Fujian: Sales of New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) to Account for Over 20% of New Car Sales by 2025

From:Fujian International Investment Promotion Center Date:2022-06-28【Font:large regular

By 2025, the amount of energy consumption per unit of the province's GDP shall have fallen by 14% from that of 2020, the total energy consumption of the province shall have been controlled at a reasonable level, and the energy utilization efficiency of key industries and major pollutants emissions shall have become comparable to those in developed countries, a plan issued by the People's Government of Fujian, which is titled Fujian 14th Five-Year Plan for Comprehensive Work of Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction.

In order to reach these goals, Fujian is investing resources and carrying out ten major energy conservation and emission reduction projects, i.e. the Key Industries Go Green Project, the Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Upgrade for Industrial Parks Project, the Urban Green Energy Conservation Remodelling Project, the Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction in Transport and Logistics Project, the Project of Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction in Rural Areas and Agriculture, the More Energy Efficient Public Institutions Project, the Pollutants Reduction in Key Fields Project, the Clean Efficient Utilization of Coal Project, the Comprehensive Control of Volatile Organic Substances Project, and the Environmental Infrastructure Upgrade Project. 

As far as the Go Green initiative is concerned, by 2025 all local steel plants must have basically completed remodelling for ultra-low emission, with those in Fuzhou, Sanming, and Zhangzhou required to complete the task one year in advance. 

In upgrading energy conservation and environmental protection in industrial parks, the government plans to quicken the pace of helping local industrial enterprises to retreat from the city and settle down in industrial parks, where in principle, new industrial projects in key areas must also go to. Sewage in industrial parks is to be reduced and turned into resources. The government wants to ensure that by 2025, all industrial parks at or above the provincial level will have become a "Zero Direct Sewage Discharge Zone". It is planned that with government support, by 2025 the province will have a number of model industrial parks in energy conservation and environmental protection, and that all industrial parks at or above the provincial level that can afford the cost will have had themselves remodelled to introduce a recycling system. 

In terms of energy conservation and emission reduction in transport and logistics, the government aims to facilitate, in an orderly fashion, the construction of a variety of infrastructure, including charging and battery-changing stations, refuelling (gaseous fuels) stations, hydrogen refuelling stations, supporting power grids, and power facilities needed at ports and airports. To continue with its push for a Power-Driven Fujian, the southeastern province will increase the proportion of NEVs used in urban public transport (including taxis), logistics, and city cleaning. The government also looks to promote the use of environmentally-friendly packaging materials within the whole courier service industry. As part of this initiative, e-commerce businesses and delivery companies will be led to use parcel packaging products that have been certified for environmental friendliness. The use of slimmer tape, recyclable transit bags, recyclable courier boxes, and standard recycling units for discarded packaging materials will also be encouraged. The aim is to switch to more environmentally friendly parcel packaging materials, reduce their consumption, and increase their recyclability. As part of the government's environmental push, the National VI emission standards for automobiles and the National IV emission standards for off-road mobile diesel machinery will be put in place across the whole province. Vehicles designed to meet the National III emission standards or lower will be phased out. Then there is the Clean Diesel Programme, which will be fully implemented and, among others, encourage drivers to abandon their old heavy-duty diesel lorries for new ones. By 2025, the sales of new NEVs are expected to account for more than 20% of the total sales of new vehicles. And the carbon dioxide emissions per unit of transport circular flow of business vehicles will fall by 5% compared with that in 2020. 

To improve energy efficiency, public institutions are encouraged to take the lead in replacing old vehicles with NEVs. Any new vehicle they purchase, be it an addition or a replacement, must be in principle a NEV. Efforts will also be made to ensure that existing and newly built car parks have their own charging stations, or that newly built car parks make preparations so electric vehicle supply equipment can be readily installed later. 


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