The Outline of the Special Plan for the Development of Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Industry in Jiangsu Province (2009-2012) was officially released recently, adding a powerful "green engine" for the transformation and development of the province's economy.

Green revolution

A new industry was born

With the deepening of energy conservation and emission reduction and the vigorous rise of low-carbon economy, the demand for energy conservation and environmental protection equipment and services in production, circulation, consumption and other fields is rising rapidly, which also brings unprecedented opportunities for the development of energy conservation and environmental protection industry.

Experts said that the United States applies biotechnology, computer technology and new materials to the field of environmental protection, accounting for one third of the world's output value. With an average annual growth rate of 30%, Japan has become a major producer of energy-saving products worldwide. By 2020, Germany's energy conservation and environmental protection industry will overtake automobile and machinery manufacturing to become the leading industry.

"Cultivate the energy conservation and environmental protection industry into an emerging pillar industry, and build Jiangsu into an important base of the world energy conservation and environmental protection industry" -- The prospect of the energy conservation and environmental protection industry in our province described in the "Planning" is attractive:

The scale of the industry is larger. By 2012, the main business revenue will reach 450 billion yuan, an average annual growth of more than 20%; By 2015, the energy conservation and environmental protection industry will become an emerging pillar industry, with the main business income of 780 billion yuan, and the industrial scale will continue to maintain the leading position in China, making our province an important base of the world's energy conservation and environmental protection industry.

Innovation has more momentum. By 2012, 20 enterprise technology centers at or above the provincial level and more than 30 platforms for technological innovation and public service have been established, focusing on conquering 20 key generic technologies and equipment and realizing transformation and application. The overall technical level of energy saving and environmental protection equipment and products remains leading in China, and some energy saving and water and air pollution prevention equipment has reached or approached the international advanced level.

The competition is stronger. We will focus on developing six product clusters, namely, energy conservation equipment, water pollution prevention and control equipment, air pollution prevention and control equipment, solid waste treatment and comprehensive resource utilization equipment, environmental monitoring equipment, environmental protection materials and pharmaceutical products, and cultivate 60 key enterprises with their own technologies and brands.

Meet the market demand

Build an industrial highland

Seize the opportunity, our province all over the implementation of the plan, the development of energy conservation and environmental protection industry horn has sounded:

Nanjing has given full play to its advantages in science and education, established energy-saving mechanical and electrical products promotion service alliance and industry-university-research cooperation entity, developed environmental protection technology consulting, technology integration and solutions and other environmental protection services, and built itself into a first-class energy conservation and environmental protection agglomeration area covering the whole province and the whole country.

Wuxi focuses on the development of energy-saving household appliances, green lighting, high-efficiency energy-saving boilers and other products and technologies, and builds an energy-saving and environmental protection testing service center for mechanical and electrical products, striving to become a domestic advanced and internationally influential research and development and application demonstration base of energy-saving new products and technologies and a manufacturing base of high-end energy-saving products.

Yancheng Environmental Protection Industrial Park, just over one year old, has implemented projects worth more than 5 billion yuan. Kexheng Group, the park's leading enterprise, mainly focuses on the production of energy saving and environmental protection equipment in cement, electric power, steel and other industries with high energy consumption and high pollution. At the beginning of this year, it overcame flue gas desulfurization technology and rapidly industrialized it. The sales revenue of the group increased by 160 million yuan in the half year.

In addition to cultivating industrial bases with distinctive features, local governments are also vigorously developing energy conservation and environmental protection services such as project contracting, facility operation, technical consulting and information services, and contract energy management. In Wuxi, many enterprises have tasted the sweetness of energy conservation services. More than 50 enterprises have cooperated with Wuxi Energy Conservation Supervision Center to carry out contract energy management.

Crack the problem

Expect the government to "fill the gap"

"Jiangsu leads the country in the scale of developing energy conservation and environmental protection industry. Some products are highly competitive, but they also face many challenges." Said Gu Yifang, deputy director of the provincial economic and Information Technology Commission. For example, there are fewer leading enterprises and a lack of large enterprise groups integrating research and development, design, project contracting, equipment manufacturing and operation services. Key technologies and equipment also need to strengthen independent intellectual property rights; Industrial development mechanism and system need to be straightened out; The development of energy conservation and environmental protection services lags behind.

Yu Hongxia, deputy director of the provincial Environmental Protection Department, believes that in order to crack the development problems of the energy conservation and environmental protection industry, the government can not be separated from the initiative. For example, "the energy conservation and environmental protection industry cannot be separated from the support of technology, and it is precisely the lack of 'low investment, low operating cost, good treatment effect, simple and easy operation technology' in the market. In the integration and transmission of energy conservation and environmental protection information, the government should do something." It is revealed that in accordance with the requirements of "making environmental information services real" put forward in the planning outline, relevant departments are ready to rely on the province's environmental protection industrial parks, and actively build online environmental protection technology equipment supermarket, remote diagnosis of environmental engineering, technology achievements trading and other information platforms.

In the assessment of the effect of energy conservation and environmental protection technology, the government should not be "absent". Take rural decentralized sewage treatment technology as an example. At present, agriculture, water conservancy, construction, environmental protection and other departments have done a lot of pilot, but the final effect of which technology is better, there is still a lack of authoritative departments of the "post-evaluation", naturally affected the pace of industrialization.

In addition, the Outline of the Plan also made clear the industrial development environment, investment and financing system, financial support and so on. Key projects, products and technologies will receive preferential tax treatment and preferential government procurement. According to Zhang Jinguo, director of energy conservation and comprehensive utilization of resources of the provincial Economic and Information Technology Commission, the province will use the internationally accepted BOT and other project investment and financing methods to raise funds, around the utilization and protection of water resources, explore trial operation management mechanism of big water. We will actively promote market-oriented pollution treatment, and promote franchise operations for flue gas desulfurization, urban sewage, garbage treatment, and hazardous waste treatment