Yantai is a municipality under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province, located in the middle of Shandong Peninsula, with Weihai in the east, Weifang in the west, Qingdao in the southwest, Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea in the north, and Liaodong Peninsula and Dalian across the sea. The coastline is 702.5 kilometers long and the island is 206.62 kilometers long. Yantai is one of the first coastal open cities in China, an international port city and shopping center in the Bohai Economic Circle and East Asia. Yantai is one of the birthplaces of modern industry in China, and its economic level has always been in the forefront of the province. Yantai's main economic indicators rank second in the province. On the afternoon of February 30th, 2009, China Urban Competitiveness Research Association released the "Eighth (2009) China Urban Competitiveness Ranking", and the press conference was held in Hong Kong. Yantai ranks 22nd in the whole country, 2nd in the whole province, 27th in Qingdao 12 and Jinan. At present, from the central to the local, low-carbon economy is receiving unprecedented attention and has become one of the hot topics of great concern to the general public. How to adapt to the low-carbon trend of the times and firmly regard low-carbon economy as the breakthrough point and breakthrough point to accelerate the transformation of economic development mode should become a new strategic deployment for Yantai Development Zone to achieve sound and rapid development. At the third meeting of the 15th People's Congress of Yantai, the urban development goal of Yantai in 20 10 is to emphasize low-carbon economy and improve people's livelihood.
In the process of "actively changing the mode and carefully adjusting the structure", Yantai has continuously consolidated and expanded the dominant position of traditional pillar industries, at the same time increased its support for strategic emerging industries and made great efforts to cultivate new economic growth points. In the first five months of this year, the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 20.1%; The income from main business was 438.9 billion yuan, up by 27.9% year-on-year, the profit and tax was 465.438+85 billion yuan, and the profit was 32.44 billion yuan, up by 34.6% and 36.3% year-on-year, respectively. The absolute amount of the three indicators ranked the top two in the province.
In the history of human economy, the emergence of major technological innovations and economic transformation are supported by the financial industry. Since the concept of low-carbon economy was put forward, many financial enterprises began to set foot in the development and research of low-carbon technologies, resulting in new concepts such as "green loan" and "social responsibility fund". Some financial enterprises began to clearly put forward the corporate responsibility of energy conservation and emission reduction, actively participated in loans and investments in green environmental protection projects, and achieved certain social and economic benefits. In addition, great progress has been made in financial innovation related to emission trading.
The low-carbon economy urgently needs to develop "low-carbon finance". The so-called "low-carbon finance" refers to the investment and financing activities related to the low-carbon economy, that is, direct investment and financing, carbon rights trading and bank loans that serve technologies and projects such as limiting greenhouse gas emissions. In order to realize the harmonious development of economy and environment, financial enterprises must establish low-carbon financial consciousness. Facing the requirements of the era of low-carbon economy, we must build a low-carbon financial system suitable for the development of low-carbon economy as soon as possible, including bank loans, direct investment and financing, carbon index trading, carbon option futures and a series of financial instruments. The development of low-carbon economy will become an important support for the sustainable development of the global economy, and will also provide new development space for the financial system.
However, although domestic financial innovation related to low-carbon economy has made great progress, its development is still in a relatively primary stage, and many aspects need to be further improved. For example, the awareness of low-carbon finance of financial enterprises needs to be improved, the social benefits of low-carbon finance are in contradiction with the profit pursuit of financial institutions, the development of relevant intermediary markets is not perfect, and policies and laws are risky.
In the past year, the term "low-carbon economy" has been warming up in China much faster than global warming. At this year's national "two sessions", it monopolized the proposal of 10%; If you enter it into a search engine, 36 million search results will pop up in 0.004 second. According to incomplete statistics, at least 100 cities in China have put forward the slogan of building a "low-carbon economy", and no province is absent. The newest member is Lhasa, the capital of Xizang Autonomous Region, and it is planned to become a "sun city" with solar energy as its main application. However, Jiang Kejuan, a researcher at the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, said in an exclusive interview with China Youth Daily: "China has not yet formed a real low-carbon city."
The rapid development of China's economy is at the cost of consuming a lot of energy and destroying the ecological environment. At present, China faces many problems in developing low-carbon economy.
The development of low-carbon economy is difficult and slow. China's energy utilization efficiency is low, energy mainly depends on the consumption of coal and mineral resources, and greenhouse gas emissions are higher than those of other countries. The dual pressure contradiction between economic development and emission reduction targets is prominent. China is currently in a period of high energy consumption and high carbon economy. Due to the international division of labor, developing countries have become big energy consumers. For the rapid economic development, China's high-carbon economy will continue. Low-carbon technology is the key to developing low-carbon economy. The application of low-carbon technology to low-carbon economy is characterized by wide coverage and great difficulty, and some low-carbon technologies are difficult to realize, which seriously restricts the development of low-carbon economy. For example, in the coal power generation industry, China's high-carbon thermal power generation still occupies the main position, but the coal-electricity integrated gasification combined cycle technology can not meet the requirements of low-carbon power generation. The transportation department restricts the CO2 emission of automobiles, but it lacks the cooperation of new energy power, and the utilization technology of solar energy and hydrogen energy is in the further research stage.
Export trade structure changes to low carbon/KLOC-0 from June 2008 to May 2009 (see figure 1). It can be seen that the growth rate of China's export carbon began to slow down in August 2008, but in June 2008, it showed a negative growth of +0 1%, down 2.2 1% year-on-year. By May 2009, China's carbon export decreased by 30.73% year-on-year. The results show that the scale effect is the main reason for the reduction of implied carbon emissions in China's trade exports. With the growth of export, it decreased from 26.58% in June 2008 to -26.34% in May 2009, and the influence of scale effect also decreased from 2 1.33% in June 2008 to 2000. In June 2009, the structural effect of 5438+ 10 led to a year-on-year decrease of 2.43% in export carbon, and this figure expanded to 6.25% in May 2009, which shows that China's export trade structure is gradually transforming to low carbon.
At present, the low-carbon economy is coming to us like a rolling tide. We must meet the challenge unswervingly with the spirit of reform, open thinking, broad vision, pragmatic attitude and scientific management, and strive to win new victories in this all-round "green revolution".