News that energy conservation and environmental protection industry planning has been approved by the State Council

On November 25, it was learned that the "Energy-saving and Environmental Protection Industry Development Plan" prepared by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Environmental Protection and other departments has passed the approval of the State Council.

As one of the seven strategic emerging industries planned during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, the “Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Industry Plan” will provide support for energy-saving industries, environmental protection industries, and recycling industries to provide technology, products, and services, and promote the formation of a green economy industrial chain. And development.

According to Wu Xiaoqing, vice minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Chinese environmental protection industry will maintain an average annual growth rate of 15%-20% in the future, and China will become one of the world's largest environmental protection industry markets. During the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, China's demand for environmental protection investment will more than double over the past five years, exceeding 3 trillion yuan.

He Bingguang, inspector of the National Development and Reform Commission’s Central Government Department, introduced that in the specific structure of the “Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Industry Planning”, it is divided into three aspects: energy conservation industry, environmental protection industry, and recycling of resources.

In the energy-saving industry, the main direction is to develop high-efficiency energy-saving technologies and equipment, including boiler kilns, electric motors and dragging equipment, waste heat and pressure utilization equipment, energy-saving monitoring technologies and equipment, and focus on demonstrating and promoting rare earth permanent magnet ironless core motors. Absorption heat transfer new type of combined heat and power central heating technology.

At the same time, the "planning" also focuses on the promotion of high-efficiency energy-saving products and promote the development of energy-saving service industries. The "Planning" will promote energy conservation service companies to provide a package of services such as energy-saving diagnosis, design, financing, transformation, and operation for energy-using companies, and to recycle investment-oriented market-oriented energy-saving service models in an energy-saving benefit-sharing manner.

In the environmental protection industry, the "planning" proposes the development of advanced environmental protection technologies and equipment, including sewage, garbage disposal, desulfurization and denitrification, and high-concentration organic wastewater treatment.

According to the understanding of Xia Guang, director of the Department of Environmental Protection of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, it is "all industrial activities that can be solved through the market and aimed at energy conservation and environmental protection are all included in the plan."

New industries such as energy conservation and environmental protection are facing unprecedented opportunities for development. Among the 4 trillion yuan economic stimulus plans implemented in China, 210 billion yuan are used for energy-saving and emission reduction, the development of recycling economy, and the construction of ecological environment. Currently, a series of industrial restructuring and rejuvenation plans are planned, and the development of circular economy is also taken as an industrial upgrade. One of the important measures with structural adjustment.

Although China's environmental protection industry has a certain scale, the overall lack of original development and technology with independent intellectual property rights, limited capacity for independent innovation; at the same time, the development of industrial policy system is also very incomplete.

Xia Guang told this reporter that the currently approved “Energy-saving and Environmental Protection Industry Plan” is an opinion and guidance document, and policy support involving specific fiscal, tax, and financial aspects is still under study. "Energy-saving and environmental protection enterprises will be expected to obtain more tax benefits in the future."

He Bingguang stated: "To improve the policy mechanism for promoting the development of a green economy, relying solely on the market mechanism cannot always solve all problems and require the government to formulate and improve the industries that promote the development of a green, circular economy, as well as incentives and constraints in finance, taxation, finance, and investment. Policy to guide social capital to a green economy."

According to its introduction, the main direction for the formulation of fiscal policies for energy-saving and environmental protection industries is to continue to implement and improve taxation preferential policies that have already been issued regarding energy conservation and environmental protection, resource utilization, and new energy development. At the same time, we must promote key energy-saving projects and increase the proportion of recycled products in government procurement.

According to the current “Regulations on Corporate Income Tax”, enterprises engaged in energy conservation and environmental protection can receive “three exemptions and three and a half”, which means that they can be exempt from corporate income tax from the first year to the third year, and halving the levies from the fourth year to the sixth year. Based on the above, the relevant departments are still considering whether they can halve the 15% income tax.

The development direction of financial policy is to continue to increase the credit support for energy-saving and environmental protection industries, and encourage enterprises to obtain financing for listing.