Meta Data
Title in national language: 
节能减排“十二五”规划
Draft: 
No
Revision of previous policy?: 
No
Draft Year: 
2012
Effective Start Year: 
2012
Effective End Year: 
2015
Scope: 
National
Document Type: 
Plan/Strategy
Economic Sector: 
Energy, Power, Industry, Multi-Sector
Energy Types: 
Coal, Power, Renewable, Bioenergy, Geothermal, Hydropower, Solar, Wind, Other
Issued by: 
General Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China
Overall Summary: 
The 12th Five-Year Plan for Energy Saving and Emission Reduction outlines the targets which include a 16% reduction in energy consumption per unit of GDP, a decrease of 8-10% in total emissions of major pollutants, and establish specific goals for industries, key areas and major energy-consuming equipment. In the field of industry, the energy consumption per unit of industrial added value should be reduced by about 21%, and the plan sets specific requirements for high energy consumption industries such as thermal power and steel etc. In the field of building construction, plan demands that in the northern heating area, promote the heating metering and energy-saving transformation for more than 400 million square meters in residential buildings, etc. In the field of transport, the plan sets up energy consumption targets for the railway, highway, waterway, aviation. And for public institutions, the plan requests for energy efficiency operations and actions.
Access
Energy access priorities: 
Implement the central heating at urban places in the Northeast, North and Northwest China for resident except those who have the equipments and infrastructures for renewable energy.
Efficiency
EE priorities: 
Strengthen industrial energy-saving. Adhere to the new road to industrialization, promote the industrial energy-saving in key industries through a clear objectives and tasks with industry guidance strengthened supervision and management, and technological promoting progress.
EE targets: 
By 2015, the national energy consumption per unit of GDP decreases to 0.869 tons of coal (according to the price in 2005), fell 16% compared to 2010 with 1.034 tons of coal ( 32% to 2005 with 1.276 tons of coal). During the period of the 12th Five-Year Plan, achieve energy conservation of 670 million tons of coal. -- By 2015, the energy consumption per unit of industrial added value is about 21% lower than that in 2010, and the energy consumption growth in key areas such as construction, transportation and public institutions will be effectively controlled.[...] [...] By 2015, the waste heat utilization rate of large and medium-sized enterprises will be more than 50%. -- By 2015, achieve a more than 400 million square meters’ energy-saving reconstruction for heating metering in residential building at northern China. [...] -- Green lighting:[...] during the 12th Five-Year plan period, formulate an energy-saving capacity of 21 million tons of coal. -- Strengthen promotions for the intensity of efficient energy-saving products. For civil use, focus on efficient lighting products, energy-saving household appliances, energy-saving and new energy vehicles etc, while in industrial areas, focus on the promotion of efficient motors, increase product efficiency level by 10% or more,[...]. -- During the 12th Five-Year Plan Period, formulate an electricity-saving capacity of 100 billion kwh. -- During the 12the Five-Year Plan Period, formulate a coal-saving capacity of 60 million tons of coal energy.
