By the end of 2025, over 80% of China's crude steel production capacity will achieve ultra-low emissions.

According to the China Iron and Steel Association, by the end of 2025, the ultra-low emission retrofit projects in China’s steel industry will be successfully completed, with over 80% of crude steel capacity achieving ultra-low emissions.

Zhao Mingge, president of the China Iron and Steel Association, introduced that the “Three-Year Action Plan for Energy Efficiency Benchmarking in the Steel Industry,” launched at the end of 2022, has become a core approach for energy saving, carbon reduction, cost reduction, and efficiency improvement. The energy consumption of blast furnaces and converters in 143 cultivation enterprises decreased by 2.5% and 12.2% respectively in 2023. Over two years, these two processes have saved 13.2 million tons of standard coal and reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 34 million tons.

Additionally, China’s steel industry’s green and low-carbon development capabilities continue to advance. Demonstration projects such as the Baowu Hydrogen Carbon Cycle Oxygen Blast Furnace, the near-zero carbon factory in Zhanjiang Steel, and the China Iron & Steel Research Institute’s pure hydrogen vertical furnace demonstration line have been successively implemented. China’s low-carbon metallurgical technology innovation and application have entered the world’s leading ranks. (Reporter Wang Yueyang)

(Xinhua News Agency)