Original：Shougang News Centre 2025, 03 January
The sky is blue and clear, the white clouds are elegant and graceful, and there is a burst of birdsong between the branches of the trees. In a clear winter day, struggle and glory, harvest and joy, all the good things come as promised. Over the past year, Shougang Group has deeply studied and implemented Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilisation, adhered to the ‘one lead and two integration’, increased the green transformation of the development mode, improved the level of green environmental protection performance, and consciously integrated the concept of green and low-carbon development into the whole process of strategic decision-making and production and operation, with a steady stream of ‘green kinetic energy’. The ‘green kinetic energy’ is surging, drawing a new picture of the enterprise's ecological priority, green, low-carbon and high-quality development.
【Technology leads the way to new greens】
Cleaner Production, Green Factory, Circular Economy, Energy Saving and Carbon Reduction...... Under the guidance of the ‘eight focuses’ management policy, Shougang plays a leading role in technological innovation, continues to make efforts in forging a high level of environmental protection ‘long board’, and deeply integrates technological innovation with green development, so as to thickly cultivate the green colour of high-quality development.
Interface energy-saving research and development, shares, Jingtang iron temperature drop hit the best level in history; to create a low-carbon process route with Shougang characteristics, shares nearly ‘zero’ carbon emissions smelting of high-quality steel demonstration project, Jingtang nearly ‘zero’ carbon iron smelting furnace research project is solidly promoted.
nnovation is an attitude, but also action. Over the past year, the Group's Safety and Environmental Protection Department held an energy-saving technology exchange meeting, formulated and issued the annual low-carbon work plan, the ultimate energy efficiency research programme, tonnes of steel energy cost control programme and promote the implementation of the main units of key processes to steadily improve the level of energy efficiency, the shares of the No. 8 sintering machine, sintering machine No. 2 in Jingtang won the title of national key large-scale iron and steel production equipment in the energy saving competition in the year 2023, the Champion of energy-saving and reduction of energy consumption benchmarking furnace title. Jingtang has built a comprehensive sintering blowing system and put it into operation, and innovatively realised the integration of a number of technologies, such as ‘waste flue gas synergistic natural gas blowing + internal flue gas circulation + external flue gas circulation + humidified blowing’, and won the title of ‘Leader’ of key industry processes in energy efficiency from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Jingtang and its subsidiaries are striving to become industry benchmarks, and have become ‘dual-carbon best practice energy efficiency benchmarking demonstration enterprises’ in the iron and steel industry.
Lower carbon consumption results in higher output, and the low-carbon competitiveness of green products is enhanced.In 2024, focusing on high-end products and supply chain carbon reduction direction, Shougang cooperated with Danieli, a world-renowned metallurgical equipment supplier, to build a high-quality steel project with nearly ‘zero’ carbon emission, and continued to develop high-strength and lightweight, long-life and high corrosion-resistant, electrical steel and other green products. Non-oriented electrical steel for new energy drive motors, oriented silicon steel, Jingtang high-strength and lightweight products, and long-life and high corrosion-resistant products have all exceeded the plan.
Focusing on the Group's cultivation of the layout of the green industry map, the vitality of each segment burst. 2024, the sales of high-end green materials such as magnetic sensor materials for new energy modules of Beiyue PV and crystalline silicon heat treatment materials for Jitai'an PV power generation increased year-on-year, expanding the supply of green materials. The Food Waste Resource Utilisation Project of the Environmental Company was included in the Beijing Key Project Plan and is under accelerated construction.
To promote the sustainable development of the society, green building is just around the corner. 2024, Shoujian adhered to the concept of green building, completed 6 projects of independent research and development of assembled buildings, and accumulated 616 million yuan of revenue from assembled buildings, and completed more than 200,000 square metres of assembled building area. Shougang Real Estate adheres to the development concept of ‘building with care, greening the future’, explores new energy-saving and environmental protection technologies, completes 410,000 square metres of green building area, and two under-construction projects have been awarded two-star certification for green buildings by the Ministry of Housing and Construction and other relevant units.
