Text record of the National Energy Administration's second quarter press conference in 2023

The National Energy Administration held a press conference to release the energy situation in the first quarter of 2023.Renewable energyDevelopment status, interpret the "Notice on Supporting the Development of the Photovoltaic Power Generation Industry and Standardizing Land Use Management", introduce the progress of the work related to the intelligent construction of coal mines, and answer questions from reporters.

National Energy Administration spokesperson Zhang Xing:Dear journalists, good afternoon, everyone, welcome to attend the regular press conference of the National Energy Administration. Today's press conference will routinely release the energy situation and renewable energy development in the first quarter of 2023, interpret the "Notice on Supporting the Development of the Photovoltaic Power Generation Industry and Standardizing Land Use Management", introduce the progress of the work of intelligent coal mine construction, and answer reporters' questions.

Attending today's press conference were Mr. Dong Wancheng, Deputy Director of the Development Planning Department, and Mr. Ren Lixin, Deputy Director of the Coal Department.New energyMr. Wang Dapeng, Deputy Director of the Department of Renewable Energy. I am Zhang Xing, deputy director and spokesperson of the General Department.

After all the directors released the content, they arranged to answer reporters' questions in a unified manner. Now, please ask Deputy Director Dong Wancheng to release the energy situation in the first quarter of 2023.

Dong Wancheng, Deputy Director of the Development Planning Department:Good afternoon, friends from reporters. Since the beginning of this year, with the rapid and stable transition of epidemic prevention and control in my country, social production and life have accelerated recovery, and the economy has stabilized and improved. The energy industry has carried out in-depth education on studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Central Economic Work Conference, and effectively implement the Party Central Committee and the State Council onEnergy supply guaranteeThe decision-making and deployment of the country will focus on promoting the implementation of relevant policies and measures, and smoothly complete the winter heating supply guarantee task, national energy consumption has increased slightly, and energy supply and demand are generally stable. The energy situation in the first quarter mainly presents the following four characteristics:

First, energy consumption continues to rebound. Due to the low electricity consumption base of the whole society due to the impact of the epidemic last year, the electricity consumption of the whole society increased by 5.9% year-on-year in March this year, significantly higher than the growth rate of 2.3% in the previous two months. In the first quarter, the total electricity consumption of the whole society increased by 3.6% year-on-year, of which industrial electricity consumption increased by 4.4% year-on-year, and the contribution rate to the increase in electricity consumption reached 78%; the year-on-year growth rate of natural gas and refined oil consumption began to rebound significantly since February; the demand for industrial energy consumption increased, driving the steady growth of coal consumption.

Second, the energy supply guarantee capacity is constantly increasing. Strengthen the safe production of key coal-producing provinces and enterprises, and make every effort to promote the exploration, development of oil and gas resources and increase reserves and production. In the first quarter, the output of raw coal, crude oil and natural gas increased by 5.5%, 2.0% and 4.5% year-on-year respectively. Give full play to the role of "stabilizer" as a medium- and long-term contract for power coal and electricity to ensure supply and price stability, and strengthen local and enterprises' energy supply responsibilities. Since March, the national unified power plant coal storage has remained at a high level.

Third, energy imports have steadily increased. In order to ensure domestic energy demand, my country's energy imports increased in the first quarter, among which coal imports increased by 96.1% year-on-year; crude oil imports increased by 6.7% year-on-year; natural gas imports decreased by 3.6% year-on-year, of which 9.4% year-on-year and 11.6% year-on-year in the first two months.

Fourth, the green and low-carbon transformation of energy is being steadily promoted. In the first quarter, my country's new energy power generation achieved double-digit growth. Accelerate the construction of major engineering projects for structural adjustment and stabilizing growth. Unit 3 of the Hualong No. 1 Demonstration Project Fangchenggang was officially put into operation in March; Unit 4 of Sanmen Nuclear Power, Jinshang-Hubei UHV DC Project, and Hubei Tongshan Pumping Storage Project and other projects started construction; the second batch of large-scale wind power photovoltaic base projects focusing on the desert Gobi Desert area was accelerated, and the third batch of project list has been determined. According to monitoring, the investment amount of national key energy projects in the first two months of this year increased by 24.9% year-on-year. The above are the main situation of the energy situation in the first quarter.

