20 Policies Benefiting Environmental Protection Industry

20 Policies Benefiting Environmental Protection Industry

Environmental protection industry is a policy-driven industry, and policy is very important for the development of environmental protection industry and environmental protection enterprises. As we bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, let's take stock of 20 policies introduced in 2022 that are conducive to the development of the environmental protection industry.

This year will be the first year of economic recovery in the post-epidemic era, and the environmental protection industry is expected to usher in a new round of development by superimposing the dividends released by the policy. However, for industrial investment, project selection, market layout, etc. Environmental protection enterprises should make steady progress.

1. Action Plan for High Quality Development of Environmental Protection Equipment Manufacturing Industry (2022-2025).

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued the Action Plan for High-quality Development of Environmental Protection Equipment Manufacturing Industry (2022-2025), which pointed out the direction for the development of environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry in the next few years.

This is the first time that the Action Plan for High-quality Development of Environmental Protection Equipment Manufacturing Industry has been released at the national level. The Action Plan clearly states that by 2025, the output value of environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry will strive to reach 1.3 trillion yuan. As of 202 1, the output value of environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry is 950 billion yuan, and there is still room for growth in the next three years.

2. Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Agricultural and Rural Pollution (202 1-2025).

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Water Resources and the National Rural Revitalization Bureau jointly issued the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Pollution in Agriculture and Rural Areas (202 1-2025).

The "Program" requires that by 2025, the level of rural environmental improvement will be significantly improved, agricultural non-point source pollution will be initially controlled, and the rural ecological environment will continue to improve. The environmental improvement of 80,000 administrative villages has been newly completed, and the treatment rate of rural domestic sewage has reached 40%, basically eliminating large areas of rural black and odorous water bodies; The use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides continued to decrease, with the utilization rate of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in major crops reaching 43% and the recovery rate of agricultural film reaching 85%. The comprehensive utilization rate of livestock manure reaches over 80%.

3. Guiding opinions on promoting the high-quality development of iron and steel industry

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment jointly issued the Guiding Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of the Iron and Steel Industry, proposing that by 2025, more than 80% of the steel production capacity will complete the ultra-low emission transformation.

According to the report of Economic Daily in September 2022, China's steel production capacity has reached nearly 400 million tons, and the accumulated investment in ultra-low emission transformation has exceeded 654.38+050 billion yuan. To complete the transformation project of 800 million tons of steel production capacity by 2025, there are still about 400 million tons to be implemented. According to the average tons of steel investment in 360 yuan, the new investment is not less than 654.38 billion yuan.

4. Accelerate the implementation plan of comprehensive utilization of industrial resources

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other eight departments issued the Implementation Plan on Accelerating the Comprehensive Utilization of Industrial Resources, proposing that by 2025, the comprehensive utilization rate of bulk industrial solid waste will reach 57%, and the utilization of major renewable resources will exceed 480 million tons.

Around the construction of closed-loop management of efficient recycling of resources, the Implementation Plan puts forward three major projects: comprehensive utilization of industrial solid waste to improve quality and efficiency, efficient recycling of renewable resources and improvement of comprehensive utilization capacity of industrial resources.

5. Guiding opinions on accelerating the construction of urban environmental infrastructure

The General Office of the State Council forwarded the guiding opinions of the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments on accelerating the construction of urban environmental infrastructure, deployed to accelerate the construction of urban environmental infrastructure, and helped to fight the tough battle of pollution prevention and control.

The document defines the main objectives of urban environmental infrastructure construction in 2025, puts forward the key tasks of 15 to accelerate the construction of urban environmental infrastructure, and makes a systematic layout and overall planning for domestic sewage, domestic garbage, solid waste, hazardous waste and medical waste during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period.

6. Opinions on promoting the green development of the Belt and Road Initiative.

The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the Ministry of Commerce issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Green Development of the Belt and Road" to promote the cooperation in key areas of green development and the green development of overseas projects as a whole.

Under the "One Belt, One Road" initiative, overseas business will become a new growth pole of environmental protection industry, and some environmental protection enterprises will also look to foreign markets to realize the gradual development from China enterprises to multinational companies. The release of "Opinions" is good for environmental protection enterprises that intend to "go global".

7. Opinions on accelerating the construction of a unified national market

The Central Committee and the State Council issued the Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of a National Unified Market, which clearly put forward the requirement of "cultivating and developing a national unified ecological environment market".

The publication of the document is conducive to promoting the environmental protection market to break the regional division, preventing the formation of new compartmentalization, further establishing and improving an efficient and standardized environmental protection industry market mechanism, speeding up the survival of the fittest, forcing enterprises to enhance their core competitiveness and promoting scientific and technological innovation and industrial upgrading.

