Focus on Baotou to build a "world green silicon capital" and build a vertically integrated new energy industry pattern of "ecological priority and green development".
In recent years, Guyang County, Baotou City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, based on the development of county differences, has firmly established the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. Remarkable results have been achieved by adhering to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands and sands, continuously improving the quality of the ecological environment, further promoting the prevention and control of environmental pollution, accelerating ecological protection and restoration, and promoting resource conservation and green and low-carbon development. It has won the titles of National Health County, National "Four Good Rural Roads" Demonstration County, "China's Most Beautiful Rural Tourism County", and National New Era Civilization Practice Pilot Area.
Recently, Guyang County won another award, and was awarded the title of the first batch of "Beautiful County" by the All-China Environmental Protection Federation and other departments. Hou Yongfeng, deputy secretary of the Guyang County Party Committee and county magistrate, was interviewed by the All-China Environmental Protection Federation, the Financial Associated Press and other units.
Hou Yongfeng, deputy secretary of the Guyang County Party Committee and county magistrate, inspected the Guyang Wild Astragalus Provenance Protection Base
All-China Environmental Protection Federation: The goal of Guyang County is to create a national ecological civilization demonstration county, and it is the result of Guyang County's efforts to be rated as the first batch of "beautiful counties" in the country.
Hou Yongfeng: The creation of a national ecological civilization demonstration county is not only an honor, but also a powerful measure to implement the task of building an important ecological security barrier in northern China. According to the creation of evaluation indicators, our county has compiled the "Guyang County National Ecological Civilization Construction Demonstration Zone Plan (2023-2035)", and successfully passed the expert review of the autonomous region. We will take the "Planning" as the guide, from the aspects of improving the ecological system, protecting the ecological space, maintaining ecological security, developing the ecological economy, promoting ecological life, and promoting ecological culture, we will further promote the construction of ecological civilization, and strive to build an "intensive and efficient ecological space system, a fresh and beautiful ecological security system, a green and low-carbon circular ecological economic system, a harmonious and livable ecological life system, a healthy and noble ecological cultural system and a complete ecological civilization system system", so as to realize the realization of human and nature, The harmonious development of man and economy, man and ecological environment.
At the same time, we are also aware that the indicators and tasks of creating a national ecological civilization construction demonstration county are closely related to people's livelihood and development, and are closely related to the production and life of the masses. We hope that through our efforts, we can not only win the honor of national ecological civilization demonstration county, but also let the city change, the masses have feelings, and the society can recognize, so that the quality of the ecological environment in Guyang County will get better and better, and truly become the "back garden" of Baotou City.
Finance Associated Press: It is the core strategy of the country's industrial development to focus on simultaneously promoting high-quality development and high-level protection, taking the "dual carbon" work as the guide, promoting the dual control of energy consumption to gradually shifting to the dual control of carbon emissions, and continuing to promote the green and low-carbon transformation of production methods and lifestyles. In terms of green and low-carbon transformation of the industry, what achievements has Guyang achieved?
Hou Yongfeng: Guyang County will unswervingly follow a new path of high-quality development oriented by ecological priority and green development, and make overall plans for the addition and subtraction of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion and growth.
First, multiple measures to reduce carbon emissions. On the one hand, we should pay close attention to the state's support for high-energy industries to accumulate policy opportunities in clean energy advantageous areas, carry out precise investment promotion and selection, strictly control the four passes of "investment, technology, output, and energy consumption", make full use of the advantages of green electricity, and effectively reduce the total energy consumption and intensity of new projects. On the other hand, we will promote the implementation of energy-saving technological transformation by existing enterprises, reduce the high-carbon economy, reduce the black economy, and increase the green, low-carbon and beautiful economy.
The second is a multi-pronged approach to pollution reduction. We deeply understand that emission reduction is not about not discharging emissions, but about achieving bluer water, greener mountains and cleaner air in the green transformation. Focusing on the goals and tasks of building a "zero-waste city", focusing on the comprehensive utilization of industrial solid waste, we have completed the treatment of unowned solid waste dumps along the S211, 311, Shaming Line and Chunkun Mountain Tourist Highway, implemented the treatment of 301 unowned mines, and steadily promoted the construction of green mines; standardized river sand mining, completed the treatment of rural domestic sewage in 44 villages, and maintained 100% of the average water quality of each section and the water quality compliance rate of drinking water sources; strengthened the 24-hour supervision of industrial waste gas, and the air quality ranked among the top three in the city throughout the year.
