Only by keeping the green background can we guide the future development direction of the quasi-city
The executive meeting of the Shanghai City Government recently agreed in principle to the "Shanghai City Work Plan for Promoting the Green Transformation of International Shipping Fuels" and pointed out that it is necessary to improve policies and rules, deepen institutional innovation, and continuously improve the full-process management system such as green fuel filling, storage and transportation, and trading, creating more "firsts." As a super-large city, Shanghai has spared no effort in promoting green development in recent years. On January 1 this year, the "Regulations on Promoting Green Transformation of Shanghai City Development Mode" were promulgated and implemented to comprehensively promote green and low-carbon transformation in energy, industry, daily consumption and other fields; In August, the "Shanghai City Action Plan for Accelerating Green and Low-carbon Transformation (2024-2027)" was issued to accelerate the cultivation of key green and low-carbon industries and form new productivity.
Not long ago, Beijing City issued the "Implementation Opinions on Beijing City Accelerating the Construction of an International Green Economy Benchmark City", which clarified that by 2035, it will be coordinated in five aspects: green technology innovation, green industry cultivation, green livable city construction, green cultural cultivation, and green cooperation. The added value of the green economy has been significantly improved, and an international green economy benchmark city has been comprehensively built. Beijing and Shanghai have always been benchmarks for urban development in my country. The common choice of these two cities in terms of green development also represents the future development direction of the city to a certain extent.
Cities are the main battlefield for economic development and also play an important role in achieving green and low-carbon transformation. To follow the path of green urban development, we are not simply superimposing green energy, green industries, green transportation, etc., but adhere to the system concept, integrate the requirements of green transformation throughout the entire process of urban construction and development, and change the traditional high-energy-consuming development methods, promote the transformation of economic structure and energy structure, build a low-carbon recycling industrial system, and advocate green and low-carbon consumption and lifestyles.
As the smallest super-large city in the domestic city, Shenzhen combines the layout of economic, industrial and energy structures with the optimization and management of the ecological environment. In 2022, the energy consumption, water consumption, and carbon emission intensity of 10,000 yuan of GDP will be reduced to 1/3 of the national average respectively., 1/8 and 1/5; In order to promote green development, Wuhan, an industrial town, provides green diagnostic services to enterprises, carries out green technology promotion, transformation and improvement service supply and demand docking, and builds a full-process system from diagnosis-transformation-improvement-demonstration; Chengdu is accelerating the implementation of industrial circles and strong chains, focusing on cultivating industrial clusters such as photovoltaics and hydrogen energy, strengthening the introduction of chain owners and the construction of industrial carrying capacity, and accelerating the conversion of old and new kinetic energy... In recent years, in order to increase the "green content" of economic development, various localities have actively explored and combined economic benefits with ecological benefits to calculate both economic accounts and ecological accounts, achieving the coordinated progress of environmental protection and economic development.
Although green and low-carbon are the common direction of urban development in the new era, there are significant differences in development levels and development environments in different regions. Specific to individual cities, they are also different in terms of infrastructure, industrial structure, and population size. This requires clarifying the actual problems and needs faced by urban green development, formulating development plans according to local conditions, and finding a development path that suits you, rather than blindly following the trend and rushing forward. For example, many places have turned their attention to the new energy industry in recent years, but have ignored the supply and demand relationship in the market. It can be said that the current convoluted competition situation in the photovoltaic industry has a lot to do with excessive investment promotion and repeated layout in various places.
The pursuit of green development requires attention to emerging industries, but traditional industries cannot be abandoned or eliminated. The basic position of traditional industries such as steel and chemicals in the development of the national economy will not change. Moreover, through technological innovation, optimization and upgrading, traditional industries will also become environmentally friendly industries. Taking steel as an example, Baosteel Co., Ltd., located in Shanghai, actively explores the symbiosis model of traditional steel companies and modern cities, strives to achieve "ultra-low emission of exhaust gas, zero emission of wastewater, and no delivery of solid waste", and strives to build a "green and non-waste" by 2025. Urban Steel Plant ".
To promote urban green development, the most fundamental thing is to properly handle the relationship between industrial development and resources and environment to achieve coordinated development of economy and environment. This process is also a process of refining and shaping urban brands and development characteristics, as well as a process of inheriting and improving urban culture. Various localities can take this opportunity to form distinctive business cards and highlight their differentiated competitive advantages.