EE action plans: 
[...] Governments should stop illegal constructions of high energy consumption and high emission projects, financial institutions are not allowed to lend money to these projects.[...]Strictly control of the exportation of high energy consumption and high emissions products. Set the totality of energy consumption and the total amount of pollutants as important indicators for energy assessment and environmental impact assessment[...] -- Eliminate backward production capacity:[...]focus on the elimination of 20 million kilowatts of small thermal power[...] develop an annual phase-out plan and implement it from time to time[...]. Encourage local governments to set up more strict standards for energy consumption and pollution emissions, intensity the elimination of backward production capacity. --[...]taking industrial layout adjustment into consideration, orderly guide the high energy-consuming enterprises concentrate in the energy resources origin places, reduce long-distance coal and electricity transmission. [...] -- implement coal mine energy-saving technological transformation. -- In the field of chemical industry: focus on the promotion of advanced coal gasification technology, energy efficiency and efficient desulfurization decarburization,[...] implement comprehensive energy-saving transformation. [...] -- Strengthen promotions for the intensity of efficient energy-saving products. For civil use, focus on efficient lighting products, energy-saving household appliances, energy-saving and new energy vehicles etc, while in industrial areas, focus on the promotion of efficient motors, increase product efficiency level by 10% or more,[...]. -- Strengthen building energy efficiency. Carry out green building actions, comprehensively promote building energy-saving from planning, regulations, technology, standards, design and other aspects, improve building energy efficiency. -- Promote transportation energy-saving: speed up the construction of convenient, safe and efficient integrated transport system. Constantly optimize the transport structure, promote science and technology and management innovation, and further enhance the energy efficiency of transport. -- Promote energy-saving in the field of agriculture and rural areas. Improve the agricultural machinery energy efficiency standard system. Strengthen the annual inspection of large-scale agricultural machinery, speed up the updates of old agricultural machinery and fishing boats, encourage farmers to buy energy efficient agricultural machinery. Promote new energy-saving products and new technologies to speed up the transformation of agricultural electromechanical equipment, to strengthen the regular maintenance of energy equipment[...] -- Strengthen commercial and civil energy conservation activities. Carry out energy-saving emission reduction operations and actions in the in the retail industry and other areas. Establish and improve energy management system, speedup constructions of energy facilities and carry out energy audits in the field of commerce, tourism, catering and other industries[...] -- Implement energy-saving operation in public institutions. Strictly implement energy efficiency building standards in the newly built public buildings.carry out heating metering transformation. The state authorities’ building should take the lead in the implementation of heat charges. Promote energy conservation in public office areas and promote the use of renewable energy. Comprehensively promote the reform of official car system, carry out strict fuel consumption quota management for official cars, and promote energy-saving and new energy vehicles. -- [...]perfect the public sector energy management, statistical monitoring assessment and training system, establish and improve the public sector energy audit, energy efficiency publicity, energy measurement and energy consumption quota management system, strengthen the energy consumption monitoring platform and energy conservation supervision system. -- Use energy efficient motors, fans, pumps, transformers and others, eliminate backward power equipments. -- Implement "China’s road map for incandescent lamp elimination", phase out of ordinary lighting incandescent lamps and other inefficient lighting products.[...]Support the implementation of the semiconductor lighting products in hotels, commercial buildings, roads, tunnels, airports and other places. [...]Speed up the transformation of urban road lighting system, control over-decoration and lighting.
EE lighting and mechanical system standards: 
Green lighting. Implement "China’s road map for incandescent lamp elimination", phase out of ordinary lighting incandescent lamps and other inefficient lighting products. Promote the transformation of incandescent production enterprises[...]. Promote the construction of standardized test platform.
EE labeling: 
Increase energy efficiency labeling and enforce the energy conservation and environmental protection product certification implementation, expand the scope of energy efficiency labeling and energy efficiency product certification[...]
EE building standards: 
Strengthen the new building energy efficiency operations. Strictly control the building design, ensure that the urban construction design totally meet the energy efficiency standards. Strengthen the supervision and inspection for the construction.[...]. Reinforce the green planning of the new district, focusing on governmental institution buildings, schools and hospital, as well as theaters, museums, gymnasium and other implementation of green building standards; promote green building in in commercial real estate and industrial plants. -- Strengthen the efforts for energy conservation via transformation of the existing buildings. Focusing on the structure development, heating metering and pipe network heat balance transformation, vigorously promote the energy conservation and heating metering transformation plans for the residential buildings within the northern heating areas. Speed up the implementation of "energy efficient greenhouse" project. Carry out large-scale public building heating, air conditioning, ventilation, lighting and other energy-saving transformation, the implementation of electricity utility submetering. [...]encourage comprehensive transformation in the old urban districts. - [...] we should strictly implement the public building air conditioning temperature control standards in hotels, commercial buildings, office buildings, airports and stations, and optimise the air conditioning operation and managements[...]
EE transport standards : 
Rail transport: Vigorously develop railway electrification system, and further improve the railway transport capacities. Strengthen the management of transport organization. Speed up the elimination of old locomotive models, to promote railway locomotive fuel economy, energy-saving technology, and improve energy-saving railway transport equipment.[...]. Promote energy efficiency optimization design of passenger station, strengthen the comprehensive management of energy consumption of large passenger station. --Road transport: fully implement the operating vehicle fuel consumption limits.[...].
