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Beijing has been reviewing and cracking down on the blind development of projects with “Two Highs” - a short term referring to those projects with high emission and energy consumption, as such projects appear many over 2021-2025 and may lead to a serious increase in power consumption, China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) shared in a post on September 20.
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This year China’s central government intends to include more of the country’s northern, eastern, and central regions in its annual campaign to reduce air pollution during autumn and winter by requiring industrial enterprises responsible for serious atmospheric pollution to further rein-in their production, according to a draft plan released by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) on September 16.
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The recently-updated tiered power charge scheme for China’s auluminum smelting will urge the domestic smelters to further enhance efficiency in power consumption and reduce carbon emission that will be aligned with China’s carbon emission peak and carbon neutral targets, China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association commented in a August 27 post.
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Nowadays, sustainability in the ferrous world has one more dimension, that of the big “C”, as in “carbon”, and many countries including those in the European Union, U.S., Australia, and China have been urging their ferrous industrial enterprises to pursue decarbonization goals. Their domestic companies are also taking their own initiatives to minimize their carbon footprints.
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China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) has sent its seven inspection teams to five provinces and two state-owned enterprises in the country, to investigate and uncover any illegitimate high energy-consuming and high-waste emitting projects, reincarnation of dismantled obsolete iron and steel capacities and any violations of environmental protection rules and regulations, according to a MEE notice on August 25.
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Meng Wei, NDRC spokesman of China’s National and Reform Commission (NDRC), for the first time, identified the issues in great details among the local authorities in dealing with de-carbonization and their misunderstanding by treating this as a “campaign” when she answered a media inquiry at the press conference on August 1.
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Inner Mongolia in North China, now the country’s second-largest coal mining region after Shanxi in North China too and with the most competitive power charges, mulls blocking any new industrial projects including steel, coke, ferroalloys, non-ultra-high electrode graphite and aluminium starting 2021, aiming to rein in on the region’s power consumption mainly by such industrial plants, according to a draft by its Development and Reform Committee.
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The Mines Ministry has invited comments from the public on a series of structural reforms it proposes under Atmanirbhar Bharat to enhance private investments and generates employment in the mineral sector.
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China’s central government aims to promote domestic sales of electric home appliances via a trade-in policy and within three years, as well as to set up an orderly system for collecting, separating and recycling old home appliances, according to two posts from the country’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on May 18 and May 19.
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China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) released two notices on its website on November 12 regarding winter restrictions in the Fenwei Plains and the Yangtze River Delta area over October 1-March 31 2020, with steel, coal and coke industries mentioned, though the focus has been on PM2.5 reduction and waste emission than any detailed and specific instructions in tackling coking, blast furnaces, and sintering.
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After a six-year hiatus, China’s National Development and Reform
Committee (NDRC), the country’s top economic planning body, has released its
latest industrial restructuring guidelines, effective on January 1 2020, to
direct the development of all the key 48 economic sectors including new energy,
coal, steel, nonferrous metals and mining.
The version, posted on the Committee’s
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Chinese steel market participants are divided on whether steel mills in the “2+26” cities in North China will definitely face tougher restrictions from their local authorities in the upcoming winter over November-March 2020 just because Beijing has set a higher bar for air pollution reduction, targeting to reduce the average PM2.5 density by 4% on year for the 2019 winter from last year’s 3% reduction.
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China is proud of its contribution to the global economy which has seen the country’s growth account for nearly one-third of global growth over the past few years, according to Hua Chunying, the spokesperson of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Inspectors from the local government of North China’s Shanxi province have begun investigating complaints that alumina plants in the province are responsible for serious leaks from sludge dumps that are causing pollution. Thus, market sources fear alumina supplies could be significantly affected.
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China has been progressing steadily in the shift towards eco-friendly energy consumption model by having further reduced coal proportion in energy consumption by 1.4 percentage points on year to 59%, according the latest statistics from China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
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China’s Premier Li Keqiang drafted a few economic development targets including a gross domestic product (GDP) growth at 6-6.5% and proposed a series of measures to support the domestic economic performance for 2019 when delivering his government report at the National People’s Congress annual session on March 5.
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Beijing’s shift of its focus onto detailed air pollution
control guidelines for the “2+26” cities over October 1-March 31 2019, which
differs from the specific and detailed blanket control over polluting
industries including steel on their capacities,will by no meanssuggest “the loosening in control or lower severity
in essence from the 2017 winter”, according
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Chinese domestic aluminum prices are seen fluctuating in a narrow band this month but will basically remain firm as higher production costs are giving support for the light metal’s price, market sources said on September 7.
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China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology listed another seven domestic copper smelters on its website for public review over August 28-Sptember 28 before formally granting them the qualification certificates.
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Changzhou city in East China’s Jiangsu province is among the latest to join Beijing’s drive to improve air quality, with the city explicitly instructing 48 local steel mills to continue to cut their daily steel output beginning July 25 and lasting possibly until year’s end, an official from Changzhou City Environmental Protection Bureau confirmed on July 30.
