MIIT: China to develop 500 zero-carbon factories by 2030

China will develop 500 zero-carbon factories during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), creating a number of “replicable and scalable” models for zero-carbon factory development, according to Xin Guobin, vice minister of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

During the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), the number of green factories in China reached 8,336, while their output value as a share of the total output value of sizable enterprises in the manufacturing sector rose from 9% to 22%. Meanwhile, water consumption per unit of industrial value added fell by