Recently, the national development and Reform Commission, together with the Ministry of industry and information technology, the Ministry of housing and urban rural development, the Ministry of Commerce, the State Administration of market supervision, the State Administration and the administration directly under the central government, studied and formulated the implementation plan for promoting green consumption. At the press conference held by the national development and Reform Commission on January 21, Wang Bin, deputy director of the Department of consumption promotion of the Ministry of Commerce, introduced the specific work carried out by the Ministry of Commerce in promoting green consumption.
Wang Bin introduced that in promoting green consumption, the Ministry of Commerce has mainly carried out work in five aspects.
First, vigorously cultivate green circulation subjects. Release the evaluation indicators for the establishment of green shopping malls, guide all localities to increase policy support, promote the cultivation of green circulation subjects, improve quality and efficiency, and create a number of green shopping malls that provide green services, guide green consumption, and implement energy conservation and emission reduction. So far, more than 500 green shopping malls have been created in China, of which nearly 200 will be added in 2021.
Second, resolutely stop food waste. Formulate policies and measures to stop catering waste and standardize the catering consumption behavior of public institutions, catering service units and social organizations. Jointly with the central civilization office to carry out the "CD-ROM action", promote the introduction of standards such as "green catering operation and management" and "banquet saving service specification", and encourage catering enterprises to consciously carry out thrift activities. "Half (small) dishes" and "take out without tableware" have become new trends in the industry. In the first three quarters of 2021, the number of businesses providing small dishes on the catering takeout platform increased by 25.4% year-on-year, and the number of people who chose to buy takeout without tableware exceeded 100 million.
Third, promote the green development of e-commerce. Introduce measures to promote the green development of e-commerce enterprises, guide e-commerce enterprises to save energy and efficiency, green transformation of express packaging, and cultivate the green development ecology of e-commerce platforms. Encourage e-commerce enterprises to set up special sessions for green products in combination with online promotion activities and increase the sales of green products; Set up a green packaging zone to promote operators in the platform to widely use green packaging; Guide consumers to green consumption by means of points and rewards. During the "double 11" period in 2021, the turnover of energy-saving electric fans and energy-saving central air conditioners increased by 274.1% and 118.1% respectively year-on-year.
Fourth, expand green automobile consumption. Promote and improve the fiscal and tax support policies for the purchase of new energy vehicles, and smooth the decline and rhythm of subsidies; Together with the Ministry of industry and information technology and other departments, we have carried out new energy vehicles to the countryside for two consecutive years to promote the consumption of new energy vehicles. We will work with relevant departments to promote the registration of second-hand car transactions across provinces, promote the implementation of the policy of comprehensively abolishing the relocation restrictions on second-hand cars, and continue to expand the circulation of second-hand cars. Together with relevant departments, we will issue standardized management measures for remanufacturing of auto parts, carry out pilot projects to extend the producer responsibility of auto products, promote the improvement of value-added tax policies and measures for comprehensive utilization of resources, and improve the recycling level of scrapped motor vehicles. We will promote the elimination and renewal of old diesel trucks and promote the withdrawal of high emission vehicles from the market.
Fifth, strengthen the publicity of green consumption. Through national consumption promotion month, national online New Year Festival, Chinese food fair and other activities, vigorously advocate the concept of green consumption and low-carbon lifestyle, and oppose catering waste. Organize and drive intermediary organizations and leading enterprises to hold various activities such as "green sustainable consumption Publicity Week", "sustainable consumption seminar" and "Castle Peak plan", and actively create a green and healthy consumption atmosphere in the whole society.
Wang Bin said that the release and implementation of the implementation plan for promoting green consumption marks a new stage in accelerating the implementation of this work. Next, the Ministry of Commerce will guide local commercial departments and commercial circulation enterprises to implement the combination scheme, vigorously advocate a simple and moderate, green, low-carbon, civilized and healthy lifestyle, promote the establishment of green shopping malls, develop the circulation of second-hand goods with high quality, guide the green development of e-commerce enterprises, strengthen the treatment of plastic pollution in the business field, and build a new renewable resource recovery system, Comprehensively promote the transformation and upgrading of green and low-carbon consumption, and make new contributions to promoting high-quality development and building a new development pattern of services.
Automobile is an important field of commodity consumption. Wang Bin said that the Ministry of Commerce, together with relevant departments, has vigorously promoted the green development of the whole chain of automobile circulation. The green consumption of automobile has developed rapidly and achieved remarkable results, which is mainly reflected in three aspects: first, the sales of new energy vehicles have increased significantly, second, the second-hand car market has become more active, and third, the recycling of waste motor vehicles has accelerated.
Wang Bin explained that revitalizing the second-hand car transaction can not only drive the consumption of new cars, but also promote the echelon utilization of vehicles and improve the efficiency of resource utilization. After recycling, dismantling and processing, scrapped motor vehicles can obtain a large number of materials, reusable parts, remanufactured parts and other resources. The recycling of relevant resources can further prolong the life cycle of materials and products and reduce the energy and resource consumption caused by raw material mining, material primary processing, product waste disposal and other links. It is an important field to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
