China Continues to Improve Industrial Carbon Reduction

CCTV.com reports (Xinwen Lianbo): This year, China launched the development of national-level zero-carbon factories. A range of new technologies for reducing industrial carbon emissions is being implemented at a faster pace, driving continued improvements in industrial carbon reduction.

Since the beginning of this year, factories and workshops, from traditional manufacturing to emerging industries, have been precisely measuring carbon emissions and managing them intelligently.

At this instrument manufacturer in Yueqing, Zhejiang, reporters saw that power distribution cabinets on the production line were fitted with dedicated carbon meters in addition to conventional electricity meters. Staff told reporters that more than 2,200 smart metering nodes had been installed throughout the factory grounds. While precisely detecting carbon emissions, an energy and carbon management platform automatically diagnoses and optimizes production. At this energy-storage battery industrial park in Shiyan, Hubei, each battery has a “zero-carbon green code” that clearly records its full life-cycle carbon footprint, from raw materials and production to packaging.

Data show that since the beginning of this year, China has fostered an additional 2,038 green factories and 128 green industrial parks. The output value of national green factories has risen to 22% of the total output value of manufacturing enterprises above the designated size.

While continuously improving green manufacturing, China is also accelerating the wider application of new carbon sequestration and reduction technologies. Offshore, China’s first demonstration project applying carbon injection technology to enhance gas production has fully entered the commissioning stage. After it begins production, the project will be able to store more than 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually in geological formations beneath the seabed.

In the first three quarters of this year, energy consumption per unit of value added in China’s industrial enterprises above the designated size fell 4.3% year on year. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China will build around 500 national-level zero-carbon factories and zero-carbon computing facilities, and carbon dioxide emissions per unit of value added in industrial enterprises above the designated size will fall by at least 17% compared with 2025.