China Energy Outlook 2020 - Flipbook - Page 65
The 100-1000-10,000 Program builds on previous programs implemented during the 11th and
12th FYPs: the Top-1,000 Enterprises Energy Saving Program (Top-1,000 Program) and the Top10,000 Program, both of which surpassed their energy-savings goals (NDRC, 2006; NDRC, 2011;
NDRC, 2015a)
Specific targets for the local 100-1000-10,000 Program enterprises are determined at the
subnational level by the county, city, or provincial governments. The 100-1000-10,000 Program
includes not only industrial companies, but also key enterprises in buildings, transportation, and
public institutions. The program categorized the enterprises into three groups (see Table 2-4).
The annual performance evaluations of the 100-1000-10,000 enterprises mainly focus on
assessing whether these enterprises have achieved their annual “Double Control” obligation.
Table 2-4. 100-1000-10,000 Program Categories and Supervisory Responsibility Levels
Category
100
1000
10,000
Annual Energy Consumption
3 Mtce and higher
0.5 – 3 Mtce
Below 0.5 Mtce
Supervisory Responsibility Level
Provincial level government
Provincial level government
City and county-level government
As of March 2019, provincial governments were still working on target allocation for 2019 and
2020 among their key energy-consuming enterprises, and NDRC has been urging the provincial
governments to accelerate the work on allocating the targets to their local enterprises (NDRC,
2019a). Provincial governments are required to connect their key energy-consuming
enterprises to an online energy consumption monitoring system created by NDRC by 2020
(NDRC and SAMR, 2019). Information on program performance at the national level is not
available as of May 2019, but as an example of current progress, Hebei Province has developed
evaluation indicators and scoring cards to evaluate participating enterprises (Hebei
Government, 2019).
Energy Consumption Quota Trading Program
Pilots for allocation and trading of energy use quotas in four provinces, each having different
features, started operation in 2018-2019 to support the Double Control Program.
To move away from its iron-fist administrative approach to curbing energy use and related
emissions, China has been moving toward a more market-based approach through establishing
three separate trading schemes including a carbon cap and trade scheme, a scheme of tradable
pollution rights, and this energy consumption quota trading scheme as an important marketbased measure for accelerating the development of an “ecological civilization” (China
Government Website, 2015).
In March 2016, the State Council proposed in the 13th Five-Year Plan to develop energy
consumption quota trading markets to support the achievement of the Double Control Program
targets of total energy consumption and energy intensity. The establishment of the energy
consumption quota trading system is a new attempt to change the government management
mode, leaving more decision-making for enterprises in an effort to promote the efficient
allocation of energy resources. It is envisioned that the trading system will help local
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