Quanzhou'S Textile And Clothing Industry Moves Towards "Carbon Tax Era"

If the carbon tax is introduced in China, the textile and garment industry will bear the brunt.

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Once considered by the industry to be unreachable.

On the morning of November 23rd, the Information Office of the State Council held a press conference to invite Jie Zhenhua, deputy director of the national development and Reform Commission, to introduce the 2010 annual report of China's policy and action on climate change and the relevant situations of the United Nations Conference on climate change in Cancun and to answer reporters' questions.

At the meeting, carbon tax became a hot topic of question and discussion.

Jie Zhenhua said that during the "12th Five-Year" period, China will make greater use of market mechanisms and economic means to achieve the goal of reducing carbon intensity.

"Carbon tax plan, we are continuing to study."

According to a research report, the current energy consumption of China's textile and garment industry is about 4.84 tons of standard coal / ton fiber.

Levying carbon tax will bear the brunt of the textile and garment industry.

When will the carbon tax be introduced? What kinds of advantages and disadvantages will the enterprises face? How to meet the economic era of carbon tax? These problems have aroused heated debate in Quanzhou's textile and garment industry.

While waiting for the answers to various questions, enterprises also put forward relevant suggestions and expectations.

When will it be introduced?

"When the technology is mature,"

In mid October of this year, at the UN climate negotiations summit held in Tianjin, carbon tax became the vocabulary frequently mentioned by delegates from various countries.

In a discussion, Sun Cuihua, deputy director of the national development and Reform Commission against climate change, believes that the feasibility of studying carbon tax will be one of the priorities of our work in the future.

According to the famous media such as "financial and Economic Weekly", as early as July 2008, the Finance Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance set up a special research group to explore the possibility of levying carbon tax in China.

In the middle of 2010, a special report on the framework design of China's carbon tax system came out.

"Although all signs show that the carbon tax levy plan is about to start, we do not think it is that fast.

Because both industries and enterprises need to adapt to the planning process.

Carbon tax is a new thing. Without foundation, it will be difficult to implement it all at once.

It will take at least two or three years to start a heated discussion from the public to the real opening, and it is estimated that the earliest time will be 2012-2013 years.

Jinjiang textile and clothing industry association, the relevant person in charge of the opinion.

In the view of enterprises, the key point when to levy is carbon emissions detection and metering technology.

"Our country is not mature in terms of carbon emission detection and measurement technology, and no professional institution is responsible for it.

How to calculate the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by enterprises and how to regulate them? If these technical problems are not solved, the carbon tax levy can only be an armchair talk.

Including Wu Xiujian, R & D Manager of Fujian Longfeng Textile Technology Industrial Co., Ltd., many R & D personnel have indicated.

How to implement it?

"Matching reward mechanism"

In the design of carbon tax, which part of the tax collection is the biggest problem is also the most concern of enterprises.

Jia Kang, director of the Fiscal Science Research Institute of the Ministry of finance, once told the media that there are three technical options for the government to introduce carbon tax: one is to put the tax on environmental protection as a tax item and see if it can come out together with the environmental tax. One is to introduce carbon tax into consumption tax in accordance with the fuel tax reform, the third is to include carbon tax into the resource tax and to modify the tax rate according to the carbon content of fossil energy.

Either way, most of them

Many enterprises believe that the introduction of carbon tax is a kind of punishment mechanism from a certain level. Punishment should achieve positive results, and the corresponding reward mechanism should be matched.

"If the enterprise pressure the tax cost pressure down, consumers will still be the ultimate buyer. Whether the real purpose of levying carbon tax will be achieved is doubtful.

Therefore, if we levy carbon tax on enterprises, we suggest that the departments concerned consider implementing some incentives.

It can give some preferential tax rebates or reduce other tax items to key enterprises, and can also give financial incentives to enterprises with outstanding energy conservation and emission reduction.

In this way, the carbon tax can really promote industrial upgrading, rather than just an incentive to price increase.

The above textile and garment industry official said.

What's good about it?

"At least 2 billion 100 million of export benefits"

For enterprises, what are the pros and cons of levying carbon tax? Even with some complaints, most textile and garment enterprises still recognize that carbon tax will be "more advantages than disadvantages, and short pain will bring long-term benefits".

"The state is using tax means to force our enterprises to carry out energy conservation and emission reduction and upgrade.

In the past two years, although the textile and garment industry has achieved certain results in energy conservation and emission reduction, the task is still very heavy.

Taking Huafeng as an example, we started the pformation of equipment last year. At present, only half of it is being carried out.

Although carbon tax brings a certain cost, it can urge enterprises to carry out energy conservation and emission reduction as a long-term and continuous work, and the cost savings brought by this work will be far greater than the cost of taxation.

Zhang Xueyong said that this year, Huafeng's energy saving and emission reduction costs will continue to be put into technological pformation.

Not only domestic enterprises, but also the export textile and garment enterprises in Quanzhou are paying close attention to carbon tax.

