From these 14 carbon reduction schemes, we summarize the three major paths for zero-carbon parks!

In the construction of zero-carbon parks, the dual-carbon concept should be integrated into the entire process of park planning, construction, investment attraction, management, and operation. By studying this 100-page PPT - "Low-carbon industrial park paths and cases", and its introduction of 14 park cases and solution frameworks, I have come to understand the three paths of zero-carbon parks: low-carbon design, low-carbon management, and low-carbon industry.

Low-carbon design: The park fully incorporates low-carbon concepts into its design, reflected in energy utilization, green buildings, spatial layout, road traffic, etc., mainly applied to new parks and the low-carbon transformation of traditional parks.

Low-carbon management: It mainly uses low-carbon management methods as the core to achieve low-carbon development of the park, applicable to the entire life cycle of the park.

Low-carbon industry: Developing low-carbon industries or guiding the low-carbon development of traditional industries, mainly applied to park positioning or transformation.

 

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Four typical cases of zero-carbon design

Low-carbon design includes four aspects: energy utilization, green buildings, spatial planning, and green transportation. This chapter mainly selects typical cases for analysis based on the above four aspects.

1. Energy utilization: Goldwind Technology Yizhuang Smart Park

Lessons learned: Construct an energy utilization structure based on renewable energy, and use digital technology to establish a low-carbon smart energy system.

Located in the Beijing Yizhuang Economic Development Zone, the Goldwind Technology Yizhuang Smart Park's low-carbon design consists of six modules: new energy, smart microgrid, smart water management, green agriculture, sports and health, and operation management, creating an organically coordinated "source-grid-storage-load" energy system to achieve low-carbon energy-efficient operation of the park. Goldwind Technology Yizhuang Smart Park has formed a "smart energy combination punch" consisting of energy supply, energy storage, and a smart microgrid, laying the foundation for low-carbon and green operation of the park.

 

2. Green building: Wujin District Green Building Industry Cluster Demonstration Area

Lessons learned: Build an operation and management system suitable for green buildings, and widely adopt low-carbon technologies in passive design, green materials, energy saving and energy utilization.

In 2011, Wujin District, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, was awarded the "Green Building Industry Cluster Demonstration Area" by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. The demonstration area has convenient transportation and an overall "two zones and four parks" planning layout. The demonstration area has gradually formed a model of promoting green building technology and industrial development through building units and regional demonstrations.

In terms of green building construction and management, the demonstration area has formed a full-process management method ranging from site selection and project approval, land transfer, planning permits, building design, construction permits, completion acceptance, mark registration, and operation management. The process is as follows:

 

3. Spatial planning: Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city

Lessons learned: Overall planning adapted to the natural ecological environment; construction of a "three-level ecological community".

The Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city fully considers regional ecological conditions, rationally plans land use, and constructs a vibrant ecological system: planning to preserve the connection between the ecological core area and the Jizhou River and estuary wetlands, forming a multi-level ecological spatial network pattern of "reservoir-floodplain wetland-river-tidal flat wetland-seawater"; within the planning area, through the construction of the water system, a water green corridor is formed.

Outside the planning area on the west side and the estuary on the south side within the planning area, two tidal flat wetlands are preserved as no-development areas, serving as stopover points and habitats for migratory birds. Strict implementation of development intensity zoning forms an ecological buffer zone, and land planning uses natural resources nearby. Land use types are residential, industrial, and living supporting facilities, promoting nearby employment.

 

4. Green transportation: Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city

Lessons learned: Create a slow-traffic ecological system and public transportation system to guide residents to adopt green travel.

Layout mode: The layout concept of "separation of people and vehicles", the traffic organization concept of "each forming a network", realizing full regional coverage; slow-traffic system: leisure and fitness roads (bicycle-only), commuting roads (bicycles and pedestrians); bicycle parking: the principle of "sufficient supply, nearby service"; community entrance parking lots: reducing the range of motor vehicle travel within the community.

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Six typical cases of zero-carbon management

1. Typical case: Shenzhen International Low Carbon City

Lessons learned: Clear strategic positioning, a complete planning system, and green investment attraction orientation; supporting low-carbon projects through various methods such as subsidies, interest discounts, rewards, and equity investment.

As a flagship project of Sino-European cooperation in sustainable urbanization, Shenzhen International Low Carbon City strives to build a comprehensive experimental zone for national low-carbon development, with a clear strategic positioning, a complete planning system, and a clear investment attraction direction. Since its development and construction, many low-carbon engineering projects in Shenzhen International Low Carbon City have received financial support from government departments, with various reward methods. Designed with the concept of a "sponge city", as a demonstration platform for green and low-carbon technology applications, all buildings in the park adopt the three-star standard of green buildings.

 

2. Typical case: Shanghai Hongqiao Business District

Lessons learned: Put forward the goals, strategies, and standard requirements for green and low-carbon construction and management; a multi-in-one low-carbon energy efficiency operation management information system covering the entire area.

Shanghai Hongqiao Business District is a practice area for Shanghai's low-carbon development, striving to build "Greater Hongqiao" into Shanghai's first low-carbon business community. The Hongqiao Business District low-carbon energy efficiency operation monitoring information platform has built a comprehensive system covering the entire area that integrates data collection, transmission, aggregation, storage, comprehensive utilization, and visual display, forming a low-carbon energy efficiency operation management information system. To encourage the "low-carbon" development of the Hongqiao Business District, the Shanghai Municipal Government has introduced a number of preferential policies benefiting green industries and projects.

