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The National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development's "Work Plan for Accelerating the Promotion of Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction in the Construction Sector" has been approved by the State Council and is now forwarded to you. Please earnestly implement it.

General Office of the State Council

March 12, 2024

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Accelerate the promotion of energy conservation and carbon reduction in the construction sector

Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, National Development and Reform Commission

The construction sector is one of the main areas of energy consumption and carbon emissions in China. Accelerating the promotion of energy conservation and carbon reduction in the construction sector is of great significance to achieving carbon neutrality and promoting high-quality development. In order to implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and accelerate the promotion of energy conservation and carbon reduction in the construction field, this plan is formulated.

To accelerate the promotion of energy conservation and carbon reduction in the construction sector, we must be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the Party's 20th National Congress, fully implement Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought, fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, and strive to promote high Quality development, adhere to the concept of saving priority, problem orientation, and system, guided by carbon peak and carbon neutral work, continue to improve energy utilization efficiency and reduce carbon emissions in the construction, accelerate the improvement of the quality of green and low-carbon development in the construction field, and continue to meet the needs of the people for a better life.

By 2025, the system of energy conservation and carbon reduction in the construction field will be more perfect. The green building standards will be fully implemented for new buildings in cities and towns. The area of newly-built ultra-low energy consumption and near zero energy consumption buildings will increase by more than 0.02 billion square meters compared with 2023. The area of energy-saving renovation of existing buildings will increase by more than 0.2 billion square meters compared with 2023. The replacement rate of renewable energy in urban buildings will reach 8%.

By 2027, ultra-low energy consumption buildings will achieve large-scale development, the energy-saving transformation of existing buildings will be further promoted, the energy-using structure of buildings will be more optimized, a number of green low-carbon high quality buildings will be built, and remarkable achievements will be made in energy conservation and carbon reduction in the construction field.

(I) improve the level of energy saving and carbon reduction of new buildings in cities and towns.Optimize the energy-saving and carbon-reducing design of new buildings, make full use of natural lighting and ventilation, adopt high-efficiency energy-saving and low-carbon equipment, improve the thermal insulation and fire protection performance of building envelopes, and promote the allocation of energy management systems in public buildings and qualified residential buildings.Vigorously promote ultra-low energy consumption buildings, encourage government-invested public welfare buildings to be constructed in accordance with ultra-low energy consumption building standards, and regions with conditions such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the Yangtze River Delta should accelerate the large-scale development of ultra-low energy consumption buildings.Increase the proportion of star-rated green buildings in new buildings. Strictly implement the responsibilities of all parties involved in the construction of the project, focusing on the examination of construction drawings and the acceptance of construction projects,Strengthen the energy-saving review of building projects with annual operating energy consumption of 1000 tons of standard coal (or power consumption of 5 million kWh) and above, and strictly implement the mandatory standards for building energy conservation and carbon reduction.

(II) promote the upgrading of existing buildings in cities and towns.Organize and implement energy efficiency diagnosis, comprehensively carry out a survey of existing buildings in cities and towns, and establish a database of energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation of city-level buildings and a project reserve. Take the city as a unit to formulate an annual renovation plan for existing buildings, reasonably determine the renovation sequence, and clarify key energy-using equipment such as air conditioning, lighting, elevators, and key content such as external wall insulation, door and window renovation in combination with key urban public buildings Energy efficiency improvement, community public environment renovation, old community renovation, and winter cleaning and heating in northern regions are coordinated and promoted. Cities that are included in the support of the central government's winter clean heating policy in the northern region should accelerate the energy-saving renovation of existing buildings. The energy effect of the energy-saving renovation part of residential buildings meets the current standards, and the overall energy efficiency of public buildings without energy-saving measures will be increased by more than 20% after the renovation.

