Ensuring energy at a higher standard**
——On the in-depth implementation of the spirit of the 2024 National Energy Work Conference
Energy security is one of the most important security related to the overall economic and social development of China. The 2024 National Energy Work Conference held a few days ago made overall arrangements for next year's energy work, requiring higher standards to ensure energy **, and clarifying a new beacon for energy security in 2024.
Guaranteeing energy with higher standards is a profound summary of mission and responsibility.
Building a modern socialist country is inseparable from strong energy security, and going all out to ensure national energy security is the primary responsibility of energy work. The first characteristic of Chinese modernization is the modernization of a huge population. At present, China's total energy production accounts for about one-fifth of the world's total, and its total consumption accounts for about one-quarter of the world's, but its per capita energy consumption is only about two-thirds of the average level of OECD countries. More than 1.4 billion people have entered a modern society as a whole, which is larger than the total scale of existing developed countries, and the demand for energy consumption will continue to grow rigidly.
Since the beginning of this year, China's economy has embarked on a recovery curve that is picking up. The first economic work conference held a few days ago made a clear judgment: on the whole, the favorable conditions facing China's development are stronger than the unfavorable factors, and the basic trend of economic rebound and long-term improvement has not changed. The period of economic recovery is also a period of strong energy demand, which can be seen in the year-on-year growth rate of electricity consumption in the first three quarters of 2023. In the face of the upward economic trend and the continuous growth of energy demand, the energy system urgently needs to build a solid foundation for energy supply to escort the recovery and development of the economy.
It is necessary not only to ensure that the total amount is sufficient, but also to focus on local key points. In recent years, China's summer and winter energy consumption peaks have received great attention from all walks of life. The maximum load continues to rise, the growth of power load is higher than the growth of electricity consumption, and the difference between power peak and valley is widening year by year. How to do a good job of safety during critical periods such as peak winter and peak summer is one of the issues that the energy system still needs to pay attention to.
Under the interweaving of multiple factors, the energy system must shoulder the responsibility of "the great man of the country", continuously improve the ability to ensure energy supply, respond to small probability events with high probability thinking, and be prepared to withstand the major test of high wind and waves and even stormy waves, and resolutely hold the energy job bowl firmly in their own hands.
To ensure energy with higher standards is to focus on long-term layout.
Those who are good at playing seek momentum, and those who are good at strategizing will go far. At present, China's development has entered a period of coexistence of strategic opportunities, risks and challenges, and increasing uncertainties and unpredictable factors, and economic recovery is still at a critical stage. The work of ensuring energy supply must not be slackened for a moment, and it is still necessary to forge ahead.
To do a good job in energy security in 2024, we must pay attention to the safe supply of key energy and lay a solid foundation. It is necessary to give full play to the role of coal as a backstop, ensure the smooth continuation of coal production capacity, and maintain coal production capacity and output at a high levelIt is necessary to scientifically and rationally optimize the layout of coal power, and arrange the necessary guarantees for power supply in areas with tight power early warning in the next three yearsIt is necessary to intensify oil and gas exploration and development and infrastructure construction, promote the stable production of 200 million tons, and continue to maintain a good momentum of natural gas production.
To do a good job in energy security in 2024, we must focus on the overall planning of key areas and make more efforts. It is necessary to enhance the capacity of power grid resource allocation, promote the approval and construction of inter-provincial transmission channels, continue to optimize and improve the main grid, and effectively play the role of a platform for optimizing the allocation of resources of large power gridsIt is necessary to make overall plans for the implementation of energy planning and solidly promote the construction of major projectsIt is necessary to strengthen the monitoring and early warning of energy and power supply and demand, timely issue early warnings on the balance of power supply and demand in peak summer and winter, and do a good job in ensuring the best power shortage and tight areas with "one province and one policy".
To do a good job in energy security in 2024, we must firmly establish the concept of safe development and adhere to the bottom line of safe production. It is necessary to adhere to the supremacy of the people and the supremacy of life, coordinate development and safety, strictly implement the "three pipes and three musts", grasp the safety production with a sense of responsibility of "always rest assured", resolutely prevent major production safety accidents, resolutely prevent large-scale power outages in the power grid, and improve the safety protection system of energy infrastructure.
One point of deployment, nine points of implementation. As the food and economic lifeblood of industry, the energy system needs to be based on China's energy resource endowment, seek progress while maintaining stability, promote stability with progress, establish first and then break down, make every effort to increase energy production and ensure supply, continue to improve the ability to ensure the security of energy resources, and inject strong impetus into high-quality economic and social development.
Author: Bai Yu.