190Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the Opinion on Accelerating the Comprehensive Green Transformation of Economic and Social Development (hereinafter referred to as the Opinion). The Opinion proposes that by 2030, green transformation in key areas will have made positive progress, green production methods and lifestyles will have largely taken shape, and the ability to reduce pollution and carbon emissions will be significantly enhanced. Main resource utilization efficiency will be further improved, policies and standards supporting green development will be more complete, and comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development will achieve significant results. By 2035, a green, low-carbon, and circular economic system will be basically established, green production methods and lifestyles will be widely formed, and the synergistic effect of reducing pollution and carbon emissions will make significant progress. Main resource utilization efficiency will reach international advanced levels, economic and social development will fully enter a green and low-carbon track, carbon emissions will peak and then steadily decline, and the goal of Beautiful China will be largely achieved.
The Opinion proposes to increase the supply of green products. Enterprises are guided to conduct green design, choose green materials, promote green manufacturing, adopt green packaging, carry out green transportation, and recycle resources, thereby reducing the energy and resource consumption and environmental impact throughout the product lifecycle. Establish and improve the standards and norms for green product design, procurement, and manufacturing, strengthen the construction of green product certification and identification systems, improve energy efficiency and water efficiency labeling systems, and establish a product carbon footprint management system and product carbon label certification system.
The Opinion encourages expanding green consumption. Improve the incentive mechanism for green consumption. Optimize government green procurement policies, expand the scope and scale of green product procurement, and timely incorporate carbon footprint requirements into government procurement. Guide enterprises to implement green procurement guidelines, encourage enterprises with conditions to establish green supply chains, and drive upstream and downstream enterprises to transform collaboratively. Support regions with conditions to encourage enterprises to take measures such as "trade-in" programs through means like issuing consumption vouchers and green points, guiding consumers to purchase green products. Conduct activities promoting new energy vehicles and green intelligent home appliances, water-saving equipment, energy-saving stoves, and green building materials in rural areas, strengthen the construction of supporting facilities and after-sales service guarantees. Encourage users to expand their consumption of green energy.
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The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council's Opinion on Accelerating the Comprehensive Green Transformation of Economic and Social Development
(July 31, 2024)
Advancing the green and low-carbon development of economic and social development is a significant hallmark of the new concepts and practices of governance in the new era, a key link in achieving high-quality development, a fundamental strategy for solving China's resource, environment, and ecological problems, and an intrinsic requirement for building a modernization where humanity and nature coexist harmoniously. To accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, the following opinions are now proposed.
I. General Requirements
Persist in guiding principles from Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress and the second and third plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC, comprehensively implementing Xi Jinping Economic Thought and Xi Jinping Ecological Civilization Thought, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implementing new development concepts, accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, unswervingly taking the path of ecological priority, conservation, intensive use, green, and low-carbon high-quality development, leading with work on carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, coordinating the promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, deepening the reform of the ecological civilization system, improving mechanisms for green and low-carbon development, accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, forming a spatial layout, industrial structure, production methods, and lifestyle that save resources and protect the environment, and comprehensively advancing the construction of Beautiful China, accelerating the modernization of harmony between humanity and nature.
In the work, it is necessary to:
—Adhere to comprehensive transformation. Firmly establish the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, integrate the requirements of green transformation into the overall situation of economic and social development, comprehensively promote green transformation in all dimensions, fields, and regions, and build a community of life between humans and nature.
—Adhere to coordinated transformation. Fully consider the actual development of different regions and industries, adhere to the combination of coordinated advancement and key breakthroughs, scientifically set the timetable, roadmap, and blueprint for green transformation, and encourage regions and industries with conditions to take the lead in exploration.
—Adhere to innovative transformation. Strengthen innovation in science and technology, policy systems, and business models that support green transformation, advance the green and low-carbon technological revolution, develop new types of productivity according to local conditions, and improve the ecological civilization system to provide stronger innovative momentum and institutional guarantees for green transformation.
