The Government Must Not Carry Out A "One Size Fits All" Approach To The Shoe And Leather Industry In Order To Achieve The Goal Of Reducing Emissions.

September 10th hearing

Shoe leather industry

Since the second half of this year, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hebei, Shanxi and other provinces have started a mighty "energy saving and emission reduction conference".

The leather industry has shut down nearly 3000 enterprises in this conference battle, and of course, some of the backward production lines are also being counted.

The action Industry Association set up a special group to conduct an in-depth investigation and do more in place.

However, in order to fulfill the leadership's "big sword" and to cut down one of the leading indicators, some regional governments can understand that the original intention of this approach is understandable. After all, it will soon enter the "12th Five-Year", but the "11th Five-Year" target of energy conservation and emission reduction has not yet been completed.

Wang Weiguang, vice president of Liaoning University business school, believes that from a large perspective, energy conservation and emission reduction is the realization of our country.

If some places can broaden their horizons further, we can fundamentally find ways to control pollution and achieve energy saving and emission reduction targets.

For example, when attracting investment, those "two high" enterprises should be taken off instead of putting the target of attracting investment in a very high position. The performance assessment of local officials is not to see GDP, but to see how many energy-saving and environmental protection technologies and technologies have been promoted; to give enterprises some preferential tax incentives for enterprises that have exceeded the targets of energy conservation and emission reduction, or to enterprises that produce and adopt energy saving and environmental protection technologies; to shut down enterprises that have not completed the goal of energy saving and emission reduction, to implement more stringent economic sanctions, and to increase the cost of these enterprises failing to fulfill their social responsibilities.

The leather industry has a long way to go to pform a resource-saving and environment-friendly industry.

China's 30 years of reform and opening up are 30 years of rapid development of China's leather industry. The annual output of shoes in China's leather industry is nearly 10 billion pairs, accounting for more than 50% of the world's total output. The annual output of light leather is 700 million square meters, accounting for 20% of the world's total output. Leather clothing, fur clothing and leather goods are also ranked first in world output, making important contributions to the prosperity and development of leather industry in the world.

However, China's unit energy consumption level is 47% higher than that of the world's advanced level. China's economic losses due to environmental pollution and ecological destruction account for about 10% of GDP in that year.

1/3 of China's land area is polluted by acid rain, 2/5 of the main river systems are inferior water types, more than 300 million of the rural population can not get safe water, and more than 400 million of the urban residents are breathing heavily polluted air.

Environmental protection is the basic national policy of the state, and is also the duty of every citizen. It is also an important responsibility of enterprises and entrepreneurs.

As a modern enterprise, practicing green and environment-friendly business philosophy is not only the social responsibility of enterprises, but also the only way for enterprises to meet challenges and achieve sustainable development.

However, the leather footwear industry is facing a severe environmental pressure and resource situation to pform to a resource conserving and environment-friendly industry.

China's environmental capacity is limited and its ecological environment is very fragile. With the development of industrialization and urbanization, the pressure of the environment is still increasing.

The raw material supply of leather industry is renewable resources, which is a deep processing of livestock products. The resource pressure of the industry comes mainly from the energy and chemical materials in the process of production.

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China has entered the stage of accelerated industrialization, which is a period of prominent contradiction between resources and environment. It is not sustainable to maintain economic growth by excessive consumption of resources and sacrificing the environment.

In August 8th, the Ministry of industry and Commerce made a public announcement on the list of 18 enterprises to eliminate backward production capacity, which involved tanning industry, and the rectification was completed before the end of September, which sounded the alarm for the whole industry.

China Leather Association takes the lead in building a resource-saving and environment-friendly leather industry.

Following the establishment of an environmental self-discipline action team in tanning industry in May, the tannery industry pollution control work conference was held in July 30th, and the leather industry's pollution verification work was carried out on the basis of the environmental protection and self-discipline action team of the leather industry.

At the same time, the second leather industry innovation award has come to an end. It has practical guidance for promoting energy conservation and emission reduction in the industry.

The tannery industry will strive to achieve a harmonious development of industry and resources, environment and benefits. Based on the carrying capacity of the environment, respecting the natural law, advocating environmental culture and ecological civilization, taking science and technology as the driving force, building a green leather industry with low input, high output, low consumption and low emission, and recycling and sustainable development, promoting the mutual development of the economic and social environment, and implementing the basic national policy of resource conservation and environmental protection.