National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on July 19, 2010 issued a notice titled "Notice on Carrying Out Pilot Work in Low-Carbon Provinces, Regions and Cities" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), which stated that based on the local declarations, and taking into consideration of the foundation of the work of each local area and the representativeness of the pilot layout, it was determined after communication and research that pilot work would first be carried out in the five provinces of Guangdong, Liaoning, Hubei, Shaanxi, and Yunnan and the Tianjin, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Hangzhou, Nanchang, Guiyang, Baoding eight cities to carry out pilot work.
According to the Notice, the state requires the pilot areas, measure and determine the total greenhouse gas emissions control target of the region, study and formulate the greenhouse gas emissions target allocation program, establish the carbon emissions trading regulatory system and registration system in the region, cultivate and build the trading platform, and do a good job in the carbon emissions trading pilot support system construction and so on. This is the five provinces and eight cities national low-carbon pilot.
April 2012, the Development and Reform Commission Climate Division in order to implement the "State Council on the issuance of the twelfth five-year work program on the control of greenhouse gas emissions in the spirit of the notice", decided in the first batch of pilots on the basis of the pilot, to further steadily promote the pilot demonstration of low-carbon, and on April 27 issued "on the organization of the recommendation to declare the second batch of pilot provinces, regions and cities of low-carbon notice" (hereinafter referred to as the "second batch"). Notice"), requiring each region to submit declaration materials by June 31st. According to NDRC officials, the second batch of low-carbon pilots will focus on cities, supplemented by provinces and regions, and about 40 cities have already submitted their implementation plans. Considering that the scope of the pilots should not be too wide, the NDRC has initially considered approving more than 20 of them.
It is understood that the second batch of pilot regions need to submit revised low-carbon pilot implementation programs to the NDRC for approval before the end of December.
According to the notice, the scope of the second batch of national low-carbon provinces and regions and low-carbon city pilots are: Beijing, Shanghai, Hainan and Shijiazhuang, Qinhuangdao, Jincheng, Hulunbeier, Jilin, Daxing'anling, Suzhou, Huaian, Zhenjiang, Ningbo, Wenzhou, Chizhou, Nanping, Jingdezhen, Ganzhou, Qingdao, Jiyuan, Wuhan and Guangzhou, Guilin, Guangyuan, Zunyi, Kunming, Yan'an, Jinchang and Urumqi.
So far, China has identified six provinces and regions of low-carbon pilot, 36 low-carbon pilot cities, so far the mainland 31 provinces and autonomous regions in addition to Hunan, Ningxia, Tibet and Qinghai, each region has at least one low-carbon pilot city. Low-carbon pilots have basically spread throughout the country.
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) quietly issued the "Notice of the National Development and Reform Commission on Carrying Out the Second Batch of Low-Carbon Provinces, Areas and Cities Piloting Low-Carbon Cities" (NDRC Climate Change Document No. 3760 of 2012) (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice") on November 26, 2012, which establishes 29 cities and provinces and autonomous regions, including Beijing, Shanghai, Hainan and Shijiazhuang, etc., as the second batch of low-carbon pilots in China.
"Among the above pilots, except for Hainan for the provinces and regions, the remaining 28 are cities." A local development and reform commission officials selected for the second batch of pilots analyzed to this reporter, this design arrangement is mainly in consideration of the provincial area is too large, inconvenient to carry out the pilot, so the pilot is mainly based on the city as a unit.
Among the 26 cities, Yan'an City, Wuhan City, Guangzhou City, Kunming City, where the province is still the first batch of national low-carbon pilot provinces, of which Guangzhou City and Kunming City is also the province of the province's provincial low-carbon pilot cities.
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) organized the declaration of the second batch of low-carbon pilot provinces, regions and cities in April 2012, and issued the Notice on the Pilot Work of the Second Batch of National Low-Carbon Provinces, Regions and Low-Carbon Cities in December of the same year. Counting the first batch of low-carbon pilot cities in 2010, the total number of low-carbon pilot provinces and cities in China has reached 42, showing a blossoming trend. According to the reporter from a number of pilot provinces and cities, the second batch of low-carbon city pilot implementation program has not been formally approved, which many key points such as emission reduction targets, funding, assessment standards and other details are pending. Although most of the former batch of pilot cities are still silent, but a number of new cities to join the fight for low-carbon "advanced" team.