There are both ‘stars’ and uniqueness. With the development of biomanufacturing and carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) cutting-edge technology, Shougang Landsea has ushered in a new growth point. 2024, the world's first 10,000-tonne demonstration project to synthesise anhydrous ethanol from CO2-containing industrial tail gas of steel mills through bio-fermentation technology was successfully commenced, which relies on the innovative system of ‘Strain Research - Pilot Scale-Up - Industrial Application - Industrial Promotion’. Relying on the innovation system of ‘strain research - pilot scale-up - industrial application - industrial promotion’, the project adopts the gas continuous bio-fermentation technology independently developed by BSIET Lanze, and uses the CO2-containing coke oven and converter gas of BSIET Jingtang as the raw material, and then produces anhydrous ethanol and a new type of feed protein through the process of gas pre-treatment, fermentation, distillation and dehydration, and other technological processes. The project was selected as one of the National Development and Reform Commission's ‘List of Demonstration Projects of Green and Low-Carbon Advanced Technologies (the first batch)’. For every 1 tonne of ethanol produced, it can directly consume about 0.5 tonnes of CO2, which is in line with the direction of the national ‘dual-carbon’ strategy, and it can be widely applied in the fields of iron and steel, coke, petroleum refining, etc., and will play a good demonstration and leading role for the development of a green, low-carbon, and recycling economy in the industrial field. It can be widely used in iron and steel, coking, petroleum refining and other fields, and will play a good role in demonstrating the development of green low-carbon and recycling economy in the industrial field.
To the new green, new productivity itself is green productivity. Looking inside and outside the Group, Shougang is focusing on the strategic direction of carbon reduction, promoting the synergistic efficiency of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, promoting the synergistic development of the Group's production and operation and social benefits, and unswervingly empowering the new quality of productivity with the new effectiveness of green development.
【Efficient management and greening】
Shougang is firmly moving forward along the road of green development. 2024, the Group deeply implements the national ‘dual-carbon’ strategy, formulates the ‘dual-carbon’ work plan, actively fulfils the social responsibility of state-owned enterprises, takes the in-depth implementation of the sewage permit system as a handhold, and insists on placing the most prominent strategic position in the development of the enterprise on the reduction of emissions and control of sewage. By implementing the Emission Permit System, Shougang insists on placing emission reduction and pollution control in the most prominent strategic position of enterprise development, and through the continuous implementation of the ‘Shougang Group Green Action Plan’, the Group has rooted the awareness of ecological civilisation in all aspects and processes of the enterprise's operation and development, and is striving to build a resource-saving and environmentally friendly enterprise.
Green plans to strengthen the foundation of development. Over the past year, each unit of the group combined with the actual, orderly implementation of the green action plan. Shares, Jingtang around the maintenance of environmental performance A-level objectives, against the ‘Hebei Province, the key industries of environmental performance A-level standards (for trial implementation)’ requirements, to further improve the governance measures, efforts to promote the optimisation of hot stove burner optimisation of the relocated steel blast furnace, Jingtang Steel Rolling Department of the dedusting system to improve the project, and continue to improve the effectiveness of governance. Changgang continue to promote the depth of pollution management, and promote the coke oven flue gas denitrification upgrading and transformation of projects, environmental performance once again promoted to A level. Tonggang and Shuihan Steel focused on the existing outstanding issues, combined with the ultra-low emission transformation time limit requirements, accelerate the promotion of Tonggang boiler desulphurisation and denitrification and Shuihan Steel sinter flue gas new denitrification and other projects. The Group organised a team of experts to carry out ultra-low emission assistance for Tonggang, Shuihan Steel and Guigang, combined with national policies and requirements of local governments, comprehensively sorted out the technical difficulties in the process of ultra-low emission treatment, put forward practical transformation opinions and suggestions on monitoring and evaluation of ultra-low emission and made monthly scheduling and full promotion.
System construction and strengthening of control capacity. Solidly promoting the construction of environmental responsibility reporting system, the shares, Jingtang, as well as Changsteel, ShuiSteel, Tongsteel and Guigang completed the preparation and release of the 2023 annual environmental responsibility report. Deeply implementing the concept of very low-cost operation, the Group's Safety and Environmental Protection Department organised the formulation of the 2024 environmental cost control programme for the main iron and steel units, clarified the objectives and tasks, and researched and formulated cost reduction measures. In addition, units such as Shares, Jingtang and Shuihan Steel continued to improve their professional management systems; key units in the main steel industry and non-steel strengthened the construction of emergency response system, completed the revision and filing of the plan; units such as Cold Rolling and Industrial carried out the emergency response plan drills; units such as Jingtang, Changshan Steel and Guigang strengthened the management of radiation safety, and the coverage of training for the relevant positions reached 100%.
