By the end of 2025, over 80% of China's crude steel production capacity will achieve ultra-low emissions.

According to the China Iron and Steel Association, by the end of 2025, the ultra-low emission retrofit projects in China’s steel industry will be successfully completed, with over 80% of crude steel capacity achieving ultra-low emissions. President Zhao Mingge of the China Iron and Steel Association stated that the “Three-Year Action Plan for Energy Efficiency Benchmarking in the Steel Industry,” launched at the end of 2022, has become a key initiative for energy saving, carbon reduction, cost reduction, and efficiency improvement. 143 cultivation enterprises’ blast furnace and converter energy consumption ratios decreased by 2.5% and 12.2% respectively in 2023. Over two years, these two processes have saved a total of 13.2 million tons of standard coal and reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 34 million tons. Furthermore, China’s steel industry’s green and low-carbon development capabilities continue to advance. Demonstration projects such as the Baowu Hydrogen-Rich Carbon Cycle Oxygen Blast Furnace, the near-zero carbon factory at Zhanjiang Steel, and the China Iron & Steel Research Institute’s pure hydrogen vertical furnace demonstration line have been successively implemented. China’s low-carbon metallurgical technology innovation and application have entered the world’s leading ranks. (CCTV News)