National Energy Administration spokesperson Zhang Xing:Thank you, Deputy Director Dong Wancheng. Please ask Deputy Director Wang Dapeng to introduce the development of renewable energy in the first quarter of 2023 and interpret the "Notice on Supporting the Development of the Photovoltaic Power Generation Industry and Standardizing Land Management".

Wang Dapeng, Deputy Director of the Department of New Energy and Renewable Energy:Good afternoon, dear media friends. Let me first introduce the development of renewable energy in the first quarter of 2023. Since this year, the National Energy Administration has thoroughly implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Central Economic Work Conference, anchored the carbon peak and carbon neutrality goal, coordinated the energy security supply and green and low-carbon transformation, and continued to promote the construction of large-scale wind power photovoltaic bases, major hydropower projects and pumped storage construction, and achieved a good start to the development of renewable energy. The scale of renewable energy installed capacity continues to expand. In the first quarter of 2023, the national renewable energy capacity added 47.4 million kilowatts, an increase of 86.5% year-on-year, accounting for 80.3% of the new capacity. Among them, conventional hydropower has been connected to the grid by 1.21 million kilowatts, pumped storage has been 1.5 million kilowatts, wind power has been connected to the grid by 10.4 million kilowatts, photovoltaic power generation has been connected to the grid by 33.66 million kilowatts, and biomass power generation has been connected to the grid by 630,000 kilowatts. As of the first quarter of 2023, the national renewable energy installed capacity reached 1.258 billion kilowatts, conventional hydropower installed capacity was 368 million kilowatts, pumped storage installed capacity was 46.99 million kilowatts, wind power installed capacity was 376 million kilowatts, photovoltaic power installed capacity was 425 million kilowatts, and biomass power installed capacity was 41.95 million kilowatts. Renewable energy generation continues to grow. In the first quarter of 2023, the national renewable energy power generation reached 594.7 billion kWh, an increase of 11.4% year-on-year, of which the wind power photovoltaic power generation reached 342.2 billion kWh, an increase of 27.8% year-on-year.

(1) Hydropower construction and operation. In the first quarter of 2023, the national new hydropower grid-connected capacity was 2.71 million kilowatts, including 1.21 million kilowatts of conventional hydropower and 1.5 million kilowatts of pumped storage. As of the end of the first quarter of 2023, the cumulative installed capacity of hydropower in the country reached 415 million kilowatts, of which 368 million kilowatts of conventional hydropower and 46.99 million kilowatts of pumped storage. In the first quarter of 2023, the national hydropower generation was 203.5 billion kilowatt-hours, and the national average hydropower utilization hours were 544 hours.

(2) Wind power construction and operation status. In the first quarter of 2023, the national wind power grid-connected capacity was 10.4 million kilowatts, including 9.89 million kilowatts of onshore wind power and 510,000 kilowatts of offshore wind power. Judging from the distribution of new installed capacity, the "Three Norths" region accounts for 67.7% of the new installed capacity in the country. As of the end of the first quarter of 2023, the cumulative installed capacity of wind power in the country reached 376 million kilowatts, an increase of 11.8% year-on-year, of which 345 million kilowatts of onshore wind power and 30.89 million kilowatts of offshore wind power. In the first quarter of 2023, the national wind power generation was 228.7 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 24.5% year-on-year. The national average utilization rate of wind power is 96.8%, basically the same as the same period last year. Wind power investment reached approximately RMB 24.9 billion, an increase of 15.0% year-on-year.