8. Deepen the implementation plan of urban black and odorous water remediation.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and other four departments issued the "Implementation Plan for Deepening the Renovation of Urban Black and Odor Water Bodies", which requires that by 2025, the proportion of black and odorous water bodies in county-level urban built-up areas will reach 90%, and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions will strive to complete it in advance 1 year.

The document requires that the source pollution control be continuously promoted. This is a good thing for terminal sewage treatment enterprises.

9 "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" period urban black and odorous water remediation environmental protection action plan.

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development jointly issued the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" for environmental protection of urban black and odorous water bodies. During this period, actions will be carried out by combining national and local governments.

At the local level, the key tasks include: verifying the list of black and odorous water bodies in urban built-up areas; Investigate the water quality of urban black and odorous water bodies, the collection and treatment efficiency of sewage and garbage, the prevention and control of industrial and agricultural pollution, and the ecological restoration of rivers and lakes; Judging the effectiveness of urban black and odorous water treatment; Establish a list of urban black and odorous water problems and urge local authorities to rectify within a time limit.

At the national level, strengthen the management of the list of urban black and odorous water bodies, spot check the effectiveness of provincial actions, and accurately identify outstanding problems and backward areas through satellite remote sensing, mass reporting, cross-section monitoring, and on-site investigation. For outstanding problems that have been delayed for a long time, the relevant clues will be handed over to the central eco-environmental protection inspector and the eco-environmental warning film of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the Yellow River Basin for on-site shooting.

10, notice on agreeing to carry out the second batch of pilot eco-environment oriented development (EOD) models.

The General Office of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the General Office of the National Development and Reform Commission and the General Office of the China Development Bank jointly issued the Notice on Agreeing to Carry out the Second Batch of Eco-environment-oriented Development (EOD) Model Pilots, and agreed to carry out the second batch of pilot projects of 58 projects including the integrated development project of ecological governance and rural revitalization in Chaohe River Basin (Luanping section) of Hebei Province, with a period of 2022-2024.

EOD mode is to realize the self-seeking balance between the overall income and financing of the project through the combination, joint development and overall promotion of ecological environment governance and industrial development projects, and effectively alleviate the ecological environment investment and financing problems such as insufficient financial investment and lack of investment return mechanism.

1 1, Opinions on Promoting Urbanization with County as an Important Carrier.

The General Office of the Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Promoting the Urbanization Construction with Counties as an Important Carrier, and put forward the requirements of "promoting the upgrading and efficiency improvement of industrial supporting facilities, the upgrading and transformation of municipal public facilities, the upgrading and expansion of public service facilities and the upgrading and expansion of environmental infrastructure within counties".

According to the document, by 2025, important progress will be made in urbanization with county towns as an important carrier, and the shortcomings of county towns will be further filled. A number of county towns with good location advantages and industrial foundation, strong carrying capacity of resources and environment and good economic conditions for gathering population have achieved remarkable results. This means that in the next three years, the construction of county-level environmental infrastructure will usher in a wave of climax.

12, industrial water efficiency improvement action plan

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other six departments issued the Action Plan for Improving Industrial Water Efficiency, proposing that by 2025, the water consumption per 10,000 yuan of industrial added value in China will be lower than that in 2020 16%. The recycling level of industrial wastewater has been further improved, and the recycling rate of industrial water above designated size in China has reached about 94%.

In view of the technical difficulties and equipment shortcomings of water saving in the industry, the document pointed out that efforts should be made to break through the key water saving technologies such as treatment and reuse of high-concentration organic wastewater and high-salt wastewater, high-performance membrane materials, high-efficiency catalysts, green chemicals, intelligent monitoring and optimal control. In other words, enterprises that master advanced technology in the future will benefit.

13, Eco-environmental Protection Planning of the Yellow River Basin

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Water Resources jointly issued the Yellow River Basin Ecological Environment Protection Plan, which is an important basis for guiding the ecological environment protection work in the Yellow River Basin at present and in the future, and for formulating and implementing relevant planning schemes, policy measures and engineering projects.

The plan focuses on solving the outstanding ecological and environmental problems in the Yellow River basin, and puts forward the ecological and environmental protection targets in 2030, 2035 and the middle of this century, puts forward 7 key tasks and deploys 8 key projects.

14, "Action Plan for Ecological Protection and Governance of the Yellow River"

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment and other departments 12 jointly issued the Action Plan for Ecological Protection and Governance of the Yellow River, focusing on outstanding ecological problems in the river basin and deploying five major actions such as ecological protection and governance of rivers and lakes.

