Low-carbon fever before the two sessions of the Guiding Opinions on Developing a Low-Carbon Economy

Even if difficulties still exist, Deng Liangchun’s optimism is not without reason: at the just-concluded Two Sessions of Guangdong Province, representatives and committee members have submitted relevant bills and proposals on the development of a low-carbon economy. “As far as I know, not only Guangdong, but also cities in Hangzhou, Chongqing, and Nanchang in Zhejiang Province also submitted similar proposals during the local two sessions.” Deng Liangchun said, “In the past, only the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were talking about low carbon. Now it has covered some economically developed areas.”

As early as November 12, 2009, when the Copenhagen Conference was held, ministries such as the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Environmental Protection. The "High-level Forum on Energy Conservation, Emission Reduction and Climate Change Response" was jointly held. At the meeting, heads of relevant departments expressed my country's position in international climate negotiations and elaborated on ideas for promoting energy conservation and emission reduction in the future.

“Before 2008, only the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were negotiating; now, in addition to them, the international relations academic community, environmental economics research academic community and the Ministry of Commerce are all paying attention to the low-carbon economy. "Deng Liangchun is delighted with this change. He revealed that the National Development and Reform Commission is currently drafting guidance on low-carbon economy, which will define the concept of low-carbon economy and plan the development of my country's low-carbon economy.

“This guidance will select about 10 cities across the country to promote low-carbon economy pilots and begin to explore what should be done,” Deng Liangchun said. “This opinion is expected to be released in early March. It was announced at the National Two Sessions that it can be predicted that low-carbon economy will definitely be a hot topic at the National Two Sessions."

On March 11, 2010, Yang Jingui of the China Association for International Economic Cooperation pointed out: " Low-carbon economy will gradually become a global ideology and international mainstream value. With its unique advantages and huge market, low-carbon economy has become a hot spot in world economic development. An industrial revolution with low-carbon economy as its core has emerged. Economy is not only the general direction of the future world economic development structure, but also has become one of the new pillars of the global economy, and is also the key to our country occupying the commanding heights of world economic competition." This has detonated the focus on low-carbon economy.