Energy Service Companies (ESCOs): 
Support key energy companies to implement energy conservation by energy savings performance contract. The implementation of energy conservation in public institutions should give priority to the use of energy savings performance contract management.
EE financial incentives: 
Strengthen financial support for energy saving performance contract projects, and encourage banks and other financial institutions to provide flexible and diverse financial services for energy saving performance contract projects.
EE public awareness/promotional programmes: 
[...] Encourage consumers to buy energy-efficient environmentally friendly cars and energy-efficient houses, promote energy efficient household appliances, office equipment and efficient lighting products. Reduce standby power [...] -- [...]Put the energy conservation and emission reduction into the socialist core values of propaganda and education as well as basic education, cultural education, vocational education system, enhance the conscience of crisis. Give full play to radio and television, cultural and educational departments and the role of the news media and related social groups, organize energy conservation publicity week, the World Environment Day and other thematic publicity activities. [...]and actively create a good atmosphere of energy-saving emission reduction. -- Promote energy-saving driving, advocate green travel. Actively promote energy-saving and new energy vehicles[...] pay attention to urban walking facilities constructions, and bicycle traffic system construction[...].
Renewable Energy
RE priorities: 
[...] Promote the development of hydropower [...] accelerate the development and commercialization of clean energy, such as wind energy, solar energy, geothermal energy[...] -- Promote the use of alternative fuels such as alcohol fuel, biodiesel and other fuels. -- Develop the small hydropowers in rural areas,[...]wind energy, solar energy [...] scientifically plan the layout of rural biogas, improve the service mechanism and strengthen the operation, management and maintenance of biogas facilities.
Environment
Energy environmental priorities: 
Improve the pollution control for fine particulate pollutants (PM2.5) in the atmosphere. Promote the clean use of coal, construct low sulfur and low ash coal yard, improve the proportion of coal washing, eliminate inefficient coal-fired boilers in key areas [...].
Pollution level targets, PM10, PM2.5, SOx, NOx: 
In 2015, the national total chemical oxygen demand and sulfur dioxide emissions should be controlled at 23.476 million tons and 20.846 million tons, both reduce by 8% compared with 25.517 million tons and 22.678 million tons in 2010[...]; The total amount of ammonia and nitrogen oxides should be controlled at 2.38 million tons and 20.462 million tons respectively, decrease by 10% from 2.644 million tons and 22.773 million tons in 2010[...]. -- During the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, new sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides reduction capacity should increase by 2.77 million tons and 3.58 million tons.
Pollution control action plans: 
Control pollutant emissions of motor vehicles. Improve the entry threshold for motor vehicle pollutant discharge. Strengthening the assessment of environmental impact of motor vehicle emissions. Speed up the elimination of old vehicles[...]. Promote the work of agricultural vehicles scraping, fully implement motor vehicle environmental labeling management, strictly carry out implementation of the motor vehicle consistency inspection system, prohibit the production, sales and registration of the motor vehicles that does not meet the national emission standards[...]
Pricing
Energy pricing: 
Improve the differential tariffs systems, promote peak-valley electricity prices, punitive tariffs,[...]and residential electricity ladder prices etc. Strictly implement the price of desulfurization electricity, carry out research and improve the coal-fired power plant flue gas denitrification price policy. Accelerate the heating system reform, implement heat meter tariffs system.
Energy Supply and Infrastructure
Energy supply priorities: 
Adjust the energy structure: promote the rapid growth of natural gas production, promote coalbed methane, shale gas and other unconventional oil and gas resources development and utilization, [...] -- actively develop the power of coal blending, reasonably choose mines area and ports which with geographical location and economic market advantages, to establish coal distribution center and build coal storage and distribution base.
Energy mix: 
By 2015, non-fossil energy consumption accounts 11.4% of primary energy consumption.