—Adhere to safe transformation. Coordinate the handling of the relationship between development and emission reduction, the whole and the part, the present and the long-term, the government and the market, properly prevent and resolve internal and external risks and challenges faced by green transformation, effectively safeguard food and energy security, industrial and supply chain security, and better ensure people's livelihoods.
The main goals are: By 2030, green transformation in key areas will have made positive progress, green production methods and lifestyles will have largely taken shape, the ability to reduce pollution and carbon emissions will be significantly enhanced, main resource utilization efficiency will be further improved, policies and standards supporting green development will be more complete, and comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development will achieve significant results. By 2035, a green, low-carbon, and circular economic system will be basically established, green production methods and lifestyles will be widely formed, the synergistic effect of reducing pollution and carbon emissions will make significant progress, main resource utilization efficiency will reach international advanced levels, economic and social development will fully enter a green and low-carbon track, carbon emissions will peak and then steadily decline, and the goal of Beautiful China will be largely achieved.
II. Constructing a Green and Low-Carbon High-Quality Spatial Layout
(1) Optimizing the Pattern of Territorial Space Development and Protection. Improve the national unified, clearly responsible, scientifically efficient territorial space planning system, strictly abide by the three control lines of arable land and permanent basic farmland, ecological protection red line, and urban development boundary, optimize the layout of various spaces. Improve the subject functional area system, promote the integrated layout of subject functions, refine the division of subject functional areas, and improve differentiated policies. Accelerate the construction of a protected area system with national parks as the main body, nature reserves as the foundation, and various types of natural parks as supplements. Strengthen ecological environment zoning control. Improve the marine resource development and protection system, systematically plan marine utilization, and promote coordinated sustainable development between land and sea.
(2) Building Green Development High Ground. Strengthen regional green development cooperation, coordinate the coordinated development and collaborative transformation, create growth poles and sources of motivation for green and low-carbon high-quality development. Promote coordinated development in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, improve the ecological environment coordination and protection mechanism, support the construction of Xiongan New Area as a model city of green development. Continuously promote the Yangtze River Economic Belt to jointly grasp major protection, explore new paths for prioritizing ecology and green development. Deepen the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, creating world-class green and low-carbon industrial clusters. Promote the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port, ecological protection, and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. Build pilot zones for Beautiful China. Continuously increase support for the green transformation of resource-based areas and revolutionary old areas, cultivate and develop green and low-carbon industries.
III. Accelerating the Green and Low-Carbon Transformation of Industrial Structure
(3) Promoting the Green and Low-Carbon Transformation and Upgrading of Traditional Industries. Vigorously promote the green and low-carbon transformation of steel, non-ferrous metals, petrochemicals, chemicals, building materials, papermaking, dyeing and finishing, and other industries, promote energy-saving and low-carbon technologies and clean production equipment, and advance process flow updates and upgrades. Optimize capacity scale and layout, continuously update land, environmental, energy efficiency, water efficiency, and carbon emission standards, lead the optimization and upgrading of traditional industries with national standards, and establish and improve capacity exit mechanisms. Reasonably raise the environmental access thresholds for new, renovated, and expanded projects, and resolutely curb the blind launch of high-energy-consuming, high-emission, and low-level projects.
(4) Vigorously Developing Green and Low-Carbon Industries. Accelerate the development of strategic emerging industries, construct a green manufacturing and service system, and continuously increase the proportion of green and low-carbon industries in the total economy. Accelerate the cultivation of competitive green and low-carbon enterprises, create a number of leading enterprises and specialized, refined, unique, and new small and medium-sized enterprises. Vigorously promote the development of new business models such as energy performance contracting, water efficiency contracting, third-party environmental governance, and environment stewardship services oriented towards environmental governance outcomes. Promote the high-quality development of cultural industries, deepen the integration of culture and tourism. Actively encourage the rapid development of new industries, new business forms, and new business models oriented towards green and low-carbon goals. By 2030, the scale of the energy-saving and environmental protection industry is expected to reach around 15 trillion yuan.
