Today, the report “Industrial Reengineering in the Zero Carbon Era -” Zero Carbon Dividend “Unleashes New Manufacturing Momentum in China” was officially released. Following the demographic dividend and efficiency dividend, the report points out that China’s manufacturing industry should seize the “zero carbon dividend” and take the dual-carbon strategy as an opportunity to rebuild the international competitive advantage of China’s manufacturing industry. Eight enterprise cases, including Lenovo Group, Schneider Electric, China Baowu Group, and Ningde Times, were selected as excellent cases, comprehensively demonstrating the leading industrial practices under different manufacturing scenarios.
The report was published by Caixin Intelligence Group with academic support from the Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance at Tsinghua University. The reporting system defines China’s zero-carbon manufacturing and its path to realization, promotes the establishment of a national unified and international zero-carbon standards and certification system, and helps China’s manufacturing industry move smoothly toward carbon neutrality

Recently, China’s dual-carbon target from the top-level design to the implementation of the implementation of the international market carbon tariff mechanism, the improvement of domestic policies and international standards have greatly increased the pressure on the low-carbon transformation of the manufacturing industry. The report puts forward for the first time the dividend point of industrial advantage reconstruction under the dual-carbon goal – “zero carbon dividend”, that is, the low-carbon technology dividend brought by the development of intelligence and 5G, the carbon market dividend brought by industrial carbon assets and the optimization of the domestic carbon market environment, and the internationalization dividend of Chinese manufacturing enterprises and international carbon tariffs.

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At the release of the report, Gao Erky, vice president of Caixin Media and executive president of Caixin Think Tank, said: “Dual carbon itself is a microcosm of China’s high-quality development. Today, the institutional level is vigorously promoting the development of green manufacturing, and various enterprises are actively exploring reforms. We hope to define zero-carbon manufacturing through this reporting system, comprehensively investigate enterprise cases, and finally form a consensus on the route to help carbon neutrality.”

Gorky, Vice president of Caixin Media and Executive president of Caixin Think Tank, delivered a keynote speech

The theoretical system of zero-carbon manufacturing has taken shape

Three “zero carbon dividends” to drive the new momentum of industrial transformation

With the decline in fertility and the intensification of aging, the “demographic dividend” that Chinese society has long relied on is facing an inflection point. The concept of “efficiency dividend”, which advocates adjusting industrial structure in response to demographic changes, came into being, that is, to improve production efficiency by accelerating the intelligent transformation and digital transformation of traditional industries. Today, the global energy crisis continues to ferment, carbon neutrality has become the trend of The Times, and “zero carbon dividend” has become a new growth momentum to promote the green and high-quality development of China’s manufacturing industry.

Chen Ling, director of the Research Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance of Tsinghua University, delivered a keynote speech at the launch site of the report, pointing out the huge opportunities in China’s zero-carbon manufacturing transition through the trend of “new integration of the two”. In the past, the “two” refers to industrialization and information, and the “new two” refers to low carbonization and digitalization. China has leading advantages in the field of new energy and digital fields such as big data and artificial intelligence. If Chinese enterprises can seize the opportunity of “new integration of the two”, they will have the opportunity to change the international situation of the entire industry in the future.