On March 1, the National Development and Reform Commission website released the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting Green Consumption" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") jointly formulated by ten departments including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Ministry of Environmental Protection. The opinions put forward 17 specific measures to encourage the consumption of green products, expand the green consumer market, promote green office, improve the identification and certification system, improve the standard system, and strengthen financial support to promote the development of green consumption.
In terms of encouraging green consumption, the opinions clearly stated, "Continue to promote energy-saving products such as high-efficiency energy-saving motors, energy-saving and environmentally friendly vehicles, and high-efficiency lighting products. By 2020, the market share of energy-saving appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators, and water heaters with energy efficiency labels above level 2 will reach More than 50%. Implement the action plan for the production and application of green building materials, and promote the use of energy-saving doors and windows, construction waste recycling products and other green building materials and environmentally friendly decoration materials. Promote environmental labeling products, encourage the use of coatings and dry cleaners with low volatile organic content, and guide the use of pesticides and fertilizers with low ammonia and low volatile organic pollutant emissions."
In terms of the implementation of green office, it is suggested that "public buildings built with government funds should fully implement the green building standards, and rainwater recovery systems and water utilization facilities should be installed in all qualified office areas."
In terms of improving the labeling and certification system, the opinion puts forward, "Revise the management method of energy efficiency labeling and expand the scope of energy efficiency labeling. Implement the management method of energy-saving and low-carbon product certification, do a good job in the issuance of certification catalogues and the adoption of certification results, accelerate the implementation of low-carbon and organic product certification. Promote China's environmental labeling certification. Improve the green building and green building materials labeling system."
In terms of strengthening financial support, the opinion proposes to "study and introduce incentive policies to support green consumer credit for energy-saving and new energy vehicles, green buildings, new energy and renewable energy products and facilities, and promote financial institutions to increase credit support. Encourage the development of new energy vehicle insurance products, and encourage insurance companies to provide insurance protection for green buildings. Study the establishment of a green consumption points system."
The opinions require that by 2020, the concept of green consumption will become a social consensus, a long-term mechanism will be basically established, extravagance and waste will be effectively curbed, the market share of green products will be greatly increased, and a thrifty, green, low-carbon, civilized and healthy lifestyle and consumption pattern will be basically formed.
The full text of the letter is as follows:
National Development and Reform Commission and other 10 ministries
Notice on Issuing the Guiding Opinions on Promoting Green Consumption
Development and Reform Ring Capital [2016] No. 353
All provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and cities under separate state planning, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Development and Reform Commission, Party Committee Propaganda Department, Science and Technology Department (Bureau), Finance Department (Bureau), Environmental Protection Department (Bureau), Housing and Urban-Rural Development Department (Bureau), Department of Commerce (Bureau), Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau (Market Supervision and Management Department), Tourism Bureau, Agency Affairs Administration:
In order to implement the spirit of the 18th CPC National Congress and the third, fourth and Fifth Plenary sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee, and to implement the concept of green development, according to the opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on accelerating the Construction of Ecological Civilization, the Circular of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on issuing the overall Plan for the Reform of the Ecological Civilization system, and the State Council's guiding opinions on actively playing the leading role of new consumption and accelerating the cultivation of new supply and forming new power, promote green consumption, to speed up the construction of ecological civilization and promote the green development of economy and society, we have formulated the guiding opinions on promoting green consumption, which are hereby printed and distributed to you. Please earnestly implement them in combination with the actual situation.
Annex: Guidance on the Promotion of Green Consumption
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On February 17, 2016.
Appendices
Guiding Opinions on Promoting Green Consumption
In order to fully implement the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Plenary Sessions of the 18th Central Committee, thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches, and implement the concept of green development, according to the Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Accelerating the Construction of Ecological Civilization "," The General Plan for the Reform of the Ecological Civilization System "," Guiding Opinions of the State Council on Actively, promote green consumption, accelerate the construction of ecological civilization, and promote economic and social green development, and put forward the following opinions.
1. fully understand the significance of green consumption
Green consumption refers to the consumption behavior characterized by saving resources and protecting the environment. It is mainly manifested in advocating thrift, reducing losses and waste, choosing efficient and environmentally friendly products and services, and reducing resource consumption and pollution emissions in the consumption process. China has a large population, insufficient resource endowment and limited environmental carrying capacity. In recent years, with the rapid economic development and the continuous improvement of people's living standards, my country has entered an important stage in which consumer demand continues to grow and the role of consumption in driving the economy has been significantly enhanced. New types of consumption such as green consumption have huge development space and potential. At the same time, phenomena such as excessive consumption and extravagance and waste still exist, and green lifestyles and consumption patterns have not yet been formed, which has exacerbated the bottleneck constraints of resources and the environment. Promoting green consumption is not only an important embodiment of inheriting the traditional virtues of diligence and thrift of the Chinese nation and carrying forward socialist core values, but also an important means to comply with the trend of consumption upgrading, promote supply-side reform, and cultivate new economic growth points. it is also the practical need to alleviate the pressure on resources and environment and build ecological civilization.
