Taking "Ecology" as the topic, draw a new answer sheet for the construction of "Beautiful Baotou Steel"

Climb the Daqingshan Plank Road and look south along the Kundulun River. On the west side of the river line, eye-catching green meets the horizon. Under the arch of poplar trees, there are giant towers towering into the clouds and scattered blast furnaces. The green and industrial beauty are intertwined. This place where man and nature blend together is the world-famous grassland steel city-Baotou Steel. From 1954 to 2024, the fire lasted for 70 years, and Baotou Steel people played a magnificent and powerful "green symphony" on the Saibei grassland.

Green Baotou Steel

June 5th is World Environment Day. In recent years, Baotou Steel Group has resolutely shouldered its strategic mission, taken "ecology" as the theme, and drawn a new answer to the construction of "Beautiful Baotou Steel", contributing to Baotou Steel's strength to building an important ecological security barrier in northern my country.

The world's advanced Baotou Steel's rare earth steel continuous annealing production line

Green Chapter: Go towards "green" and coexist with "green"

Firmly establishing the concept of ecological priority and green development, and resolutely implementing the concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" are the "master key" for Baotou Steel to solve key bottlenecks and outstanding problems that restrict corporate ecological and environmental governance. In recent years, Baotou Steel has invested nearly 10 billion yuan to build 124 ultra-low emission transformation projects, fully completing the ultra-low emission transformation of the steel industry. At the same time, we actively optimized the water and drainage structure, completed a number of wastewater treatment projects such as the comprehensive wastewater treatment project, and achieved the phased goal of source emission reduction. Total air pollutant emissions and total wastewater emissions have dropped significantly. Among them, the total emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides have dropped by more than 50% compared with 2019, and the total emissions of wastewater have dropped by 58.17% compared with 2021. All indicators of discharged wastewater have stably met the Yellow River Commission's requirements for the downstream flow into the river. Pipe limit requirements.

Ultra-low emission project of Baotou Steel No. 5 sintering

From the Gobi Desert to more than half of the green coverage rate, over the past 70 years, Baotou Steel people have used green as a medium and used the practical exploration of "half of the factory building and half of the green" to answer the question of whether "homeland" and "steel mills" can coexist harmoniously. In the past, the tailings dam reservoir area has become a paradise with lush vegetation, clear water quality, and fish and birds playing. The black slag mountain of that time has now become a green slag mountain with blooming flowers in spring, fresh air in summer, and fruitful fruits in autumn, forming an important forest land for wind and sand fixation, improving the environmental conditions of the Baotou Steel Plant and its surrounding areas. Making every effort to promote the construction of green city steel mills and promote the integration of industry and city is Baotou Steel's responsibility and responsibility to move towards "green" and coexist with "green".

Comprehensive Treatment Project of Baotou Steel's General Discharge Wastewater

Sealing and lighting project of Baotou Steel Yard

New chapter: "Chasing the wind and the sun" and planning a "green future"

Under the blue sky, neat rows of photovoltaic power generation panels shine brightly on the former black slag mountain. The 5-MW distributed photovoltaic project located on slag mountain covers an area of 80,000 square meters, with an average annual power generation capacity of about 8 million kilowatt-hours."Black + Blue = Green" is Baotou Steel's new wisdom in exploring the ecological management of slag mountain. It is also a microcosm of optimizing the energy structure and increasing the proportion of clean energy.

Baotou Steel Photovoltaic Power Generation Project

Combined with the advantages of scenery resources in western Inner Mongolia, Baotou Steel plans a "green future" by "chasing the wind every day" and actively applies for new energy project construction indicators based on the principle of "applying for one mature batch". Up to now, 52.43 MW of photovoltaic power generation projects have been completed and put into operation, and 194 MW of new energy projects are under construction. It is worth noting that the 150 MW green power direct supply project in the Baiyun Obo Kuangqu mining area is not only the first green power stock replacement demonstration project in the autonomous region, but also a new milestone for Baotou Steel to seize new opportunities, compete for a new track for green development, and empower enterprises with high-quality development through green transformation. After all approved new energy projects are completed and put into operation, the annual power generation will reach 570 million kilowatt hours, saving 70,000 tons of standard coal every year, and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by about 330,000 tons compared with thermal power units. Steel provides a solid foundation, and will also promote the synergy of energy conservation and carbon reduction.

