Core tip: By the end of 2025, the installed capacity of pumped storage and new energy storage in China will exceed 62 million kilowatts and 40 million kilowatts respectively
On May 29th, the State Council issued the Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction from 2024 to 2025. It is proposed that by the end of 2025, the installed capacity of pumped storage and new energy storage in China will exceed 62 million kilowatts and 40 million kilowatts respectively. Implement coal-fired capacity electricity pricing, deepen the market-oriented reform of new energy grid electricity pricing, and study and improve the energy storage pricing mechanism.
The full text is as follows:
The State Council issues the "2024-2025
Notice on the Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction
Guofa [2024] No.12
To the people's governments of various provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, as well as to the ministries and commissions of the State Council and directly affiliated institutions:
The 2024-2025 Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction Action Plan is hereby issued to you for careful implementation.
the State Council
May 23, 2024
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Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction from 2024 to 2025
Energy conservation and carbon reduction are important measures to actively and steadily promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality, comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China, and promote comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. In order to increase the promotion of energy conservation and carbon reduction work, adopt practical and effective measures, and make every effort to achieve the binding targets of energy conservation and carbon reduction in the 14th Five Year Plan, this plan is formulated.
1、 Overall requirements
In 2024, the energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP will decrease by about 2.5% and 3.9% respectively. The energy consumption per unit of added value of industrial enterprises above designated size will decrease by about 3.5%, and the proportion of non fossil energy consumption will reach about 18.9%. The energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation in key areas and industries will result in an energy-saving amount of about 50 million tons of standard coal and a reduction of about 130 million tons of carbon dioxide.
In 2025, the proportion of non fossil energy consumption will reach about 20%, and key areas and industries will undergo energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation, resulting in an energy saving of about 50 million tons of standard coal and a reduction of about 130 million tons of carbon dioxide. We will make every effort to achieve the binding targets for energy conservation and carbon reduction during the 14th Five Year Plan period.
2、 Key tasks
（1） Action to reduce and replace fossil energy consumption
1. Strictly and reasonably control coal consumption. Strengthen the clean and efficient utilization of coal, promote the low-carbon transformation and construction of coal-fired power, and promote the linkage of energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation, flexibility transformation, and heating transformation of coal-fired power. Strictly implement the total coal consumption control in key areas for air pollution prevention and control, focus on reducing non electric coal consumption, continue to promote the integration of coal-fired boiler shutdown, clean energy substitution for industrial kilns, and loose coal treatment. New and expanded coal projects in key areas for air pollution prevention and control shall be replaced with coal in equal or reduced quantities in accordance with the law. Reasonably control the scale of semi coke (blue coke) industry. By the end of 2025, the key areas for air pollution prevention and control, including plain areas, will have almost zero scattered coal, and coal-fired boilers and various coal-fired facilities with a capacity of 35 steam tons/hour or less will be basically phased out.
2. Optimize the structure of oil and gas consumption. Reasonably regulate oil consumption, promote advanced bio liquid fuels and sustainable aviation fuels. Accelerate the large-scale development of unconventional oil and gas resources such as shale oil (gas), coalbed methane, and tight oil (gas). Guide natural gas consumption in an orderly manner, prioritizing the protection of residents' livelihoods and clean heating in northern regions. Except for the existing self owned units of petrochemical enterprises, high sulfur petroleum coke shall not be used as fuel.
（2） Action to Increase Non Fossil Energy Consumption
1. Increase efforts in the development of non fossil fuels. Accelerate the construction of large-scale wind and photovoltaic bases with a focus on deserts, Gobi, and deserts. Reasonably and orderly develop offshore wind power, promote the large-scale development and utilization of marine energy, and promote the development and utilization of distributed new energy. Orderly construction of large-scale hydropower bases, active and safe development of nuclear power, tailored development of biomass energy, and coordinated promotion of hydrogen energy development. By the end of 2025, the proportion of non fossil energy generation in China will reach around 39%.
2. Enhance the consumption capacity of renewable energy. Accelerate the construction of large-scale wind and photovoltaic power transmission channels to enhance cross provincial and cross regional transmission capacity. Accelerate the transformation of the distribution network and enhance the carrying capacity of distributed new energy. Actively developing pumped storage and new types of energy storage. Vigorously develop new technologies and models such as microgrids, virtual power plants, and vehicle network interaction. By the end of 2025, the installed capacity of pumped storage and new energy storage in China will exceed 62 million kilowatts and 40 million kilowatts respectively; The demand response capacity of each region should generally reach 3% -5% of the maximum electricity load, and the demand response capacity of regions with an annual peak valley difference of over 40% of the maximum electricity load should reach more than 5% of the maximum electricity load.
