At present, China’s coal consumption accounts for more than half of energy, and coal still plays an important role in energy consumption in the medium and short term. Under the goal of orderly promotion of “double carbon”, during the two sessions of the National People’s Congress this year, many representatives and members offered suggestions for coal development.
Zhang Jianhua, director of the national energy administration, said that the focus of work in 2022 is to improve the stability and flexibility of energy supply. Enhance coal supply capacity, strengthen the supporting role of coal and electricity, and give full play to the basic and bottom-up guarantee role of coal and coal electricity in the energy supply system.
According to the development and demand of the four major coal consuming industries in the downstream of coal, China’s coal demand will still increase by about 2% in 2022. Jiang Yaodong, member of the National Committee of the Chinese people’s Political Consultative Conference and former vice president of China University of mining and Technology (Beijing), said that in 2022, thermal coal will be affected by the triple impact of balancing carbon emissions with economic development, coal medium and long-term contracts continue to play the role of “ballast stone”, and the regulation and control of the coal spot market by the national management department. The role of coal energy in “covering the bottom and ensuring supply” will be more prominent.
focus on clean and efficient coal utilization technology
“In order to achieve the goal of ‘double carbon’, China must actively realize the clean and efficient utilization of coal.” Pan biling, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese people’s Political Consultative Conference, chairman of the Hunan Provincial Committee for the advancement of democracy and deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Department of ecological environment, said: on the one hand, gradually reduce the use of coal through efficient utilization; On the other hand, reduce carbon emissions from coal combustion through clean utilization. In addition, increase the proportion of new energy, actively solve the consumption problem of new energy, strengthen the peak shaving and accumulation capacity of new energy, and finally realize that coal is only used as the standby energy for peak shaving of thermal power except in key industries.
Pan biling believes that to realize the transformation of low-carbon, clean and efficient energy system, adjusting structure, improving energy efficiency and strengthening competition is both a means and an end. Pan biling said that with the gradual maturity of the carbon market, enterprises that traditionally consume a lot of fossil energy production will be more and more at a disadvantage in the market competition. With the continuous maturity of new energy technologies and the further reduction of development costs, enterprises need to continuously improve their competitiveness, realize the innovation of production technologies and processes, and reduce the cost of energy use and carbon emissions.
Feng Yidong, member of the CPPCC National Committee and chairman of Zhongtai Finance International Co., Ltd., suggested that the national clean coal Standardization Technical Committee be organized to establish a clean coal standardization system to ensure that clean coal for different purposes such as industry, power generation and civil use has corresponding quality standards.
Jin Penghui, member of the CPPCC National Committee and deputy director of the Shanghai headquarters of the people’s Bank of China, said that it is estimated that the special refinancing for clean and efficient utilization of coal can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 110 million tons per year. Jin Penghui said that the “special refinancing for clean and efficient utilization of coal” has arranged 200 billion real gold and silver to provide financial support for the low-carbon transformation of coal related industries, and coal power enterprises can obtain low-cost funds for technological upgrading.
“The gradual withdrawal of traditional energy should be based on the safe and reliable substitution of new energy.” Li Heping, member of the National Committee of the Chinese people’s Political Consultative Conference and vice chairman of the Anhui Provincial People’s Political Consultative Conference, believes that based on the basic national conditions dominated by coal, we should pay close attention to the clean and efficient utilization of coal, guide the green development of the coal industry, and propose to reasonably adjust the statistical methods and standards of coal consumption at the national level.
Li Heping said that due consideration should be given to the fact that the proportion of coal gangue combustion and utilization is low and carbon emissions are extremely limited, and the washing gangue should not be counted as coal consumption. If it is really necessary to take the washing gangue as the coal consumption, it is suggested to only include the gangue used by combustion and calculate it according to the calorific value.
establish coal mine exit mechanism and orderly promote the intelligent construction of mining enterprises
“Accelerate the establishment of a long-term mechanism for coal mine exit investment”, said Yang Jie, deputy to the National People’s Congress and senior engineer of Huaibei Mining Holdings Co.Ltd(600985) group’s coal and electricity technician college. The establishment of a mechanism can ensure the long-term and effective transformation and development of green and low-carbon coal mines.
Yang Jie said that by the end of 2021, China had withdrawn about 5700 coal mines, withdrawn backward production capacity of more than 1 billion tons / year, resettled about 1 million employees, continuously optimized the coal industrial structure, accelerated the transformation of old and new kinetic energy, and significantly improved the quality of the coal supply system. However, with the accelerated closure and withdrawal of coal mines, various contradictions and problems in the mining area have also appeared.
In the long run, more coal mines will be closed and withdrawn. Industrial transformation is an inevitable requirement for the high-quality development of the mining area. The State Council proposed to improve the long-term mechanism, implement the support mechanism for continuous alternative industries, give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, mobilize social forces and promote the development of continuous alternative industries.
Yang Jie suggested that we should speed up the research and put forward the accrual standards of industrial transformation and development costs. All coal production enterprises must separately withdraw the cost of industrial transformation and development. The expenses for industrial transformation and development shall be withdrawn and included in the current expenses, and enterprises are allowed to disburse them before paying income tax. The expenses for industrial transformation and development shall be withdrawn by the coal production enterprises themselves, earmarked for special purposes, and a separate accounting subject shall be established for separate accounting. At the end of the year, the enterprise shall prepare a statement on the withdrawal and use of industrial transformation and development expenses and report it to the local financial and tax authorities for the record.
In terms of intelligent transformation of mining enterprises, man Shengang, deputy to the National People’s Congress, Secretary of the Party committee and chairman of Shandong Gold Mining Co.Ltd(600547) Group Co., Ltd., said that with the rapid development of 5g, industrial Internet of things, big data and other information technologies and the accelerated application of intelligent equipment, mining enterprises have provided rare opportunities and strong support for optimizing production organization, strengthening management and control ability and promoting safe production.
Man Shengang suggested that we should speed up the research and formulation of industry standards and steadily and orderly promote the intelligent construction of mining enterprises. Launch a “policy package” with high gold content to form a pattern of multi-party participation and investment.
Intelligent construction requires “real gold and silver” and continuous investment, which is not a small expense for many enterprises. He said that we should improve and improve the financial and tax support policies with greater incentives such as tax relief, low interest loans and discount subsidies, encourage enterprises to be willing to increase investment, attract high-tech enterprises such as information and communication and software development to actively participate in and leverage social capital to follow up investment. Set up “seed” funds and special funds for intelligent construction, give play to the role of “four or two thousand catties” and “untie and reduce the burden” for the intelligent construction of enterprises.
