On the afternoon of April 27, the Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference on Carbon Neutrality Strategy and Green Finance Forum was held.
At the meeting, it was revealed that Beijing is at the leading level in the country in terms of green finance. In terms of implementing the dual carbon goals, Beijing has clearly put forward the goal of "carbon emissions will decline steadily after peaking in 2025, and carbon neutrality will take solid steps, and carbon emissions will continue to decline in 2035 and achieve significant progress in carbon neutrality". At the meeting, it was said that in recent years, Beijing has continued to make efforts to promote green development, set up a leading group for carbon peak and carbon neutrality, compiled and completed the "Carbon Peak Implementation Plan", and refined and improved specific work plans in the fields of energy, industry, construction, and transportation. In terms of green finance, Beijing is at the leading level in the country, and the balance of green loans of major Chinese banks in the city has reached 1.91 trillion yuan by the end of 2023, accounting for more than 7% of the balance of green loans of 21 major banks in the same period. Beijing Urban Sub-center has further adhered to expansion and innovation, and has achieved good results in many fields such as green credit, green financial resource layout, climate investment and financing pilot construction, green trading system construction and green financial product innovation.
At the meeting, the city hopes to actively attract more high-quality green financial resources from around the world to gather in Beijing through the platform of the dual carbon strategy and the green finance forum, and hopes that the high-quality financial institutions represented by CICC, the organizer of the forum, will give full play to the advantages of the platform to introduce more high-quality green enterprises, green investment, and green talents to Beijing and China, and vigorously support the green and low-carbon development of Beijing. The city will take more active measures to implement the dual carbon strategy, develop green finance, cultivate new quality productivity, and take scientific and technological innovation as the driving force to promote the optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure and promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.