中国拓展煤炭清洁高效利用重点领域范围

Core Viewpoint - The Chinese government has issued a notification to enhance the clean and efficient utilization of coal, setting benchmark and baseline levels for key areas by 2025, which includes coal consumption in power generation and coal-to-natural gas processes [1][2]. Group 1: Benchmark and Baseline Levels - The notification expands the scope of benchmark levels to include coal consumption in coal-fired power generation and coal-to-natural gas production [1]. - It emphasizes aligning with advanced domestic and international standards, as well as the strictest pollutant emission requirements [1]. - The benchmark and baseline levels will be dynamically adjusted based on industry development and standard revisions, reinforcing the guiding role of benchmarks and the constraining role of baselines [1]. Group 2: Policy Support and Financial Mechanisms - The notification calls for increased policy support to accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the coal industry [2]. - It encourages the use of existing policy tools and mechanisms to enhance market regulation and implementation of clean and efficient coal utilization [2]. - Financial policies will be improved to attract social capital into clean and efficient coal utilization projects, with banks encouraged to provide credit support for eligible green and low-carbon transition projects [2].