3. Vigorously promote the consumption of non fossil fuels. Scientifically and reasonably determining the scale of new energy development, while ensuring economic efficiency, the utilization rate of new energy in areas with better resource conditions can be reduced to 90%. In the first three years of the 14th Five Year Plan, regions with lagging progress in energy conservation and carbon reduction targets should implement commitments to non fossil energy consumption for new projects. In the second two years after the 14th Five Year Plan, the proportion of non fossil energy consumption for new high energy consuming projects should not be less than 20%, and local governments are encouraged to increase the proportion requirements based on actual conditions. Strengthen the connection between the trading of renewable energy green power certificates (hereinafter referred to as green certificates) and energy conservation and carbon reduction policies, and achieve full coverage of green certificate issuance by the end of 2024.
（3） Energy saving and carbon reduction actions in the steel industry
1. Strengthen the regulation of steel production capacity and output. Strictly implement the replacement of steel production capacity, strictly prohibit the addition of new steel production capacity under the names of mechanical processing, casting, ferroalloys, etc., and strictly prevent the resurgence of "ground bar steel" production capacity. Continue to implement crude steel production control in 2024. Regions with lagging progress in achieving energy conservation and carbon reduction targets in the first three years of the 14th Five Year Plan shall not, in principle, add new steel production capacity in the second two years after the 14th Five Year Plan. New construction and expansion of steel smelting projects must reach the benchmark level of energy efficiency and A-level environmental performance.
2. Deeply adjust the structure of steel products. Vigorously develop high-end steel products such as high-performance special steel, and strictly control the export of low value-added basic raw materials. Promote the integrated layout of steel, coking, and sintering, significantly reducing independent coking, sintering, and hot rolling enterprises and processes. Vigorously promote the recycling of scrap steel and support the development of electric furnace short process steelmaking. By the end of 2025, the proportion of electric furnace steel production to the total crude steel production will strive to increase to 15%, and the utilization of scrap steel will reach 300 million tons.
3. Accelerate energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation in the steel industry. Promote the comprehensive utilization of waste heat from blast furnace top gas, coke oven gas, and low-grade waste heat, and promote the connection technology of processes such as one tank of molten iron to the bottom and hot charging and hot delivery of casting billets. Strengthen the demonstration and application of low-carbon smelting technologies such as hydrogen metallurgy. By the end of 2025, the proportion of production capacity above the energy efficiency benchmark level in the steel industry will reach 30%. Production capacity below the energy efficiency benchmark level will complete technological transformation or be phased out, and over 80% of steel production capacity nationwide will complete ultra-low emission transformation; Compared with 2023, the comprehensive energy consumption per ton of steel has decreased by about 2%, and the self generation rate of waste heat and pressure has increased by more than 3 percentage points. From 2024 to 2025, the energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation of the steel industry will result in an energy-saving amount of about 20 million tons of standard coal and a reduction of about 53 million tons of carbon dioxide.
（4） Energy saving and carbon reduction actions in the petrochemical and chemical industry
1. Strict policy requirements for the petrochemical and chemical industry. Strengthen the rigid constraints on the planning and layout of the petrochemical industry. Strictly control the newly added production capacity of industries such as refining, calcium carbide, ammonium phosphate, and yellow phosphorus, prohibit the construction of new production capacity of polyvinyl chloride and vinyl chloride using mercury, and strictly control the scale of newly added delayed coking production. New construction and expansion of petrochemical and chemical projects must reach the benchmark level of energy efficiency and A-level environmental performance. The production capacity used for replacement must be promptly shut down and major production facilities dismantled as required. Fully eliminate atmospheric and vacuum distillation units with an annual output of 2 million tons or less. By the end of 2025, the national crude oil processing capacity will be controlled within 1 billion tons.
2. Accelerate energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation in the petrochemical and chemical industry. Implement energy system optimization, strengthen the recovery and utilization of high-pressure and low-pressure steam, exhaust gas, waste heat and residual pressure, and promote energy-saving equipment such as large and efficient compressors and advanced gasifiers. By the end of 2025, the proportion of production capacity above the energy efficiency benchmark level in the refining, ethylene, synthetic ammonia, and calcium carbide industries will exceed 30%, and production capacity below the energy efficiency benchmark level will complete technical transformation or be phased out. From 2024 to 2025, the energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation of the petrochemical and chemical industry will result in an energy-saving amount of about 40 million tons of standard coal and a reduction of about 110 million tons of carbon dioxide.
