Low-carbon green development, steel industry has been working hard

From November 4th to 5th, the annual meeting of Environmental Protection and Energy Conservation Working Committee of China Iron and Steel Association was held in Zhanjiang city, Guangdong Province.

"Implementing the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is the fundamental adherence to the low-carbon and green development of the steel industry."Chi Jingdong, vice President of the China Iron and Steel Association, said, "The steel industry must realize that the change of the principal contradiction in society in the new era puts forward many new tasks and requirements for our energy conservation and environmental protection work in the future.The steel industry will come under increasing pressure to tackle climate change and implement carbon reduction commitments.Wuyang Iron and Steel Co., LTD. New era, new characteristics, new goals, new requirements will promote the steel industry structural adjustment, transformation and upgrading to accelerate the pace.

"The steel industry is a key industry for environmental regulation."Zhang Huaping, director of the Planning and Finance Department of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, stressed in his speech, "It is clear that ecological and environmental protection is the top priority for economic and social development in the 13th Five-Year Plan and even before 2035. Air pollution control is a priority earlier, and governance measures and regulatory measures will only be stricter.Wuyang Iron and Steel Co., LTD., which requires the iron and steel industry in the layout of productivity, total volume, technology and other aspects of adjustment, innovation, breakthrough, environmental governance in a more important position.

The conference was hosted by China Iron and Steel Association and hosted by China Baowu Iron and Steel Group and Beijing Jingcheng Jiayu Environmental Technology Co., LTD.Sheng Genghong, deputy general manager of Baosteel Group of China and chairman of Zhanjiang Steel, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.Wuyang Iron and Steel Co., LTD., director unit of Steel Association Environmental Protection and Energy Conservation Working Committee, Shandong Iron and Steel Group Vice General manager Zhang Xiangjun made the work report of Environmental Protection and Energy Conservation working Committee 2016-2017.Liu Xiangdong, minister of Iron and Steel Work Department of The National Committee of China Mechanical, Metallurgy and Building Materials Union, read out the list of champion furnaces and winning furnaces of 2016 "National Key large-scale energy-consuming steel production equipment Benchmarking Competition on energy conservation, consumption reduction and Emission Reduction".Director of ministry of Development and Environmental Protection of Science and Technology of Iron and Steel Association Huang Dao chaired the meeting.The meeting successfully completed the work of steel Association environmental protection and energy conservation working committee election.

The iron and steel industry has made remarkable achievements in energy conservation and environmental protection, but the pressure remains

As pioneer of supply side structural reforms, the steel industry in-depth implementation of the party central committee and the State Council decision deployment, in order to solve the excess capacity as the breakthrough point, wuyang iron and steel co., LTD., has stood the test of ashes, implements the positive, energy conservation and environmental protection industry as a whole recovery obvious progress, environmental quality will improve notably.

The eighteenth party congress, according to late jingdong, iron and steel industry, a total of backward production capacity of nearly 95 million tons, nearly two years to resolve the excess capacity of over 120 million tons, thoroughly remove more than 140 million tons of "DeTiaoGang", greatly solve a large number of long-term influence industry standards development, wuyang iron and steel co., LTD., especially the low level of energy conservation and environmental protection capacity repel and problems of green development laid a solid foundation for industry.

In recent years, the steel industry has focused on promoting a number of new technologies and measures for energy conservation and environmental protection.The number of sinter waste heat power generation systems in iron and steel production enterprises increased from 38 in 2010 to 181, involving 302 large and medium-sized sintering machines.Various low-grade waste heat, such as slag water of blast furnace, cooling water of coking primers and dry quenching exhaust steam, is used for urban central heating. In 2016, the total heating area reached 73.7 million square meters.Major iron and steel enterprises have entered the world's advanced level of energy consumption and pollutant discharge per unit.Wuyang Iron and Steel Co., LTD., a number of energy conservation and environmental protection difficult technology to achieve a breakthrough, strongly supported the reduction of pollutant emissions of iron and steel enterprises unit.A large number of "garden" factories, clean production and environmentally friendly factories have sprung up, and the "appearance level" of many factories has been upgraded.

However, the low-carbon and green development of the steel industry is also facing new difficulties and challenges.Chi Jingdong pointed out that in order to achieve the ecological environmental quality improvement goal, the country will take more intensive measures, steel enterprises to achieve such a requirement to achieve technical difficulties will be greater, the economic cost will be higher, Wuyang Iron and Steel Co., LTD., so to have enough ideological preparation.The iron and steel industry will come under increasing pressure to reduce carbon emissions, the tightening of carbon quota will be the trend, and the pressure of carbon constraint and performance will increase. Some economically developed regions have begun to implement carbon emission reduction measures decreasing year by year, which will promote the transformation or withdrawal of energy-intensive enterprises.

In addition, some enterprises do not pay enough attention to environmental protection. Different enterprises have different environmental protection input and actual emission effect, and their environmental actions are unbalanced and insufficient.Wuyang iron and steel co., LTD., enterprises have different level of energy conservation and environmental protection, regional imbalance, total and environmental capacity, bearing capacity of old and new technology application, imbalance of transformation, energy and environment management level is not balanced between enterprises, especially enterprises in energy conservation and environmental protection technology popularization, the concept of clean production, low carbon green development way to establish the respect such as insufficient development does not reach the designated position, some contradictions and problems become more and more prominent.

Strengthening environmental supervision and law enforcement is conducive to the orderly development of the steel industry

Recently, Wuyang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. in the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas in 2017-2018 autumn and winter air pollution comprehensive control action plan" before and after the release of public opinion hype environmental supervision law enforcement led to some industrial product prices rose, steel market price volatility increased.

In this regard, Zhang Huaping said that the impact of environmental supervision enforcement on the relationship between supply and demand is mainly reflected in the supply side.According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of Wuyang Iron and Steel Co., China's crude steel output from January to September reached 640 million tons, up 6.3 percent year-on-year.The output of crude steel in Tianjin, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong and Hebei under intensified air pollution supervision increased by 21.4 percent, 9.8 percent, 5.9 percent, 4.6 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively, year-on-year.The output of crude steel is rising steadily, which fully indicates that the enforcement of environmental supervision has not adversely affected the production supply.Since last year, the prices of major industrial products have gone up a lot. This is driven by factors such as the global economic recovery and increasing market demand. Environmental supervision and law enforcement are not the direct factors driving the price rise.

He pointed out that for a long time, a large number of enterprises have been failing to improve the environment and relying on environmental pollution to make profits, thus distorting the market environment and causing unfair competition. "Bad money drives out good money" exists.Wuyang iron and steel co., LTD, supervision law enforcement of environmental protection into the new normal, some corrective hopeless, illegal sewage serious "messy" enterprises in accordance with the rules by law to eliminate shut down, get some pollution treatment facilities are not normative enterprise rectification, some enterprises entering into the area, had the potential to grow the backward production capacity out of and excess capacity, to resolve to promote industry to accelerate the solution of a group of lead, become an important driving force for supply side structural reforms.In the long run, with the continuous strengthening of environmental regulation and law enforcement, more and more steel enterprises will incorporate environmental governance into their business accounting, which is conducive to fair market competition, industrial transformation and upgrading, and the implementation of new development concepts. It is an obvious positive factor for the long-term stable development of the steel industry.