General requirements and main objectives of the 2.
We will fully implement the spirit of the 18th CPC National Congress and the third, fourth and Fifth Plenary sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee, thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches, and speed up the transformation of consumption to green in accordance with the concept of green development and the requirements of socialist core values. Strengthen publicity and education, cultivate the social fashion of advocating diligence and thrift in the whole society, vigorously promote the greening of consumption concepts; standardize consumption behavior, guide consumers to consciously practice green consumption, and create green consumption entities; strict market access, increase production and effective supply, Promote green consumer products; improve the policy system, build a long-term mechanism conducive to promoting green consumption, and create a green consumption environment.
By 2020, the concept of green consumption will become a social consensus, a long-term mechanism will be basically established, extravagance and waste will be effectively curbed, the market share of green products will be greatly increased, and a thrifty, green, low-carbon, civilized and healthy lifestyle and consumption pattern will be basically formed.
3. focuses on cultivating green consumption concept
Education for all is (I) carried out in depth. We will strengthen education on the basic national conditions of resources and environment, vigorously carry forward the traditional virtues of diligence and thrift of the Chinese nation and the party's fine style of hard work, and carry out green consumption education for the whole people. Starting from the baby, integrate the concepts of diligence and thrift, green and low-carbon into the teaching system of family education, preschool education, primary and secondary education, ideological and moral construction of minors, and organize social practices such as the second classroom. Regarding green consumption as an important part of women and family ideological and moral education, student ideological and political education, continuing education for employees, and training for civil servants, it is included in the requirements for the establishment of civilized cities, civilized villages and towns, civilized units, civilized families, civilized campuses and the construction of relevant educational demonstration bases.
(II) widely promote the theme of publicity. In-depth implementation of the national action on energy conservation and emission reduction, the national action on frugality and morality, and the organization and development of green families, green shopping malls, green scenic spots, green restaurants, green canteens, conservation-oriented institutions, conservation-oriented campuses, conservation-oriented hospitals, etc., to commend a group Advanced units and individuals. Incorporate green consumption into the national energy conservation publicity week, popular science activity week, national low carbon day, environment day and other theme publicity activities, give full play to the role of trade unions, the Communist Youth League, women's federations, relevant industry associations and environmental protection organizations, and strengthen publicity and promotion. All major news media and online media should actively publicize the importance and urgency of green consumption, produce and publish public service advertisements in prime time and important pages, publicize and report the concepts, experiences and practices of green consumption in a timely manner, and strengthen supervision by public opinion. expose extravagance and waste, and create a good social atmosphere.
4. Actively Guide Residents to Practice Green Lifestyle and Consumption Patterns
(III) advocate a green lifestyle. Reasonable control of indoor air conditioning temperature, the implementation of summer official activities with casual clothes. Carry out the "zero abandonment" activity of old clothes, improve the recycling system of renewable resources in residential communities, and promote the reuse of second-hand clothes in an orderly manner. Resist rare animal fur products. Promote green living, reduce ineffective lighting, reduce standby energy consumption of electrical equipment, and promote household water and electricity conservation. Encourage low-carbon travel such as walking, cycling and public transport. Encourage consumers to bring their own toiletries when traveling, advocate heavy carrying cloth bags, heavy lifting of food baskets, reuse of environmentally friendly shopping bags, and reduce the use of disposable daily necessities. Formulate and publish green tourism consumption conventions and consumption guidelines. Support the development of the sharing economy, encourage the effective use of individual idle resources, orderly develop online booking carpooling, self-owned vehicle leasing, homestay rental, exchange and utilization of old goods, innovate supervision methods, and improve the credit system. In primary and secondary schools, pilot school uniforms, textbook recycling.