(III) Construction and operation of photovoltaic power generation. In the first quarter of 2023, the national photovoltaics increased by 33.66 million kilowatts of grid connection, an increase of 154.8% year-on-year, of which 15.53 million kilowatts of centralized photovoltaic power generation and 18.13 million kilowatts of distributed photovoltaic power generation. As of the end of the first quarter of 2023, the national installed capacity of photovoltaic power generation reached 425 million kilowatts, including 249 million kilowatts of centralized photovoltaic and 176 million kilowatts of distributed photovoltaic. In the first quarter of 2023, the national photovoltaic power generation was 113.5 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 34.9% year-on-year. The national photovoltaic power utilization rate was 98%, an increase of 0.7 percentage points year-on-year. Investment in solar power generation reached 52.2 billion yuan, an increase of 177.6% year-on-year.

(IV) Construction and operation of biomass power generation. In the first quarter of 2023, the country's biomass power generation increased by 630,000 kilowatts of grid connection, with a cumulative installed capacity of 41.95 million kilowatts, an increase of 8% year-on-year, and the biomass power generation was 49 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 8.8% year-on-year. The top five provinces and regions with new installed capacity are Guangdong, Jiangsu, Henan, Mengxi and Hebei, with 191,000 kilowatts, 121,000 kilowatts, 73,000 kilowatts, 53,000 kilowatts and 46,000 kilowatts respectively; the top five provinces with biomass power generation are Guangdong, Shandong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Heilongjiang, with 5.61 billion kilowatt-hours, 4.58 billion kilowatt-hours, 3.41 billion kilowatt-hours, 3.37 billion kilowatt-hours and 3.17 billion kilowatt-hours respectively.

Next, I will interpret the notice to you on supporting the development of the photovoltaic power generation industry and standardizing land use management.

Recently, our bureau, together with the Ministry of Natural Resources and the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, jointly issued the "Notice on Supporting the Development of the Photovoltaic Power Generation Industry and Standardizing Land Management", as a continuation policy for the "Opinions on Supporting Photovoltaic Poverty Alleviation and Standardizing Land for the Photovoltaic Power Generation Industry" that has expired and abolished. According to the new situation, new tasks and new requirements, the "Notice" coordinates and balances grain production, ecological protection, energy development, dual carbon goals and rural revitalization, and proposes to guide the rational layout of projects, implement classified management of land for photovoltaic power generation projects, accelerate the handling of project land use procedures, strengthen land use supervision, and safely deal with historical problems. It clarifies relevant policies and regulations on forests and grasslands for photovoltaic power generation, and provides strong land element guarantees for the development of photovoltaic power generation. In the next step, we will work with the Ministry of Natural Resources and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration to implement the "Notice" and promote the sustained and high-quality development of photovoltaic power generation.

National Energy Administration spokesperson Zhang Xing:OK, thank you Deputy Director Wang Dapeng. Next, please ask Deputy Director Ren Lixin to introduce the progress of the work related to the intelligent construction of coal mines.

Deputy Director of the Coal Department Ren Lixin:Good afternoon, friends from reporters. Intelligent coal mines are of great significance to ensuring the safe and stable supply of coal and promoting high-quality development of the industry. Since 2020, the National Energy Administration has thoroughly implemented the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on energy supply and innovation-driven development, and has worked with seven departments to accelerate the intelligent construction of coal mines, focusing on using new generation information technologies such as 5G communications and artificial intelligence to transform and upgrade the traditional coal industry, helping coal mines to achieve reduced people, increase safety and improve efficiency, and further consolidate the role of coal in energy security.

First, do a good job in top-level design. We worked with seven departments to issue the "Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Intelligent Development of Coal Mines", making overall arrangements for the goals, principles, and tasks of the intelligent development of coal mines, and providing policy support in terms of safety transformation funds, capacity replacement, capacity increase, etc.

The second is to establish a coordinated working mechanism. In conjunction with relevant departments, we have established a coordination mechanism for the intelligent development of coal mines in eight departments, coordinated the research and promotion of relevant laws, regulations, policies and standards, annual plans, demonstration projects and other important matters, and established a special working group to specifically carry out the promotion of intelligent construction of coal mines.