(III) strengthen the management of energy saving and carbon reduction in building operation.Increase the promotion of high-efficiency and energy-saving appliances and other equipment, and encourage residents to speed up the elimination of inefficient and backward energy-using equipment. Establish a public building energy-saving supervision system, scientifically formulate energy consumption quota benchmarks, clarify the requirements for the renovation of high-energy-consuming and high-emission buildings, publicize renovation information, and strengthen social supervision. All regions should speed up the establishment and strict implementation of the indoor temperature control mechanism of public buildings, focus on public buildings such as office and technical business buildings of public institutions, office buildings of state-owned enterprises, and transportation stations, carry out inspection of indoor temperature control, energy-using equipment and system operation in winter and summer in accordance with the law, and seriously investigate and deal with illegal energy use. Regularly carry out debugging and maintenance of key energy-using equipment such as air conditioning, lighting and elevators in public buildings to ensure low energy consumption and high energy efficiency operation of the energy-using system under all working conditions. Select a number of public institutions with high energy-saving potential to carry out pilot energy fee hosting services. Promote the construction of building digital intelligent operation management platform, and promote the application of efficient flexible intelligent control technology. Promote the overall participation of the building complex in power demand response and peak shaving.

(IV) to promote the low-carbon transformation of building energy.All regions should make overall planning for the application of renewable energy buildings in combination with the actual situation, and determine the work schedule, road map and construction drawing.Formulate and improve the relevant standards and atlas of building photovoltaic integration construction, and pilot the promotion of industrial plants, publicA total of buildings, residential buildings and other new building photovoltaic integrated construction.Strengthen the management of the installation of photovoltaic systems in existing buildings.Promote cogeneration central heating according to local conditions, support the application of geothermal energy, biomass energy, and solar heating in the construction field, and carry out waste heat utilization in thermal power, industry, and nuclear power.Exploring the Normalized Regulation and Post-evaluation of Renewable Energy Building ApplicationsTimely optimization of renewable energy building application project operation strategy. Improve the level of building electrification, promote the full electrification of new public buildings, and increase the electrification penetration rate of residential heating, domestic hot water, cooking, etc.

(V) promote heating metering and charging by the amount of heat supplied.Each region should formulate a household heating metering transformation plan in combination with the actual situation, clearly quantify the target tasks and the transformation time limit, and gradually promote the qualified residential buildings and public buildings to charge according to the heat metering, and the existing residential buildings that do not have the value and conditions of heating metering transformation can be measured according to the building. The newly completed buildings in the northern heating area shall meet the heating metering requirements. Speed up the implementation of the basic heat price and metering heat price combined with the two heating prices, reasonable determination of the basic heat price ratio and terminal heating price. Strengthen the supervision and inspection of heat meters, gas meters, electric energy meters and other measuring instruments.

(VI) improve the green low-carbon level of rural housing.Adhere to the principles of farmers' voluntariness, local conditions, and one household, one policy, promote the construction of green and low-carbon rural houses, improve the thermal insulation performance of the enclosure structure of new rural houses in severe cold and cold areas, and optimize the moisture resistance and heat insulation of new rural houses in hot summer and cold winter, hot summer and warm winter, Shading and ventilation performance. Carry out energy-saving renovation of existing rural houses in an orderly manner, and carry out menu-style renovation of house walls, doors and windows, roofs, and floors. Promote the low-carbon transformation of rural energy use, guide farmers to reduce the use of coal combustion, and encourage the use of electricity, natural gas and renewable energy according to local conditions.

(VII) promote green low-carbon construction.Accelerate the development of assembly buildings, improve the versatility of prefabricated components and parts, and promote standardized, less-specification, multi-combination design. Strict construction safety management to ensure the quality and safety of construction projects. Actively promote assembly decoration, speed up the construction of green low-carbon housing.Give full play to the leading role of government procurement and support the promotion and application of green building materials. Government procurement projects that are included in the scope of government procurement to support green building materials to promote the improvement of building quality shall purchase green building materials that meet the government procurement demand standards for green buildings and green building materials. Accelerate the promotion of green building materials product certification and application promotion, and encourage all regions to establish a database of green building materials adoption and application based on actual conditions.Continue to carry out green building materials to the countryside activities.Promote energy-saving construction equipment and make overall plans for the comprehensive utilization of temporary and permanent construction facilities. Standardize construction site management and promote the classified treatment and resource utilization of construction waste.