The third is to strive for green expansion in many ways. We will continue to promote the construction of national key ecological function zones, with the goal of creating a national ecological civilization demonstration county, strive for a new round of 360 million yuan of subsidy funds for the extended period of returning farmland to forests and grasslands to consolidate the results, implement 8 national key forestry projects and ecological restoration and governance projects, and complete the restoration of 50,000 mu of degraded forests, 54,000 mu of mountain closure and afforestation, and 25,000 mu of forest tending. Artificial afforestation of 5,000 acres, the implementation of 16 whole village greening projects, forest and grass resources protection has achieved remarkable results, successfully won the national advanced collective of desertification prevention and control, and strive to achieve a forest coverage rate of 26% in the county.
Fourth, multi-point flowering and growth. We promote the conservation and intensive utilization of resources, strengthen the concept of land management, innovate new energy development methods, implement the investment of resources such as land and scenery, and establish a linkage mechanism between new energy and industry. To benefit from resources and land, 23,000 acres of land increase and decrease were linked, and 4,300 acres of abandoned mines were reclaimed. In 2023, 3 new industrial "standard land" transfers will be completed, with a total area of 47.58 hectares and a total transaction price of 99.927 million yuan, and another 2.99 hectares of land is being listed for sale with a proposed transaction price of 6.2865 million yuan. With the help of the state to restart the forestry carbon sink CCER project, the implementation of the 1 million tons of standard coal carbon sequestration "carbon sink" project in Guyang County, the completion of the first "forestry digital carbon ticket" transaction in the region, opening up a new situation of ecological benefits into economic benefits and "carbon tickets" into "banknotes".
All-China Environment Federation: In May 2023, Baotou City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was awarded the title of "World Green Silicon Capital" by the Global Green Energy Council. Silicon materials are one of the "new driving forces" of Guyang County's economy. Under this opportunity, how will Guyang achieve the rapid development of the green energy industry?
Hou Yongfeng: Guyang County, located at the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain, is a first-class area for wind and solar development, which has not only the resources and energy that can realize the substitution of green energy, but also the environmental capacity to deploy high-load energy and high-level industries. In recent years, the county has focused on the development positioning and goals of Baotou City to build "the world's green silicon capital", "two rare earth bases" and "five new industrial clusters", using green electricity to support polysilicon enterprises, controlling energy consumption intensity, breaking trade barriers in the international market, and introducing new projects and cultivating new enterprises in accordance with the vertical integration idea of "wind, solar and hydrogen storage", so as to effectively resist price fluctuations and involution risks caused by overcapacity. It is estimated that the annual fixed investment will exceed 10 billion yuan, and the industrial output value will exceed 30 billion yuan. As for new energy power generation projects, at present, 1,450,500 kilowatts of wind power have been connected to the grid, 593,000 kilowatts of photovoltaic power generation have been connected to the grid, and new energy development projects with a total installed capacity of 1.8GW are under construction, with a remaining developable scale of about 6GW, which will provide a strong green power guarantee for enterprises. Regarding equipment manufacturing projects, the county has landed Risen Energy, Hongyuan, Daqo and other enterprises with a single investment of 10 billion yuan, and plans to record a silicon material production capacity of 1.1 million tons (650,000 tons of industrial silicon, 250,000 tons of polysilicon, 200,000 tons of organic silicon) and 29GW (26GW of monocrystalline silicon, 3GW of modules), up to now Risen Energy 3GW modules, 10GW monocrystalline silicon and Hongyuan Phase I 50,000 tons of polysilicon projects have been completed and put into operation; Daqo 150,000 tons of industrial silicon, Risen Energy 100,000 tons of industrial silicon, Hongyuan's 80,000-ton industrial silicon and other large projects are under steady construction, TBEA's 120,000-ton wind power tower, the first phase of 60,000 tons has been completed and put into operation, and AVIC's 10GAH lithium battery project has started construction, achieving a breakthrough in the county's zero energy storage battery.