The third is to establish a system of laws, regulations, standards and systems. Intelligent development has been written into the national "14th Five-Year Plan" coal plan, and institutional documents such as demonstration coal mine management, expert database, construction guidelines, acceptance methods, etc. have been formulated, and more than 100 coal mine intelligent industry standards and group standards have been established, and documents have been issued to support the research and development and application of technical equipment.

Fourth, carry out the construction of intelligent demonstration coal mines. In conjunction with relevant departments, we organized the selection of the first batch of 71 intelligent demonstration coal mines, with a total production capacity of 620 million tons/year, with a planned investment of about 15.8 billion yuan. A total of 363 intelligent coal mining faces and 239 intelligent excavation work surfaces have been built, with an average production capacity of 5 million tons/year on one side. Under the leadership of the demonstration coal mines, a total of 1,043 intelligent coal mining faces and 1,277 intelligent excavation faces have been built nationwide. With the joint promotion of relevant national departments, in recent years, coal-producing provinces and regions and coal enterprises have vigorously implemented intelligent construction of coal mines, accelerated the promotion of mechanization replacement, automation reduction, and intelligent fewer people, optimized and improved the production and safety quality of coal mines, enhanced the resilience and flexibility of coal supply, and laid a solid foundation for ensuring the safe and stable supply of coal. According to the dispatch, seven key coal enterprises including the State Energy Group and China Coal Group have built intelligent production capacity of 1.393 billion tons/year, accounting for 74.7% of their total production capacity. The average labor efficiency of the comprehensive mining work surface has increased by 27.7%, and the average level of comprehensive single imports has increased by 32.8%. Intelligent coal mines have played a key role in increasing coal production and ensuring supply in the past two years. At the same time, the intelligent development of coal mines has effectively promoted the transformation and upgrading of upstream and downstream industries of coal. According to preliminary statistics, the total investment in intelligent coal mine construction in the country is nearly 200 billion yuan, with an investment completion rate exceeding 50%. The increase in intelligent market demand has effectively driven the rapid development of new industries and new business formats such as the Internet of Things, coal machinery and equipment manufacturing, intelligent control systems, and safety monitoring and early warning. I've finished introducing it, thank you everyone.

National Energy Administration spokesperson Zhang Xing:Thank you, Deputy Director Ren Lixin. Now start asking questions. Please report to the news organization you represent when you ask questions.

CCTV Finance Reporter:We know that new energy vehicles have flourished in recent years, and May Day will usher in a peak in new energy vehicle travel. How will the National Energy Administration promote the construction and operation and maintenance services of charging piles in the next step to meet users' green travel needs.

National Energy Administration spokesperson Zhang Xing:The National Energy Administration attaches great importance to meeting the charging needs of new energy vehicles in intercity travel. In recent years, it has successively issued a number of policies to accelerate the construction of charging infrastructure and serve the people's green travel. In 2022, we worked with 9 departments to issue the "Implementation Opinions on Further Improving the Service Guarantee Capacity of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure", proposing to accelerate the effective coverage of the expressway fast charging network. In August last year, we cooperated with the Ministry of Transport to formulate and issue the "Action Plan for Accelerating the Construction of Charging Infrastructure Along Highways" to accelerate the construction of charging infrastructure along highways across the country. As of the end of March this year, more than 5,700 highway service areas across the country have built more than 18,000 charging facilities, an increase of more than 85% and 35% respectively compared with before the issuance of the Action Plan, and the people's travel charging needs have been further strengthened.

