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Title in national language: 
西部大开发“十三五”规划
Draft: 
No
Revision of previous policy?: 
No
Draft Year: 
2017
Effective Start Year: 
2016
Effective End Year: 
2020
Scope: 
National
Document Type: 
Plan/Strategy
Economic Sector: 
Energy, Power, Industry, Transport, Other
Energy Types: 
Coal, Oil, Power, Gas, Renewable, Bioenergy, Geothermal, Hydropower, Solar, Wind
Issued by: 
National Development and Reform Commission P.R.C.
Overall Summary: 
The plan aims at the development in the western region, highlights the concepts of innovation, coordination, green, open, sharing development, according to their comparative advantages, firmly emphasizes the infrastructure development and ecological and environmental protection, in order to enhance the sustainable development support capacity, to comprehensively promote the new urbanization and new industrialization, information technology, agricultural modernization and coordinated development, thus to narrow the regional development gap in China and to achieve a breakthrough in the continuous improvement of people's livelihood, Social harmony. The plan aims at building a well-off society by 2020, sets up specific action plans and indicators for the economic development, natural resources and environmental protection, social development and innovation capacity,etc.
Efficiency
EE priorities: 
Strictly control the growth of new capacity, ensure the reduction of overcapacity in the field of steel, coal. Optimize coal production and consumption structure [...]
EE action plans: 
[...]implement of “double control”(energy consumption control and energy intensity control) mechanism and the national energy conservation action plan, to promote energy-saving and emission reduction in key areas, highlighting energy conservation in the field of industry, construction, transportation, public institutions and other areas ensuring the energy consumption is within the scope of national constraints. Promote a low-carbon and green efficient development in the coal industry, coal power, coal chemistry industry, iron and steel, nonferrous metals, phosphorus chemical industry and other industries. Strictly control the high energy consumption and high-emission industries, orderly shutdown the companies which can not achieve the standards of environmental protection, energy consumption, and safety production standards[...] ---Improve the urban road network system, vigorously develop green transportation, scientifically and orderly layout of the charging station for the electric vehicles, and three-dimensional parking lot system etc., [...].
Renewable Energy
RE priorities: 
Accelerate the exploration of renewable energy[...]---[...]Steadily progress the hydropower development, to explore pilot projects to promote hydropower development for poverty alleviation. [...]Encourage the implementation of PV poverty alleviation projects in the areas where solar resources are good.
RE action plans: 
To focus on the hydropower development in the south-western region; promote the wind power development, construct four major wind power farm in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Jiuquan, Mengxi and East Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; accelerate the development of solar power; vigorously promote the distributed photovoltaic power generation system; carry out Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia New Energy Integrated Demonstration Zone Construction; cultivate Zhundong, Hami, Dunhuang, Qaidam, Mengxi and other wind energy clean energy base.
Environment
Energy environmental priorities: 
[...]implement “double control”(energy consumption control and energy intensity control) mechanism and the national energy conservation action plan, to promote energy-saving and emission reduction in key areas, [...]. Promote a low-carbon and green efficient development in the coal industry, coal power, coal chemistry industry, iron and steel, nonferrous metals, phosphorus chemical industry and other industries.---[I]mprove the ecological environment. promote the ecological and green development concept, encourage the change of lifestyle to a green, recycling, low carbon way[...] ---[...]Promote the development of low-carbon cycle, and continuously reduce the intensity of carbon emissions.
Pollution control action plans: 
[...]Increase air pollution prevention and efforts to improve the quality of the atmospheric environment. Strengthen the desulfurization, denitrification, dust removal facilities construction in key industries and operation management.---Strictly control the high energy consumption and high-emission industries, orderly shutdown the companies which can not achieve the standards of environmental protection, energy consumption, and safety production standards[...]---[...]speed up the construction of green ecological corridors, to protect the ecological environment of the Three Gorges reservoir area, build an important ecological barrier in the upstream of the Yangtze River.
Decarbonization strategy: 
Strictly control the high energy consumption and high-emission industries, orderly shutdown the companies which can not achieve the standards of environmental protection, energy consumption, and safety production standards[...].