Corner of Baotou Steel Factory

Carbon Chapter: Technology empowers comprehensive utilization of solid waste to reduce carbon and slim down

From 49% in 2018 to the current 70%, Baotou Steel's comprehensive utilization rate of bulk solid waste has continued to break through. Carrying out scientific research with universities and institutes and giving full play to the advantages of "industry-university-research" is Baotou Steel's realization of the transformation and development of its circular economy. An important "magic weapon". Since 2020, Baotou Steel has invested 569 million yuan to build five solid waste utilization scientific and technological achievements transformation projects, including a demonstration industrialization project for comprehensive utilization of carbonization steel slag and a resource utilization project for sintering flue gas desulfurization products, further improving Baotou Steel's solid waste pollution prevention and comprehensive utilization level provide a new direction for the sustainable development of the industry. In addition, Baotou Steel also invested 58 million yuan to upgrade and upgrade the hazardous waste incineration system of Luyuan Company, effectively alleviating the pressure on hazardous waste disposal in Baotou City and surrounding areas, and providing strong support for the construction of a "waste-free city" in Baotou City.

Environmental management of Baozhishan

In 2024, Baotou Steel's comprehensive utilization demonstration industrialization project of carbonation method steel slag was successfully selected into the "Green and Low-Carbon Advanced Technology Demonstration Project List" announced by the National Development and Reform Commission. This project can not only turn steel slag into treasure, but also achieve a large amount of carbon dioxide emission reduction. Not only that, Baotou Steel has adjusted and optimized the carbon neutrality roadmap based on the latest industrial layout and application prospects of carbon-containing materials, and laid out the 2 million tons CCUS entire industrial chain demonstration project in advance. The first phase of the project, 500,000 tons, has been completed. Three-quarters of the total project progress, is expected to be completed and put into trial operation before the end of 2024. After completion, it is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 393,900 tons per year, equivalent to planting nearly 19 million trees.

Greening around Baotou Steel Plant

RongChapter: Integrating ecological design into the "full cycle" of products

Not long ago, the rare earth EPD platform built by Baotou Steel Group led by the China Rare Earth Society was successfully released in Beijing. This is an important measure to promote low-carbon and green development of the rare earth industry. As the basis for establishing the EPD platform, Baotou Steel has been carrying out life cycle assessment (LCA) research and application since 2015. It is the second enterprise in the domestic steel industry to carry out LCA research and application. It has built a complete LCA technology system and accumulated a wealth. The technical experience provides strong support for the construction of the rare earth EPD platform.

Rare earth EPD platform launched in Beijing

In 2019, Baotou Steel was successfully selected as the first batch of national green design demonstration enterprises for industrial products. Baotou Steel's Industrial (Ecological) Design Center will become the first batch of national industrial design centers in the steel industry in 2021. Up to now, Baotou Steel has 12 national-level green design products, 4 autonomous region-level green design products, 3 national-level green factories, 2 autonomous region-level green factories, and 2 autonomous region-level green supply chain management companies. Led the preparation and completion of 7 product life cycle assessment and green design product evaluation group standards, and completed LCA calculations for all steel products and key rare earth products, further improving Baotou Steel's LCA database, laying the foundation for carrying out EPD and carbon footprint certification and meeting downstream user needs.

Vision of Baotou Steel Plant

People live up to the green mountains, and the green mountains will surely live up to people. This is the meaning of Chinese-style modernization, and it is also the Chinese wisdom of the unity of man and nature and the coexistence of all things. Combined with the actual production of the enterprise and the characteristics of the steel and rare earth industries, Baotou Steel's green development path is longer and more complex, but the ecological and environmental governance goals of Baotou Steel are also higher and more ambitious."Change concepts, open up new paths, and develop practical measures" Baotou Steel will always maintain its determination to strengthen ecological and environmental protection and construction, and will not waver, relax, or open up, and continue to make new contributions to building an important ecological security barrier in northern my country.