The Action Plan, together with the Yellow River Basin Ecological Environment Protection Plan released in June and the Yellow River Protection Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) adopted in June 10, will be another great historical opportunity for environmental protection industries and enterprises after the Yangtze River protection.

15, implementation scheme of sludge harmless treatment and resource utilization

The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued the Implementation Plan for Sludge Harmless Treatment and Resource Utilization, proposing that by 2025, the scale of new sludge harmless treatment facilities in China will be no less than 20,000 tons/day, the rate of urban sludge harmless treatment will reach over 90%, and that of cities at prefecture level and above will reach over 95%, basically forming a sludge harmless resource treatment system with complete facilities, safe operation, green and low carbon, and effective supervision.

The "Implementation Plan" is the first plan for sludge at the national level, which fills the policy gap in this field, brings the harmless treatment and resource utilization of sludge into the overall layout of urban environmental infrastructure from the perspectives of treatment path, facility planning and spatial layout, and clarifies the direction and path of sludge treatment and disposal, which will be a great benefit to the development of the whole sludge treatment industry.

16, People's Republic of China (PRC) Yellow River Protection Law.

People's Republic of China (PRC) Yellow River Protection Law was passed at the 37th meeting of the 13th NPC Standing Committee, which is the second special river basin law in China.

After the promulgation of the Yellow River Protection Law, sub-sectors of environmental protection industries such as water affairs, solid waste and ecological restoration were favored, but the release of policy dividends was not achieved overnight. Environmental protection enterprises should not be blind, but should be "active, steady and orderly", especially in their own technical level, financial strength, team management and so on.

17, Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Domestic Waste Incineration Treatment Facilities in Counties.

The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment jointly issued the Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Domestic Waste Incineration Facilities in County-level Areas, which defined six key tasks 19 to strengthen the construction of incineration facilities in county-level areas.

According to the document, by 2025, all domestic waste incineration facilities will be built in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the Yellow River Basin, key cities for domestic waste classification, construction areas of "garbage-free cities" and other county-level areas with conditions.

18, "Action Plan for Further Fighting Heavy Pollution Weather Elimination, Ozone Pollution Prevention and Control and Diesel Truck Pollution Control"

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment and other departments 15 jointly issued the "Action Plan for Deepening the Elimination of Heavy Pollution Weather, Ozone Pollution Prevention and Control and Diesel Truck Pollution Control", demanding that three landmark battles be fought for the elimination of heavy pollution weather, ozone pollution prevention and control and diesel truck pollution control.

The "Proposal" proposes that by 2025, the severe and above polluted weather in the country will be basically eliminated; The coordinated control of PM2.5 and ozone has achieved positive results, and the growth trend of ozone concentration has been effectively curbed; The pollution control level of diesel trucks has been significantly improved, and the total discharge of major pollutants from mobile sources has decreased significantly.

19, Outline of Strategic Plan for Expanding Domestic Demand (2022-2035).

The Central Committee and the State Council issued the Outline of the Strategic Plan for Expanding Domestic Demand (2022-2035), which clearly put forward the requirement of "continuously promoting investment in key areas to make up for shortcomings", including increasing the construction of ecological and environmental protection facilities.

Specifically, it includes: First, build an environmental infrastructure system integrating sewage, garbage, solid waste, hazardous waste, medical waste treatment and disposal facilities and monitoring and supervision capabilities, and form an environmental infrastructure network extending from cities to towns.

The second is to implement major projects for the protection and restoration of important ecosystems.

Third, comprehensively promote the efficient use of resources, and build ecological and environmental protection facilities that promote the improvement of clean energy utilization and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

20. Further improve the implementation plan of market-oriented green technology innovation system (2023-2025).

The National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Science and Technology jointly issued the Implementation Plan for Further Improving the Market-oriented Green Technology Innovation System (2023-2025). By 2025, the market-oriented green technology innovation system will be further improved, and the supporting capacity of green technology innovation for green and low-carbon development will be continuously enhanced. The main body of enterprise green technology innovation has further grown.

In terms of expanding the main body of green technology innovation, the implementation plan will cultivate leading enterprises in green technology innovation and support leading enterprises and their consortia to undertake green technology research and development projects supported by the national science and technology plan. Cultivate small and medium-sized enterprises specializing in green technology innovation and "little giant" enterprises specializing in green technology innovation, and increase support for small and medium-sized micro-green technology innovation enterprises. This is a good thing for small and medium-sized environmental protection enterprises. Only by mastering the core technology can we settle down in the big waves.