will help promote the green layout. , optimize energy consumption and process structure, build a circular economy industrial chain, provide theoretical guidance for the green development of the iron and steel industry, and ensure that the low-carbon development of the iron and steel industry is carried out objectively and scientifically.
Liu Xiangdong, deputy director of the Economic Research Department of the China International Economic Exchange Center, told the Securities Daily reporter that the implementation of the “Plan” will promote the optimization and adjustment of the industrial structure and develop in a green direction. In particular, the iron and steel industry bears the important task of carbon reduction. It is necessary to take practical measures to promote energy conservation and carbon reduction, including optimizing the design of production processes, reducing energy consumption and emissions, and actively applying new carbon capture and storage technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. emissions to meet new requirements.
Chen Kelong, director of the Raw Materials Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that by 2025, the production capacity of key raw materials and bulk products such as crude steel and cement will only decrease but not increase, forming 5 to 10 industrial chain leaders with ecological leadership and core competitiveness. Enterprises, forming more than 5 world-class advanced manufacturing clusters in the field of raw materials.
“With the release of the above-mentioned plans, opinions, and plans, the supply of crude steel is expected to decrease year by year, and the orderly development of electric furnace short processes has become an inevitable trend in process adjustment. Industry mergers and reorganizations and green transformation and development will also accelerate.” Wu Qi said.
The reporter noticed that on the interactive platform of the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges, some investors actively inquired about the business plans of relevant listed companies. A company responded that the company adhered to the environmental protection principle of “protection first, prevention first, and comprehensive management” around the environmental policy goals of “energy saving and emission reduction, low-carbon development, emission standards, and continuous improvement”, and carried out the existing environmental protection facilities. Upgrading. The company will further accelerate the implementation of the low-carbon route plan, continue to promote energy saving, intelligent manufacturing, and green manufacturing, and build a sustainable and green development of intelligent manufacturing special steel enterprises.
The Central Economic Work Conference proposed that “it is necessary to correctly understand and grasp the peak carbon neutrality”, how should the steel industry implement it? Fu Yifu, a senior researcher at Xingtu Financial Research Institute, said in an interview with a reporter from Securities Daily that on the one hand, it is necessary to speed up the pace of technological innovation, especially in the areas of low-carbon smelting technology, digital information transformation and optimization of process flow structure. On the other hand, it is necessary to speed up the adjustment of energy structure, focus on eliminating outdated production capacity, and increase the recycling and utilization of scrap steel. The utilization of renewable energy, actively promote the replacement of clean energy, realize multi-energy complementarity, and then help the low-carbon development of the steel industry.
Wu Qi believes that the iron and steel industry should carry out actions in the following six directions: First, promote green layout, eliminate backward production capacity, develop green products, and promote clean transportation; second, save energy and improve energy efficiency, promote the application of advanced energy-saving and low-carbon technologies, and implement operation Intelligent management and control system; third, optimize energy consumption and process structure, and improve the utilization of new energy and renewable energy; fourth, build a circular economy industrial chain to achieve regional energy and resource integration; fifth, research and develop breakthrough low-carbon technologies to develop carbon Capture, utilization and storage, hydrogen reduction, oxygen-enriched blast furnace and other technologies; Sixth, do a good job in relevant system construction and policy system guarantee.
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