Recently, the Huai'an government issued the Implementation Plan for Achieving Carbon Peak in Huai'an City. The plan focuses on carrying out ten special actions to achieve carbon peaking, including building a low-carbon society by all people, boosting green industries, carbon peaking in the industrial sector, green and low-carbon transformation of energy, improving the level of energy conservation and efficiency improvement, green recycling and economical utilization, carbon peaking in urban and rural construction, low-carbon development of transportation, green and low-carbon scientific and technological innovation, and enhancing carbon sink capacity. The Plan draws a detailed timetable and roadmap for achieving carbon peaking in Huai'an City.
Based on the new development stage, the Implementation Plan handles the relationship between development and emission reduction, overall and local, long-term and short-term goals, and government and market. With green and low-carbon development as the core, and reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force, the Plan closely adheres to the strategic positioning of building a "green model and new hub" by coordinating industrial restructuring, pollution control, and ecological protection to promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion and growth, and actively and steadily pushes forward with peak carbon dioxide emissions. As a result, we could form resource-conservative and environment-friendly industrial structures, production modes, lifestyles, and spatial patterns in Huai'an. We have determined that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period (2021-2025), the Huai'an economic system for green and low-carbon transformation and development will initially take shape. By 2025, energy consumption per unit of GDP will be reduced by 13.5% compared with 2020, and carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP will achieve the targets and complete the tasks from the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period (2026-2030), we will achieve remarkable results in comprehensive green and low-carbon transformation of economic and social development. By 2030, energy consumption per unit of GDP will continue to decline sharply, and carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP will achieve the targets and complete the tasks from the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government.