To achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality is an inherent requirement for implementing the new development concept, building a new development pattern, and promoting high-quality development. It is a major strategic decision made by the CPC Central Committee when considering both domestic and international situations. Industrial manufacturing industry is the leading industry in China’s national economy, but also the important field of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. As the core unit of industrial enterprise agglomeration and development, the park is not only the spatial bearing form of regional economic VMIVME-7807-414001 development and industrial adjustment and upgrading, but also the key landing point of China’s construction of industrial green and low-carbon transformation industrial pattern and implementation of the “double carbon” strategy.

What is “carbon peak, carbon neutral”?

Carbon peak refers to the peak of carbon emissions, that is, the total amount of carbon dioxide emissions reaches the highest value in history in a certain period, and then gradually decreases. Carbon peaking is a process, that is, carbon emissions first enter a plateau period and can fluctuate within a certain range, and then enter a steady decline stage.

Carbon neutrality is net zero carbon dioxide emissions, VMIVME-7807-414001 which means that the carbon dioxide emitted by human activities and the carbon dioxide absorption generated by human activities reach a balance in a certain period of time. The carbon neutral mechanism is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by adjusting the energy structure and improving the efficiency of resource use, and increase carbon dioxide absorption by CCUS (carbon capture, utilization and storage), bioenergy and afforestation/reforestation. Carbon peaking is the premise of carbon neutrality. The time of carbon peaking and the level of carbon peaking will directly affect the difficulty of achieving carbon neutrality.

Why is the park a key carrier for implementing the national “dual carbon” strategy?

Since the reform and opening up, the national economy has been developing continuously, and industrial parks have become an important carrier of China’s economic development, exploring successful experiences and models for China’s industrial economic development. At the same time, parks VMIVME-7807-414001 are also an important platform for China’s industrial green and low-carbon transformation.

The park is the main battlefield of green transformation, energy saving and carbon reduction in the industrial field. Industry is an important pillar of China’s economic growth. In 2020, China’s gross domestic product (GDP) will exceed 100 trillion yuan, of which industrial added value will reach 31.3 trillion yuan, accounting for 30.8% of GDP. However, the industrial field is also an important area of China’s energy consumption and carbon emissions, in 2020, China’s industrial carbon emissions of 7.9 billion tons (accounting for 69% of the total carbon emissions), the total energy consumption of 3.2 billion tons of standard coal (accounting for 65.5% of the total energy consumption), therefore, strengthening industrial carbon emission reduction for China to achieve carbon peak, carbon neutral goal is of great significance.

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As a gathering area of industrial enterprises, industrial parks provide a large number of infrastructure and public services for industrial enterprises, and are the key regional bearing platform for industrial intensive development and resource accumulation. Public data show that at present, there are more than 20,000 industrial parks across the country, and the growth rate of park economy’s contribution to the national economy has exceeded 30%. VMIVME-7807-414001 At the same time, the energy consumption of industrial parks accounts for about 69% of the total energy consumption of the whole society, and the carbon emissions account for about 31% of the total emissions of the country. Therefore, the industrial park as the precise emission reduction of the landing point, the key area, to ensure the implementation of energy saving, consumption reduction, quality improvement, carbon reduction work, is China’s carbon peak, carbon neutral goal of the inevitable requirements and an important way.

Industrial parks are the core of cultivating green and innovative industrial clusters. The park is an important platform for the precise docking and efficient allocation of industrial elements, and a key carrier for industrial cluster agglomeration and high-quality development. By giving full play to the key advantages of the park’s green and low-carbon industries and resource aggregation, the park can jointly build and share green and low-carbon public infrastructure such as heating, power supply and sewage treatment, as well as the construction of integrated green information infrastructure such as the industrial Internet and the sharing of data flow, so as to help the park optimize the coordinated layout of the green industrial chain and promote the circular link of the park’s industries. Promote the efficient and comprehensive utilization of regional energy resources. At the same time, by creating a new service model of green low-carbon cycle and the application of management concepts in the park, the park will promote the accumulation of green low-carbon industry, technology, talent, data and other resources, and help enterprises in the VMIVME-7807-414001 park realize energy saving and carbon reduction model innovation and efficient operation, so as to cultivate and strengthen the new momentum of industrial green development and promote the green and sustainable development of the industrial field.

Industrial parks have great potential for energy conservation and emission reduction in the future. At present, the park is the most concentrated space of urban carbon emissions. Although both direct and indirect carbon emissions account for a relatively large proportion, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the process of achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality. First, the optimization of industrial capacity structure. At present, some parks have not carried out scientific industrial planning, and there are problems such as poor development of industrial symbiosis, insufficient industrial extension and insufficient links, low level of low-carbon development of the industrial chain, and structural overcapacity, which have not yet formed a green and low-carbon sustainable development momentum. The second is the energy management level of the park. Some parks lack the refined management of energy structure, VMIVME-7807-414001 product technology and processing process, and the intelligent level of management processes such as energy monitoring, data analysis, optimization and unified scheduling in the park is low. The third is the utilization efficiency of park resources. The resource allocation structure of some parks is not perfect, the resource utilization efficiency is low, the micro-grid and clean energy utilization of the park lack forward-looking layout, and the effective coordination of raw materials, recycling, solid waste and other resources inside and outside the park needs to be further enhanced.

In view of the above problems, the park can create information, professional and intelligent energy saving and carbon reduction methods through digital means, use digital technology to accelerate the promotion of low-carbon process innovation and digital transformation in the industrial field, comprehensively promote pollution reduction and carbon reduction and efficient utilization of energy resources, and promote energy saving and consumption reduction, quality and efficiency improvement in the industrial park in a more detailed and dynamic way. Thus promoting the green and high-quality development of industrial fields.