3. Promote the process reengineering of petrochemical and chemical engineering. Accelerate the promotion of advanced technologies such as the new generation ion exchange membrane electrolysis cell. Vigorously promote the substitution of renewable energy, encourage the research and application of renewable energy hydrogen production technology, support the construction of green hydrogen refining projects, and gradually reduce the industry's coal to hydrogen consumption. Orderly promote the transformation from steam driven to electric driven, and encourage large-scale petrochemical and chemical parks to explore the use of nuclear energy for steam and heating.
（5） Energy saving and carbon reduction actions in the non-ferrous metal industry
1. Optimize the layout of non-ferrous metal production capacity. Strictly implement the replacement of electrolytic aluminum production capacity, strictly control the new production capacity of copper, alumina and other smelting industries, and reasonably layout the new production capacity of industries such as silicon, lithium, and magnesium. Vigorously develop the recycled metal industry. By the end of 2025, the proportion of recycled metal supply will reach over 24%, and the proportion of aluminum water direct alloying will increase to over 90%.
2. Strictly increase the admission of non-ferrous metal projects. New and expanded electrolytic aluminum projects must reach the benchmark level of energy efficiency and A-level environmental performance. The energy efficiency of new and expanded alumina projects must reach the advanced value of mandatory energy consumption quota standards. The energy efficiency of new polycrystalline silicon and lithium battery positive and negative electrode projects must reach the industry's advanced level.
3. Promote energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation in the non-ferrous metal industry. Promote advanced technologies such as efficient and stable aluminum electrolysis, continuous copper matte smelting, vertical reduction magnesium smelting, and large-scale ore furnace silicon production, and accelerate energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation in the non-ferrous metal industry. By the end of 2025, the proportion of production capacity above the energy efficiency benchmark level in the electrolytic aluminum industry will reach 30%, and the proportion of renewable energy usage will reach over 25%; The proportion of production capacity above the benchmark level of energy efficiency in copper, lead, and zinc smelting reaches 50%; The non-ferrous metal industry has completed technological transformation or phased out production capacity below the energy efficiency benchmark level. From 2024 to 2025, the energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation of the non-ferrous metal industry will result in an energy-saving amount of about 5 million tons of standard coal and a reduction of about 13 million tons of carbon dioxide.
（6） Energy saving and carbon reduction actions in the building materials industry
1. Strengthen the regulation of production capacity and output in the building materials industry. Strictly implement the replacement of cement and flat glass production capacity. Strengthen the monitoring and early warning of production in the building materials industry, and promote the normalization of cement staggered production. Encourage the comprehensive utilization of tailings, waste rock, waste residue, and industrial by-product gypsum. By the end of 2025, the national cement clinker production capacity will be controlled at around 1.8 billion tons.
2. Strictly increase the admission of building materials projects. The construction and expansion of cement, ceramics, and flat glass projects must reach the benchmark level of energy efficiency and A-level environmental performance. Vigorously develop green building materials, promote the productization of basic raw materials, lightweight wall insulation materials, and assembly of decoration and decoration materials. By the end of 2025, the proportion of production capacity above the energy efficiency benchmark level in the cement and ceramic industries will reach 30%, the proportion of production capacity above the energy efficiency benchmark level in the flat glass industry will reach 20%, and the production capacity below the energy efficiency benchmark level in the building materials industry will complete technological transformation or be phased out.
3. Promote energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation in the building materials industry. Optimize the energy structure of the building materials industry and promote coal electrification. Accelerate the substitution of cement raw materials and improve the level of resource utilization of industrial solid waste. Promote energy-saving processes and equipment such as single kiln multi line float glass, ceramic dry powder production, low resistance cyclone preheater, and high-efficiency grate cooler. By the end of 2025, about 50% of the cement clinker production capacity in key areas for air pollution prevention and control will have completed ultra-low emission transformation. From 2024 to 2025, the energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation of the building materials industry will result in energy savings of about 10 million tons of standard coal and carbon dioxide emissions reduction of about 26 million tons.
