The State Council is striving for energy conservation and environmental protection to become a new pillar industry

The "Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Industry" issued by the State Council recently proposed that the annual growth rate of energy conservation and environmental protection industry output value is above 15%. By 2015, the total output value will reach 4.5 trillion yuan, becoming a new pillar industry of the national economy.

The opinion pointed out that solving energy conservation and environmental protection issues is an important and urgent task for building an upgraded version of China's economy. Accelerating the development of energy conservation and environmental protection industries is of great significance for stimulating investment and consumption, forming new economic growth points, promoting industrial upgrading and transformation of development methods, and promoting energy conservation and emission reduction and improvement of people's livelihood.

"It can be said that the development of the environmental protection industry has risen to the national strategy." Feng Liang, deputy inspector of the National Development and Reform Commission's Department of Environmental Protection, said that the environmental protection industry has strong growth, employment opportunities and market opportunities, and is a new round of industry in the world's major economies. The focus of development.

Director Wang Tao of the Department of Pollution Prevention and Control of the Ministry of Environmental Protection said that during the "11th Five-Year Plan" period, the cumulative output value of China's energy conservation and environmental protection industry exceeded 7 trillion yuan, and the added value was about 2 trillion yuan, which is close to the environmental protection investment of the whole society. During the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, the cumulative output value of the energy conservation and environmental protection industry is expected to exceed 10 trillion yuan, and the added value will exceed the environmental protection investment.

According to data provided by Luo Jianhua, secretary general of the Chamber of Commerce of the National Federation of Industry and Commerce Environmental Services, at present, there are about 5,000 enterprises engaged in environmental protection equipment manufacturing in the country; the total industrial output value is nearly 200 billion yuan, 3.5 times that of 2005; the number of employees is 500,000. the above.

Following the recent deployment of the State Council executive meeting to accelerate the development of energy conservation and environmental protection industries, the State Council recently issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Industries" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions"), clearly setting out industrial development goals and key development areas, and launching various concrete support. policy. According to relevant sources, in the next stage, the relevant state departments will further introduce specific work rules from the aspects of financial, taxation and other aspects, including accelerating the reform of resource product prices, arranging financial funds to support and guiding the development of energy conservation and environmental protection industries, and supporting qualified energy conservation and environmental protection. Corporate listing financing, etc.

The relevant experts of the National Development and Reform Commission said that "the Opinions" put forward three main objectives: the industrial technology level has been significantly improved; domestic equipment and products have basically met the market demand; the radiation belt has been fully utilized." The reporter noted that the "Opinions" clearly "Ten During the Second Five-Year Plan period, the output value of energy-saving and environmental protection industries will increase by more than 15% annually. By 2015, the total output value of energy-saving and environmental protection industries will reach 4.5 trillion yuan, and the added value will account for about 2% of GDP.

"As a policy-driven industry, energy conservation and environmental protection have repeatedly received high-level attention, and it has become an important choice to stimulate domestic effective demand and promote economic transformation and upgrading," said Feng Liang, deputy inspector of the National Development and Reform Commission. He said that the energy conservation and environmental protection industry refers to the industry that provides material basis and technical guarantee for saving energy resources, developing circular economy and protecting the ecological environment. It is one of the seven strategic emerging industries that the country accelerates cultivation and development. According to the "Opinions", the four major industrial areas that need to be developed during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period include: key areas of energy conservation industry, key areas of resource recycling industry, key areas of environmental protection industry, and energy conservation and environmental protection services.

In the key areas of energy-saving industries, the "Opinions" pointed out that it is necessary to focus on the development of energy-saving technologies and equipment such as boiler kiln, motor and traction equipment, waste heat and pressure utilization equipment, energy-saving products such as high-efficiency lighting products and energy-saving vehicles; The main mode of energy-saving services.