After all the above projects are put into operation, the industrial silicon production capacity of Guyang County accounts for 39% of the city's 850,000 tons and 4.3% of the country's 7.6 million tons, the polysilicon production capacity accounts for 5.7% of the city's 870,000 tons and 2.3% of the country's 2.2 million tons, and the monocrystalline silicon production capacity accounts for 4% of the city's 253GW and 1.6% of the country's 630GW, further consolidating the status of the green substrate base, and is expected to increase the output value of 50 billion yuan, tax revenue of more than 2 billion yuan, and solve the employment of more than 5,000 people.
Finance Associated Press: With the support of Baotou City's "World Green Silicon Capital" and the state's policy support of "encouraging high-energy industries to gather in the western clean energy advantageous areas", what industries will Guyang be ready to achieve the strategic goal of an industrially rich county?
Hou Yongfeng: Guyang County will adhere topracticeNear-flatGuided by the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era, thoroughly implementedpracticeNear-flatThe spirit of the important instructions and instructions of the general secretary on Inner Mongolia's important speech, unswervingly follow the new path of high-quality development guided by ecological priority and green development, focus on "ecology, development, and people's livelihood", and build a modern industrial system with diversified development and multi-polar support around multi-industry chain extension, supplementation, and strengthening of the chain.
In 2024, Guyang County will focus on six major industrial directions to carry out precise investment promotion.
In terms of new energy equipment manufacturing industry, focusing on building a banner industrial cluster of "World Green Silicon Capital", based on the development needs of the solar photovoltaic power generation industry in Baotou City and surrounding areas, it has carried out extensive cooperation with Oriental Hope, Xinjiang TBEA, Risen Energy, Xinjiang Daqo, Hongyuan New Materials Co., Ltd. and other enterprises in the field of silicon material industry chain, steadily promoted the production of upstream monocrystalline silicon, slices, backsheets, brackets, frames and silicon wafers, and accelerated the development of midstream photovoltaic glass. By 2025, the solar cell manufacturing and module packaging project will actively expand to the direction of downstream photovoltaic system integration and application, and by 2025, it will form an annual production capacity of 300,000 tons of industrial silicon, 150,000 tons of polysilicon and back-end crystal pulling, slicing, and modules.
Wind power equipment manufacturing. Relying on the high-quality wind resources in Guyang County and the surrounding areas, we will vigorously introduce leading enterprises in the industry such as Shanghai Electric and Zhejiang Yunda, lay out upstream products such as wind turbines and blades, and develop new technologies and high-end equipment manufacturing such as key components such as hosts, gearboxes, flanges, and fasteners.
Hydrogen energy industry and energy storage industry. Focusing on the fields of hydrogen energy production, storage, transportation, and application technology, we will promote the industrialization process of hydrogen energy, focus on the introduction of upstream hydrogen production power supply, electrolyzer diaphragm, water electrolysis hydrogen production, and industrial by-product gas hydrogen production equipment manufacturing projects, develop midstream liquid hydrogen storage and transportation, high-pressure storage and transportation, solid-state storage and transportation, organic liquid storage and transportation industries, and build downstream hydrogen fuel cells, automobiles, hydrogen refueling guns, hydrogen refueling stations, refrigeration systems and other terminal industries. The development of the energy storage industry, focusing on energy storage technology research and development, infrastructure construction, supporting operation services and other links, around the development and investment of new energy power stations, energy storage product research and development and production, user-side energy storage applications and other projects, accelerate the construction of energy storage industry demonstration bases, and build an advanced energy storage industry cluster with core competitiveness.
In terms of advanced aluminum industry, relying on the production and supply advantages of electrolytic aluminum of Xinhengfeng Energy Co., Ltd., we will expand the downstream industrial chain of aluminum and accelerate the transformation and industrialization process of building decoration, industrial profiles, transportation, machinery and equipment, electronic appliances, packaging containers and other application fields. Focus on the development of auto parts, high-precision molds, mechanical wear-resistant parts, etc. The introduction of aluminum plate, strip and foil (aluminum rolling), aluminum profile (aluminum extrusion), aluminum matrix composite materials and high-purity aluminum alloy and other high-end product projects. By 2025, it will form an annual output of 1.2 million tons of aluminum and post-aluminum high-end products, 100,000 tons of high-purity aluminum, and the output value of aluminum will reach more than 20 billion yuan.