(5) Accelerating the Synergistic Transformation of Digitalization and Greenization. Promote the deep integration of digital and intelligent industries with greenization, deepen the application of artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and industrial internet in power systems, industrial and agricultural production, transportation, and construction operation fields, achieving digital technology empowerment of green transformation. Promote various users to 'move to the cloud, use data, and empower with intelligence', support enterprises to transform and upgrade traditional industries with digital and intelligent technologies and green technologies. Promote the construction of green and low-carbon digital infrastructure, accelerate energy-saving and carbon reduction renovations of existing facilities, and gradually phase out outdated, small, scattered facilities. Guide digital technology enterprises to develop green and low-carbon, assist upstream and downstream enterprises in enhancing their carbon reduction capabilities. Explore the establishment of an efficient monitoring, proactive warning, scientific analysis, and intelligent decision-making system for environmental pollution and meteorological disasters. Promote the construction of a real-scene 3D China and the empowerment application of spatiotemporal information.
IV. Steadily Advancing the Green and Low-Carbon Transformation of Energy
(6) Strengthening Clean and Efficient Utilization of Fossil Fuels. Strengthen the construction of the energy production, supply, storage, and marketing system, adhere to the principle of establishing before breaking, promote the safe, reliable, and orderly replacement of fossil fuels by non-fossil fuels, continuously optimize the energy structure, and accelerate the planning and construction of a new energy system. Resolutely control the consumption of fossil fuels, deeply promote the clean and efficient utilization of coal, strictly and reasonably control the growth of coal consumption during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, and gradually reduce it over the next five years. Under the premise of ensuring energy security, continue to implement total coal consumption control in key areas, actively and orderly promote the substitution of scattered coal. Accelerate energy-saving, carbon-reduction, flexibility, and heating renovations of existing coal-fired units, and reasonably plan and construct regulatory and supportive coal power plants necessary for the safety of the power system. Increase efforts in oil and gas resource exploration, development, and reserve increases, accelerate the integrated development of oil and gas exploration and new energy. Promote the construction of carbon capture, utilization, and storage projects.
(7) Vigorously Developing Non-Fossil Fuels. Accelerate the construction of clean energy bases in Northwest wind power and photovoltaics, Southwest hydropower, offshore wind power, and coastal nuclear power, actively develop distributed photovoltaics, decentralized wind power, and appropriately develop biomass energy, geothermal energy, ocean energy, and other new energies, and promote the full-chain development of hydrogen "production, storage, transportation, and use". Balance hydropower development and ecological protection, promote the integrated development of hydro, wind, and photovoltaic power. Actively and safely develop nuclear power in an orderly manner, maintain reasonable layout and steady construction rhythm. By 2030, the share of non-fossil fuel consumption is expected to increase to about 25%.
(8) Accelerating the Construction of a New Power System. Strengthen the connection and coordination between the scale capability, spatial layout, and construction pace of clean energy bases, regulatory resources, and transmission channels, encourage the layout of natural gas peaking power stations in areas where gas sources can be secured and gas prices can be borne, scientifically layout pumped storage, new energy storage, and solar thermal power generation, and enhance the safe operation and comprehensive regulation capabilities of the power system. Build smart grids, accelerate the construction of microgrids, virtual power plants, and source-grid-load-storage integration projects. Strengthen demand-side management of electricity. Deepen the reform of the power system, further improve the institutional mechanisms adapted to the new power system. By 2030, the installed capacity of pumped storage is expected to exceed 120 million kilowatts.
V. Promoting the Green Transformation of Transportation
(9) Optimizing the Transportation Structure. Construct a green and efficient transportation system, improve the national railway, highway, and waterway networks, promote reasonable division and effective connection of different modes of transport, reduce empty load rates and unreasonable passenger and freight turnover volumes. Vigorously promote the development of multimodal transport "one bill" and "one container", accelerate the construction of dedicated railways for freight and high-grade inland waterways, promote the construction of dedicated railways for major ports, large industrial and mining enterprises, and logistics parks, and increase the proportion of green collection and distribution, continuously increasing the share of railway and waterway transportation for bulk goods. Optimize civil aviation routes, enhance airport operational electrification and intelligence levels.