（7） Building Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction Action
1. Accelerate the transformation of construction methods. Strictly implement mandatory standards for building energy conservation and carbon reduction, strengthen green design and construction management, research and promote new building materials and advanced technologies. Vigorously develop prefabricated buildings, actively promote intelligent construction, and accelerate the integration of building photovoltaics. Promote clean heating in northern regions according to local conditions and promote the large-scale development of waste heat heating. By the end of 2025, the green building standards will be fully implemented for new urban buildings, and the photovoltaic coverage rate on the roofs of newly built public institutions and factories will strive to reach 50%. The renewable energy substitution rate for urban buildings will reach 8%, and the area of newly built ultra-low energy consumption buildings and near zero energy consumption buildings will increase by more than 20 million square meters compared to 2023.
2. Promote the renovation of existing buildings. Implement policies related to large-scale equipment updates, combined with urban renewal actions and the renovation of old residential areas, promote the updating and upgrading of heat pump units, radiators, chillers, external windows (curtain walls), exterior wall (roof) insulation, lighting equipment, elevators, and old heating pipelines, and accelerate the energy-saving renovation of buildings. Accelerate the renovation of heating metering and charging based on heat, and each region should clarify quantitative goals and renovation time limits based on actual conditions. Implement energy-saving door and window promotion actions. By the end of 2025, the energy-saving renovation area of existing buildings will increase by more than 200 million square meters compared to 2023, and the heat loss of urban heating networks will decrease by about 2 percentage points compared to 2020. The energy-saving rates of renovated residential buildings and public buildings will increase by 30% and 20% respectively.
3. Strengthen building operation management. Carry out energy-saving inspections and inspections of public and residential buildings in batches. Establish a system for adjusting the operation of public buildings and strictly control the indoor temperature of public buildings. Explore and promote intelligent group control technology for electrical equipment in large public buildings, and reasonably allocate electricity loads.
（8） Transportation Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction Action
1. Promote the construction of low-carbon transportation infrastructure. Improve the electrification level of energy consumption in stations, railways, airports, etc., promote the new energy transformation of non road mobiles machinery, and accelerate the matching and transformation of domestic transportation ships and port shore power facilities. Encourage the construction of photovoltaic power generation facilities along transportation hub stations and road networks. Strengthen the construction of charging infrastructure. Develop urban rail transit and rapid transit systems according to local conditions, and accelerate the continuous formation of bus lanes into a network. Improve the urban slow traffic system.
2. Promote low-carbon transformation of transportation equipment. Accelerate the elimination of old motor vehicles and increase the admission standards for energy consumption limits of operating vehicles. Gradually lift restrictions on the purchase of new energy vehicles in various regions. Implement support policies such as facilitating the passage of new energy vehicles. Promote the electrification of public sector vehicles, orderly promote new energy medium and heavy-duty trucks, and develop zero emission freight fleets. Promote the scrapping and updating of old transport ships, and pilot projects for electrification transformation of coastal and inland river ships. By the end of 2025, the carbon dioxide emission intensity in the transportation sector will decrease by 5% compared to 2020.
3. Optimize the transportation structure. Promote the construction of port collection and distribution railways, logistics parks, and railway dedicated lines for large industrial and mining enterprises, and promote the long-distance transportation of bulk goods and containers from rail to rail and from water. Accelerate the development of multimodal transportation and promote clean transportation in key industries. Implement the strategy of prioritizing the development of urban public transportation. Accelerate the green, low-carbon, intensive and efficient development of urban freight distribution. By the end of 2025, the freight volume of railways and waterways will increase by 10% and 12% respectively compared to 2020, and the comprehensive energy consumption per unit converted turnover of railways will decrease by 4.5% compared to 2020.
（9） Public Institution Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction Action
1. Strengthen energy conservation and carbon reduction management in public institutions. Strictly implement the evalsuation and assessment of energy-saving target responsibilities for public institutions, and explore the energy consumption quota budget system. The administrative departments at all levels of government affairs shall report the results of the evalsuation and assessment of energy-saving target responsibilities to the people's governments at the same level every year. By the end of 2025, the energy consumption per unit building area, carbon emissions per unit building area, and per capita comprehensive energy consumption of public institutions will be reduced by 5%, 7%, and 6% respectively compared to 2020.
2. Implement energy-saving and carbon reduction renovations for public institutions. Implement energy-saving and carbon reduction renovations for public institutions and manage the updated list of energy consuming equipment. Promote coal reduction and substitution, and accelerate the elimination of old diesel official vehicles. By the end of 2025, the proportion of coal consumption in public institutions will decrease to below 13%, and the proportion of advanced energy efficiency in key energy consuming equipment such as boilers, substations, elevators, heating, and refrigeration added by central and state organs will reach 80%.
