Liu Bingjiang: Ensure that ultra-low emission transformation ends and establish a long-term mechanism to ensure that ultra-low publicity can be "in and out"
"There is only more than a year left before the end of 2025 for the ultra-low emission transformation of steel. The target tasks set for 80% of the country's crude steel production capacity to complete the ultra-low emission transformation will remain unchanged. The remaining 20% of enterprises that have not completed the ultra-low emission transformation will be We will work with relevant departments to adopt differentiated management measures."On July 20, at the 2024 (15th) Steel Industry Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Conference guided by the China Iron and Steel Association and hosted by the Metallurgical Industry Planning and Research Institute, Liu Bingjiang, chief engineer of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that the steel industry must maintain strategic focus, continue to consolidate the achievements of green development of the industry, and ensure that ultra-low emission transformation comes to an end.
"At present, there are still more than 400 million tons of crude steel production capacity to complete the final work of transformation, and the focus of work has shifted from key areas to non-key areas. Under this situation, the steel industry must maintain its strategic focus and overcome difficulties. Enterprises that have not yet completed the transformation must seize the time to complete the transformation with high quality and quantity." Liu Bingjiang pointed out.
Air pollution control helps reduce pollution and carbon and improve new quality productivity
In recent years, the steel industry has made important contributions to the continuous improvement of air quality through the implementation of a series of major measures and major projects such as supply-side structural reform, compliance control, ultra-low emission transformation, and extreme energy efficiency, and explored the green transformation and development of traditional industries. A path to success.
Liu Bingjiang revealed that as of now, 43% of the country's crude steel production capacity has completed the entire process, and 39% of the production capacity has completed the transformation of key links. Pollutant emissions in the steel industry have dropped by 60%, and emission performance has reached the international leading level. Compared with before the ultra-low emission transformation in 2018, the average PM2.5 concentration in the 10 cities with concentrated steel production capacity in 2023 will drop by 24%, and the average PM2.5 concentration in Tangshan and Handan, which have the most concentrated production capacity, will drop by 31% and 30% respectively. All seven "bottom ten" cities in Hebei, the largest iron and steel province with air quality, have been cleared.
At the same time, ultra-low emissions break the original traditional concept of focusing on terminal management, and achieve synergy between pollution prevention and greenhouse gas emissions control through coordinating industrial structure adjustment, transportation structure adjustment, and energy-saving technological transformation. Ultra-low emission transformation puts forward requirements for full-process and full-link transformation for organized emissions, unorganized emissions and clean transportation. In the transformation, the company will give priority to adopting treatment measures such as long-process to short-process steelmaking, raw and fuel substitution, bleed gas recovery, energy-saving technologies,"revolving iron","revolving water", and "oil-to-electricity" to achieve pollution reduction and carbon reduction. Synergistic efficiency. It is estimated that while the steel industry implements ultra-low emission transformation, it can also synergistically reduce carbon emissions by 1%-2%(about 40 million tons) in addition to offsetting the increased carbon emissions from terminal management.
"Steel ultra-low emissions have achieved the integrated development of digitalization, intelligence, greening and traditional industries through technological innovation, policy innovation, and management innovation, providing useful reference for other key industries." Liu Bingjiang pointed out that in terms of technological innovation, enterprises and scientific research units actively carry out ultra-low emission technological innovation, develop a series of independent intellectual property technologies, and promote the localization of atmospheric management equipment. In terms of policy innovation, the introduction of evaluation and monitoring requirements makes various ultra-low emission measures operable, monitored and verifiable, providing a guarantee for improving the quality of ultra-low emission transformation. Judging from the practice in recent years, evaluation and monitoring has become an effective way for enterprises to self-diagnose and self-improve. In terms of management innovation, for the first time, clean transportation requirements have been included in ultra-low emission renovation to provide application scenarios for new energy heavy trucks to overtake in corners. Hebei Province and Tangshan City, which have the largest renovation efforts, have ranked first in the country in the number of new energy heavy trucks licensed for three consecutive years; For the first time, unorganized emissions have been included in the ultra-low emission transformation. Whether there are unorganized emission control measures, whether facilities are used or not, whether the results are good or not, as well as the establishment of an unorganized monitoring and monitoring system and management platform, have provided a path for enterprises to achieve refinement. Management and management departments to implement effective supervision provide a path.
Establish a long-term mechanism to publicize "both in and out" with ultra-low publicity
Regarding enterprises that have completed transformation and publicity, Liu Bingjiang said that attention must be paid to establishing a long-term mechanism to make ultra-low publicity "both in and out." According to him, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has asked the China Iron and Steel Association to cancel the announcements of four companies, and some companies are in the process of verifying them.
"There are state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and one central enterprise that has suspended publicity. We treat everyone equally in this regard. We have established a problem ledger for each public enterprise, and we can conduct investigations at any time. The idea of taking advantage of loopholes is not advisable. Enterprises must attach importance to environmental protection management, strengthen standardized operation management, and strictly abide by the bottom line of the law." Liu Bingjiang pointed out that in the next step, we will continue to deliver policies, technologies and services to localities and enterprises, so that enterprises can avoid detours and avoid duplication of investment. At the same time, we will also increase double random inspections of ultra-low emissions to ensure that ultra-low emissions of steel enterprises can withstand the test of history.
At the same time, in order to avoid "bad money driving out good money" and protect green and high-quality productivity, he revealed that in the future, the management ideas of supporting the best and eliminating the bad will be deeper, differentiated management policies will be clearer, and incentives for the advanced will be further increased. Encourage the backward and fully release advanced productive forces through differentiated policies.
"Looking back, the years when steel companies implemented the most ultra-low renovation projects were also the years when the industry's profitability was the best. It can be seen that environmental protection 'supporting the best and eliminating the worst' has a positive regulating effect on the overall situation of the industry." Liu Bingjiang pointed out that we will guide local governments to strictly implement differentiated management measures to avoid "whipping fast cattle." Regarding enterprises reporting that some local A-level enterprise preferential policies are not implemented in place, we will strengthen guidance, guide environmental protection policies not to be "increased at all levels", and resolutely oppose "ultra-low", etc.
"Developing new productive forces does not mean ignoring or abandoning traditional industries, but using new technologies, new methods, and new ideas to transform and upgrade traditional industries. At present, the industry is once again facing difficulties. Faced with the new situation in the industry and the new task of building a beautiful China, we must strengthen our confidence, take advantage of the reform of the Third Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee, and promote greening and under the guidance of new quality productivity and the support of digitalization and intelligence. The integration of the steel industry injects new vitality into traditional industries and continues to promote high-quality development of the steel industry with high-level protection of the ecological environment." Liu Bingjiang said.