(10) Constructing Green Transportation Infrastructure. Enhance the green and intelligent levels of newly built stations, airports, docks, and expressways, promote energy-saving and carbon reduction renovations and upgrades of existing transportation infrastructure, and build a batch of low-carbon (near-zero carbon) stations, airports, docks, and expressway service areas. Develop highway-side photovoltaics according to local conditions. Improve the network of charging (replacement) stations, hydrogen (methanol) refueling stations, and shore power facilities, and accelerate the construction of urban intelligent traffic management systems. Improve the urban and rural logistics distribution system, promote the green and intelligent transformation of distribution methods. Deepen the implementation of the public transportation priority development strategy in cities, and improve the service level of public transportation. Strengthen the construction of pedestrian paths and bicycle lanes and other urban slow traffic systems.
(11) Promoting Low-Carbon Transportation Tools. Vigorously promote new energy vehicles, promote the electric substitution of urban public service vehicles. Promote ships, aircraft, non-road mobile machinery, etc., to adopt clean power, accelerate the elimination of old transport tools, promote zero-emission freight, strengthen the research and development and application of sustainable aviation fuels, and encourage the research, development, and production application of net-zero emission ship fuels. By 2030, the carbon emission intensity per unit of converted turnover of operating transport vehicles is expected to decrease by about 9.5% compared to 2020. By 2035, new energy vehicles are expected to become the mainstream of new sales vehicles.
VI. Promoting the Green Transformation of Urban and Rural Development
(12) Implementing Green Planning and Construction Methods. Fully implement the requirements of green transformation in all aspects of urban and rural planning, construction, and governance. Advocate green and low-carbon planning and design concepts, strictly abide by urban development boundaries, control the rapid growth of new construction land, protect and restore green spaces, water bodies, wetlands, and other ecological spaces, and reasonably plan noise-sensitive concentrated areas. Promote climate-adaptive city construction and enhance the resilience of urban and rural areas to climate change. Promote green construction methods, prioritize the selection of green building materials, and deepen dust pollution control.
(13) Vigorously Developing Green and Low-Carbon Buildings. Establish a building energy efficiency rating system. Increase the proportion of star-rated green buildings among new constructions, promote the large-scale development of ultra-low energy consumption buildings. Accelerate energy, water-saving, and carbon reduction renovations of existing buildings and municipal infrastructure, and promote advanced and efficient lighting, air conditioning, and elevator equipment. Optimize building energy structures, promote the integrated construction of buildings and photovoltaics, promote the application of "photovoltaic storage direct current flexible" technology, and develop clean and low-carbon heating.
(14) Promoting Green Development in Agriculture and Rural Areas. Implement the action for reducing emissions and fixing carbon in agriculture and rural areas, optimize planting and breeding structures, promote excellent crop and livestock varieties and green and efficient planting and breeding techniques, and advance the reduction and efficiency improvement of fertilizers and pesticides and other agricultural inputs. Establish and improve the collection, utilization, and disposal systems for agricultural waste such as straw, agricultural films, pesticide packaging waste, and livestock manure, and strengthen the control of straw burning. Deepen the improvement of rural living environment, foster new industries and business forms in rural green development. Appropriately develop and utilize renewable energy, and orderly advance clean heating in rural areas.
VII. Implementing a Comprehensive Conservation Strategy
(15) Vigorously Promoting Energy Saving, Carbon Reduction, and Efficiency Improvement. High-standard and high-quality energy saving work should be carried out, promoting energy-saving and carbon reduction renovations in key industries, and accelerating the updating and upgrading of equipment and products. Construct a carbon emission statistics and accounting system, strengthen the energy efficiency review of fixed asset investment projects, explore project carbon emission evaluations, and strictly control the energy consumption and carbon emissions of new projects. Promote enterprises to establish and improve energy-saving and carbon reduction management mechanisms, promote the "diagnosis + renovation" mode of energy saving and carbon reduction, and strengthen energy efficiency supervision.