 

3. Typical case: Suzhou Industrial Park

Lessons learned: Construction of a low-carbon planning system and a low-carbon service system, a green land transfer model, the introduction of low-carbon community evaluation indicators, and the formulation of the "Suzhou Industrial Park Green Building Awarding Measures".

Suzhou Industrial Park attaches great importance to energy conservation, low-carbon industry, ecological civilization, and the pioneering work of green development. Its low-carbon management system mainly includes low-carbon planning and layout, green land transfer, a low-carbon service system, and green investment attraction. To promote the development of green buildings within the park, Suzhou Industrial Park has formulated the "Suzhou Industrial Park Green Building Awarding Measures" in reference to the national "Green Building Evaluation Standard".

 

4. Typical case: Quzhou Carbon Account

Experience Sharing: Construction of carbon accounting systems and supporting mechanisms for green finance in six major areas, including industry, agriculture, and individuals, and the formulation of standards for carbon accounting and evaluation of carbon emissions in these six areas.

Since 2021, Quzhou City has leveraged the "Green Energy Code" data from its energy big data center to explore the establishment of enterprise carbon accounts and low-carbon evaluation standards. It shares data with the Quzhou City Green Finance Credit Information Platform to provide differentiated fiscal and financial policies and green financial services to enterprises, encouraging traditional enterprises to undergo green transformation. Using big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, and relying on the Quzhou City Green Finance Service Credit Information Platform (Qu Rongtong), three carbon account management systems for industry, agriculture, and individuals have been developed, achieving data integration between functional departments and financial institutions.

 

5. Typical Case: Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area

Experience Sharing: Promoting the ecological development of industries and infrastructure, adopting a circular economy development model, applying low-carbon and environmentally friendly technologies, providing guidance on green development strategies, and constructing green service platforms.

Focusing on nine major industries, the Tianjin Economic Development Area has formed a preliminary ecological industrial system characterized by diversified enterprise types, close product links, closed resource flow, and efficient utilization of resources and energy. It is committed to a resource and energy-intensive supply operation model, promoting the ecological construction of infrastructure through measures such as reduction, process reuse, and end-of-life resource utilization. The Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area is a typical example of low-carbon development in industrial parks, achieving a win-win situation of economic priority development, resource conservation, environmental friendliness, and ecological civilization.

 

6. Typical Case: Tianjin Nangang Industrial Zone

Experience Sharing: Transforming high-carbon industries into low-carbon ones through energy cascade utilization and energy saving in key areas, adjusting energy structures, introducing low-carbon projects, and building up talent and technology reserves.

The Nangang Industrial Zone, combining its park characteristics, actively promotes the cascade utilization of cold energy and energy saving in key areas, achieving low-carbon development of high-carbon industries. The Nangang Industrial Zone adheres to combining Investment and the dual-carbon goals, combining industrial chain security with the dual-carbon goals, prioritizing the introduction of "low-carbon" projects conducive to achieving the dual-carbon goals, introducing universities and research institutes to enhance innovation capabilities, and relying on existing scale and diverse scenarios to build talent and technology reserves for achieving the dual-carbon goals, forming a two-way interaction between the industrial chain and the ecosystem.

 

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Four Typical Cases of Industrial Decarbonization

1. Typical Case: Dezhou "China Solar Valley"

Experience Sharing: Relying on Dezhou's advantageous industry—the solar energy industry—to build a multi-business solar energy industrial cluster integrating production, learning, and research.

China Solar Valley will be built into a world-class renewable energy R&D and testing center, manufacturing and logistics center, science popularization and education demonstration center, sightseeing and tourism center, and international conference center, among other "five centers." At the same time, China Solar Valley integrates solar energy comprehensive utilization technology with advanced building energy-saving technologies and energy-saving products into park construction, including the Riyue Altar·Micro-emission Building, Weilai City, and the Solar Valley International Conference Center.

 

2. Typical Case: Baoding National High-tech Industrial Development Zone

Experience Sharing: Constructing a "2+N" industrial system, vigorously developing smart grids and new energy industries; establishing the Baoding·Zhongguancun Digital Economy Industrial Park to promote the development of the digital economy industry.

The Baoding High-tech Zone has achieved rapid growth in the new energy industry, especially in the photovoltaic and wind power industries, cultivating a number of leading domestic enterprises. It covers the entire industrial system of smart grids and is also an energy equipment base and a major unit of smart grids approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology. It vigorously promotes the simultaneous development of industrial digitalization and digital industrialization, empowering the real economy, accelerating the construction of a distinctive digital economy ecosystem, and building a highland for digital economic development.

 

3. Typical Case: Sino-British (International) Low-Carbon Environmental Protection Industrial Park

Experience Sharing: Focusing on building a low-carbon environmental protection industrial ecosystem; a Sino-British cooperation project, introducing low-carbon technologies, enterprises, and talents from the UK.

From its inception, the Sino-British Low-Carbon Environmental Protection Industrial Park has adopted a development model of "one park, multiple zones," namely, "core area + several specialized parks + demonstration area," aiming to focus on the low-carbon environmental protection industry and build a low-carbon environmental protection industrial ecosystem.

 

4. Typical Case: Hengsheng Science and Technology Park

Experience Sharing: Focusing on the internet industry, building an internet industry chain ecosystem, and each park conducting industry segmentation according to city characteristics; a three-in-one park ecosystem of industrial resource ecology, innovation service ecology, and green office ecology.

Hengsheng Science and Technology Park, through green and natural business space and systematic services, unites with strategic partners and gathers related enterprises in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to form an industrial chain ecosystem. It emphasizes the combination of industrial ecology and natural ecology, advocating "garden office, green space office." Its design embodies the concept of "low-carbon, green, and humane."