Improve the position and complete the task of protection. 2024, the Group's leaders led the team to carry out special inspections of Shougang Environment, Cold Rolling, North Metallurgy, Shoujian and other units in a ‘four-no-two-directions’ manner to strengthen the implementation of the main responsibility of each unit. The leaders of each unit led the team to carry out multi-level inspection and rectification of hidden dangers in the way of ‘four not two straight’. Launched a multi-local co-ordination mechanism to ensure environmental quality during major events, important times and heavily polluted weather. Focusing on the protection requirements during holidays, trade fairs and other periods, it effectively implements the protection measures by improving the programme, carrying out on-site inspections and dynamic scheduling, strengthens the collaborative management mechanism, and co-ordinates the arrangements for production and maintenance and pollutant emission reduction.
In 2024, the green development capability of the Group's units will continue to improve, achieve full coverage of the management of emission permits, implement classified, layered and graded dynamic control, and give full play to the efficient, centralised and precise role of ‘one-permit-type’ control, so that not only the pollution management equipment and pollution treatment technology will be upgraded, but also the environmental management capability and compliance level will be substantially improved. Not only the pollution control equipment and pollution control technology have been upgraded, but also the environmental management capability, governance effectiveness and compliance level have been greatly improved. The shares, Jingtang, Changsteel, Guigang and Jitai'an, which are on the list of national green factories, continued to promote energy saving and carbon reduction. Relying on the comprehensive utilisation project of solid waste resources, Shares converted solid wastes such as blast furnace slag, converter steel slag, desulphurisation ash and refining slag into high value-added new green building materials products, promoted the depth of industrial chain synergy, and successfully realised the recycling of bulk metallurgical solid waste resources, with obvious demonstration effect in the industry.Jingtang has steadily achieved a large proportion of 55% or more of pellet smelting, upgraded the level of clean production from the source, and become a new green and low-carbon model. In the 2024 EcoVadis (the world's largest CSR rating service organisation) sustainability certification rating, Jingtang was awarded the EcoVadis ‘Silver’ certification medal, ranked in the top 8% of more than 140,000 registered enterprises from different industries around the world, and ranked first among the L-type (large-scale) enterprises in the national iron and steel industry, and ranked first among the L-type (large-scale) enterprises in the national iron and steel industry. L-shaped (large-scale) enterprises in the national iron and steel industry, ranking first and taking the lead in the industry. Qiangang and Jingtang were both awarded the 2023 Hebei Province Steel Industry Digital Transformation Advantageous Enterprise, and Jingtang was awarded the Green Development Advantageous Enterprise, and was selected as a typical case of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's ‘Waste-Free Enterprise’.
Ecological restoration, reshaping the new face of mines. Shougang faithfully fulfil the social responsibility of ecological environmental protection, continue to increase the creation of green mines, and vigorously promote the ecological restoration and management of mines. Over the past year, Tonggang, Mining, Shouzhong, Mining Investment, Shuihan Steel and other mining units, in accordance with the Group's unified deployment requirements, combined with the requirements of the local government and mine ecological restoration of the annual plan, through the strengthening of systematic control, regular scheduling and on-site supervision, to ensure that the work of mine remediation and land reclamation in a standardised and orderly manner.
Protect the green forward, thick plant high-quality development of ecological undertone. 2024, Shougang adhere to the synergistic development of ecology and economy, promote environmental quality and clean production level to a new level, to promote the green and low-carbon development to achieve new results, and handed over an eye-catching ‘green report card’.
【Advantages converge to increase green and gold 】
We are determined to promote green and low-carbon development, and gather more advantages to make solid integration and strong support for the road of green development. Over the past year, ‘green electricity + green hydrogen’ and green financial assistance to promote Shougang renewable energy application level significantly improved.
Under the sunlight, Shougang's rows of photovoltaic panels are glittering, constantly accumulating the ‘volts’ of nature's gifts. Cold Rolling II 1.96MW photovoltaic project, mining 100MW photovoltaic project, Jingtang 23MW photovoltaic project, Casey 8.8MW photovoltaic project has been put into operation. At the same time, the Group strengthened strategic cooperation with Jingneng Group to further promote green power trading volume, effectively reducing the cost of carbon emission compliance.