This is because the US House of Representatives passed the clean energy security act of the United States.

The bill stipulates that from 2020, the United States will impose carbon tariffs on products that do not implement carbon reduction quotas, including China.

Some developed countries in the European Union are also deliberate on carbon tariffs.

"Europe and the United States want to implement carbon tariffs, in fact, they want to protect the reality with the environmental protection cloak, and export enterprises will be hit.

Experts said that if the domestic carbon tax was introduced, other countries would be subject to double taxation if they re levy carbon tariffs, contrary to the WTO agreement.

This shows that a carbon tax can help our exporters avoid the risk of damage in international trade friction, which is beneficial to our export enterprises. "

Export companies such as Bao day, Luo day ya, seven color Fox and others said.

According to the above textile and apparel industry executives, customs statistics show that last year, the total export volume of textiles and clothing in Quanzhou exceeded 2 billion 100 million US dollars, mainly in developed countries such as Europe and the United States.

"This means that if the domestic carbon tax is introduced, at least 2 billion 100 million of Quanzhou's export textile and clothing will benefit."

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Transformation of spring enterprises to meet "carbon tax"

On the one hand, the developed countries may impose carbon tariffs and erected carbon emission reduction trade barriers; on the one hand, China has stepped up the pace of levying carbon tax.

In the face of the trend of low carbon and environmental protection, Quanzhou textile and garment enterprises have been actively taking action. In their respective "12th Five-Year" plans, they have intensified efforts to implement the pformation plan towards low-carbon enterprises.

Green plant low carbon workshop

Next year is the first year of the 12th Five-Year plan. It will also be the first year of the construction of Longfeng textile headquarters.

According to introducing, in the company's headquarters area construction plan, "green factory area and low carbon workshop" has been mentioned in the first place.

It is understood that the green area of Longfeng headquarters will occupy more than 35% of the total area. Reasonable green belts will help to absorb carbon dioxide in production.

In addition, all production workshops have invited German and Japanese well-known production workshop design companies to design to achieve the best environmental protection and low carbon effect.

Coincidentally, Huafeng dyeing and printing will also carry out plant expansion plans in the near future.

The company's leadership is currently working with cooperative design companies to study how to design sewage drainage pipelines to achieve the best sewage treatment effect.

Technological innovation of equipment pformation

In addition to efforts in the design of the plant, Longfeng and Hua Fengjun will vigorously carry out equipment pformation.

It is understood that the production equipment needed in Longfeng expansion will be all imported from Japan's high-end equipment, which will improve the efficiency of production, save manpower and power consumption.

Huafeng is also introducing advanced equipment from Taiwan.

In addition, many enterprises also reduce energy consumption through innovative processes.

Shishi Wan Feng Sheng bleaching and dyeing weaving Co., Ltd. has developed a new technology of "woven fabric dyed one bath", subverting the traditional acid dyeing, which can save water 50%, save coal 40%, save electricity 50%, save 50% at the same time, and save dye auxiliaries and artificial labor. Qingyuan dyeing and printing industry in the same industry takes the lead in tackling the problem of water coal slurry mixing power generation, reduces the comprehensive energy consumption 25%, and raises the profit margin 4%.

According to Cai Dongsheng, President of Shishi textile and garment industry association, in many other links such as weaving, sewing, garment making, design, accessories, many enterprises have to benefit from low carbon through improving technology, introducing technology and updating equipment.

New products of environmental protection raw materials

Reducing the use of petrochemical raw materials and chemical fibers, and actively developing and using biological materials such as bamboo fiber and corn fiber have also formed a trend in the textile industry of Quanzhou.

In October, the Shanghai textile fabrics exhibition, Haitian textile and DuPont, took corn as raw material, developed PTT series of staple fibers and functional fibers, and got rid of the disadvantages of traditional chemical fiber products relying too much on oil resources.

The fabric made of this fiber can be dyed at low temperature and bright color, and its characteristics of energy saving and emission reduction are distinct.

Hongtai has developed a new supply of new bamboo fiber fabrics that are in short supply. Experts have been hired to monitor energy consumption and start using carbon labels. Tai Lung cloth is developing a renewable and recyclable fabric, which can be remelted at high temperature and reused for many times.

Explanation of terminology

Carbon tax: a tax on carbon dioxide emissions.

It aims at environmental protection and hopes to reduce global warming by cutting carbon dioxide emissions.

The carbon tax is to reduce fossil fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions by levying taxes on fossil fuels, such as gasoline, aviation fuel and natural gas, and so on.

Carbon tariffs: the concept was first put forward by former French President Chirac, who hoped that EU countries would levy commodity import taxes on countries that did not comply with the Kyoto protocol. Otherwise, after the operation of the EU carbon emissions trading mechanism, the goods produced by EU countries will be subjected to unfair competition, especially in the domestic steel industry and high energy consuming industries.

In July 4, 2009, the Chinese government explicitly expressed its opposition to carbon tariffs.