China News Service, Nanchang, October 12 (Reporter Song Yusheng) There are wetlands in the steel factory and forests in the pharmaceutical factory.
In Nanchang, Jiangxi, some factories are rewriting the stereotype that industry means pollution.
Fangda Special Steel, this traditional smelting factory that was once "covered in gray on sunny days and covered in mud on rainy days", has now transformed into a national 4A-level tourist attraction. Wetlands are interspersed with orchards, and peacocks, black swans, and pheasants inhabit the trees.
This full-process steel enterprise integrating mining, coking, ironmaking, steelmaking and rolling products has a green area of 634,800 square meters, a green coverage rate of 39.55%, and a garden water system of over 30,000 square meters.
But a few years ago, it was a completely different story.
Zhang Yulong, a greening engineer from the Environmental Management Department of Fangda Special Steel, described the factory’s past environment as “dusty and thick smoke.”
He still remembered that today's wetland scenic area was once a garbage dump, used to pile up waste materials and debris. After the treatment, the original puddles were connected into the scenic water system, and the watchtower became a sightseeing tower.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the company invested a total of approximately 800 million yuan and implemented more than 90 full-process environmental protection upgrade projects, covering the entire production process of coking, sintering, ironmaking, steelmaking, and steel rolling. The emission indicators of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides are all better than the industry's ultra-low emission limits.
Such changes are not isolated.
Jiangxi's industrial structure is heavily weighted, and there is an urgent need for breakthroughs in emission reduction and carbon reduction in energy-intensive industries. The green transformation of traditional industries is a hurdle that must be overcome.
To this end, Jiangxi focuses on key industries such as steel, building materials, petrochemicals, and nonferrous metals, and supports and guides the green and low-carbon transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. As of June this year, carbon emissions from the steel and building materials industries have basically reached their peak, and the number of chemical parks that meet environmental protection and safety standards has reached 31.
There is more than one algorithm for accounting investment in environmental protection. If reducing emissions and reducing carbon emissions is about “stopping losses,” circular economy is about “making profits.”
At present, the sewage treatment rate of Fangda Special Steel has reached 100%, and the industrial water reuse rate has reached 98%. Blast furnace gas, waste heat, and waste pressure are efficiently recovered to generate electricity, and the spontaneous power generation rate continues to rise.
This transformation path is also unfolding in a similar way in the Jiangzhong Medicine Valley not far away.
In the park of more than 2,000 acres, most of the land retains original ecological forests, where more than 200 species of wild animals and plants live and breed.
Among them, a large part of landscape water supply and irrigation water also comes from recycled water.
Guo Lingyan, EHS director of China Resources Jiangzhongwanli Manufacturing Base, said that the base has built its own sewage and gray water reuse system, and the treated gray water is reused for landscape lake water storage and green space irrigation.
In addition, the residue left over from the production of Jianweixiaoshi tablets has also been developed into animal breeding feed and organic fertilizer. "This not only solves the problem of disposal of traditional Chinese medicine residues, but also reduces breeding costs." Guo Lingyan said.
As a cross-section of Jiangxi's industrial transformation, whether it is the wetland in the steel factory or the forest in the pharmaceutical factory, they are just the beginning of the green transformation.
The recently issued "15th Five-Year Plan for the Construction of Beautiful Jiangxi" clearly states that we will promote energy-saving, low-carbon and clean production technology and equipment, and build a number of green factories and green parks.
From a longer perspective, Jiangxi industry is completing a switch in underlying logic: not exchanging ecology for growth, but turning ecology itself into a part of growth. (over)