（10） Energy saving and carbon reduction actions for energy consuming products and equipment
1. Accelerate the upgrading and renovation of energy consuming product equipment and facilities. Dynamically update the advanced level of energy efficiency, energy-saving level, and admission level of key energy products and equipment, promote the updating and upgrading of key energy equipment, and accelerate the energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation of data centers. Compared with 2021, the average operating thermal efficiency of industrial boilers and power plant boilers increased by more than 5 percentage points and 0.5 percentage points respectively in 2025. The proportion of high-efficiency energy-saving motors and transformers in operation increased by more than 5 percentage points and 10 percentage points respectively. The proportion of high-efficiency energy-saving products in industrial refrigeration equipment, household refrigeration equipment, and general lighting equipment in operation reached 40%, 60%, and 50% respectively.
2. Strengthen the recycling of waste products and equipment. Accelerate the construction of a system for recycling waste materials and strengthen the connection between supply and demand for the recycling and disposal of waste products and equipment. Carry out corporate recycling target responsibility system actions. Strengthen the recycling and utilization of industrial equipment, information and communication, wind and solar power, and power batteries. Establish a basic database for important resource consumption, recycling, treatment and disposal, and consumption of recycled materials.
3、 Management mechanism
（1） Strengthen the responsibility and evalsuation assessment of energy conservation and carbon reduction targets.
Implement policies such as excluding the use of raw materials and non fossil fuels from the total energy consumption and intensity regulation, and refine and decompose energy-saving and carbon reduction targets and tasks in various regions, key areas, and key industries. Strictly implement energy-saving target responsibility evalsuation and assessment, and coordinate the assessment of energy-saving renovation and non fossil energy consumption. Strengthen the analysis of energy conservation and carbon reduction situation, implement reminders and warnings for energy intensity reduction, and strengthen the evalsuation of progress in carbon emission intensity reduction. Consolidate the main responsibility of enterprises for energy conservation and carbon reduction. Strengthen the assessment of energy conservation and carbon reduction targets in the performance evalsuation of central enterprise leaders.
（2） Strict energy conservation review and environmental assessment approval of fixed assets investment projects.
Strengthen the inspection of energy conservation at the source, effectively leverage the guiding role of energy consumption, emissions, technology and other standards, and resolutely curb the blind launch of high energy consumption, high emissions, and low-level projects. Establish a dynamic adjustment mechanism for the energy-saving review authority of major projects, study the collection of energy-saving review authority for individual key industries and mega projects according to the mechanism, and strengthen the supervision during and after the energy-saving review process. The relevant requirements of carbon emission assessment will be included in the energy conservation review of fixed assets investment projects, and a comprehensive assessment will be carried out on the energy use and carbon emissions of the projects. Strictly implement the environmental impact assessment system for construction projects, and carry out environmental impact assessments of greenhouse gas emissions from key industry construction projects. Major energy engineering construction shall carry out planning and environmental impact assessment in accordance with the law.
（3） Strengthen the management of energy conservation and carbon reduction in key energy consuming units.
Establish energy-saving management files for key energy consuming units, strengthen the submission and review of energy utilization status reports, and improve the construction and operation of energy consumption online monitoring systems. Carry out energy efficiency diagnosis in key areas, establish and improve a reserve list of energy-saving and carbon reduction renovation projects and energy equipment updates. Decompose the responsibility weight of renewable energy electricity consumption to key energy consuming units. Implement budget management for fossil energy consumption in key energy consuming units, and offset any excess by purchasing green electricity certificates.
（4） Intensify energy conservation supervision efforts.
Accelerate the improvement of the energy-saving supervision system at the provincial, municipal, and county levels, coordinate the use of comprehensive administrative law enforcement, market supervision law enforcement, special equipment supervision, credit management and other means, and strengthen the supervision and inspection of the implementation of energy-saving laws, regulations, policies, and standards. By the end of 2024, more than 60% of key energy consuming units in various regions will complete energy-saving supervision; By the end of 2025, achieve full coverage of energy-saving supervision in key energy consuming units.
（5） Strengthen statistical accounting of energy consumption and carbon emissions.
Establish an energy consumption and carbon emission statistical reporting system that is compatible with energy conservation and carbon reduction target management, and improve data accuracy and timeliness. Consolidate the statistical accounting foundation for fossil energy, non fossil energy, and raw material energy consumption. Actively carry out energy consumption and carbon emission monitoring and analysis based on electricity and carbon market data.