In terms of new materials industry, focusing on the "rare earth capital of the world", we will focus on the introduction of leading enterprises such as North China Rare Earth (Group) High-tech Co., Ltd., focusing on metal materials, inorganic non-metallic materials (such as ceramics, semiconductors, etc.), advanced composite materials, focusing on the introduction of rare earth metal magnesium and alloys, precision copper wires and other projects; With Aoboriginal new materials as the starting point, we will accelerate the cultivation and development of graphite and related composite materials deep processing industry, and make breakthroughs in carbon materials, solar cell materials, hydrogen storage materials, solid oxide battery materials and other energy materials.
In terms of green agricultural and livestock products processing industry, we will focus on the deep processing of agricultural and livestock products, facility agriculture, and large-scale planting and breeding to carry out investment attraction work, strengthen the astragalus and meat sheep industry chains, and supplement the industrial chain of miscellaneous grains and facility agriculture. Carry out the collection, sorting and breeding of high-quality Astragalus germplasm resources, cooperate with major institutes and professional institutions, carry out the cultivation of Guyang Astragalus membranaceus provenance based on the wild Astragalus membranaceus in Guyang County, and establish the provenance protection base (area) of Guyang wild Astragalus. Continue to take the popularity of Guyang Astragalus, start the local Astragalus brand advantage, and enhance the brand building of Guyang Astragalus as the goal. Seize the opportunity of the pilot project of Astragalus medicine and food homology, expand the use of Astragalus, and take the initiative to attract Astragalus deep processing projects to settle in our county. With the help of the Astragalus Medicine and Food Homologous Product Promotion Conference, we will continue to make efforts, deeply plan the Astragalus industry, steadily promote the construction of Astragalus standardization base, strive to improve the industrial chain of Astragalus deep processing, and strive to build the "Zhengbei Astragalus" brand.
In terms of modern service industry, we will introduce influential brands in the life service industry, and accelerate the introduction of modern business and trade, health and elderly care, sports services and other life service projects. Focusing on supporting the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure, we will accelerate the introduction of producer service projects. The first is to promote industrial transformation and upgrading through e-commerce as the development direction, focusing on the introduction of well-known logistics enterprises, supply chain leading enterprises, and express brand enterprises to consolidate the investment layout. Focusing on meat, astragalus, grain and other characteristic agricultural and livestock products, the introduction of SF, Jingdong and other well-known enterprises to set up production warehouses, front warehouses, cold chain turnover warehouses and other projects. Introduce large-scale well-known domestic real estate enterprises, use the vacant land of urban demolition, and build a county complex integrating "catering, entertainment, shopping and residence" to promote the integration of three industries. The second is to implement the "14th Five-Year Plan" development plan for cultural tourism with high standards, build a global tourism demonstration area, develop four-season tourism, build the Qin Great Wall National Cultural Park and the Great Wall Museum, hold a high-quality Great Wall cultural forum, create a night tour of the Qin Great Wall Internet celebrity check-in place, and upgrade the Chunkun Mountain and Ma'anshan tourist attractions. Cultivate a new business format of "tourism +", deeply integrate ecological health care and research, and promote the construction of traditional ancient villages in Dayingtu and red beautiful villages in official lands. Actively introduce well-known domestic brand tourism operation and management companies, and intervene in the operation of the county's cultural and tourism industry through entrusted management and joint-stock cooperation.
In terms of advanced steel materials industry, relying on the existing iron concentrate production capacity and upstream enterprises such as iron and steel smelting enterprises in our county, we will focus on introducing downstream foundry enterprises to further extend the industrial chain. According to the "Several Policies and Measures for Promoting High-quality Economic Development in Baotou City", efforts are made to improve the industrial chain, optimize the supply chain, continuously improve the level of economic development and modernization, and unswervingly follow the path of ecological priority and green development. Focusing on the manufacture of special steel, we will focus on the introduction of a number of downstream steel industries such as bridge components, machinery manufacturing, metal products, towers, photovoltaic brackets, high-quality stainless steel, high-strength steel, wear-resistant steel, rare earth steel, die steel and other special steel extension industries, high-performance bearing steel, precision ultra-thin stainless steel, pressure closed containers and other high-end processing and production projects, extend the industrial chain, form industrial clusters, and produce economies of scale.