(IV) encourage the consumption of green products. Continue to promote energy-saving products such as high-efficiency and energy-saving motors, energy-saving and environmentally friendly vehicles, and high-efficiency lighting products. By 2020, the market share of energy-saving appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators, and water heaters with energy efficiency labels above level 2 will reach more than 50%. Increase the promotion of new energy vehicles and accelerate the construction of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Organize and implement the "old for new" pilot, promote remanufactured engines and gearboxes, and establish and improve the incentive mechanism for consumers. Implement the action plan for the production and application of green building materials, and promote the use of energy-saving doors and windows, construction waste recycling products and other green building materials and environmentally friendly decoration materials. Promote environmental labeling products, encourage the use of coatings and dry cleaners with low volatile organic content, and guide the use of pesticides and fertilizers with low ammonia and low volatile organic pollutant emissions. Encourage the purchase of water-saving faucets, water-saving toilets, water-saving washing machines and other water-saving products.
(V) expand the green consumer market. Speed up the smooth flow of green product circulation channels, and encourage the establishment of green wholesale markets, green shopping malls, energy-saving supermarkets, water-saving supermarkets, charity supermarkets and other green circulation entities. Support the market, shopping malls, supermarkets, tourist stores and other circulation enterprises in a prominent position to set up green product sales area. Organize circulation enterprises to carry out docking with green product providers to promote the sale of green products. Encourage large and medium-sized cities to use mass leisure venues and public welfare venues to open flea markets to facilitate residents to exchange idle old things. We will improve the rural consumption infrastructure and sales network, provide green products for rural areas through e-commerce platforms, enrich the types of products and services, and expand the rural consumer market for green products.
5. comprehensively promotes public institutions to take the lead in green consumption
(VI) the full implementation of green office. Improve efficiency in the use of office equipment and assets and encourage double-sided printing of paper. Promote the construction of information systems and data sharing, and actively promote paperless office. Improve the evaluation standards of conservation-oriented public institutions, rationally formulate water, electricity, and oil indicators, and establish a sound quota management system. The use of government funds for the construction of public buildings to fully implement the green building standards, where the conditions of the office area to install rainwater recovery system and water use facilities. By 2020, 3000 new demonstration units of conservation-oriented public institutions will be created, and all provincial-level agencies and more than 50% of provincial-level institutions will be built into water-saving units.
(VII) improve the green procurement system. Strictly implement the government's priority procurement and compulsory procurement system for energy-saving and environmentally friendly products, expand the scope of government green procurement, improve the standard system and implementation mechanism, and increase the scale of government green procurement. Qualitated public institutions should use internal parking resources to plan and build special parking spaces for electric vehicles, the proportion is not less than 10%, and social capital should be introduced to use existing parking spaces to participate in the construction of charging piles and provide new energy vehicle application services. In 2016, the proportion of new energy vehicles in the total number of public institutions equipped with updated official vehicles will reach more than 30%, and new energy vehicles will be widely used by 2020.
6. vigorously promote enterprises to increase the supply of green products and services
(VIII) actively implement innovation drive. Guide and support enterprises to make use of the platform of mass entrepreneurship and innovation, increase investment in the research and development, design and manufacturing of green products, increase the effective supply of green products and services, and constantly improve the resource and environmental benefits of products and services. Do a good job of green technology reserves, accelerate the transformation and application of advanced technological achievements. Vigorously promote the use of the "Internet" to promote green consumption, promote e-commerce companies to directly sell or cooperate with entities to operate green products and services, encourage the use of the Internet to sell green products, promote online transactions of second-hand products, and meet the diverse green consumption needs of different entities. Encourage e-commerce enterprises to actively carry out online shopping commodity packaging reduction and reuse.
(IX) strengthen corporate social responsibility. Improve the extended producer responsibility system, promote production enterprises to reduce the use of toxic, harmful, refractory, difficult to handle, and highly volatile substances, actively disclose information on the energy efficiency, water efficiency, environmental performance, and carbon emissions of products and services, and promote the implementation of enterprises Product standard self-declaration disclosure and supervision system. Promote the construction of enterprise energy management system. Encourage enterprises to implement green supply chain construction, carry out cleaner production audits, and reduce the environmental impact of the product life cycle. Encourage wholesale markets, large commercial complexes and other consumer places to carry out energy-saving and water-saving transformation. Encourage tourist hotels, scenic spots and other green tourism consumption incentives. Star hotels and chain hotels should gradually reduce the free provision of disposable items such as "six small pieces" and try to provide them on demand. Shopping malls, supermarkets, bazaars and other commodity retail places should strictly implement the "plastic restriction order", reduce the consumption of packaging materials, and encourage the use of bio-based materials for environmentally friendly packaging products.
