"Green Engine" Drives the Old City of Xiangyang to Run Out of "Acceleration"

Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, January 4 title: "Green Engine" drives the old city of Xiangyang to run out of "acceleration"

Xinhua News Agency reporters Xu Haibo and Hou Wenkun

Standing by the office window, Mei Liyuan, the person in charge of Hubei Xintianhui Energy Co., Ltd., can see that there are blue skies and green mountains in the distance, and there is a green road near the river, which is pleasant.

Mei Liyuan office is located in Xiangyang City, Hubei Province, Yuliangzhou, a garbage removal truck shuttle back and forth, every day about 300 tons of urban domestic sludge and 150 tons of kitchen waste are put into the treatment system of Hubei Xintianhui Energy Co., Ltd., the gas produced for the city's 600 taxis to use, the treated organic fertilizer for dozens of street green areas in the city to provide fertilizer, the transformed biochar soil can be used for the restoration of the Han River beach.

Mei Liyuan's "magic" of turning waste into treasure benefits from the local adherence to green development, the promotion of the construction of the Han River ecological and economic belt, and the writing of a new chapter of high-quality development.

Located in the middle reaches of the Han River, the largest tributary of the Yangtze River, Xiangyang is an important base for "third-line construction", the traditional industry based on resource consumption was once the mainstream, and the number of days with good air quality was at the bottom of the province for a long time.

"Green development" has become a problem that Xiangyang has to think about. "Magic" like Mei Liyuan gradually increased in Xiangyang.

Around the recycling of waste cars and their parts, to create an automobile production and processing - integrated automobile services - waste auto parts recycling of the automobile recycling industry chain; around the effective use of phosphate ore and phosphorus chemical enterprise waste, the phosphate ore, phosphorus chemical, building materials and other industries into a recycling chain; around the reuse of fly ash, slag, open up the industrial chain between electricity, building materials and other enterprises... Xiangyang actively builds a circular industrial system and strengthens the comprehensive utilization of resources. Subsequently, it has also brought about the intensive cluster development of automobile, electric power, phosphorus chemical, building materials, food, textile and other industries.

"In recent years, environmental protection policies have become more and more stringent, which is both a pressure and a driving force for the development of enterprises, encouraging us to continue to control pollution and reduce emissions through technological transformation." As one of the first 80 pilot units in the Xiangyang sewage right trading market, Wang Zhengde, head of Xiangyang Xingfa Chemical Co., Ltd., told reporters that the company has surplus pollutant discharge rights through a series of emission reduction measures such as the application of low-nitrogen combustion technology and the construction of exhaust gas desulfurization facilities. "On the one hand, the surplus pollutant discharge rights can be used by enterprises to expand their business with new projects, and on the other hand, they can also participate in transactions to obtain economic benefits."

Optimize the "engine", Xiangyang will subtract what should be subtracted, and increase the increase.

After 3 months, Xiangyang Completed the first batch of intelligent diagnostic services for 115 industrial enterprises last year. "Enterprises are very enthusiastic about intelligent transformation, and many companies have introduced CNC machine tools, automated or semi-automated production lines in some key manufacturing links, and some have also introduced industrial robots and visual inspection technology." Yu Changhong, deputy director of the Xiangyang Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, said that in the future, the local government will come up with special funds to purchase services in a unified manner, analyze the needs of enterprises, and provide intelligent solutions for enterprises.

The high-tech industry has grown, and the chimneys that exhaust black smoke have fallen. In 2021, the transaction volume of technology contracts in Xiangyang Exceeded 18.7 billion yuan, an increase of more than 20% year-on-year. In the first three quarters of 2021, the added value of the city's high-tech industries increased by 23.2% year-on-year...

In October last year, Xiangyang City issued the Interim Measures for The Disclosure System for Science and Technology Projects and Fund Management, focusing on the technical needs of key areas such as 5G, digital economy, intelligent manufacturing, new energy vehicles, intelligent networked vehicles, energy conservation and emission reduction, new energy and new materials, and biomedicine, and publicly soliciting technical solutions for the public to break through the strategic, common or public welfare technical bottlenecks in the development of key industries.

Looking forward to the future, Yang Yicheng, secretary of the party group of the Xiangyang Science and Technology Bureau, said that Xiangyang will continue to cultivate new momentum for green development, and strive to account for more than 24% of the city's high-tech industry added value in the regional GDP by 2025. (End)