Officials in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission answered questions from reporters on the "Notice on launching a three-year campaign to promote energy-saving and carbon-reduction transformation in key industries."

Question: What goals are proposed in the "Notice"? The "Notice" proposes that by the end of 2028, the production capacity proportions of key industrial sectors such as steel, electrolytic aluminum, cement, flat glass, refining, ethylene, synthetic ammonia, methanol, etc., should increase by an average of 20 percentage points from the current energy efficiency benchmark level. The coal-fired power industry should strive to increase by 15 percentage points, and production capacity below the energy efficiency benchmark level should be essentially eliminated. This will result in a cumulative energy saving of over 100 million tons of standard coal and a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of over 200 million tons. Question: What key tasks are deployed in the "Notice"? The "Notice" refines and deploys key tasks for energy conservation, carbon reduction, and transformation based on actual conditions in various industries, mainly focusing on the following three aspects: 1. Promoting the application of advanced energy-saving and carbon reduction technology and equipment. Accelerate the promotion and application of process technology and equipment such as high blast furnace smelting with a large proportion of pellets, new stable and insulated aluminum electrolysis cells, kiln oxygen-rich combustion systems, and efficient catalytic cracking flue gas turbines, and promote the upgrading and updating of energy-consuming equipment such as boilers, motors, fans, pumps, compressors, transformers, and steam turbines. 2. Promoting the transformation and upgrading of key processes and units. Focus on key energy consumption processes and promote energy conservation and carbon reduction transformation of processes and units such as blast furnaces, converters, aluminum electrolytic cells, glass kilns, etc. Implement energy conservation and carbon reduction transformation of coal-fired units and improve the efficient regulation capabilities such as fast adjustment, deep adjustment, and wide load. Accelerate the transformation and upgrading of process units in industry-restricted categories. 3. Promoting the greening and low-carbonization of energy consumption. Strengthen the cascade utilization of energy resources, implement heat recovery, waste energy generation, and other transformation upgrades, enhance the efficient recovery of by-product coal gas, waste heat, and waste pressure resources, and promote technologies such as low-temperature waste heat power generation. Implement green and low-carbon substitution of raw materials and fuels, and transform energy systems to electrification, pushing for low-carbon transformation for coal-fired units with conditions.