Carbon markets: 
Promote the development of environmental protection market, carry out trade market for energy utilisation right, carbon emissions, emissions rights,[...]and gradually expand the scope of the pilot and demonstration projects. [...]Establish a market mechanism to attract social capital investment in ecological environment protection, promote a third party governance for environmental pollution control.
Green finance: 
[...]promote corporate environmental credit evaluation, environmental pollution liability insurance, green credit pilot[...].
Pricing
Energy pricing: 
[...]promote the equal price for urban and rural electricity. [...] ---[...]Promote the power system reform pilot, continue to deepen the price reform[...].
Energy Supply and Infrastructure
Energy supply priorities: 
[...]rationally promote the development of oil and gas resources, the construction of Tarim Basin, Junggar Basin, Ordos Basin and other oil and gas production base. Increase shale gas, coalbed methane exploration and development efforts. [...]---Strictly control the growth of new capacity, ensure the reduction of overcapacity in the field of steel, coal. Optimize coal production and consumption structure [...]
Infrastructure development priorities: 
further improve the infrastructure[...] and enhance the capacity of grid networks and the pipelines. ---[...]Improve the West-East Gas Pipeline, Shaanxi-Beijing line and Sichuan Gas to East China pipelines. Speed up the construction of natural gas pipeline network, optimize the natural gas compression master station, satellite station[...], improve the city gas pipeline network and load shedding system. ---[...]Orderly promote the hydropower development of Jinsha River, Yalong River and Dadu River, develop the Liang Mountain Wind Farm, construct the wind-solar-hydro hybrid system demonstrations projects in Jinsha River, and Yalong River areas. ---Further promote the west power to east programme, steadily improve the transmission canals for hydro power, wind power and coal power, focus on the Ximeng-Shandong, Mengxi-south Tianjing, Yuheng-Weifang, Shanghaimiao-Shandong, Ningdong-Zhengjiang, Ximeng-Taizhou, Zhundong-East China, Jiuqian-Hunan, Zhalute-Shandong, North Shaanxi province (Shenfu, Yanan)-Hubei Province, North Shaanxi Shenmu-Hebei Province, hydropower of Sichuan Province UHV, [...]etc. enforece the update and reform of rural grid network, and improve the reliability and supply ability. ---[...] support the implementation of rural power grids, and vigorously promote the electricity replacement for coal.
Cross-border energy infrastructure: 
[...]promote the China-Kazakhstan and China-Russia petroleum and gas pipeline development[...].
Investment
Energy sector investment priorities: 
Further increase the investment, budget of the central government, the central fiscal balance transfer payments and special transfer payments to the western region[...]. Support the priority layout in the western region to build a comparative advantage of the project, to encourage social capital to market the way to set up the western development industry development guide fund.
Investment climate development: 
[...]Establish a market mechanism to attract social capital investment in ecological environment protection ---Establish a diversified and sustainable investment and financing system conducive to the development of the western region. And make full use of commercial financial, developmental finance, policy finance and financial corporations to form a reasonable and complementary financial institution system, and to increase support for major infrastructure construction[...] To promote the promotion of small micro-enterprise financial services
Public Private Partnerships: 
In the field of public services to promote government and social capital and private cooperation (PPP) model, improve the quality and efficiency of public service supply.
Technology
Low-emission and cleaner coal technology: 
Steadily develop clean and efficient coal [...].
Industrialization support: 
Build wind power equipment manufacturing centre in Urumqi, Hami, Jiuquan, Chongqing, Chengdu, Deyang, Baotou, Xi'an, Shangluo, Haidong, Yinchuan, Kunming, Liupanshui and other wind power equipment, photovoltaic product development and production base; [...] construct Chongqing, Sichuan, Xinjiang and other shale gas production, shale gas equipment manufacturing and oilfield service base. ---Renewable energy vehicles: develop the Chongqing renewable energy vehicle and smart vehicle base, set up the Chengdu, Xi’an, Nanchong, Liuzhou, Baotou, Chifeng and Bijie clean energy industry base. ---Energy Saving and environmental protection: build the environmental protection equipment industry base in Chongqing, Chengdu, Nanning, Xining, Zhigong, Baoji, Ordos and Baotou etc.