Next year is a crucial year to achieve the binding targets of energy conservation and emission reduction in the 11th Five-Year Plan. To further promote energy conservation and emission reduction, time is pressing and the task is arduous. The Central Economic Work Conference regards strengthening energy conservation, emission reduction and ecological environment protection as a major task in economic work next year, and proposes to intensify tackling key problems to ensure significant progress in energy conservation and emission reduction. This is an important deployment based on the present, with a long-term view, promoting development and benefiting people's livelihood, and has strong pertinence and guidance. To conscientiously study and implement the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference, we must organically unify the promotion of modernization and the construction of ecological civilization, take energy conservation and emission reduction as an important starting point to promote scientific development, intensify efforts, face difficulties, and fight hard and protracted battles for energy conservation and emission reduction.
Energy saving and emission reduction is an important way to save energy resources and protect the ecological environment, and the only way to implement Scientific Outlook on Development and change the development mode. Doing a good job in energy conservation and emission reduction is related to the sustainable development of economy and society, the vital interests of the people and the survival and development of the Chinese nation. The goal of energy conservation and emission reduction is a binding indicator in the 11th Five-Year Plan, and the completion of this goal is a solemn commitment made by the government.
Since the beginning of this year, through the joint efforts of the whole country, remarkable progress has been made in energy conservation and emission reduction, energy consumption per unit of GDP has continued to decline, and emissions of sulfur dioxide and chemical oxygen demand have declined for the first time in recent years. The effect of energy saving and emission reduction has initially appeared, but the foundation is still not solid. Judging from the targets of energy conservation and emission reduction in the 11th Five-Year Plan, the task is still arduous and the situation is quite grim. Next year is the third year of implementing the 11th Five-Year Plan. We must intensify energy conservation and emission reduction and achieve remarkable results, otherwise the task pressure in the next two years will be even greater. It is necessary to further enhance the sense of responsibility and urgency of energy conservation, emission reduction and environmental protection, pay more attention to energy conservation and consumption reduction and pollution reduction, and form a work pattern with the government as the leading factor, enterprises as the main body and the whole society participating together. Energy conservation and emission reduction cannot be achieved overnight. It is necessary to fight a tough battle, but also to establish the idea of long-term combat and fight a protracted war.
Perfecting policies and regulations and strengthening incentive and restraint mechanisms are important guarantees for promoting energy conservation and emission reduction and strengthening environmental protection. We should pay more attention to promoting energy conservation and emission reduction through legal means. Accelerate the introduction and implementation of price, fiscal, taxation, financial and other incentive policies conducive to energy conservation and emission reduction, reduce the input cost of energy conservation and environmental protection, truly reflect the cost of energy resources use and environmental governance, and make the requirements of energy conservation and emission reduction more closely integrated with the vital interests of enterprises. It is necessary to speed up the formulation and implementation of market access standards, mandatory energy efficiency standards and environmental protection standards to promote energy conservation and emission reduction.
The effectiveness of energy conservation and emission reduction in key industries and fields is directly related to whether the goal of energy conservation and emission reduction in the whole society can be achieved. It is necessary to intensify structural adjustment, resolutely eliminate backward production capacity, and effectively curb the excessive growth of industries with high energy consumption and high emissions by strengthening energy conservation and environmental protection assessment and raising the entry threshold. Strengthen the supervision of key energy-consuming enterprises and key pollutant discharge enterprises, and strengthen corporate social responsibility. Accelerate the popularization and application of advanced and applicable technologies and develop circular economy. Strengthen pollution control in key river basins and key industries, and strengthen rural environmental protection.
Conscientiously implementing the work responsibility system is the organizational guarantee to ensure the realization of energy conservation and emission reduction goals. It is necessary to take the completion of energy conservation and emission reduction targets as an important criterion to test the effectiveness of economic development, improve and implement the statistical system, monitoring system and assessment system for energy conservation and emission reduction, and implement a regular assessment mechanism.
Energy-saving, emission reduction and environmental protection are in the contemporary era and beneficial to the future. In the historical process of accelerating the transformation of economic development mode and taking the road of new industrialization with China characteristics, we must enhance the awareness of energy conservation and environmental protection of the whole society, turn energy conservation and emission reduction and environmental protection into conscious actions of the whole society, make the cost of economic development smaller and smaller, and make the ecological environment better and better.