On October 21, the Foshan Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau released the "Announcement on the Proposed Results of the 2019 Foshan Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau's Corporate Environmental Credit Assessment" on its official website.
The announcement attachment shows:
Five ceramic companies, including Foshan Liangjian Ceramics Co., Ltd., Guangdong Qianghui Ceramics Co., Ltd., Guangdong Xinruncheng Ceramics Co., Ltd., Mona Lisa Group Co., Ltd., and Foshan Gaoming Shuncheng Ceramics Co., Ltd., plan to obtain green cards (environmental protection integrity enterprise).
Twenty-five ceramic companies, including Foshan Rongzhou Architectural Ceramics No. 2 Factory Co., Ltd., Foshan Yuexiang Ceramics Co., Ltd., and Foshan Donghuashengchang New Materials Co., Ltd., plan to obtain blue cards (Enterprises with Good Environmental Protection).
It is reported that since the issuance of the "Foshan Environmental Protection Bureau's Notice on Issuing the Foshan Environmental Protection Bureau's Enterprise Environmental Credit Evaluation Measures" (Fohuan [2015] No. 210) on November 25, 2015, Foshan has issued a Environmental credit has been evaluated five times.
China Ceramics Network reporter inquired the results of the first four corporate environmental credit evaluations in Foshan from the official website of Foshan Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, and combined with the "Announcement on the Proposed Evaluation Results of the Corporate Environmental Credit Evaluation of Foshan Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau in 2019", the statistics are as follows The situation of ceramic enterprises obtaining green cards (Environmental Protection Integrity Enterprises) from 2015 to 2019 was analyzed.
It can be seen that Monalisa Group Co., Ltd. (Monalisa Ceramics) is the only company for five consecutive years Foshan Gaoming Shuncheng Ceramics Co., Ltd. (Shunhui Ceramics), which is rated as a green card (Environmental Protection Integrity Enterprise), is affiliated to Guangdong Shuncheng Ceramics Group Co., Ltd. and Foshan GaomingBest Ceramics Co., Ltd. were rated twice as Green Cards (Environmental Protection Integrity Enterprises), while Foshan Liangjian Ceramics Co., Ltd. and GuangdongQiang HuiCeramics Co., Ltd. and GuangdongXinrunchengCeramics Co., Ltd. are the first to receive this honor.
Foshan occupies a pivotal position in the construction and sanitary ceramics industry in China and even the world. And Nanzhuang, the center of Foshan's ceramic industry, has won theKnown as the "No. 1 Ceramic Town in China", its ceramic output value once accounted for 1/4 of the country and 1/8 of the world. Behind the high output value is the high pollution and environmental protection pressure caused by early extensive development. More than ten years ago, the sky in Nanzhuang was filled with "grey clouds" all year round, and the air quality was very poor.
However, since 2007, Foshan has faced environmental challenges head-on. Relying on its firm determination to "do a good job in the environment even if it has a GDP of tens of billions", it has closed down and transferred more than 300 polluting ceramic companies, leaving only more than 60 Ceramic companies that can produce cleanly have successfully solved the environmental protection problems of the ceramic industry and achieved the development goal of "not only green waters and lush mountains, but also gold and silver mountains". Especially in Nanzhuang, through the implementation of active and effective environmental protection rectification of ceramic enterprises, on the one hand, blue sky, clear water and fresh air have returned to people, on the other hand, it has also promoted the transformation, upgrading and high-quality development of the ceramic industry.
In October 2015, Foshan issued the "Enterprise Environmental Credit Evaluation Measures of Foshan Environmental Protection Bureau", which established and improved an incentive mechanism for environmental trustworthiness and a punishment mechanism for breach of trust. For environmentally friendly and honest enterprises, obtaining a green card can enjoy many benefits such as priority in arranging financial subsidies, establishment of environmental protection technology projects, being awarded relevant honorary titles, and active credit support. For enterprises with environmental warnings (yellow cards) and environmentally bad enterprises (red cards), receiving a yellow card means that the environmental protection department will strengthen supervision and strictly review and approve applications for various environmental protection special fund subsidies. It is recommended that banking financial institutions strictly enforce loan conditions, insurance Institutions that moderately increase environmental pollution liability insurance rates; those who receive a red card will be punished, including suspending various environmental protection special fund subsidies, recommending that banking financial institutions prudently grant credit to them, and not grant new loans before their environmental credit rating is improved. , it is recommended that insurance institutions increase environmental pollution liability insurance rates, etc.
After the promulgation of the "Enterprise Environmental Credit Evaluation Measures of Foshan Environmental Protection Bureau", some powerful ceramic companies in Foshan began to continuously increase their green production and achieved good results in environmental protection work. In addition to ceramic companies such as Mona Lisa Group Co., Ltd. that have obtained municipal-level Foshan environmental protection green cards, Guangdong Samit Ceramics, a subsidiary of Guangdong New Pearl Ceramics Group Co., Ltd. Co., Ltd. and Guangdong Hongtao Ceramics Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Guangdong Hongyu Group Co., Ltd., has also won the provincial Guangdong Environmental Protection Green Card.
Finally,Judging from the environmental credit evaluation results of Foshan for five consecutive years, no ceramic company has ever suffered from the ""Red card" and "yellow card" ceramic companies are also isolated phenomena.Compared with other industries, it is not easy for the ceramic industry to achieve such results in environmental credit evaluation.
But even so, Foshan ceramic companies still have to face the fate of switching from coal to gas. At the Foshan City Building Ceramics Industry Clean Energy Transformation Promotion Conference held on July 9, the Foshan Municipal Government clearly required all ceramic companies in the city to complete the coal-to-gas conversion process by December 31. As of August, there are still 217 kilns in Foshan City that have not completed the transformation of natural gas... From the perspective of ceramic enterprises and the ceramic industry, many experts, bosses and media people have called on the government not to change the coal-to-gas transformation of ceramic enterprises. One size fits all.
However, from the perspective of the long-term interests of the country and people, we should also see the great significance of environmental protection to the entire country and the construction and ceramics industry. Firstly, the deterioration of the human living environment has reached an unprecedented level. People long for green water, blue skies and fresh air. Environmental governance in all walks of life is urgent, and the coal-to-gas conversion in the ceramic industry is no exception; secondly, in order to eliminate Due to backward production capacity, the government has launched important measures such as switching from coal to gas and raising environmental protection standards. This is the government's macro-control of the economy and an inevitable choice for the ceramic industry with serious overcapacity.
Where will Foshan ceramic enterprises go on the road of switching from coal to gas? What results will Foshan ceramic companies achieve in the next environmental credit evaluation? Leave everything to time...
Author: Zhuifeng
