Ji'an draws a blueprint for green development with the "four colors" of Luling
In 2022, the energy intensity per unit of GDP in Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province was 0.2395 tons of standard coal per 10,000 yuan, and the carbon emission intensity was 0.2995 tons of carbon dioxide per 10,000 yuan, with a carbon emission reduction rate of 30.96%, and greenhouse gas emissions were effectively controlled, with per capita carbon emissions remaining in the range of 1.76-2.06 tons, far lower than the national average (about 8 tons). In 2023, Ji'an National Low-Carbon City, Circular Economy Demonstration City and Jinggangshan Economic and Technological Development Zone National Ecological Industrial Park passed the acceptance.
In recent years, based on the positioning of "cultural Luling, landscape Ji'an", Ji'an has unswervingly implemented the strategy of "ecological city, green development", established and improved the system and mechanism to respond to climate change, coordinated and integrated the "red, ancient, green and gold" four-color resources, focused on key areas such as low-carbon industry, low-carbon energy, green life and green buildings, strengthened the leading and demonstration role, and promoted the city's economic and social development to move towards green and low-carbon, and the level of green and low-carbon development has been significantly improved, and a blueprint for green and low-carbon development has been drawn.
With the red spirit of Jinggangshan, establish a low-carbon development orientation
"As a national low-carbon city pilot, Ji'an has given full play to its role as a pioneer, vigorously promoted the spirit of Jinggangshan across time and space, and actively explored and provided successful experiences and effective methods to deal with climate change. The person in charge of the Ji'an Municipal Government said.
Ji'an attaches great importance to green and low-carbon development, and has set up a leading group for the pilot construction of low-carbon cities and a leading group for carbon peak and carbon neutrality, headed by the main responsible comrades of the municipal party committee and the municipal government, to study and deploy various key tasks of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and to issue the "Ji'an Pollution Reduction and Carbon Reduction Synergy Implementation Plan", "Ji'an Ecological and Environmental Protection "14th Five-Year Plan" and "Ji'an Carbon Peak Implementation Plan" and other guiding documents, strengthen policy support, and basically form a statistical accounting, evaluation and assessment system for climate change.
"Under the guarantee and guidance of a series of green and low-carbon development systems, Ji'an has comprehensively promoted the optimization and upgrading of the energy structure, and initially built a variety of new energy industry development systems such as wind energy, hydropower, photovoltaic industry, biomass energy and solar power generation, and has achieved remarkable results in the optimization and upgrading of the energy structure. The relevant person in charge of the Ji'an Municipal Development and Reform Commission introduced.
By the end of 2023, Ji'an will have completed and put into operation power generation projects with a total installed capacity of 7.2 million kilowatts, of which 72% are renewable energy and 43% are wind and solar new energy power generation, and the total natural gas consumption will reach 230 million cubic meters, and the gas storage capacity will reach 1.866 million cubic meters, meeting the requirements of "government three-day gas storage capacity", and the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption and hydropower generation are leading the province.
With the gold of vigorous development, we will strengthen the efficiency of low-carbon development
According to the data, the balance of green loans in Ji'an will reach 54.6 billion yuan in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 64.46%.
"Make full use of green financial policy tools to help the green development of the industry and promote the realization of the value of ecological products. The relevant person in charge of the Ji'an Municipal Development and Reform Commission said that in 2023, Ji'an expects high-tech industries and strategic emerging industries to account for 59.5% and 36% of the added value of large-scale industries respectively, and the carbon market will have a surplus of 114,619 tons of carbon emission allowances in the second compliance cycle of the carbon market implementation and settlement work.
Ji'an has deepened the reform of green financial products, innovatively launched green credit products such as "GEP Loan" and "Pledge Loan for Carbon Sink Income Rights", and strived to build a financial service system for ecological products. Incorporate the development of green finance into the annual assessment and evaluation index system of financial institutions to support local economic development, promote banking institutions to increase support for key enterprise projects such as clean energy, energy conservation and environmental protection, and carbon emission reduction technologies, and promote the implementation of carbon emission reduction support tools and special loan policy tools to support the clean and efficient use of coal.
