"As an important basic industry of the national economy, the steel industry is an energy-consuming and carbon-emitting industry, and is one of the main battlefields of energy conservation and carbon reduction. Its low-carbon development and green transformation are of great significance for the country to achieve the 'double carbon' strategic goal." At the 2022 annual meeting of the Steel Industry Low Carbon Promotion Committee held on August 15, Zhang Haideng, deputy director of the Department of Raw Materials Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, emphasized the importance of the steel industry to promote carbon emission reduction and affirmed that the Steel Industry Low Carbon Promotion Committee has carried out a series of work around the national "double carbon" goal from the development path, key common technologies and standards He affirmed the effectiveness of a series of work carried out by the Iron and Steel Industry Low Carbon Promotion Committee in terms of development path, key common technologies and standards, etc.

"Promoting carbon peaking in the iron and steel industry is a system project." Zhang Haideng suggested the following 3 aspects to promote carbon emission reduction in the iron and steel industry and achieve high-quality development.
　　
First, strengthen the top-level design and make a realistic layout. Zhang Haideng introduced, August 1, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Ecology and the Environment jointly issued the "implementation plan for carbon peaking in industry", which clarifies the overall goal of the process of carbon peaking in industry, including the steel industry to encourage moderate and steady improvement in the development of advanced electric furnace short process of steel, clearly "by 2025, the short process of steelmaking accounted for more than 15%, by On February 7, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment jointly issued the "Guidance on Promoting the High-Quality Development of the Steel Industry", which clearly insists on the principle of green and low-carbon, insists on the combination of total regulation and control and scientific and technological innovation to reduce carbon, and promotes the coordinated treatment of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, with more than 80% of steel production capacity complete the transformation of ultra-low emissions, to ensure that the carbon peak by 2030. "In addition, iron and steel, petrochemicals and chemicals, non-ferrous metals, building materials and other key industries carbon peak implementation plan will also be released in due course." He revealed.
　　
Second, new steel production capacity is strictly prohibited to enhance innovation and development. "To strictly implement the implementation of steel production capacity replacement, project filing and other related policies, and resolutely and strictly prohibit new production capacity to ensure that the implementation of the policy is not out of line, not deformed." Zhang Haideng said that the future will continue to consolidate the results of steel production capacity, and improve the long-term work mechanism to prevent overcapacity.
　　
"Promote the green low-carbon high-quality development of the steel industry can not be separated from technological innovation. We encourage enterprises and research institutes to focus on low-carbon metallurgy, clean steel smelting, efficient rolling, logistics control based on big data, energy saving and environmental protection and other key common technologies, as well as advanced electric furnaces, special smelting, high-end testing and other general special equipment and components to carry out upstream and downstream collaborative research." He introduced, in recent years, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to support the construction of a number of new materials production and application demonstration platform and public service platform, absorbing the relevant units of the industry chain, to achieve synergistic linkage of new materials and end products, and from policy, funding and other aspects to encourage and guide the industry low-carbon technology innovation.
　　
Third, strengthen the industrial structure adjustment, co-ordinate the promotion of energy saving and emission reduction. Zhang Haideng pointed out that the development of China's steel industry is still unbalanced and inadequate, to gradually increase the efforts to eliminate backward production capacity, promote the merger and reorganization of enterprises to optimize the layout, promote the transfer of steel production capacity to areas with environmental capacity, energy consumption indicators, market demand, resources and energy security; actively promote the development of coupled steel and building materials, electricity, chemical and other industries to reduce carbon, promote steel and chemical co-production, steel and coke co-production, and Improve the comprehensive utilization efficiency of steel slag and other solid waste resources.
　　
"The development of advanced electric furnace steel is one of the key paths to achieve carbon peaking and carbon neutrality in the steel industry." He said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will promote the development of electric furnace steel in an orderly manner, and encourage qualified blast furnace - converter long process enterprises to transform the development of electric furnace short process steelmaking in situ. At present, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is promoting the joint development of high-quality electric furnace steel with Sichuan Province to lead the construction of the project, to explore replicable and scalable development model, to help the steel industry to achieve carbon peak, carbon neutral.