Government Policy

The State Council on the issuance of the "2024-2025 Energy Saving and Carbon Reduction Action Program" notice. The Programme states that in 2025, the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption will reach about 20%, and energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation in key areas and industries will result in energy savings of about 50 million tons of standard coal and carbon dioxide emission reductions of about 130 million tons, so that the best efforts will be made to complete the energy-saving and carbon-reducing binding indicators of the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan".

Under the premise of protecting the ecology, combining photovoltaic development with traditional sand control and carrying out the construction of photovoltaic sand control projects are of great significance for promoting ecological governance and realizing the dual-carbon goal.

The Office of the State Board has issued a call for 2024 green and low-carbon technologies for public agencies.

On May 19, the typical cases of energy green and low-carbon transformation were released and technical exchanges were held in Beijing, and the Chief Engineer of the National Energy Administration, Xiang Haiping, released the typical cases and the Compendium of Typical Cases of Energy Green and Low-Carbon Transformation.

From April 27 to 30, at the invitation of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Energy, He Yang, deputy director of the National Energy Administration, led a delegation to Saudi Arabia to attend a special meeting of the World Economic Forum.

The Measures for the Regulation of Electricity Markets came into effect on June 1, 2024. The Measures propose that the main subjects of power trading include power generation enterprises, power sales enterprises, power users, energy storage enterprises, virtual power plants and load aggregators participating in power market trading.

Recently, the Ninth Session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) reviewed the Energy Law of the People's Republic of China (Draft) and made it available to the public for public consultation from April 26th to May 25th.

The National Energy Administration (NEA) released its annual report on the rule of law government in 2023, and will actively promote the development and revision of the renewable energy law and other laws in 2024.

Seven departments, including the General Administration of Market Supervision, jointly issued the Action Plan for Traction of Equipment Renewal and Consumer Goods Replacement by Standard Enhancement, which emphasizes adherence to standard-led, orderly enhancement, strengthening of standard comparison and optimization of the system, and calls for accelerating the preparation and revision of standards in the fields of energy conservation and carbon reduction, environmental protection, safety, recycling and other areas.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and other seven departments jointly issued the Implementation Program for Promoting the Renewal of Equipment in the Industrial Sector.