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Shijing Water Purification Plant, located in Baiyun District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, has saved underground space and released ground resources through buried design and intensive layout, leaving open space for cities and people, and has become a science popularization base for popularizing water ecological knowledge. Photographed by Wei Jinsong (people's photo)

In the spring ploughing season, Hulunbeir Agricultural Reclamation Gani River Farmland Co., Ltd., located in Arong Banner, Hulunbeir City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, carried out heavy stubble removal of farmland, turning waste into treasure through stubble removal and returning, reducing the impact of straw burning on the environment while increasing soil fertilizer, and realizing environmental protection and income increase“ Win Win”. Photographed by Han Yingqun (People's Vision)

In 2021, the annual cumulative power generation of six cascade hydropower stations in the mainstream of the Yangtze River, including Gezhouba, Three Gorges, Xiangjiaba, Xiluodu, Baihetan, and Wudongde, which are operated and managed by the Yangtze River Power under the Three Gorges Group, will reach 262.883 billion kilowatt hours, marking a historic record for the world's largest clean energy corridor represented by the Three Gorges Power Station; Great Power Heavy Equipment” Comprehensive benefits were further brought into play. The picture shows the Three Gorges Dam. Photographed by Zheng Kun (people's photo)

With the continuous increase of ecological environment protection and governance, the market space for the development of China's environmental protection industry has been released rapidly, and its strategic position has been continuously improved

In the process of accelerating the construction of beautiful China, China's environmental protection industry has ushered in a new round of development opportunities

Innovation leads the sustainable and rapid development of environmental protection industry

At the National Science and Technology Award Conference held in November 2021, a total of 11 projects in the field of ecological environment won awards, including the Tsinghua University team“ Industrial flue gas multi pollutant collaborative in-depth treatment technology and application” The project won the first prize of the National Science Progress Award in 2020, which fully proves that China's ecological environment science and technology work has made great progress. From 2011 to 2020, the total number of environmental technology invention patent applications in China is close to 60% of the total number of global applications, and China is one of the countries that actively layout environmental technology innovation in the world

Zou Shoumin, Director of the Department of Science, Technology and Finance of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, told reporters: "; Through continuous introduction, digestion, absorption and independent innovation, China's environmental science and technology field has broken through a number of major cutting-edge and core key technologies, emerging a number of practical new technologies with independent intellectual property rights, applied in relevant projects and gradually formed an industrial system in various fields. Electric dust removal and bag dust removal have reached the international leading or advanced level, the integration level of water treatment equipment has been constantly improved, the large-scale waste incineration power generation technology has reached the international advanced level, and the equipment in the soil remediation industry can basically meet the needs of industrial pollution site remediation& rdquo;

China's environmental protection industry has a huge market. According to the survey of China Environmental Protection Industry Association; Thirteen Five” During this period, the operating income of China's environmental protection industry continued to grow, with a compound annual growth rate of 14.1%. In 2020, the operating income of China's environmental protection industry was about 1.95 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.3% over 2019, and more than 3.2 million employees; In the same year, the operating income of environmental protection industry accounted for 1.9% of GDP, and its direct contribution to the national economy was 4.5%

With the deepening of China's pollution reduction and environmental management objectives, the focus of the environmental protection industry has gradually shifted from engineering construction to the construction and operation of pollution prevention facilities, which has driven the rapid development of the environmental service industry, and the operating income of the environmental service industry has continued to increase. The data shows that in 2020, the operating revenue of China's environmental service industry will be 1.2 trillion yuan, an increase of 145% compared with 490 billion yuan in 2015. The operating revenue of environmental service industry will increase from 51% in 2015 to 61.4% in 2020, an increase of 10 percentage points

The reporter learned from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment that, in recent years, China's ecological environment governance model and service model have been constantly innovating, and the pilot work of the ecological environment oriented development (EOD) model has been launched, to explore the effective integration of ecological environment governance projects with resources and industrial development projects, and to solve the bottleneck problems such as the lack of funding channels for ecological environment governance, insufficient overall investment, and the difficulty in translating environmental benefits into economic benefits, The sustainable development ability of the environmental protection industry has been improved, and the development prospect continues to be promising

Stronger industrial comprehensive service capacity, more refined and professional division of labor

After years of development, China's environmental protection industry has established a complete industrial system covering air pollution prevention, water pollution prevention, solid waste treatment, hazardous waste treatment and disposal, noise vibration and control, environmental monitoring, ecological governance and other professional fields, covering the whole process of technology research and development, planning consulting, equipment manufacturing, design and construction, operation and maintenance, investment and operation, and comprehensive consulting, It has vigorously promoted ecological environment protection and green development

“ Thirteen Five” During this period, China's environmental protection industry has completed a total of 950 million kilowatts of ultra-low emission transformation of coal-fired power plants, 620 million tons of ultra-low emission transformation capacity of the steel industry, more than 2800 urban black and odorous water bodies, more than 390000 kilometers of urban drainage networks, and 240 new urban waste incineration plants. The environmental monitoring equipment system based on modern perception technology has been widely used in environmental supervision and management, to support the fight against blue sky, blue water The Pure Land Defense War played a positive role, and the environmental protection industry played a more significant role as the main force in the pollution prevention and control battle