Photovoltaic has become the lowest cost of electric energy, and green hydrogen is made through the use of renewable energy (such as solar, wind, water, nuclear energy, etc.) to produce hydrogen, which is also known as ‘zero-carbon hydrogen’ because of the basic lack of carbon emissions in the production process. 2024, Shougang Institute of Technology to track the industry electrolysis of seawater to produce hydrogen, photocatalyst decomposition In 2024, Shougang Technology Research Institute followed the industry's research and development of new technologies such as hydrogen production from electrolytic seawater, hydrogen production from water decomposed by photocatalysts, hydrogen production from electrolytic water in SOEC, hydrogen production from metal cracking water vapour, etc., and carried out relevant exchanges; Shares paid attention to the dynamics of the industry and researched the distribution of hydrogen resources in the surrounding regions; Jingtang signed a letter of intent on cooperation with the relevant science and technology companies to lock in the green hydrogen resources, and planned to cooperate in various aspects such as supply of piping materials and photovoltaic support materials.
In the process of green and low-carbon transformation of the manufacturing industry, whether it is equipment upgrading and transformation, or energy-saving and carbon reduction technology research and development, all face the demand for funds. Regarding the financial support in green development, Shougang has profound insight and exploratory practice: to serve green manufacturing with financial power. 2024, Shougang further coordinates the internal and external resources of the group, promotes the development of green and low-carbon financial business, and provides solid support for the green and low-carbon development of the manufacturing industry. The fund company promoted the investment of National Life Green Fund and Shougang Green Energy REITs programme, and expanded the reserve of asset pool. The finance company completed the revision of green loan management methods and applied to the People's Bank of China for participation in green credit business, and was approved for special qualification; it continued to promote the construction of green financial system, and the green credit investment was RMB 830 million.
Broadening channels, taking multiple measures, guiding and mobilising funds to flow more to environmental protection, energy saving, cleaning and other fields, green finance has great potential in promoting Shougang's green and low-carbon development.
【Green Butterfly More Sustainable】
Blast furnaces, silos, pavilions, trestles ...... Walking among the green water and green hills of Shougang Park, hardcore and beautiful intertwined, a landscape as beautiful as a picture scroll. Shougang Park is the window of Shougang and a new landmark for urban rejuvenation of Beijing ‘Towards the Future’, carrying the glorious mission of ‘cultural rejuvenation, ecological rejuvenation, industrial rejuvenation and vitality rejuvenation’. The development of Shougang Park has always been based on the implementation of Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilisation, taking ecological rejuvenation as a prerequisite and foundation, and taking ‘planning in accordance with the law, strict system, reliable technology and closed-loop management’ as the basic guideline for environmental protection and ecological restoration, so as to continue to improve the ecological environment of the old industrial area, and to promote the green transformation from fire to ice, from factory to city, and from traditional to modern. From fire to ice, from factory to city, from traditional to modern green transformation. Shougang Park is the first C40 positive climate development project in China, entered the first batch of China's industrial heritage protection list, and won the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's ‘Excellent Industrial Heritage Protection and Utilisation Demonstration Case’, the Ministry of Housing and Construction's ‘Outstanding Case of China's Urban Renewal’, China Habitat Award, International Award for Excellence in Planning, and the China Habitat Environment Award.
Over the past year, the park has been revitalised through ecological restoration, landscape generation and landscape shaping, and the protection and use of industrial heritage and ecological restoration have been organically integrated, and the quality of the ecological environment in the park and its surroundings has been continuously upgraded, making the Shougang Park a model for ecological restoration of industrial heritage sites, a demonstration area for green transformation, and a permanent venue for the ESG China - Innovation Annual Conference, which is of great significance.
