Shanxi to push sustainable development through energy reform
By Hu Jian, Zhou Yajun, People's Daily
North China’s Shanxi province has launched a
set of revolutionary, exemplary and landmark measures to improve its
energy sector, an official said at the 2019 Taiyuan Energy Low Carbon
Development Forum held in Taiyuan, capital of the province from Oct. 22 to 24.
These measures aim to build Shanxi into a green coal
development and utilization base, an unconventional gas base, a power delivery
base, a modern coal chemical industry demonstration base, and a coal-based
scientific and technological innovation base, said Luo Huining,
Secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China
(CPC).
Themed “Energy Revolution, International Cooperation”,
the forum attracted 830 guests and energy experts from 204 delegations at home
and abroad. Shanxi strives to build the forum into an influential and
authoritative energy platform for conducting high-level dialogues, launching
scientific and technological achievements and contributing to international
cooperation in the energy sector.
At the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDG)
Summit held at the UN headquarters in
New York, energy was recognized as one of the specific solutions that link up
and have impact across all 17 SDGs, said Liu Zhenmin, UN
Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, in his
speech at the forum.
The summit regarded energy decarbonization with
universal access as one of the 6 entry points to accelerate achievement across
many SDGs and targets, Liu added.
As an important and comprehensive energy base and
industrial base in China, Shanxi has committed to cutting excess capacity,
developing competitive capacity and following green, efficient and low-carbon
development of the coal industry. The proportion of competitive capacity has reached
68 percent from 36 percent in 2016.
In the first half of 2019, the installed
new energy capacity in Shanxi was over 30 percent of the
province’s total installed electricity capacity.
The output of coal seam gas exceeded 90 percent
of the country’s total.
The installed renewable power
capacity accounted for over 30 percent of the energy power capacity
of the province as a whole, and photovoltaic generation capacity under the
Chinese Photovoltaic Top Runner Program ranked first in the country.
Focusing on improving energy efficiency,
Shanxi Coking Coal Group, China's largest coking coal company, has
established the country’s first 10 million-ton large-scale coking coal storage
and distribution base alongside the Rizhao port in east China’s Shandong
province to better allocate domestic and international coking coal resources.
The company has also conducted project cooperation
with Georgia, Russia and other countries along the Belt and Road.
Located in the revolutionary base areas in southeast
Shanxi, Lucheng Economic and Technological Development Zone is the first of its
kind in the province where private enterprises play a leading role. Recently,
the market-based development zone embraced a project about the drawing of
100,000-ton new material, namely nylon-6 fibers.
From coal to coke and then to caprolactam, the industrial
chain has been extended from raw materials to fuel and new materials, greatly
increasing the output value from the hundred-yuan level to thousand-yuan and
ten thousand-yuan level, said Han Chang'an, president of Lubao Coking Group, a
leading private company in Shanxi.
Assuming the principal responsibility for energy
reform, the CPC Shanxi Provincial Committee and
the provincial government have straightened out the relationship between the
government and the market and improved business environment, thus boosting the enthusiasm
for reform and development in the province, Han added.
China enjoys a really huge hydrogen energy market,
said a staff at the exhibition stand of Air Liquide Group, a French
industrial gas producer, in the Energy Revolution Exhibition of the forum.
According to reliable sources, Shanxi Provincial
Guoxin Energy Development Group has cooperated with Air Liquide
Group to develop hydrogen energy and biomass energy, while Lu'an Group based in
Changzhi, southeast of Shanxi, and Air Products,
a
world-leading industrial gases company in the United States, have
conducted cooperation in clean use of sulphur coal.
Shanxi is rich in coal-to-hydrogen resources and is
very likely to become a demonstration area for China to promote a low carbon and
hydrogen economy by improving existing technologies for recycling carbon
dioxide and effectively using renewable energy, said Tohmei Takekawa,
president of Japan’s Global Consortium for Energy and Environment and CEO of CMI
Corporation.
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