(16) Strengthening the Efficient Utilization of Resources. Improve the total management and comprehensive conservation system for water, grain, land, minerals, and other resources, and strengthen the entire process and chain conservation of various resources. Implement the rigid constraint system for water resources, develop the water-saving industry, strengthen the utilization of unconventional water sources, and build a water-saving society. Implement the Anti-Food Waste Law, improve the long-term mechanism for saving grains and food, and carry out grain-saving actions. Implement the strictest system for protecting arable land and conserving and intensively using land, promote the application of land-saving technologies and models, optimize the development and utilization of existing land, and improve the efficiency of maritime space utilization. Strengthen the exploration, protection, and rational development of mineral resources, improve the extraction efficiency, and strengthen the utilization of low-grade resources.
(17) Vigorously Developing a Circular Economy. Deeply implement the action to assist carbon reduction through the circular economy, promote the resource-circular production model, vigorously develop the resource recycling industry, promote the high-quality development of the remanufacturing industry, improve the quality of recycled materials and products, and expand the substitution scale of primary resources. Promote the classification of household waste, and improve the utilization rate of resources. Improve the recycling system for waste, strengthen the classification and disposal capabilities and recycling capabilities of waste, and improve the scale, standardization, and refinement levels of recycling. By 2030, the annual utilization volume of major solid wastes is expected to reach about 4.5 billion tons, and the output rate of major resources is expected to increase by about 45% compared to 2020.
VIII. Promoting the Green Transformation of Consumption Patterns
(18) Promoting a Green Lifestyle. Vigorously advocate the concepts of simplicity, moderation, green low-carbon living, and civilized health, integrating green ideas and conservation requirements into social norms such as citizens' conventions, village regulations, students' codes of conduct, and group charters, to enhance public awareness of thrift, environmental protection, and ecological consciousness. Carry out nationwide actions for green and low-carbon living, guiding the public to conserve water and electricity, oppose extravagance and waste, promote the "Clean Plate Campaign," resist excessive packaging, reduce the use of disposable items, prioritize public transportation, walking, cycling, and other green travel methods, widely carry out patriotic sanitation campaigns, address environmental issues close to people's lives such as noise, cooking fumes, and odors, and foster a social atmosphere that venerates ecological civilization.
(19) Increasing Supply of Green Products. Guide enterprises to engage in green design, choose green materials, implement green manufacturing, adopt green packaging, conduct green transportation, and recycle resources, reducing energy resource consumption and environmental impact throughout the product lifecycle. Establish and improve standards for green product design, procurement, and manufacturing, strengthen the construction of green product certification and labeling systems, perfect energy efficiency and water efficiency labeling systems, establish product carbon footprint management systems and product carbon labeling certification systems. Strengthen the management of green product and service certification, improve the regulatory mechanisms for certification bodies, and cultivate green certification institutions with international influence.
(20) Actively Expanding Green Consumption. Improve incentive mechanisms for green consumption. Optimize government green procurement policies, expand the scope and scale of green product procurement, and incorporate carbon footprint requirements into government procurement when appropriate. Guide enterprises to follow green procurement guidelines, encourage enterprises with conditions to establish green supply chains, driving upstream and downstream enterprises to transform collaboratively. Support regions with conditions to encourage enterprises to adopt trade-ins and other methods through the issuance of consumption vouchers, green points, etc., guiding consumers to purchase green products. Conduct activities promoting new energy vehicles and green smart appliances, water-saving devices, energy-saving stoves, and green building materials in rural areas, strengthen the construction of supporting facilities and after-sales service guarantees. Encourage users to increase their consumption of green energy.
IX. Leveraging the Supporting Role of Scientific and Technological Innovation
(21) Strengthening Applied Basic Research. Establish mechanisms for predicting, discovering, evaluating, and warning about frontier leading technologies and disruptive technologies, moderately over-advance the layout of major national scientific research infrastructure, form a batch of key national laboratories and innovation platforms, implement a number of major national frontier science and technology projects, focus on strengthening applied basic research in green and low-carbon fields, and stimulate disruptive technological innovation. Innovate talent cultivation models, optimize the setting of disciplines and majors in higher education institutions, and consolidate the intellectual foundation for green transformation.