(VIII) strict building demolition management.We will promote the organic renewal of cities, adhere to the "retention and demolition" and strengthen the renovation and preservation of old buildings. Strengthen the supervision and management of the demolition of buildings in various regions. All regions should grasp the construction sequence and resolutely put an end to the waste of energy resources caused by large-scale demolition and construction.

(IX) speed up the development and promotion of advanced technologies for energy saving and carbon reduction.Support the research and development of new generation technologies for buildings such as ultra-low energy consumption, near-zero energy consumption, low carbon and zero carbon, and continue to promote the research on key technologies such as ultra-low energy consumption building components and fittings, external wall insulation systems with high fireproof performance, high-efficiency, energy-saving and low-carbon equipment systems, and building operation adjustment,Support the application of perovskite, cadmium telluride and other thin film battery technology and equipment in the construction fieldTo promote the integration of reliable technology processes and product equipment. Promote the certification of energy management systems in the construction sector, and regularly collect and publish a number of typical cases of advanced and applicable energy-saving and carbon-reducing technologies in the construction sector. Accelerate the large-scale production of mature technology products for building energy conservation and carbon reduction, form a competitive industrial chain for building energy conservation and carbon reduction, and cultivate leading enterprises in the building energy conservation and carbon reduction industry. We will support qualified enterprises to build R & D and training platforms for building energy conservation and carbon reduction technologies, and strengthen engineering practice training for employees.

(X) improve the statistical accounting system of energy consumption and carbon emissions in the building sector.We will improve the statistical system and index system of energy consumption in the construction sector, and build a cross-sectoral mechanism for sharing energy consumption data in buildings. Establish and improve the construction carbon emission accounting standard system, prepare the construction industry, construction enterprises and construction life cycle carbon emission accounting standards, unified accounting caliber.

(11) Strengthen the support of regulations and standards.Accelerate the revision of laws and regulations such as the Energy Conservation Law and the Regulations on Energy Conservation in Civil Buildings. Distinguish different stages, building types, and climate zones, formulate and revise a batch of building energy-saving standards in an orderly manner, and gradually raise the energy-saving standards for new urban civil buildings to ultra-low energy consumption levels. Accelerate the improvement of the assembly building standard system covering the whole process of design, production, construction and maintenance. All regions are encouraged to formulate local standards that are stricter than the national building energy efficiency standards in light of actual conditions. Carry out energy efficiency evaluation of new buildings and existing buildings to ensure that the buildings meet the design energy efficiency requirements. Strengthen building energy efficiency assessment capacity building.

(12) Increase policy financial support.Improve the implementation of fiscal, financial, investment, price and other policies conducive to building energy conservation and carbon reduction. Increase central funds to support the transformation of building energy saving and carbon reduction. Implement preferential tax policies to support building energy conservation and encourage comprehensive utilization of resources. Encourage banks and insurance institutions to improve green finance and other products and services, and support the development of ultra-low energy buildings, green buildings, prefabricated buildings, intelligent construction, energy-saving renovation of existing buildings, renewable energy applications in buildings and related industries.

All regions and relevant departments must conscientiously implement the deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, fully understand the importance of accelerating the promotion of energy conservation and carbon reduction in the construction field, effectively improve the working mechanism, refine work measures, continuously improve energy utilization efficiency, and promote high-quality development in the construction field. The people's governments at the provincial level should, in the light of the actual conditions of their respective regions, implement the key tasks of this plan in detail, clarify the objectives and tasks, consolidate the responsibilities of all parties, strengthen overall coordination and policy and financial support, and form a joint force of work. All regions should adhere to the concept of system, take into account the interests of all parties, effectively solve the problems and contradictions that may arise, and ensure that the bottom line of people's livelihood is covered; it is necessary to extensively carry out publicity and education on energy conservation and carbon reduction, and guide the whole society to consciously practice a simple, moderate, green and low-carbon lifestyle.