In recent years, the Group has continued to improve its ESG management system, published the Shougang Group Social Responsibility Report for thirteen consecutive years, and become a member of the World Steel Association's Charter for Sustainable Development. 2024, the Group published its first sustainability report, which was selected as one of the outstanding cases in the Blue Book of Social Responsibility in the Iron and Steel Industry (2024), demonstrating the enterprise's practice of fulfilling its responsibilities in the four dimensions of the environment, society, governance and value. Shougang Company became the first enterprise in the world to realise ultra-low emission in the whole steel process. Shougang Company and Jingtang Company passed the carbon certification by SGS, and were selected as the first batch of ‘dual-carbon’ best-practice energy-efficiency benchmarking demonstration enterprises in the industry; Shougang Company continued to export its experience in ultra-low emission management, and helped more than 60 steel enterprises complete ultra-low emission renovation. The Group has helped more than 60 iron and steel enterprises to complete ultra-low emission reforms and realise the transformation from ‘green manufacturing’ to ‘green manufacturing’. The Group has gradually strengthened its ESG influence, and was selected as one of the top ten in the ‘Social Responsibility of State-owned Enterprises - Pioneer 100 Index’ by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, and the cases of Shougang Park and the shares of Shougang Group were selected in the ESG Excellence Practices Report of CCTV for the year of 2023 and 2024, respectively. Shougang Park released the ‘China Enterprise Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (CASS-ESG6.0) Park Development Industry’ and ‘Shougang Park 2023 Green Development Special Report’, which provide ‘Shougang Model’ reference for domestic park development.
Combining industrial characteristics and resource advantages, from steel manufacturing to urban services, corporate development strategy and sustainable development concepts are deeply integrated, and ESG practices have taken root, Shougang is accelerating the building of core competitiveness for a green future.
【Digital Greening Smart Scenarios】
In the production line of Shougang Corporation, workers make full use of the powerful data monitoring function and technical means of the energy dynamic control system to implement effective online regulation of various energy media, timely, rapid and reasonable balance of blast furnace gas, and strive to achieve gas ‘zero-discharge’ more power generation.
In front of the big screen, the staff moves the computer mouse, the real-time pollutant emission status of the target point can be seen at a glance, this is the Jingtang build the environmental online monitoring, integrated control digital technology platform work scene, can achieve the whole process of iron and steel production of disorganised emissions of efficient and fine management.
There is no pandemonium, coal coke powder, coal ash, water slag, etc. through the ‘one-stop’ transport, the goods do not fall to the ground, do not change, sounds ‘magical’ mode of transport, has been realised in the long steel and iron green logistics park, compared with the traditional mode of transport, the closed mode of transport not only saves money, but also saves money. Compared with the traditional transport mode, the closed transport mode not only saves the whole transport time, but also greatly improves the clean transport capacity.
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Over the past year, each unit of the Group has seized the opportunity of digital technology change, fully released the amplification, superposition and multiplication effect of digital development, increased the application of digital technology, to create more intelligent factories, intelligent production lines, intelligent processes, to achieve ‘let the data speak, rely on data analysis, decision-making with data, according to the data to implement’ for the enterprise digital transformation decision-making empowered with ‘data’ and ‘data’ to achieve ‘data’. The enterprise digital transformation decision-making empowers ‘wisdom’ and ‘energy’ for production and operation.
On the one hand, the company has deepened the construction of the life cycle assessment (LCA) system for steel products. The Company and Jingtang completed the collection of basic data, updating of the factor database, accounting for carbon emissions at the organisational level and accounting for the carbon footprints of many customers' products; it continued to optimise the LCA data mining platform, carried out product basic data quality level evaluation, improved the accuracy of carbon footprint accounting and designed the function of data collection and accounting at the purchasing end.
On the other hand, the company has pushed forward the upgrading and transformation of digital intelligence. The second phase of the cold rolling ‘lighthouse factory’ project focused on promoting the optimisation and iteration of knowledge mapping, intelligent inspection and chemical testing, galvanising intelligent control, unmanned overhead crane and other projects; Jingtang, together with relevant experts, carried out a number of technical exchanges and on-site consultations on the carbon management platform to grasp the functions, operation and coupling with the management system of the carbon management informatisation platform and form a feasibility study report. Mining industry pushed forward the research on intelligent operation of motor vehicles and algorithms for dispatching and distributing minerals at the transport level of Macheng iron ore mine .......
In 2024, the Group's green development and ‘intelligent environmental protection’ will mutually promote and complement each other, and digitalisation and intelligentisation will be significantly empowered in green manufacturing, green products, green supply chain, etc., which will provide a green and low-carbon Shougang scenario for the development of new productivity.
Post time: Jan-03-2025