Green development: an effective path for the upgrading of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei high-energy-consuming industries

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The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region optimizes and upgrades the industrial structure, effectively promoting the transformation of energy-intensive industries into green and low-carbon industries.

Geographically, in recent years, Beijing has formulated and implemented the country's first new industry prohibition and restriction catalogue aimed at curing "big city diseases", and the city's prohibition rate has reached 55%.
In terms of industrial development, high-tech manufacturing and producer service industries have become important forces driving the adjustment of Beijing’s industrial structure, and high-energy-consuming industries have continued to upgrade.
The upgrading level of Tianjin's energy-intensive industries has also improved rapidly, but the industrial structure optimization indicators have made little progress in recent years.
Compared with Beijing and Tianjin horizontally, Hebei still has a significant gap, but vertically, from 2005 to 2016, the cumulative growth rate of Hebei’s traditional high-energy-consuming industry upgrade level is not significantly different from that of Beijing and Tianjin, indicating that the industry between the three places The level of upgrading is increasing simultaneously, reflecting the role of the coordinated development strategy.

In terms of sub-indices, in terms of industrial structure optimization, Beijing leads Tianjin and Hebei; in terms of industrial structure transformation ability, Beijing’s industrial structure transformation index growth rate is slightly higher than that of Tianjin, and Hebei’s industrial structure transformation index has not improved much; in terms of industrial green In terms of growth, from 2005 to 2016, the industrial green growth index in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region increased by an average of 9% per year.
This shows that green growth has promoted the upgrading of high-energy-consuming industries in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
As the three places have stepped up efforts to eliminate outdated production capacity, the emission intensity of major pollutants per unit of product and energy consumption per unit of GDP have been continuously reduced, resource and energy efficiency has been continuously improved, and the scope of resource element allocation has expanded, which has improved the performance of green development.

 There are outstanding problems in the development of high energy consumption industries

On the basis of certain progress, there are four prominent problems in the development of high energy consumption industries in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region:

First, the industrial structure is still unbalanced.
High energy consumption industries are mainly concentrated in the secondary industry.
Relevant statistics show that the three-industry structure of Tianjin in 2016 was 1.
2:44.
8:54.
0, and the proportion of the tertiary industry was low, and the proportion of high-energy-consuming industries from 2007 to 2011 showed a continuous increase, and the proportion was not until 2012 to 2016.
Stable; the three industrial structure of Hebei Province in 2016 was 11.
0:47.
3:41.
7, the tertiary industry accounted for a small proportion, and the high energy consumption industries accounted for more than 25% since 2007, especially the high energy consumption industries from 2010 to 2013.
At 30%-this shows that the overall industrial structure of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is relatively unbalanced, and the proportion of high-energy-consuming industries is still relatively high.

Second, overcapacity has become a "pain point" for regional high-energy-consuming industries.
Overcapacity not only inhibits industrial development, but also hinders the development of emerging green industries and the growth of new supply.
According to calculations, from 2004 to 2016, the average capacity utilization rate of high-energy-consuming industries in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region was 63.
14%, which was lower than the normal value of 79%—83%, indicating that there are serious problems in high-energy-consuming industries in this region.
The problem of overcapacity.
In terms of provinces, from 2004 to 2016, the overall capacity utilization rate of high-energy-consuming industries in Beijing and Hebei was less than 79%, which was in a state of overcapacity; from 2004 to 2016, Tianjin’s 2011, 2012 and 2014 The capacity utilization rate of high-energy-consuming industries is within the normal range, and the capacity utilization rate of the remaining years is below 79%, which is in a state of serious overcapacity.