7. the whole society to carry out in-depth anti-waste action
(X) anti-excessive packaging action. Efforts should be made to rectify the extravagance represented by luxury packaging. During the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival and other important festivals, we will focus on zongzi, moon cakes, red wine, tea, miscellaneous grains, cosmetics and other commodities, carry out regular special inspections, increase market supervision and crackdown, and severely crack down on excessive packaging, resolutely stop merchants in the sale of luxury packaging products in the presence of price fraud, not in accordance with the provisions of the price and other illegal acts. Strengthen the revision of the standard system to restrict excessive packaging of goods, and clarify the requirements for packaging void ratio, number of packaging layers and packaging cost.
(11) Carry out anti-food waste actions. We will implement the opinions on strict economy and opposing food waste, put an end to the waste of meals in official activities, implement healthy, scientific and nutritious catering in the canteens of government organs and state-owned enterprises and institutions, and promote the metering and charging of self-service meals in places where conditions are met. reduce the amount of kitchen waste generated. Catering enterprises should prompt customers to order properly, encourage packing after meals, and reasonably set buffet waste charges. Advocate weddings, funerals, weddings and other weddings and funerals to be handled simply, promote a scientific and civilized catering consumption model, encourage families to purchase processed food according to actual needs, and strive to be "CD family". Strengthen the management of grain production, purchase, storage, transportation, processing, consumption and other links to reduce food loss and waste.
(12) Carry out anti-excessive consumption actions. Strictly implement the regulations on strict economy and anti-waste by party and government agencies, strictly prohibit over-standard car allocation, over-standard reception and high-consumption entertainment, refine and clarify the standards for various official activities, and prohibit waste. Driven by party and government organs at all levels and leading cadres of party members, we will resolutely resist unhealthy tendencies such as extravagance and greed for pleasure, vigorously get rid of bad habits such as ostentation and extravagance, resist excessive consumption, and change the misconception of "paying for ourselves and being frugal by me." to form a social atmosphere of "saving is glorious and waste is shameful.
8. Establish and Improve the Long-term Mechanism of Green Consumption
(13) Improving laws and regulations. We will promptly revise laws such as the Energy Conservation Law and the Circular Economy Promotion Law, study and formulate regulations on water conservation, regulations on the management and resource utilization of kitchen waste, regulations on restricting excessive packaging of commodities, management measures for the recycling of scrapped motor vehicles, and management measures for compulsory recycling of products and packaging materials, and increase the relevant requirements for green consumption. Clarify the responsibilities and obligations that production enterprises, retail enterprises, consumers, government agencies and other subjects should perform in accordance with the law.
(14) Improve the standard system. We will improve the standard system for green products and services, expand the coverage of standards, speed up the formulation and revision of standards for energy consumption, water consumption, material consumption, energy efficiency and water efficiency of end products in the production process, dynamically adjust and continuously improve the resource and environmental access threshold of products, and do a good job in measurement testing, application evaluation, and benchmarking. We will speed up the implementation of the "leader" system for energy efficiency and the "leader" system for environmental protection, and study the establishment of a "leader" system for water efficiency.
(15) Improve the identification and certification system. Revise the management measures for energy efficiency labeling and expand the scope of energy efficiency labeling. We will implement the management measures for the certification of energy-saving and low-carbon products, do a good job in the release of certification catalogues and the adoption of certification results, and speed up the implementation of low-carbon and organic product certification. Promote China's environmental labeling certification. Improve the green building and green building materials identification system. The revision of the green market, green hotels, green hotels, green tourism and other green service evaluation methods. Gradually integrate the environmental protection, energy saving, water saving, recycling, low-carbon, renewable, organic and other products currently set up separately into green products, establish a unified green product certification and labeling system, and strengthen green product quality supervision.
(16) Improving economic policies. For qualified energy-saving, water-saving, environmental protection, and resource comprehensive utilization projects or products, relevant tax incentives can be enjoyed in accordance with regulations. Include high-energy-consuming, high-polluting products and some high-end consumer goods in the scope of consumption tax. Implement the award and subsidy policy for new energy vehicle charging facilities and the electricity price policy for electric vehicles. We will comprehensively implement the resource ladder price policy of ensuring the basic and promoting economy, better reflecting the market supply and demand, the degree of resource scarcity, the cost of ecological environment damage and the benefits of restoration, and improve the ladder price of electricity, water and gas for residents.
(XVII) Strengthen financial support. Banking and financial institutions should conscientiously implement the green credit guidelines, innovate financial products and services, and actively carry out green consumer credit business. We will study and introduce incentive policies to support green consumer credit such as energy-saving and new energy vehicles, green buildings, new energy and renewable energy products and facilities, and promote financial institutions to increase credit support. Encourage the development of new energy vehicle insurance products and encourage insurance companies to provide insurance coverage for green buildings. Study the establishment of green consumption points system.