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New infrastructure

China prepares to accelerate public investments – the “new infrastructure” to kick-start its economy following the coronavirus shutdowns. New Infrastructure refers to information, integration and innovation infrastructure projects and promote technologies related to 5G, Internet of Things, satellite internet, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, blockchain, data centers and smart computing centers. China will continue to support scientific research related to these technologies, which will be applied in the country’s energy, transport and industrial sector.

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Waste incineration power generation project

The National Development Reform Commission (NDRC), in April 2020, requested comments on “Stimulating Waste Incineration Power Generation Project”, a plan to support the construction of waste incineration power generation projects. European Chamber in China has submitted comments to NDRC on April 10^th 2020. Comments from the Chamber is that incineration be planned to reflect the downturn in input due to municipal waste source segregation, rather than continuing to increase the number of waste generation projects. More attention should be given to pre-sorting waste, e.g. plastic waste should be separated so it can be used for chemical recycling instead of incineration.

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Old town community renovation

The State Council, on April 14^th, 2020 at its executive meeting has decided to strengthen the renovation of old urban communities. The meeting pointed out that advancing the transformation of old communities is an important measure to improve the living conditions of residents and expand domestic demand. This year, there are plans to renovate 39,000 old urban communities, involving nearly 7 million residents, a double that of last year.

Several provinces / cities have released plans for old community renovation:

• Rizhao city, Shandong province: 150 old urban communities plan to be renovated in 2020;
• Dongying city, Shandong province: 130 old urban communicates plan to be renovated in 2020;
• Yantai city, Shandong province: Yantai City released the implementation plan for the renovation of old communities, and this document points out that in 2020 Yantai city will renovate 203 old communities with 8,67 million square meters;
• Hefei city, Anhui province: 102 old communities to be renovated in 2020 according to the Hefei city bureau of house security and real estate management.

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Statistical Yearbook 2018

The 2018 Urban and Rural Construction Statistical Yearbook is released by Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development on March 27^th, 2020. According to the statistical yearbook, by end of 2018 the central heating area of cities has reached 8.78 billion square meters, and that of county towns has reached 1.618 billion square meters.

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New Standards

National Standardization Committee approved 186 national standards at end of March 2020. For more information please click here Six standards are relevant to district energy. They are:

• GB/T 38585-2020 Technical specification of joint assembling for directly buried insulated pipeline of urban heating
• GB/T 38588-2020 In-situ measurements of heat loss of insulating pipes for urban heat-supplying
• GB/T 38678-2020 General technical requirements for shallow geothermal energy utilization
• GB/T 38680-2020 Technical guidelines for central heating system using low grade industrial surplus heat
• GB/T 38692-2020 Technical specification for energy online monitoring of energy consumption units
• GB/T 38705-2020 Classification and basic requirements for urban heat supply facilities operation safety information

Regional news

Jilin province:

Jilin province announced new infracture 761 projects. The “761 projects” will start from 2020 and will be completed by end of the 14th five-year plan. There are 315 projects in area of district heating with a total investment of 22,89 billion RMB, it includes 7,68 billion RMB budgeted for 2020. The project plan encourages district heating and installation of peak shaving boiler; supports wind power, biomass power generation, and Combined Heat & Power (CHP) projects; promotes intelligent heating etc.

Projects include:

• Incineration and power generation of municipal solid waste projects in Changchun and Yanji city;
  • Heating pipeline from Changshan Power Plant to Songyuan downtown.Central heating project of Changchun Lianhuashan tourist resort;

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Anhui province:

Anhui provincial government issued “key project investment plan for 2020”. The total number of key projects is 6,878.

Example of energy related projects:

• Changfeng county, Hefei city: Biomass power generation project
• Huaibei city: Biomass power generation project
• Bozhou city: Incineration and power generation of municipal solid waste project;
• Suzhou city: Incineration and power generation of municipal solid waste project;
• Fuyang city: Incineration and power generation of municipal solid waste project;
• Fuyang city: Waste heat from power plants for district heating
• Huainan city: Incineration and power generation of municipal solid waste project;
• Wuhu economic development area: Incineration and power generation of municipal solid waste project;
• Anqing city: Combined Heat & Power (CHP) project in Wangjiang economic development zone.

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