The National Development and Reform Commission requires all localities to actively promote energy saving and emission reduction for SMEs

The National Development and Reform Commission pointed out that the development and reform of many small and medium-sized enterprises in our country has caused problems such as extensive development, low energy efficiency, and heavy pollution. The Development and Reform Commission recently issued a notice requiring all localities to strengthen the management of energy saving and emission reduction of small and medium-sized enterprises, step up efforts to formulate programs, and determine priorities and related measures.
China's SMEs have developed rapidly in recent years and have become an important force in promoting economic and social development. However, the overall quality of the current development of SMEs in our country is not high. In some resource-based industries with high requirements for economies of scale, there are many small and medium-sized enterprises, small-scale and backward technology. The number of SMEs in the black smelting and processing industry accounts for 74%, but their total output value only accounts for 20%; over 80% of the backward technology of the building materials industry is concentrated in SMEs. SMEs in the service sector also have more prominent energy waste and excessive emissions.
According to the notice of the National Development and Reform Commission, all localities should eliminate backward technologies, processes and equipment in SMEs strictly in accordance with China's Guiding Catalogue for Industrial Structure Adjustment and related laws and regulations. Improve the access threshold for energy-saving and environmental protection markets, pay close attention to the shift in backward production capacity, resolutely stop the outflow of outdated equipment and facilities, and resolutely prevent new and backward production capabilities in the form of investment promotion and industrial transfer. Enterprises that have not been phased out shall be ordered to stop production or be closed down according to law. Production licenses and discharge permits shall be revoked in accordance with law, and power supply shall be stopped in accordance with the law.
The circular emphasized that all localities should improve the energy-saving and emission-reduction service system and explore the centralized pollution control model. Encourage specialized energy-saving service companies to carry out energy-saving and emission-reduction consultations for SMEs, and provide one-stop services for design, training, financing, transformation, and operation management. For industrial agglomerations with concentrated emissions and serious pollution, explore centralized management models and promote the construction of public environment and comprehensive utilization of resources. Support the development of heat treatment, electroplating and other process specialized enterprises within the industrial cluster.
The notice pointed out that all localities must speed up the development of energy-saving emission reduction technologies, promote common energy-saving emission reduction technologies, and encourage the development of technology-based SMEs in areas such as information technology, engineering and scientific instruments, bio-engineering, new energy and energy-saving technologies, and new environmental protection technologies; Systematic research on fiscal and taxation, prices, credits, guarantees, market access standards, and other supporting policies and measures, giving full play to the role of economic instruments in helping to limit the disadvantages, so that the energy consumption of small and medium-sized enterprises, GDP, water consumption per unit of industrial added value, Pollutant emission indicators and safety production indicators have reached the national average.

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