"14th Five-Year Plan for Circular Economy Development" was released

With the approval of the State Council, the China National Development and Reform Commission recently issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for Circular Economy Development".

It proposes that by 2025, a resource recycling industry system will be basically established, and a resource recycling system covering the whole society will be basically completed. Resource utilization efficiency will be greatly improved. Among them, the output rate of major resources will increase by about 20% compared with 2020, the energy consumption and water consumption per unit GDP will be reduced by about 13.5% and 16% respectively compared with 2020. The comprehensive utilization rate of crop straw will remain above 86%, and the comprehensive utilization of bulk solid waste will remain above 60%. Besides, the comprehensive utilization rate of construction waste will reach 60%, the utilization of waste paper and scrap steel will reach 60Mt and 320Mt respectively. The output of recycled non-ferrous metals will reach 20Mt, and the output value of the resource recycling industry will reach RMB 5trillion.

2021/07/08