(22) Accelerating Key Technology Research and Development. Promote self-reliance and strength in green and low-carbon science and technology, making green transformation-related technologies an important direction supported by key special projects under the National Key Research and Development Program. Focus on energy green and low-carbon transformation, low-carbon and zero-carbon process reengineering, new power systems, carbon dioxide capture utilization and storage (CCUS), resource conservation and intensive utilization and recycling, and the governance of new pollutants, and comprehensively strengthen the breakthrough of key core technologies. Reinforce the status of enterprises as the main players in scientific and technological innovation, support leading enterprises to take the lead in forming joint bodies for the breakthrough of key core technologies, increase funding for small and medium-sized enterprises' green and low-carbon technology research and development, and encourage enterprises of all ownership types to participate in relevant national science and technology programs.
(23) Conducting Innovation Demonstration and Promotion. Play the critical leading role of innovation in green transformation. Carry out multi-level pilots, promote pollution reduction and carbon emission reduction in key areas such as industry, energy, transportation, urban and rural construction, and agriculture. Implement demonstration projects for advanced green and low-carbon technologies, accelerate the demonstration application and promotion of advanced applicable technologies. Improve the evaluation, trading system, and scientific and technological innovation service platform for green and low-carbon technologies, explore business models conducive to the development of new green and low-carbon industries and new business forms, strengthen the creation, protection, and application of intellectual property rights in green and low-carbon technologies, and stimulate innovation vitality across society.
X. Improving the Policy System for Green Transformation
(24) Improving Fiscal Policies for Green Transformation. Actively construct a fiscal policy system that promotes green and low-carbon development and efficient resource utilization, supporting work in areas such as the construction of new energy systems, the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, green and low-carbon scientific and technological innovation, the conservation and efficient utilization of energy resources, and the promotion of green and low-carbon lifestyles. Implement tax incentives for environmental protection, water conservation, resource utilization, new energy, and clean energy vehicles. Improve the green tax system, fully implement the reform of water resource fees to taxes, improve the environmental protection tax collection system, and study tax policies to support carbon emission reduction.
(25) Enriching Financial Tools for Green Transformation. Extend the implementation period of the Carbon Emission Reduction Support Tool to the end of 2027. Study and formulate standards for transition finance to provide reasonable and necessary financial support for the green and low-carbon transformation of traditional industries. Encourage banks to guide the greening allocation of credit resources based on reasonable risk assessment, and regions with conditions may support the development of green credit through government financing guarantee institutions. Encourage local governments to reduce the cost of green bond financing through various means. Actively develop green equity financing, green leasing, green trusts, and other financial tools, and orderly advance innovations in carbon finance products and derivatives. Develop green insurance, explore the establishment of differential insurance premium mechanisms.
(26) Optimizing Investment Mechanisms for Green Transformation. Innovate and optimize investment mechanisms, encouraging all types of capital to increase their investment ratio in the green and low-carbon sector. Central budgetary investment will actively support key projects in areas such as advanced green and low-carbon technology demonstrations, energy-saving and carbon reduction in key industries, efficient recycling and utilization of resources, and environmental infrastructure construction. Guide and standardize the participation of social capital in the investment, construction, and operation of green and low-carbon projects, and encourage social capital to set up green and low-carbon industrial investment funds in market-oriented ways. Support eligible projects related to new energy, ecological and environmental protection, and other green transformations to issue infrastructure REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts).
(27) Improving Pricing Policies for Green Transformation. Deepen power price reforms, improve pricing mechanisms that encourage flexible sources to participate in system regulation, implement capacity pricing mechanisms for coal-fired power, study and establish pricing mechanisms for new energy storage, and improve tiered pricing systems and time-of-use pricing policies. Improve resident tiered water pricing, non-resident water use, and special water use super-quota progressive surcharge policies, and advance comprehensive agricultural water price reforms. Support localities in improving charging models, advancing reforms in household waste disposal fee methods, and establishing incentive mechanisms for urban waste sorting and reduction.