In order to better meet the public's travel needs during holidays, we organized relevant enterprises to analyze and judge the charging situation of highways during holidays through the charging facility monitoring platform big data, and study policy measures in advance. On April 19, we jointly issued the "Notice on Effectively Doing a Good Job in Charging Service Guarantee for New Energy Vehicles During Holidays", and proposed practical measures to continuously improve the charging guarantee capabilities of the whole society, carry out charging demand prediction in advance, comprehensively carry out charging facility operation and maintenance inspections, strengthen charging guidance during holidays, strengthen charging service guarantee capabilities along the highways and tourist attractions, and optimize the travel experience of the people during holidays. At the same time, we also remind the majority of new energy vehicle users that they should reasonably plan their travel routes and time during holiday travel, pay attention to the use of charging facilities through the charging service APP, and try to avoid peak charging hours and "crowded" charging stations. Finally, I wish you all a safe and happy trip during the May Day holiday.

China Energy Media Group reporter:Recently, the three departments jointly released the support for standardized land use and support for the development of the photovoltaic industry. What is the current situation of the construction of large-scale photovoltaic bases in my country? What plans will the National Energy Administration have for supporting green energy in the next step?

Wang Dapeng, Deputy Director of the Department of New Energy and Renewable Energy:The construction of large-scale wind power photovoltaic bases with a focus on deserts, Gobi and desert areas is an important task assigned by the Party Central Committee and the State Council. We conscientiously implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and actively promote the construction of large bases. Recently, our bureau, together with the Ministry of Natural Resources and the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, jointly issued the "Notice on Supporting the Development of the Photovoltaic Power Generation Industry and Standardizing Land Management", which clarified the relevant policies and regulations on forests and grasslands for photovoltaic power generation land. For large photovoltaic bases in deserts, Gobi and desert areas, it proposed that "under the premise of strictly protecting the ecology, it is encouraged to select sites in deserts, Gobi, deserts and other areas to build large photovoltaic bases", providing strong land factor guarantees for the construction of large photovoltaic bases. Up to now, the first batch of 97.05 million kilowatt base projects have been fully started, and the project grid connection work is being actively promoted, striving to complete the grid connection and put into production by the end of this year. The second batch of base projects have been started one after another, and the third batch of base projects have been officially issued and implemented recently.

In the next step, we will actively promote the implementation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" renewable energy development plan and strengthen policy supply in accordance with the new development situation and new requirements: First, adhere to the simultaneous development of centralized and distributed development, and while actively promoting the construction of large-scale bases, we will organize the "Thousands of Households and Ten Thousands of Households to Poosure the Light" and "Thousands of Townships and Ten Thousands of Villages to Control the Wind". Second, we will actively adapt to the new requirements of the transformation of energy consumption "dual control" to the total carbon emissions and intensity of "dual control", improve the green power certificate system, expand the scope of green certificate issuance and transactions, promote full coverage of green certificate issuance, and promote the formation of a green and low-carbon production and lifestyle. The third is to promote the revision of the Renewable Energy Law to provide strong legal guarantees for the high-quality leaps and bounds of renewable energy.

China Reform News reporter:Green and low-carbon development is the direction of energy transformation, while coal is an important focus, and the intelligence of coal mines is a basic project for high-quality development. My question is what is the significance of accelerating the intelligent construction of coal mines for high-quality energy development? Thanks.

Deputy Director of the Coal Department Ren Lixin:Thank you for your question.

First of all, coal is the "ballast stone" for my country's safe and stable energy supply. The CPC Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to energy security and emphasize that it is necessary to build a modern energy system based on ensuring supply security to ensure energy resources security. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed that we must actively and steadily promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality, base ourselves on our energy and resource endowment, insist on establishing first and then breaking, and deepen the energy revolution. my country's energy resource endowment characteristics of "rich coal, poor oil, and less gas" determine that coal still plays an irreplaceable role in ensuring energy security. For example, affected by the epidemic and the international situation, international energy prices rose sharply last year. Faced with this situation, the coal industry resolutely implemented the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and made every effort to increase coal production and supply. In 2022, the national raw coal production increased by 430 million tons, an increase of 10.5% year-on-year, effectively stabilizing the basic energy supply. In the long run, coal will continue to play a bottom-line role in ensuring my country's energy supply.