By the end of 2023, Ji'an City has guided the Municipal Urban Investment Company and Xinluling Company to issue 3.6 billion yuan of green bonds to effectively solve the financing needs of green projects. The city's financial institutions used carbon emission reduction support tools to issue loans of 1.376 billion yuan and support 17 enterprises. Set up special funds to encourage social capital to support the construction of low-carbon development capacity system, the creation of low-carbon demonstration zones, low-carbon technology research and development, demonstration project construction, demonstration project building, forestry carbon sink and other fields, support enterprises to carry out low-carbon technology innovation, and leverage more than 16 billion yuan of social funds.
With the endless green, promote carbon sequestration and increase the level of sinks
Walking into the experimental area of the life community of Qianyanzhou in Taihe County, the lush green is endless, and there is no end in sight.
Who would have thought that just a few years ago, this was a barren place. "The forest coverage rate is only 0.4%, the loess is bare and dusty. The person in charge of the experimental area of the life community of Qianyanzhou, Qianyanzhou, Taihe County, introduced.
Taihe County explored the ecological compensation mechanism of small watersheds, comprehensively managed the ecology of small watersheds, promoted the forest coverage rate of the experimental area to more than 67%, reduced the annual soil erosion modulus from 221.1 tons/square kilometer to 3 tons/square kilometer, and increased the annual per capita disposable income of farmers from less than 500 yuan to 15,000 yuan. The Qianyanzhou red soil development model was awarded the "Top 100" by the United Nations for global ecological restoration, and was included in the high school geography textbook.
From "barren land" to "green forest sea", the wonderful transformation of the Qianyanzhou Mountains, Rivers, Forests, Fields, Lakes and Grasses Life Community Pilot Area is a vivid practice of Ji'an City actively exploring ecosystem carbon sequestration and sequestration.
In order to promote green and low-carbon development, as early as 2017, Ji'an established a strategic relationship with the State Forestry Administration and the China Development Bank, pioneered the market-oriented operation model in the country, and implemented the forest right mortgage financing model of "full forest right mortgage guarantee + municipal risk reserve + project forest right exclusive commitment + forest right insurance", and explored a unique road of "multi-layered forest cultivation", "low-quality and low-efficiency forest transformation", "rake belt land preparation" and "forest near-natural management" deeply integrated into the construction of national reserve forests.
According to the person in charge of the Ji'an Forestry Bureau, the city's forest stock has increased from 91 million cubic meters in 2018 to 115 million cubic meters in 2022, with a forest carbon sink area of 27 million mu and an average annual absorption of 212.76 million tons of carbon dioxide.
With the rich antiquity, it will help the momentum of low-carbon innovation
Walking into the Zhuzhu Shoot Lane Community, Yongshu Street, Jizhou District, you can feel the penetration of low-carbon concepts everywhere: rooftop photovoltaic power generation systems, photovoltaic express cabinets, solar music seats, intelligent garbage recycling bins and other facilities are readily available, with an annual power generation of more than 7,000 kWh, and all households use energy-saving lamps and first-class energy-efficient household appliances, saving more than 85,000 kWh of electricity and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by more than 51 tons per year.
Jizhou District has innovatively combined the old community with historical heritage with modern low-carbon transformation technology, which has not only successfully created a low-carbon community pilot, but also retained the original Luling cultural characteristics of the area.
"The improvement of the community environment has effectively increased the enthusiasm of residents to practice a low-carbon lifestyle, promoted the widespread formation of green production and lifestyle, and enhanced the city's ability to adapt to climate change. The person in charge of the Jizhou Ecological Environment Bureau said.
Ji'an City vigorously calls on the whole society to participate in green and low-carbon actions, carry out the construction of green and low-carbon pilot demonstration projects throughout the territory, and build a relatively complete low-carbon community, near-zero carbon community, low-carbon scenic spot and low-carbon park to create a development model with a point-to-area, multi-field and multi-level approach, so as to form a replicable and referenceable experience of Ji'an, and help achieve the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality as soon as possible.
A single flower is not spring, a hundred flowers bloom in spring. Up to now, Ji'an has successively built 8 provincial-level park recycling transformation projects, with a 68% correlation degree of the park's circular economy industrial chain, 4 provincial-level green and low-carbon counties and 3 low-carbon scenic spots, and Diaoyuan Ancient Village Scenic Area has become the first "carbon neutral scenic spot" in the province, and more than 30 low-carbon communities and near-zero-carbon communities have been created.