(28) Improving Market Mechanisms for Green Transformation. Improve the market-based allocation system for resource and environmental elements, refine transaction systems, norms, and supporting systems for registration, transfer, mortgage, and other aspects, and explore financing tools based on resource and environmental rights. Improve horizontal ecological compensation mechanisms and mechanisms for realizing the value of ecological products. Advance the construction of the national carbon emission trading market and the voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction trading market, improve legal systems, and orderly expand the scope of trading industries when appropriate. Improve the green power certificate trading system and strengthen policy coordination among green power, green certificates, carbon trading, and other market mechanisms.
(29) Building a Standard System for Green Development. Establish a standard system for carbon peak and carbon neutrality, promote the formulation and revision of basic general standards and standards related to carbon emission reduction and removal, and formulate standards for enterprise carbon emissions and product carbon footprint calculation, reporting, and verification. Accelerate the update and upgrade of energy-saving standards, raise the energy consumption limit requirements for key products, and expand the coverage of energy consumption limit standards. Improve the renewable energy standard system and the industrial green and low-carbon standard system, and establish and improve hydrogen production, storage, transportation, and utilization standards.
XI. Strengthening International Cooperation on Green Transformation
(30) Participating in and Leading Global Green Transformation Processes. Upholding the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, actively participate in the formulation of international rules in areas such as climate change response, marine pollution control, biodiversity protection, and plastic pollution control, and promote the construction of a fair, reasonable, and win-win global environmental and climate governance system. Promote the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, strengthen South-South cooperation and cooperation with neighboring countries, and provide support to developing countries within our capabilities.
(31) Strengthening Policy Exchange and Practical Cooperation. Expand multilateral and bilateral dialogue and cooperation channels, strengthen the construction of multilateral cooperation platforms in the field of green development, vigorously publicize China's achievements in green transformation, and actively learn from international experiences. Strengthen green investment and trade cooperation, advance the construction of the "Green Silk Road," deepen practical cooperation with relevant countries, improve the environmental sustainability of overseas projects, and encourage the import and export of green and low-carbon products. Strengthen green technology cooperation, encourage academic exchanges between universities, research institutions, and foreign parties, and actively participate in international megascience projects. Strengthen international cooperation on green standards and conformity assessment, participate in the formulation and revision of related international standards, and promote mutual recognition of rules such as carbon footprints with major trading partners.
XII. Organizational Implementation
(32) Upholding and Strengthening the Comprehensive Leadership of the Party. Under the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and implement the leadership of the Party throughout the entire process and all aspects of work. All regions and departments should clarify the key tasks of green transformation in their respective areas and departments, and implement this opinion according to actual conditions. Relevant units, people's organizations, and social organizations should actively promote green transformation work in their respective fields. The National Development and Reform Commission should strengthen overall coordination, work with relevant departments to establish a new mechanism for transitioning from dual controls on energy consumption to dual controls on carbon emissions, formulate and implement a comprehensive evaluation and assessment system for carbon peak and carbon neutrality, scientifically conduct assessments, strengthen the application of assessment results, and report important situations to the CPC Central Committee and the State Council in a timely manner according to procedures.
(33) Strengthening Legal Guarantees. Relevant units should accelerate the formulation and revision of laws and regulations such as the Ecological Environment Code, Energy Law, Energy Conservation Law, Electricity Law, Coal Law, Renewable Energy Law, and Circular Economy Promotion Law, and study the formulation of special laws for responding to climate change and achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Implement the green principle of the Civil Code to guide civil subjects to save energy resources and protect the ecological environment. Improve the connection mechanism between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice. Legally conduct environmental damage compensation litigation and public interest litigation in the fields of environmental and resource protection, and improve mechanisms for environmental damage compensation and restoration.