Secondly, the intelligence of coal mines is a key measure to increase production and supply of coal safely. The coal industry is a typical high-risk industry, and the production process is always accompanied by disaster hazards such as water damage, fire, gas, impact ground pressure, and dust. Promoting the intelligent construction of coal mines can reduce more than half of the personnel in high-risk positions. Good conditions can also create scenarios where no one mines coal and fewer people are on duty on the underground work surface, avoiding employees directly facing the risk of disasters and accidents, reducing misoperation of personnel, and greatly eliminating hidden dangers of production safety. In recent years, in the coal supply guarantee, large-scale advanced mines represented by intelligent coal mines have been fully upgraded in production and operation systems, and the advantages of safety and efficiency have been fully demonstrated, which not only improves the level of safe production, but also effectively improves production efficiency, and has made important contributions to increasing coal production and supply.

Third, the intelligence of coal mines is the only way to achieve high-quality development in the industry. The high-quality development of the coal industry is not only an inherent need for its own industrial upgrading, but also an inherent requirement for promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of the country's energy. To promote the intelligent construction of coal mines, on the one hand, we can promote and apply green intelligent mining technologies such as filling mining and mining while remediation, continuously improve resource recovery rate and raw coal selection rate, and achieve coordinated development of resource development and ecological civilization construction; on the other hand, we can promote the continuous integration of the coal industry and new energy, accelerate the construction of a green energy transformation supply guarantee base, effectively drive the rapid development of industries such as artificial intelligence, coal machinery equipment manufacturing, and new energy, and provide strong impetus for regional economic transformation.

In the next step, the National Energy Administration will fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, work with relevant departments to further strengthen organizational guidance and policy coordination, promote the active and solid development of coal mine intelligent construction, help the high-quality development of the coal industry, and further consolidate the national energy security foundation.

Xinhua News Agency China Economic and Social Security reporter:The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that the most difficult and arduous task of building a modern socialist country in all respects is still in the countryside. I would like to ask what aspects will the National Energy Administration start to lead the energy industry to make greater contributions to promoting rural revitalization and achieving common prosperity? Thanks.

Dong Wancheng, Deputy Director of the Development Planning Department:In accordance with the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the deployment requirements of the Central Document No. 1 of 2023, the National Energy Administration will firmly grasp the people-centered development philosophy, take multiple measures, and promote the improvement of rural clean energy supply capacity and consumption levels, and provide better energy services to meet rural economic and social development and the people's growing needs for a better life.

The following four measures will be taken mainly: First, continue to implement the rural power grid consolidation and improvement project. Coordinate the use of funds from the central budget and self-raised funds from enterprises, focus on remote areas and poverty-stricken areas and other weak rural areas, increase construction and transformation efforts, and further improve the quality assurance level of rural power supply. The second is to carry out the construction of rural energy revolution pilot counties. On March 15 this year, the National Energy Administration, in conjunction with the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the National Rural Revitalization Administration, issued a notice to use counties as the basic unit to promote the high-quality development of rural clean energy, explore the construction of a multi-energy complementary distributed low-carbon comprehensive energy network, and organically combine the clean energy industry with the development and strengthening of rural collective economy, the construction of livable and business-friendly and beautiful villages, providing strong support for improving the rural ecological environment, comprehensively promoting rural revitalization, and accelerating the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. The third is to focus on clean heating in winter in northern regions. After construction in the past few years, the clean heating rate in rural areas in northern my country has exceeded 60%.

In the next step, the National Energy Administration will steadily and orderly promote new clean heating projects, improve the long-term mechanism for clean heating, and ensure the stable supply and continuous operation of clean heating energy, so as to ensure the safe and warm winter of the people. Fourth, accelerate the construction of county and rural charging infrastructure. We will strive to promote the layout and construction of public charging infrastructure in counties and towns, explore the combination of charging facilities with photovoltaics and energy storage, increase support for the construction and operation of county and rural charging networks, and create good conditions for new energy vehicles to go to the countryside.

