China's industrial green development has achieved positive progress for the first half of this year, said Tao Qing, spokesperson of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), at a press conference on July 19 in Beijing.
Tao said that MIIT has been promoting development of green mode of production by establishing a green manufacturing system, and the industrial structure has been continuously optimized and updated.
Green technologies like coke dry quenching and power generation using sintering waste heat, have been gradually popularized in the steel industry. All new projects in the electrolytic aluminium industry have adopted electrolytic cells with over 400 KA.
The utilization efficiency of energy resources has also greatly increased. China's production energy efficiency per unit of steel, primary aluminium and clinker cement, is among the world's best, and the energy consumption of a single 5G base station has dropped by more than 20 percent compared with that of the first stage of 5G commercial use.
Meanwhile, the comprehensive utilization rate of bulk industrial solid waste has been climbing steadily. Over 10,000 recycling service stations for used power batteries have been built, while 115,000 tons of used power batteries were recycled from January to May in 2023, which already exceeded the total amount in 2022.
The green and low -carbon industries have been blossoming, and the supply capacity of green products is significantly strengthened. The output of major products in the photovoltaic industry accounted for over 70 percent of the global total. Output and sales of new energy vehicles retained the world's leader status for the eighth consecutive year, with each increasing by 42.4 and 44.1 percent year-on-year respectively for the first half of 2023.
Tao said that MIIT will deepen the implementation of green manufacturing and issue guidance on accelerating the green development of the manufacturing industry. Mechanisms for nurturing green manufacturing models at municipal, provincial and national levels will be improved, and 1,000 national green factories and 50 green industrial zones will be established, he said.