Hebei seeks to clean up its act ahead of Olympics
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THE top official in China’s northern province of Hebei, one of the country’s most polluted, has vowed to use the staging of the 2022 Winter Olympics to drive efforts to cut smog, promote clean energy and ease dependence on heavy industry.
The city of Zhangjiakou, which is about 200 kilometers from Beijing, will stage the skiing and snowboarding events during the games.
Speaking at a meeting about preparations for the event, Zhao Kezhi, the provincial Communist Party chief, said Hebei will work to meet targets for cutting industrial overcapacity, coal consumption and air pollution.
“We must use the staging of the Winter Olympics as an opportunity to stimulate economic and social development, speed up our transformation and upgrading, expand effective investment and strengthen poverty alleviation,” he was quoted as saying at the meeting on Hebei’s government website yesterday.
Hebei aims to cut coal consumption by 40 million tons over the period from 2013 to 2017 and slash its 2013 levels of small particulate matter by about half by 2020. It will also seek to reduce annual crude steel capacity below 200 million tons by 2020.
Zhao said the plans included the planting of new forest and the creation of an ecological conservation zone around Zhangjiakou, where a “renewable energy demonstration zone” would also be set up.
Zhangjiakou plans to boost total renewable electricity capacity to 1.28 gigawatts by 2017. It is already the site of 500 megawatts of wind capacity, 100 megawatts of solar panels and 70 megawatts of power storage capacity at a renewable energy demonstration project run by the China State Grid Corp.
The facility tests new renewable equipment models, with fuel cells designed to offset the intermittent nature of wind and solar power for safer connection to transmission lines.
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