China Electric Power and Energy Reporter:Recently, the National Energy Administration organized a national on-site promotion meeting for the intelligent construction of coal mines in Huangling, Shaanxi, and made comprehensive arrangements for the next step of work. Please briefly introduce what key tasks will be made in the near future of coal mine intelligence? Thanks.

Deputy Director of the Coal Department Ren Lixin:Thank you for your question. From April 19 to 20, 2023, the National Energy Administration, together with the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government and the China Coal Industry Association, held a national on-site promotion meeting for the intelligent construction of coal mines in Huangling County, Yan'an City, Shaanxi Province. The meeting summarized the achievements and advanced experiences in the intelligent construction of coal mines in recent years, analyzed the situation and tasks facing the coal industry, and made comprehensive arrangements for the next stage of coal mines from seven aspects: strengthening responsibility implementation, highlighting demonstration and leading, strengthening policy guidance, promoting scientific and technological innovation, adhering to standard guidance, paying attention to talent training, and strengthening coordination and linkage.

In the next step, the National Energy Administration will take multiple measures to accelerate the construction of intelligent coal mines in accordance with the deployment of this on-site meeting. It will focus on the following tasks in the near future: First, we will earnestly carry out the acceptance and experience sorting of the first batch of intelligent demonstration coal mines, focus on the normal operation of the built intelligent systems, especially the mining work surface, and comprehensively promote the intelligent construction of coal mines in a classified and graded manner; Second, we will further strengthen policy guidance and support, give full play to the role of the coordination mechanism for the intelligent development of coal mines in eight departments, carry out in-depth investigations and research, and focus on the The key nodes are timely researched and introduced new institutional supply; the third is to study and issue a coal mine intelligent standard system, organize scientific research units and coal industry standardization technical committees and other aspects to study and form an intelligent standard framework as soon as possible to provide standard support for the intelligent construction of coal mines; the fourth is to organize special training on intelligent construction of coal mines, and plan to invite front-line experts and scholars from relevant coal-producing provinces and regions, coal enterprises, and scientific research institutions to give lectures, jointly discuss the methods and paths of intelligent construction of coal mines, and further improve the level of intelligent production and management.

Reporter from CCTV News Center of China Central Radio and Television:We have noticed that a new round of market-oriented power reform is being accelerated. This year is also the 8th anniversary of the power reform. How effective is the work? What is the next direction we are working on? Thanks.

National Energy Administration spokesperson Zhang Xing:Since 2015, the power industry has conscientiously implemented the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on deepening the reform of the power system and made breakthrough progress.

First, deepen the reform of electricity prices. A framework for the power transmission and distribution price supervision system with "permitted cost + reasonable benefit" as the core has been established. The market-oriented reform of coal-fired power grid electricity prices has been further deepened, and the sales price of industrial and commercial catalogs and the power users above 10 kV have all entered the power market, creating conditions for the decisive role of the market in resource allocation.

The second is to accelerate the construction of the power market. The power generation and use plan has been opened in an orderly manner, and the medium- and long-term and auxiliary service markets have achieved full coverage in various places. Six spot pilot areas including Shanxi have entered a long-term uninterrupted settlement trial operation. The southern regional market has started trial operation, and cross-provincial and cross-regional market-oriented transactions are steadily advancing. In 2022, the electricity consumption of market-oriented transactions has reached 60% of the total electricity consumption of the whole society. The market mechanism plays a role in optimizing the allocation of resources, promoting the consumption of renewable energy and ensuring power supply.

The third is to promote the independent and standardized operation of power trading institutions. The shareholding reform of trading institutions has been fully completed and the governance structure has been continuously improved. Fourth, open up the allocation and sales business in an orderly manner. More than 400 incremental power distribution pilot projects have been promoted. There are more than 5,000 power sales companies registered in power trading institutions, and users have more choices and effectively explore and stimulate the vitality of market entities.

