ISSCC member city: Xianning on Standardization of Carbon Neutrality

Standards are the fruits of human civilization and the common language of the world, and they promote the interconnection of the world. "Action Plan (2018-2020)" requirements, leading, participate in the development of tea national standards, industry standards, provincial local standards, group standards nearly 30, and strive to let the standard "go out", and promote and "one belt and one road On October 30, 2019, at the Standard Link "-Belt and Road" Chibi Green Brick Tea Summit Forum, Xianning City released the "Chibi Green Brick Tea Group Standard". The standard provides comprehensive regulation from the production of Chibi brick tea to the operational management of enterprises, and applies to green brick tea products processed in the Xianning City area.

In 2020, the city developed the "Chibi brick tea processing terminology" "Chibi brick tea tea art protocol" "Chibi brick tea raw material grade and requirements" "Chibi brick tea standardized cultivation technology protocol" "Chibi brick tea mechanized picking technology protocol" "brick tea storage management specification" and other 6 group standards, completed the compilation of Chibi brick tea standard system. It is understood that in the near future, Chibi will release 6 more Chibi brick tea group standards.

The development and implementation of a series of standards, greatly improving the technical content of the product and service innovation level, to create the Chibi brick tea brand, thus further enhancing the core competitiveness of enterprises. In December last year, Chibi City, the establishment of Chibi brick tea industry development group limited company, the rate of the city's 37 brick tea enterprises to group development. As of August this year, the company has completed sales of 1.68 billion yuan, sales performance all the way up.

In recent years, Xianning City to "grasp the big protection, not big development" as the guide, ecological priority, green development as the leader, to implement the "double carbon" as the goal, relying on the Yangtze River Golden Waterway, to promote the Yangtze River Economic Belt high-quality development.

Xianning market supervision department give full play to its functions, actively strive for standardization pilot demonstration, use the basic leading role of standards, in agriculture, industry, social undertakings and other areas to promote the comprehensive green and low-carbon transformation of Xianning economy and society, and strive to build Xianning into the Yangtze River Economic Belt green low-carbon development model city, and strive to be the implementation of the "double carbon" strategy in Hubei Province "strategy.

In order to achieve this goal, Xianning City has carried out the construction of a sustainable economy in the bamboo forest industry, using ISO37104 international standards to help the industry's green development, promoting a new development model of bamboo forest carbon sinks, through the China Certified Voluntary Emission Reduction (CCER) forestry carbon sink project, the city's forestry carbon sink project area of 1.5 million mu, ranking first in the country.

Tongshan County is the first pilot county in Hubei Province for carbon emissions trading and the first county in Hubei Province with the largest nan bamboo resources. The area of forestry carbon sink projects in Tongshan County alone is over 600,000 mu, accounting for 60% of the audited carbon sink volume in Hubei Province. Farmers have also joined the ranks of carbon trading, absorbing carbon dioxide by planting Nanzhu and selling the carbon dioxide emission reduction targets to large carbon emitters such as heavy chemicals and electricity, earning an extra income in addition to selling bamboo.

In 2020, Tongshan County is the first region in China to implement carbon trading pilot, CCER price of about 30 yuan per ton, according to the ratio of 1 mu of bamboo forest a year to get 1 ton of carbon sink, Tongshan County bamboo forest carbon sink a year to create economic benefits of about 18 million yuan. The existing project area in Xianning City is calculated with 20 years (the longest is 30 years) as the starting point, and the audited carbon sink can create 900 million yuan of economic benefits.

With the increasing maturity of carbon market operation, Xianning's "breathing" bamboo will create more economic value. The story of Xianning's wealth creation from bamboo is a vivid practice of implementing the concept of green development and promoting ecological civilization in Xianning, and a vivid example of Xianning's practical action to help China achieve the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality.

The steel industry to which Jinshenglan belongs is a traditional high-energy-consuming industry, which used to play an important role in China's economic development, but under the background of "double carbon", the high-energy-consuming industry is also under severe pressure to upgrade its production capacity.

Ultra-low emission is the basis and the necessary way to achieve the carbon neutrality goal. Jinshenglan has organised various professional and technical personnel as well as technicians from universities and research institutes to further improve and revise the standards on the basis of the original technical standards, with energy saving and ultra-low emission as the core. With energy saving and ultra-low emission standardization as the core, the company will form a scientific and complete standard system suitable for its own development characteristics, promote the green and low-carbon transformation of the company, be the leader of regional economic development in achieving the "double carbon" target, and provide reference, reference and replication for construction steel enterprises in Hubei Province and other regions to achieve the "double carbon" target. This will provide a reference and replicable experience and methodology for construction steel enterprises in Hubei Province and beyond.

To achieve ultra-low emissions can not be separated from the standardization of social management and public services, to this end, Xianning City vigorously expand the field of public service standardization, the implementation of public transport safety, energy saving, environmental protection and other mandatory standards, to become the first city in six central provinces to achieve all pure electric bus operations, which is also the first national urban public transport standardization pilot city in Hubei Province.

