News from Hangzhou, September 17 According to the “News and Newspaper Digest” reported by the Voice of China, various localities have further increased energy conservation and emission reduction efforts. Several small thermal power units were demolished by blasting in Zhejiang; Jiangsu announced: 176 enterprises that produce, sell and use ozone-depleting substances have all completed the elimination or replacement work.

The reporter saw at Zhejiang Huaneng Changxing Power Plant that Zhejiang’s "first explosion in energy conservation and consumption reduction" started here. Behind the reporter was the cooling tower of a 125,000-kilowatt small thermal power unit. The 90-meter-high cooling tower collapsed in 7 seconds, but what followed was a saving of 70,000 tons of standard coal.

Wu Jianhua, head of the operation department of Huaneng Changxing Power Plant: If the existing equipment in our plant is not eliminated, our company may be eliminated by the market.

In addition to the two small thermal power plants of Huaneng Changxing Power Plant, two units of 135,000 kilowatts each in Taizhou Power Plant and Wenzhou Power Plant were shut down and dismantled in Zhejiang. After the 6 groups of small thermal power plants are dismantled, it is estimated that 220,000 tons of standard coal can be saved each year.

Cong Peijiang, deputy director of the Zhejiang Economic and Information Commission: During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period in Zhejiang, the state assigned us 3.24 million. As of today (17th), the province has shut down 5 million kilowatts of small thermal power.

The Environmental Protection Department of Jiangsu Province announced that 176 enterprises in Jiangsu that produce, sell and use ozone-depleting substances have all completed the elimination and replacement work, reducing the use of freon by more than 300 tons each year.

Professor Zhang Jihong from the Environmental Protection Department of Jiangsu Province: Except for some freons that must be used in the pharmaceutical industry, they are basically eliminated in the air-conditioning industry.