Infrastructure development priorities: 
Adjust the energy structure: [...] Strengthen the construction of oil and gas strategic import channel, domestic pipe network, urban distribution network and energy reserve and storage. [...] -- Electricity: encourage the construction of efficient gas-steam combined cycle power stations, [...] speed up the technological transformation of active service units and power grids, reduce plant electricity consumption and distribution line losses.
Trade
Energy trade priorities: 
[...] Promote the development of hydropower [...] accelerate the development and commercialization of clean energy, such as wind energy, solar energy, geothermal energy[...]
Investment
Energy sector investment priorities: 
Increase the central budget and the special funds on energy-saving emission reduction to support key projects for energy-saving and emission reduction. Continue to arrange state-owned capital operating budget expenditure to support enterprises to implement energy-saving emission reduction projects. --- Local governments at all levels should further increase investments in energy conservation and emission reduction, improve financial subsidies and fund management methods, strengthen the security and effectiveness of financial funds, and improve the efficiency of financial capital utilization.
Investment climate development: 
Local people's governments at all levels should further increase investment in energy-saving emission reduction, innovate the investment mechanism, fully play multi-level capital market financing functions, guide enterprises and social funds into energy conservation in multi-channel.
Governance
Energy management principles: 
[...]perfect the public sector energy management, statistical monitoring assessment and training system, establish and improve the public sector energy audit, energy efficiency publicity, energy measurement and energy consumption quota management system, strengthen the energy consumption monitoring platform and energy conservation supervision system. --Support key energy companies to implement energy conservation by energy savings performance contract. The implementation of energy conservation in public institutions should give priority to the use of energy savings performance contract management. [...]improve the public sector energy management, statistical monitoring assessment and training system, establish and improve the public sector energy audit, energy efficiency publicity, energy measurement and energy consumption quota management system, strengthen the energy consumption monitoring platform and energy conservation supervision system. -- Further improve the energy-saving and emission reduction statistics, monitoring, assessment system, improve energy-saving emission reduction early warning mechanism, establish and improve the industry energy-saving emission reduction evaluation system -- Strengthen energy conservation law enforcement supervision, according to the law severely punish all kinds of violations of the laws and regulations of energy saving actions. Implement responsibility system for law enforcement.
National policy structure: 
Improve energy conservation and environmental protection laws, regulations and standards system. Accelerate the law-making of air pollution prevention and control, [...]energy-saving management of key energy-saving units, energy-saving product certification management code etc. Speed up the construction of energy-saving environmental standards system, expand the coverage of the standard, improve the access threshold.
Statistics collection and management: 
Promote the construction of energy-saving monitoring platform, establish the energy consumption database and data exchange system, strengthen data collection, data classification, forecasting and early warning capacity and information exchange capacity. --Improve the industrial energy consumption statistics, establish energy consumption statistics system for building, transportation and public institutions, promote the regional energy consumption indicators quarterly statistical system, strengthen the accounting and monitoring.
Technology
Clean energy technology priorities: 
[...] ensure the safe development of nuclear power [...]
Clean energy technology deployment: 
Improve the capacities of distributed energy resources system and dgid capacity for non - fossil energy and clean energy generation. --accelerate the smart grid construction
Low-emission and cleaner coal technology: 
Improve the pollution control for fine particulate pollutants (PM2.5) in the atmosphere. Promote the clean use of coal, construct low sulfur and low ash coal yard, improve the proportion of coal washing, eliminate inefficient coal-fired boilers in key areas [...]. --Develop underground coal gasification, desulfurization, coal slurry, briquette and other clean coal technology. - Implement full desulfurization and denitrification equipment for new coal-fired units, and achieve discharge standards. Coal-fired units without desulfurization and denitrification equipment should install related equipments to support the construction of flue gas desulphurization facilities. Reform the coal-fired unites who can not stably discharge. [...]
R&D energy efficiency: 
And actively develop the semiconductor lighting energy-saving industry, speed up the research and development of the key equipment, core materials and common key technologies of semiconductor lighting.
R&D pollution abatement: 
In the field of chemical industry: focus on the promotion of advanced coal gasification technology, energy efficiency and efficient desulfurization decarburization,[...] implement comprehensive energy-saving transformation. [...]