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Chinese President Xi Jinping recently spoke to the seven-member Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, and gave a report on the development taken by the country’s 13th Five-Year Development Plan that began in 2015. He stated that all the objectives and tasks established in the plan for 2015-2020 will be fulfilled this year.
According to a 2016 account, those goals and tasks had been clarified as follows: “The 13th Five-Year Plan sets out the strategy and path for China’s development for 2016-2020 and includes concrete efficiency and environmental targets. It gives top priority to economic development to achieve a GDP (gross domestic product) growth rate of 6.5% to 7% per year, in line with the goal of becoming a ‘moderately prosperous society’ by 2020, guided by five key principles of ‘innovation, coordinated development, green, open and shared’. At the same time, the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan sets maximum targets for carbon emissions and energy and water consumption, as well as targets to increase the efficiency of industries and eliminate obsolete or overcapacity production facilities, increase production of energy from renewable energies and develop green infrastructure. It follows the XI Five-Year Plan, which implemented the concept of energy intensity goals in a series of pilot projects, and the XII Five-Year Plan, which expanded the nature of economic growth towards social inclusion and sustainability ”.
One account categorizes the plan’s progress across carbon, energy, transportation, and commercial agriculture lines. In line with the 2015 Paris Agreement, the program aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by 18 percent this year from 2015 levels. In reality, China’s commitment under the agreement of Paris on climate change is to reduce total carbon emissions per unit. of GDP between 60 and 65 percent in 2030 compared to 2005 levels.
In light of the United States’ decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, this determination by China is indeed very encouraging and you must imagine who among the world powers is the villain, much less who is the savior.
In energy, China aims to reduce consumption per unit of GDP by 15 percent from 2015. In the previous 12th Five-Year Plan, the reduction in energy consumption reached 18.2 percent, actually exceeding the original target. 16 percent. This more conservative goal is consistent with the estimated 6.5 to 7 percent GDP growth rate projected for 2016-2021, which is slower than the 7 percent growth rate predicted in the 12th Five-Year Plan. To achieve this goal, the thirteenth five-year plan specifies sectoral targets and milestones. First, it sets an additional target to reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by at least an additional 3.4 percent in 2016. Second, it limits China’s total energy consumption to five billion metric tons of coal. equivalent standard for 2020, an increase of 16.3 percent. in consumption from 2015 levels.
To achieve these goals, China’s energy production mix has been set to diversify away from coal to a higher share of renewables.
Here’s how one account puts it: “China is increasing the efficiency of coal-fired power plants and also plans to shut down coal-fired boilers that do not meet national standards, and has restricted the construction of new coal-fired power plants. The plan also supports increasing the capacity and connection of renewable energy through the support of the national government for the production of wind, solar and biomass energy. The government will also continue to invest in new hydroelectric power, energy storage and nuclear power projects, as well as a further increase in the smart grid network and ultra-high voltage power transmission.
Regarding transport measures and objectives, the 13th Five-Year Plan aims to “maintain acceptable levels of air quality in major cities for 80 percent of the days by the end of 2020.”
Four million high-emission vehicles have been taken off the road. These were replaced by electric vehicles, which substantially reduced air pollution. To achieve this, innovations were made to keep China’s auto industry running, providing them with subsidies, as well as allocations to local governments for the purchase of green vehicles, and allowing buyers to register for free. The plan aims to expand the electric vehicle market by building dedicated parking lots and charging facilities and removing nearly four million high-emission vehicles from the roads.
In agriculture, modernization has been carried out in such a way that overcapacity is reduced, which, recalling the days of recession in America, adds to overproduction, leading apple growers to shed their seafood just to keep the fruit at a competitive level in the market. In China’s exquisite scientific method of running things, agriculture, despite modernization, is surely protected from having to reach such a crisis. One million hectares of marginal farmland have been converted to forest or pasture under plans to increase forest cover by 23.04 percent during the plan period.
What is surprising about President Xi Jinping’s speech is its emphasis, therefore: “Efforts should be made to nurture a new development pattern that takes the domestic market as a pillar while allowing domestic and foreign markets to drive each other. , connect the two goals of China’s centenary and ensure a good start to fully build a modern socialist country. “
I keep my fingers crossed on the actual implication of that statement. China’s development plan is not self-limited but consciously programmed to encompass developments in other parts of the world as well. This validates my observation that once a social system is firmly entrenched in one section of the world, all other existing systems around the world will simply have to be integrated into that new system.
China stands today as the only firmly located socialist system in the world; everyone else just has to assimilate to him. The development embraced by President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative is a shining testimony: China is already creating wonders for two-thirds of the world.
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