In the next step, we will deepen the reform of the power system and mechanism with the guidance of adapting to the new energy system and accelerating the construction of new power systems. First, improve the multi-level unified power market system, steadily promote the construction of provincial (autonomous regions, municipalities) and regional power markets, improve the marketization of cross-provincial and cross-regional transactions, and strengthen market connections. The second is to strengthen the connection between power trading products, continuously improve the medium- and long-term market and auxiliary service market, and actively and steadily promote the construction of the spot market. The third is to cultivate diversified market entities and improve the mechanism for new energy and emerging market entities to participate in the power market. Fourth, promote the modernization of governance capabilities, strengthen overall planning and power supervision of electricity, and continue to accelerate the formulation and revision of power laws and regulations.

People's Daily reporter:Recently, the National Energy Administration, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the National Rural Revitalization Bureau jointly issued the "Notice on Organizing and Carrying out the Construction of Rural Energy Revolution Pilot Counties". What are the main considerations for the National Energy Administration to carry out this pilot work? What are the following arrangements for promoting the work of pilot counties?

Wang Dapeng, Deputy Director of the Department of New Energy and Renewable Energy:Thank you for your question from a reporter friend. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that we must actively and steadily promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality, "promote clean, low-carbon and efficient use of energy", "deeply promote the energy revolution", and "accelerate the planning and construction of a new energy system". The vast rural areas have abundant renewable energy resources such as wind energy, solar energy, and biomass energy, which is an important growth pole for achieving the goal of carbon peak and vigorously developing new energy. In order to thoroughly implement the strategy of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on rural revitalization and the new energy security strategy of "four revolutions, one cooperation", promote the clean and low-carbon transformation and high-quality development of rural energy, and meet the needs of rural economic and social development and the people's growing demand for clean energy use, the National Energy Administration, in conjunction with relevant departments, organized the construction of rural energy revolution pilot counties. In order to ensure the orderly progress of the pilot work, the following measures will be taken.

First, adhere to principles. In accordance with the principle of "multi-energy complementary, affordable and reliable, adapting to local conditions, diversified innovation, pilot projects first, gradual promotion, ecological priority, and green development", we will actively and steadily promote the construction of rural energy revolution pilot counties.

The second is to clarify the goals. Quantitative requirements are put forward for the proportion of renewable energy in the total primary energy consumption in pilot counties, requiring the plain area to basically clear the cooking, heating and loose agricultural coal, the development of new models and new business forms of renewable energy, and the on-site consumption capacity is significantly improved.

The third is to refine the tasks. The key construction tasks of pilot counties are further clarified around the four parts of the supply revolution, the consumption revolution, the technological revolution and the institutional revolution. The supply revolution includes promoting renewable energy power generation, non-power nearby development and utilization, and the construction of rural energy stations. The consumption revolution mainly includes promoting the substitution of electricity, consolidation and improvement of rural power grids, exploring the expansion of the scale of direct application of renewable energy terminals, etc. The technological revolution includes promoting the innovative application of distributed energy technology, exploring the construction of a new rural energy system, etc. The institutional revolution includes optimizing the business environment, exploring the establishment of a mechanism for sharing interest in rural energy development, etc.

Fourth, strengthen guarantees. Localities are required to establish a working mechanism, coordinate and connect the construction of pilot counties with various plans, and ensure the effective development and utilization of green energy. At the same time, we will increase support for finance, taxation, finance, etc. to promote credit support for financial institutions. Continue to improve various support and guarantee measures for the construction of pilot counties, strengthen the guarantee of project land use and other factors, optimize project approval process, and create a good investment and construction environment. In the next step, we will organize provinces to prepare implementation plans for pilot counties in their provinces according to their own economic and social development levels and energy resource conditions, and to adapt to local conditions, actively and steadily promote the pilot work, and accelerate the exploration and formation of a rural energy supply, consumption, technology system and management system that is mainly based on clean energy, and is safe and reliable, so as to provide strong clean energy guarantees for promoting rural revitalization and building livable and business-friendly and beautiful villages.

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