The environmental protection industry is not only an important hand to improve the quality of the ecological environment, but also an important support to achieve the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutralization. Today, China's environmental protection industry has not only focused on end of pipe governance, but also integrated into the economic system of green and low-carbon circular development. It has accelerated its integration and development with clean energy, clean production and other industries. While accelerating its own low-carbon transformation, it has made efforts to expand its service scope to clean energy, carbon emission reduction and other fields

In 2021, the renewable energy power generation of Three Gorges Group will exceed 340 billion kWh, with a year-on-year growth of 9.5%, ranking first in the world. At the end of 2021, China's first megawatt offshore wind farm invested and constructed by Three Gorges Group&mdash& mdash; Three Gorges Yangjiang Shapao Offshore Wind Power Project is connected to the grid for full capacity power generation. Up to now, the installed capacity of renewable energy of Three Gorges Group has exceeded 100 million kilowatts, accounting for about 1/10 of China's installed capacity of renewable energy, and the installed capacity of hydropower accounts for nearly 70%. In addition, the Three Gorges Group has also formed an onshore“ Scenery” The layout, as well as the large-scale development layout of offshore wind power from Liaoning in the north to Guangdong in the south

“ The layout of China's environmental protection industry is becoming increasingly perfect. The environmental protection industry in the eastern coastal areas continues to deepen its development. The environmental protection industry in many provinces and cities in the central region has risen rapidly. The environmental protection industry in the southwest, northwest and other regions is fast catching up. The development of environmental protection industry in Beijing Tianjin Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Bay Area, Chengdu Chongqing and other regions highly related to the national regional development strategy shows a trend of accelerating regional integration, integration and efficiency increase& rdquo; Guo Chengzhan, president of China Environmental Protection Industry Association, told reporters: "; At present, the division of environmental protection industry in China is more specialized and refined. Large enterprises with strong comprehensive business capabilities and strong funds have developed into platform enterprises, undertaking a large number of environmental infrastructure projects such as comprehensive treatment of ecological environment, sewage and garbage; The private small and medium-sized enterprises are more intensive in the subdivided fields, and take a‘ Specializing in special new’ And provide supporting services such as process, equipment, construction, materials, operation and maintenance for large enterprises and projects& rdquo;

The value attribute of environmental protection industry is constantly emerging

“ Fourteenth Five Year Plan” During this period, China's ecological civilization construction has entered a critical period in which carbon reduction is the key strategic direction, pollution reduction and carbon reduction are promoted for synergy, economic and social development is promoted for comprehensive green transformation, and the improvement of ecological environment quality is realized from quantitative change to qualitative change& ldquo; Environmental capacity and ecological space have gradually developed into production factors as important as land, capital, labor and technology. The environmental protection industry undertakes the functions of allocating environmental capacity and optimizing the layout of ecological space. Its value attributes are constantly emerging, and it has become an important force to promote the construction of a beautiful China. The environmental protection industry has ushered in a new round of development opportunities& rdquo; Zou Shoumin said

In April 2021, the Opinions on Establishing and Improving the Value Realization Mechanism of Ecological Products systematically and institutionally elaborated the value realization mechanism of ecological products for the first time, in order to build a "; Green water and green mountains” Convert to“ Jinshan Yinshan” The policy and system system of

Wang Jinnan, academician of the Environmental Planning Institute of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, told the reporter:“ With the continuous improvement of ecological compensation, carbon emission rights, energy use rights, emission rights and other ecological product value realization mechanisms, the environmental protection industry will continue to enhance the value creation ability of ecological products, and will also transform and upgrade to the ecological product fourth industry with the supply and value realization of ecological products as the core, becoming the growth point, support point and force point of modernization to achieve the harmonious coexistence of human and nature& rdquo;

In the face of development opportunities, we should also clearly see that China's environmental protection industry“ Small scattered weak” The structure has not been fundamentally changed, and the comprehensive strength is still not strong. According to statistics, more than 90% of China's environmental protection enterprises are small and micro enterprises. Compared with the current advanced development level of the international environmental protection industry, China's environmental protection industry has many but not strong enterprises, low industrial concentration, less large-scale and powerful leading enterprises, no global influential brands, and no multinational enterprises that can compete with international giants. China's environmental protection industry is still in the stage of policy driven and capital driven, and the driving force of technological innovation is still insufficient

In this regard, Guo Chengzhan believes that it is necessary to improve the scientific and technological innovation capability, continue to carry out cutting-edge leading technology and common key technology research, improve the enterprise oriented and market-oriented technological innovation system, strengthen the integrated collaborative innovation of production, teaching, research and application, further promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, promote the demonstration and application of the first set of major technical equipment, and promote the integrated development of high-tech technologies such as new generation information technology and environmental protection industries, Further improve the intelligence level of environmental protection industry

According to the calculation of the Environmental Planning Institute of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China“ s; Fourteenth Five Year Plan” Environmental governance goal: the investment demand for ecological environment is about 6.8 trillion yuan to 8 trillion yuan, and the annual investment demand is about 1.4 trillion yuan to 1.6 trillion yuan; To achieve the goal of reaching the peak of carbon emissions by 2030, the annual capital investment demand is about 2.1 trillion yuan. With the promotion of the construction of beautiful China, the value of ecological products has been recognized by more and more society, and the market space of environmental protection industry will be further released. We expect that China's environmental protection industry can improve its service capacity and level, extend its service content, and provide all-round support for winning the battle against pollution and promoting green development

Our reporter Liu Fawei

People's Daily Overseas Edition (the 8th edition on April 12, 2022)