Development and Reform Commission: Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction Need to Correct the Mistakes of “Simple Power Limiting”

It is impossible to stop the use of electricity, heating, and electricity for public facilities

The reporter learned from the National Development and Reform Commission on the 19th that the National Development and Reform Commission has issued the “Emergency Notice on Further Implementing Current Energy-saving and Emission-reduction Work” recently. It has put forward five requirements for the current energy-saving and emission-reduction work and called for local governments to promote energy-saving and emission reduction work. In order to avoid the use of parking restrictions, residents and public service units use the wrong methods.

The notice said that this year is the last year to achieve the “Eleventh Five-Year” energy-saving and emission reduction targets. All regions and departments have earnestly implemented the State Council’s video-phone conference on energy-saving and emission-reduction work, and “the State Council’s efforts to further intensify efforts to ensure the realization of In the spirit of the “Notice of Energy Saving and Emission Reduction Targets” in January 15, we adopted strong policy measures to further intensify efforts, and achieved positive results in energy conservation and emission reduction, reversing the trend of rising energy consumption per unit of GDP in the first quarter. However, to achieve the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" goal, the situation is still grim and the task is arduous.

The notice emphasized that with the approach of the end of the year, some regions have adopted the wrong methods of stopping the use of electricity by residents and public service units in order to accomplish their objectives, which has affected the normal life of the people; individual regions have adopted the “one size fits all” approach. Turning power outages to production companies has had a negative impact on society. On September 7, the Development and Reform Commission issued a notice stating that this practice violated the original intention of energy conservation and emission reduction and must be corrected immediately.


The "Notice" pointed out that all localities must make great efforts to fight against energy-saving and emission reduction. The “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” energy-saving and emission-reduction targets are legally-binding indicators and are an important indicator of the government's execution power and credibility. All regions and departments must unite their thinking, strengthen their confidence, and exert greater effort in the spirit of being highly responsible for the country, the people, and history. They must do more to ensure that the energy saving and emission reduction targets for the “11th Five-Year Plan” are achieved.

The "Notice" also requires all localities to correctly handle the relationship between energy conservation and emission reduction and maintaining stable and relatively rapid economic development. The key to achieving energy-saving and emission-reduction targets depends on work and mechanisms, and cannot rely on short-term “shock operations”. All regions and departments must correctly handle the relationship between long-term interests, current interests, and overall interests and local interests. The implementation of energy-saving and emission reduction early-warning measures must be scientific, rational, and orderly, and should not simply be used to limit power cuts, let alone to limit living expenses for residents. Electricity, heating, and utilities.

In addition, the "Notice" also clarified the focus of energy conservation and emission reduction, requiring all localities to play a leading role in monitoring, and strengthen the "12th Five-Year Plan" research, and strive to build long-term energy-saving emission reduction mechanism.