Chairman of State Grid Corporation: Advance planning for the early stages of the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" for the power grid, accelerating the construction of power grid infrastructure and intelligent transformation.

On August 19, the State Grid Corporation of China held a meeting of the Party group. Zhang Zhigang, the Secretary of the Party group and Chairman of the company, emphasized the need to accelerate the construction of a new type of power system. This includes strengthening planning, advancing the pre-planning of the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the power grid, accelerating the construction of grid infrastructure and intelligent transformation, and promoting pumped storage project construction. The meeting also emphasized the need to comprehensively strengthen technological innovation, continuously solidify the institutional mechanisms for energy transformation, support green transformation in transportation, and promote the development of a green production and lifestyle. The company aims to rapidly establish a carbon management and carbon business system, expedite the formulation of carbon-related standards, create eco-friendly industrial clusters, and actively promote energy efficiency in key areas. The Party group of the company studied and implemented the "Opinions on Accelerating the Comprehensive Green Transformation of Economic and Social Development" issued by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council. On August 19, the State Grid Corporation of China held a meeting to study and implement the "Opinions on Accelerating the Comprehensive Green Transformation of Economic and Social Development" issued by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council. Zhang Zhigang, the Secretary of the Party group and Chairman of the company, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech. Members of the Party group, the head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission stationed at the company, Huang De'an, the Chief Accountant Zhu Min, the Deputy General Managers Chen Guoping and Ji Mingbin, attended the meeting. Zhang Zhigang stated that promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of economic and social development is an important symbol of the new era's new concept and practice of governance, a key link to achieving high-quality development, a fundamental strategy to address resource, environmental, and ecological issues, and an intrinsic requirement for building a modern society in harmony with nature. The Opinions provide a systematic deployment for accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, which has significant guiding significance for promoting green transformation of development modes, comprehensively advancing the construction of a beautiful China, and achieving high-quality development. The company should accurately grasp the overall requirements and work arrangement of the Opinions, proactively align with them, find integration points, entry points, and focus points, implement them item by item, and ensure that the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee are fully implemented. Zhang Zhigang emphasized that the company should resolutely shoulder the responsibility and mission of serving the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. The implementation of the Opinions should be closely integrated with the study, promotion, and implementation of the spirit of the 3rd Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. The company should adhere to comprehensive transformation, collaborative transformation, innovative transformation, and safe transformation, promote the construction of a new power system and new energy system, and play a role as a "key pillar" and "flagship" in ensuring power supply, promoting energy green and low-carbon transformation, and supporting the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. The company should accelerate the construction of a new power system, strengthen planning guidance, carry out pre-planning for the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the power grid in advance, accelerate the construction of grid infrastructure and intelligent transformation, and promote the construction of pumped storage projects. The company should comprehensively strengthen technological innovation, continuously improve the system of technological innovation, strengthen key core technology research and basic research, adhere to the leadership of technological innovation in industrial innovation, and use digital technology to empower green transformation. It should continue to solidify the institutional mechanisms for energy transformation, further improve market functions, improve trading rules, continuously promote the construction of a multi-level unified electricity market system, and promote the improvement of mechanisms for the participation of new energy in the market. The company should support the green transformation of transportation, coordinate the layout of charging facilities and the construction and renovation of distribution networks, provide strong support for the rapid development of new energy vehicles, and actively support the development of port shore power. It should also promote the formation of a green production and lifestyle. The company should expedite the construction of the company's carbon management and carbon business system, accelerate the formulation of carbon-related standards, create eco-friendly industrial clusters, and actively promote energy efficiency in key areas. The meeting also discussed other matters. Assistant executives, Chief Engineers, Deputy Chief Engineers, responsible comrades from the stationed Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, and major responsible comrades from various departments and agencies of the headquarters attended the meeting. This article is compiled from the State Grid Corporation of China, GMTEight Editor: Chen Wenfang.