In the era of China's industrial transformation and upgrading, new changes will take place in the internal and external environment for the development of the chemical industry, and new demands will be placed on the environmental protection work in the chemical industry.
(I) International Environment
The performance of the international environmental conventions requires that the chemical industry do a good job of environmental protection. With the integration of the global economy, China has gradually joined and implemented a series of international conventions, such as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Stockholm Convention, the Rotterdam Convention, the Basel Convention, and the International Mercury Convention during the negotiation period. The performance of these conventions places new demands on the environmental protection work during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period of the chemical industry. For example, in order to actively respond to climate change, the Chinese government proposed to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by 40% to 45% by 2020. This will inevitably bring new pressure on the industrial structure adjustment and energy conservation and emission reduction work in the chemical industry.
The new pattern of international trade competition requires the chemical industry to do a good job in environmental protection. Since the outbreak of the international financial crisis, a new situation has emerged in the world's industrial development. A new pattern of trade competition based on energy conservation, environmental protection and green and low carbon has taken shape. The United States, the European Union and other countries have restricted the import of products with high energy consumption, high emissions, and containing toxic and hazardous materials. Policies have led to fierce competition in products and increasing trade frictions, which have formed a "reversing mechanism" for the development of China's chemical industry. This requires that we must follow the trend, speed up the transformation of development methods, promote clean production in an all-round way, strengthen environmental protection, and regard green, low-carbon, clean development as an important starting point for enhancing international competitiveness of industries and breaking through green barriers.
(II) Domestic environment
Accelerating the transformation of economic development requires the chemical industry to do a good job in environmental protection. The Party Central Committee and the State Council require the construction of a resource-conserving, environment-friendly society as an important focal point for transforming economic development methods. Completing energy-saving and emission-reduction targets requires the chemical industry to do a good job in environmental protection. The state has put forward new goals and new requirements for environmental protection work, including the forthcoming introduction of new environmental taxes, environmental liability insurance, and other new policies, the remediation of heavy metal pollution, and compliance with chemical oxygen demand, ammonia nitrogen, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides. The new tasks such as pressure make the tasks faced by the chemical industry even more daunting, and it is more difficult to accomplish tasks. New national environmental protection policies and regulations also require the chemical industry to do a good job in environmental protection. At the same time, the increasingly prominent environmental issues in the industry itself require that the chemical industry do a good job in environmental protection.
Policy safeguard measures
(1) Assist government departments in formulating environmental policies and providing policy protection for environmental protection work in the chemical industry
According to the prominent environmental issues in the industry, combined with industrial development trends, we actively coordinate with relevant government departments to formulate and introduce a series of environmental policies to improve the level of environmental protection work in the chemical industry. Firstly, the industry with high energy consumption, high pollution, and high environmental risks should be allowed to adjust and revise the environmental access conditions of the industry in a timely manner, improve the environmental access threshold, and carry out source containment. The second is to improve the relevant industry standards and systems for pollutant discharge standards in key industries, and increase publicity efforts to promote energy conservation and emission reduction in the industry, and strive to complete the target of restrictive pollution reduction. The third is to research and formulate cleaner production implementation plans, formulate and revise the cleaner production evaluation index system, and clean production review guidelines, to provide technical support for the full implementation of cleaner production. Fourth, strengthen research on major environmental issues such as heavy metal pollution, chemical environmental risks, hazardous waste management, and environmental tax collection, and make policy recommendations to relevant departments in due course. Fifth, actively participate in the negotiation of international environmental conventions, in-depth study of the economic and environmental impact of compliance, and provide technical support for the implementation of international conventions and safeguarding the interests of the industry.
(II) Actively strive for favorable environmental protection policies and financial support that are conducive to the development of the industry
The first is to coordinate government departments to increase their support for financial funds and preferential policies. It is recommended that relevant government departments increase the central government's special funds for cleaner production, special funds for the prevention and control of heavy metal pollution, special funds for technological transformation, small and medium-sized enterprises' transition funds, special funds for energy-saving and water-saving, and enterprise income tax benefits for comprehensive utilization of resources, etc., and support policies for enterprises. , To guide the industrial upgrading and pollution control of industrial enterprises. The second is to expand the investment and financing channels. Fully use the market mechanism, and encourage and guide financial institutions and social funds to increase their support for clean production, energy-saving emission reduction and technological transformation projects by publishing clean production promotion programs, recycling economy technical support catalogues, and major energy conservation and environmental protection technical support catalogues. The third proposal is to gradually improve the environmental economic policies. Integrate industrial policies, fiscal policies, financial policies, and environmental policies, improve the green credit mechanism, and assist government departments in establishing a docking mechanism for financial and fiscal policies such as cleaner production audits, implementation of responsible care and green credit, and energy conservation and emission reduction funds.
(C) Strengthen the cultivation and demonstration of advanced models, lead the industry in technological progress and improve management
Strengthen the cultivation of advanced and typical enterprises, promote the promotion of demonstrations, and promote them in an all-round way so that the environmental protection work in the chemical industry can be improved. The first is to gradually formulate and improve the specifications, technical evaluation index system, acceptance criteria and evaluation standards for the demonstration enterprises and demonstration parks related to the implementation of clean production, development of recycling economy, development of resource conservation and environmental protection, and provide technical support for the implementation of demonstration work. The second is to carry out the cultivation and selection of “resource-saving and environment-friendly enterprises”, “chemical clean production demonstration enterprises”, “green chemical industrial parks” and “responsible care demonstration enterprises”, and to regularly commend them for typical advanced enterprises. Or the park will make recommendations to relevant state departments, and actively strive for related preferential policies and financial support, and gradually form a long-term incentive mechanism. The third is to strengthen the exchange of experience of advanced typical enterprises, play a leading role in demonstration, through various forms such as forums, on-site meetings, etc., to recommend advanced management experience and technical measures of the enterprise to the whole industry in multiple channels and in all directions, and to promote the technology of the entire industry. Progress and improvement in management.
(IV) Giving full play to the service function of the association and actively building a technical support system for consulting services
Strengthen the promotion of national environmental protection planning, industrial cleaner production planning and industry environmental protection development guidelines, and guide industry enterprises to establish advanced environmental protection development concepts. Give full play to the advantages of professional resources of the industry associations, and actively establish a support system for environmental consulting services, and provide technical consulting services such as training, auditing, diagnosis, and post-assessment for companies implementing cleaner production and environmental management. Strengthen environmental protection and cleaner production training for relevant personnel of enterprises, establish an information service platform consisting of environmental protection policies, regulations, technical standards, consulting services, expert libraries, and typical cases, and timely release information on environmental protection technologies, management, and policies to enterprises, and strengthen Information exchange provides convenient information services for enterprises to carry out environmental protection work.