4、 Support and guarantee
（1） Establish sound institutional standards.
Promote the revision of the Energy Conservation Law, timely improve the energy conservation review measures for fixed assets investment projects, energy conservation management measures for key energy users, energy conservation supervision measures and other systems, strengthen incentives and constraints, and implement the whole chain management of energy consumption. Improve the national carbon market regulatory system. Combining the promotion of large-scale equipment updates and the trade in of consumer goods, benchmarking against domestic and international advanced levels, accelerating the revision of mandatory energy-saving standards, and expanding the coverage of standards. According to the top 5%, top 20%, and top 80% energy efficiency levels of relevant industries and product equipment, set energy-saving standards at levels 1, 2, and 3 (or 5).
（2） Improve pricing policies.
Implement coal-fired capacity electricity pricing, deepen the market-oriented reform of new energy grid electricity pricing, and study and improve the energy storage pricing mechanism. It is strictly prohibited to implement electricity price discounts on high energy consuming industries. Strengthen the coordination between pricing policies, industrial policies, and environmental protection policies, comprehensively consider energy consumption and environmental performance levels, and improve the tiered electricity pricing system for high energy consuming industries. Deepen the reform of heating metering and charging, and orderly promote the two part heating pricing.
（3） Strengthen financial support.
Give full play to the amplification effect of government investment, actively support energy-saving and carbon reduction renovation and energy equipment updates, and promote the expansion of effective investment. Encourage all regions to support energy-saving and carbon reduction renovations, energy equipment updates, and the improvement of energy and carbon emission statistics and accounting capabilities through existing funding channels. Implement financial and tax policies that are conducive to energy conservation and carbon reduction. Give full play to the role of green finance and guide financial institutions to provide financial support for energy-saving and carbon reduction projects in accordance with the principles of marketization and rule of law.
（4） Strengthen technological leadership.
Fully leverage the role of major national science and technology projects, and focus on tackling a number of key common technologies for energy conservation and carbon reduction. Solidly promote the construction of green and low-carbon advanced technology demonstration projects. Revise and release the Green Technology Promotion Catalogue, advocating for the best energy-saving technologies and practices. Actively cultivate energy efficiency leaders in key energy products and equipment, key industry enterprises, and public institutions.
（5） Establish a sound market-oriented mechanism.
Actively promote the "one-stop" comprehensive service model of energy-saving consultation, diagnosis, design, financing, renovation, and custody. Promote paid use and trading of energy rights, and support cross provincial trading of energy rights in regions with conditions. We will steadily expand the coverage of the national carbon emission trading market and gradually implement a combination of free and paid carbon emission quota allocations methods. Implement carbon emission quota management for key emission units included in the national carbon emission trading market. Construct a voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction trading market in an orderly manner, and strengthen the data quality supervision mechanism. Accelerate the construction of a green certificate trading market, connect well with the carbon market, and expand the scale of green electricity consumption.
（6） Implement nationwide action.
By combining activities such as National Ecological Day, National Energy Conservation Awareness Week, and National Low Carbon Day, we will increase efforts to promote energy conservation and carbon reduction, advocate for a simple, moderate, green, and low-carbon lifestyle, and enhance the awareness and ability of the whole population to save energy and reduce carbon. Give full play to the role of the media, improve the public participation system, increase the exposure of energy waste behavior, and create a new trend of everyone, everything, and always participating in energy conservation and carbon reduction.
Under the centralized and unified leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, all regions and departments should anchor their goals and tasks, increase their efforts in tackling difficulties, and ensure the implementation of their work. They should adhere to the principle of establishing before breaking through, and steadily grasp the pace of work. While continuously promoting energy efficiency improvement and emission reduction, they should focus on ensuring the demand for high-quality development energy, and make every effort to achieve the binding targets for energy conservation and carbon reduction during the 14th Five Year Plan period. The National Development and Reform Commission should strengthen overall coordination, do a good job in work scheduling, and strengthen the evalsuation and assessment of energy-saving target responsibilities. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment should strengthen the management of carbon emission intensity reduction targets during the 14th Five Year Plan period. Each relevant department should refine measures according to the division of responsibilities, consolidate responsibilities, and promote the implementation and refinement of various tasks. Local governments at all levels are fully responsible for the energy conservation and carbon reduction work in their respective administrative regions, with the main responsible person being the first person. They should refine the implementation plan and strengthen the deployment and promotion. Promptly request and report major issues according to procedures.
