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Table 2-8 provides overview information on the key national energy-related policies and
programs for the industry sector that are reviewed here. Half of the 12 industrial sector policies
and programs are administrative or regulatory, ranging from mandatory limits to the amount of
energy per unit of industrial product produced to mandatory reduction of overcapacity in some
industrial sectors to regulatory requirements related to recycling of materials, industrial boilers,
and professional energy management training. Four policies rely on economic measures or
incentives to control energy use or motivate the increased development of specific high-tech
industries. The remaining two policies and programs use information, motivation, and voluntary
measures to inspire industries to reduce their energy use and related emissions. Table 2-8
provides an overview of the coverage of these efforts as well as their current status.
Table 2-8. China’s Key Energy-Related Policies and Programs: Industry Sector
Policy/Program Type
Coverage
Current Status
Made in China
2025
Top-Runner
Program for High
EnergyConsuming
Industries
Unit Energy
Consumption
Limit Standards
Differential
Electricity Pricing
Boiler Action
Plan
Voluntary
Commitments
Initiative
Clean Production
Indicator
Systems
Economic
High-tech industries: New Energy
Vehicles (including EVs), nextgeneration information
technology and telecommunications, high-end
computers, advanced robotics,
and AI.
Informational; Best performing industries in
Voluntary;
energy intensive sectors:
Motivational
ethylene, synthetic ammonia,
cement, flat glass, electrolytic
aluminum, steel, crude oil
processing, methanol, and
copper smelting
Regulatory/
Mandatory energy consumption
Administrative limit standards in industries such
as steel, nonferrous metals,
chemicals, building materials,
coal, electricity, light industry,
petroleum, transportation, etc.
Regulatory/
Ten energy-intensive industrial
Administrative; sectors, such as cement, steel,
Economic
and electrolytic aluminum
Regulatory/
Requirements for reducing
Administrative; energy use and controlling
Economic
pollution from China’s ~300,000
coal-fired industrial boilers
Informational; 100 enterprises that have made
Voluntary;
voluntary energy use reduction
Motivational
or energy intensity improvement
pledges
Informational;
Voluntary
Resource extraction,
consumption, recycling, and use;
re-manufacturing, green
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Receiving significant government
policy and financial support
16 and 19 Top Runner enterprises
were awarded in 2016 and 2018,
respectively, but program design and
participation are weak
Expanded to cover other areas (e.g.,
water and recycled resources) with a
goal to revise and update 300 key
standards by 2020
Continue policy implementation with
encouraged expansion of scope and
pricing difference when needed at
the local level
Earlier plan strengthened in 2018
with more stringent standards for
coal-fired boilers
100 enterprises have voluntarily
made energy use reduction or energy
intensity improvement goals; 15
enterprises were recently
commended by NDRC for their good
progress
30 clean production evaluation
indicator systems for industrial and
agricultural subsectors published