To create a standardized benchmark for government services, to achieve the standardization of platform construction, service behavior, service mechanisms, etc. Multi-certification, first-question responsibility system, delayed service, green channel, first-approval and later review, shortage tolerance pre-screening and other special services and "separation of licenses", enterprise cancellation facilitation and other reforms have become a powerful grasp of Xianning's optimization of the business environment, commercial system reform for two consecutive years by the Hubei Provincial Government inspection incentive.

In recent years, Xianning City for social management and public service standardization pilot 7, Hubei Province, the most approved government services standardization pilot city, in optimizing the business environment, but also the implementation of the "double carbon" goal, for social management and market economy quality development contributed to the power of the standard.

It is a major strategic decision of the municipal government of Xianning to make the 128-km Xianning section of the Yangtze River a demonstration belt for ecological civilisation, a leading belt for transformation and a pioneering belt for integrated development. The construction of the standard system is an important part of the construction of the ecological civilization demonstration belt along the river, an important technical support for the construction of the relevant institutional system, and an important technical means for the construction experience to be replicated and promoted. At present, Xianning City has completed the construction of Xianning along the river ecological civilization demonstration belt standard system compilation, standard system including basic general standards, along the river spatial layout, along the river ecological industry, along the river ecological environment, along the river ecological culture a total of five standard sub-systems, collection of various types of standards a total of 1133, powerfully support the healthy and sustainable development of the municipal economy.

In recent years, Xianning Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have been deeply implementing the new development concept, unswervingly taking the road of green development and creating Xianning's characteristic "one city, one industry and one district".

In 2017, for the first time, Xianning brought its own green rise and sustainable development experience to the international stage, and Hangzhou, Qingdao, Zhuhai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Changchun, as well as Rennes, France, Grasmere, UK, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, UAE and other 16 cities around the world, jointly launched the International Smart Sustainable City Club (ISSCC).

In May 2018, in order to fulfill the obligations of the Club members, practice the alliance to build a common city alliance, interoperate standard results and work together to promote global sustainable urban development" initiative, Xianning City took the practice of sustainable development of bamboo forest economy as a sample and held the seventh plenary session of ISO/TC268 in Zhuhai Released the "Case of Developing Sustainable Bamboo Forest Economy in Xianning City" to share Xianning's urban sustainable development experience with the world.

With the promotion of green development, transformation and high-quality development, Xianning City has officially proposed and gradually launched the construction and management of a park city on the basis of the existing city construction.

In October 2019, the "ISO/TC268 2019 Autumn Working Meeting and Park City Standards Forum" was held in Xianning City. The event was the first international event held in Xianning in recent years. Nearly 200 officials and technical experts from standardization organizations at home and abroad visited the Qianshan National Nanzhu Production Comprehensive Standardization Demonstration Area, the Urban Planning Museum, and carried out the Park City Standards Forum, which was awarded the "Pilot City for International Standards on Urban Sustainable Development" by ISO/TC268. "released the first national "park city construction guide" provincial local standards, led by this standard, the "Xianning practice" into a classic case, to provide replicable experience, the formation of a standardized system results.

In November 2020, the ISO/TC268 working meeting was held online, with standardization experts from China, France, the UK and other ISO/TC268 member countries attending the meeting. Xianning made a presentation on ISO 37101 global sustainable development pilot cities and the progress of "park cities", and shared its experience in sustainable urban development.

In December 2020, "Digital Cities, Standards Leading" - International Field Conference on Sustainable Development Standards and Global Sustainable Development Standardisation Cities Consortium (ISSCC) Conference was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Representatives of ISSCC international cities from the UK, France, Russia, Brazil, Morocco and other countries shared their experiences and achievements in digital city construction and management with experts. Xianning was awarded the membership certificate of the Global Sustainable Development Standardization Cities Alliance and made a speech on sustainable urban development.

In May 2021, Xianning participated in the Sino-British exchange meeting and ISO/TC268/TG2 working group meeting on "International Standard Pilot Project on Sustainable Development of Small and Medium-sized Cities" held in Qiujiang City, Zhejiang Province, to share the experience of Xianning's international standard pilot project.

At present, Xianning has formed a unique natural ecological park city construction concept, ISO/TC268 international standard pilot formed a rare technical advantage, brand effect and world-class showcase, the world's successful experience and international authoritative expert team strength also for the city's sustainable development to inject a continuous new momentum.

Next, Xianning will adhere to the people-oriented approach, steadily build natural ecological park cities, strengthen communication and cooperation with ISO, IEC and other international standardisation organisations, promote the application of international standards in sustainable development, continuously improve the assessment and management of park city development, strive to transfer Xianning's park city practices into international and Chinese national standards, further enhance the influence in the field of urban sustainable development, and provide a platform for sustainable development in cities and communities worldwide. Contribute solutions to the sustainable development of cities and communities worldwide.