The third is that the extensive growth mode is still in place.
Regional development models are divided into investment-oriented and consumption-oriented: investment-oriented industries can temporarily bring greater profits to high-energy-consuming industries, but the negative effects such as extensive growth methods and overcapacity cannot be underestimated; consumption-oriented types can increase by increasing Consumption demand drives economic growth, which can effectively avoid the contradiction between supply and demand and solve the dilemma of upgrading high-energy-consuming industries.
The author's research found that, on the whole, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is still in the transition stage from investment-driven to consumption-driven, and currently only Beijing has entered the stage of a consumption-led economic growth model.

Fourth, some high-energy-consuming enterprises are relatively backward in technology and equipment.
Compared with developed countries, some high-energy-consuming enterprises in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region have not yet formed a complete and efficient technical support system, and their R&D capabilities are weak.
In-depth cooperation with universities needs to be improved; at the same time, the low level of technology also reduces the entry barriers for enterprises .
The above factors have led to the serious homogeneity of high-energy-consuming industrial products in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
Investors rushed to it when they were favorable, resulting in excess capacity and difficulties in transformation and upgrading.

Five strategies for upgrading high energy consumption industries

Green development is an effective path for the upgrading of high-energy-consuming industries in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
It will help improve the regional environmental quality, enhance the resource utilization efficiency of high-energy-consuming industries, overcome short-term thinking, walk out of an extensive growth model, and cultivate new industrial momentum.

In terms of specific strategy selection, the author recommends:

Differentiated development strategy.
Beijing should further improve its industrial level, focus on the development of green manufacturing and modern service industries, and further reduce a number of heavy and chemical industries and labor-intensive industries; Tianjin, while actively eliminating outdated production capacity, should also accelerate the development of modern service industries and strengthen the current industry.
There is green innovation in the manufacturing industry; Hebei Province must be determined to eliminate backward production capacity, promote the concentration of high-energy-consuming industries such as steel, building materials, and chemicals in coastal areas, accelerate the pace of mergers and acquisitions, and promote the production of resource-intensive and high-energy-consuming industries.
Concentration of large-scale enterprises with advanced technology and economies of scale.

Demand-oriented strategy.
At the macro level, Tianjin and Hebei should comprehensively increase the proportion and level of modern service industries.
Among them, Hebei should actively develop the modern logistics industry supporting the Beijing-Tianjin industry, undertake the transfer of labor-intensive manufacturing from Beijing-Tianjin, develop the cultivation and processing industry of agricultural and animal husbandry products for the Beijing-Tianjin big market, and create large-volume, multi-variety vegetables.
Production base.
At the micro level, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region should fully tap the consumption potential of foreign markets, and "going out" is an important way to upgrade high-energy-consuming industries.

Technology innovation strategy.
This is the driving force behind the development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei high-energy-consuming enterprises.
The national technological innovation system and regional technological innovation system should not only support the development of strategic emerging industries, but also support the use of high technology to transform traditional industries and support the technological upgrading of traditional industries.
For example, Jinxi Steel took technological innovation and upgrading as an entry point and established the Jinxi Steel Structure R&D Center to provide consumers with green steel structure construction products, which played an important role in promoting the application of steel structures in Hebei.

Ecological upgrade strategy.
"Green water and green mountains" are the "golden mountains and silver mountains" for the upgrading of high energy consumption industries in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei.
For example, Hebei Zanhuang Jinyu Cement Company invested a total of 300 million yuan in ecological upgrades.
Currently, it can process 300 tons of domestic waste and 200 tons of sludge per day, far exceeding the daily production of 100 tons of domestic waste in Zanhuang County.
At the same time, ultra-low emissions of nitrogen oxides are achieved.
This move has strongly promoted the development of the company, making its economic income in the first half of 2018 hit the best level in history.

Quality improvement strategy.
The speed and quality of the upgrading of high-energy-consuming industries are endogenous to the accumulation of technology and the upgrading of the skills of workers.
The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region should pay attention to the accumulation of core technologies, strengthen the supply of human resources, and regard the improvement of the quality of artisan talents as a major strategy for the upgrading of high-energy-consuming enterprises in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
Craftsman talent.