Wenzhou Power Shoemaking And Other Enterprises "Power Failure Storm" Is Continuing.

This year is the last year of 11th Five-Year plan.

Near the end of the year, in order to achieve the goal of energy saving and emission reduction in 11th Five-Year, a number of places in the country staged a farce to cut off power in order to save energy.

The latest performance is in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province.

"Stop 10 open 5"! That is to say, only 10 days of electricity a month, how can we live? "Wu Ling, a small business owner in Ouhai District of Wenzhou, is a little desperate." at ordinary times, it does not act as a temporary crammer. It is really hateful. "

"All losses are self conceited".

"In order to achieve the goal of energy conservation, a simple way of" one size fits all "is adopted in some areas.

In September 19th, the national development and Reform Commission issued an urgent notice on further improving the current energy conservation and emission reduction work, and explicitly demanded that all localities should correct short-term power failures.

The circular calls for the correct handling of the relationship between energy conservation and emission reduction and the steady and rapid development of the economy. The key to achieving the goal of energy conservation and emission reduction depends on the work and mechanism.

However, "

"According to the Circular of the leading group office of orderly electricity utilization in Ouhai district on the implementation of orderly electricity consumption for some industrial and mining enterprises", your unit must take part in orderly power consumption.

Otherwise, the consequences will be conceited.

In the middle of Ouhai district near Wenzhou, in mid September, many small and medium-sized business owners received such a notice.

According to the notice, the red line was painted at an annual output value of 5 million yuan.

The industrial and mining enterprises with an annual output value of less than 5 million yuan have been implementing "power failure for 10 days for 5 days" since September 16, 2010, and at the same time, 24 hours of diesel power generation is prohibited for the whole day.

"In the morning of September 21st, I received a call from the electrical bureau, warning me to use electricity again, and then he pulled the brake on me."

Wu Ling, a small business owner, said.

"At least give us a buffer period. The list has been answered. It can not be completed on time."

But Wu Ling soon discovered that he was even more fortunate than a small business owner in neighboring Yongjia.

Yongjia county's "2010 second phase energy saving and consumption reduction orderly electricity consumption plan" is written clearly: "in 2010, the total electricity consumption of our county was limited to 1 billion 853 million 890 thousand kwh, and the average monthly power consumption of ~12 in September was about 136 million kwh, so the power control task is very arduous."

The plan divides the enterprise into 9 categories in detail. In addition to the unlicensed illegal enterprises, the most important thing is to "continuously suspend the supply of electricity to the first phase of the energy conservation and consumption reduction enterprises to September 30th". The lightest is the "regulated enterprises in the key energy consumption units of January ~8 below the energy consumption rate of less than 15% in the month of January, i.e., the above scale enterprises - editor's note", and the power supply is 3 days' power supply for 1 days.

The plan also set the penalty clause in detail: the first violation, extended the power cut for 5 days; once again no rectification was made, the power cut was extended for 10 days, and the power failure time could not be completed until September next month. "All losses are borne by the enterprise".

The short term forced measures from September 15th to September 30th have led many "4 stop users" to call for help on the Internet: "Yongjia enterprises have reached the stage of deep water!"

Who is the most injured?

According to the data of Wenzhou Bureau of statistics in 2009, the actual output value of individual industrial households in Wenzhou was 115 billion 761 million yuan in 2009, accounting for 21.5% of the total industrial output value of the city.

The power outage will have a major impact on Wenzhou's industrial output this year.

Wenzhou has 26544 private enterprises, 2961 joint-stock enterprises, 207 Limited by Share Ltd, and 114163 individual industrial households.

They are mainly distributed in electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing, leather fur feather (velvet) and its products, plastic products, textile and footwear manufacturing, pportation equipment manufacturing, chemical raw materials and chemical products manufacturing, metal products industry, instrumentation and cultural office machinery manufacturing industries.

"In Wenzhou, most of the factories at the bottom of the production chain are below the annual output value of less than 5 million yuan.

When the power failure notice came down, the factories and enterprises at the bottom of the production chain stopped working, postponed or even shut down, until the top of the production chain was affected.

A self-employed person who did not want to be named said.

Chen Li, a general manager of an enterprise in Ruian, Wenzhou (alias), sent out a letter to all the customers last month to explain why they must suddenly increase their price by 20%, otherwise they can only "do not live." according to the "Notice of implementation of energy saving and orderly consumption of electricity in Ruian", from August 23, 2010 to December 31st 24 hours, the company will suspend electricity for 30 days for 10 days or stop for 15 days for 5 days, and implement orderly electricity consumption measures.

After the request from our company to the industrial area management committee, we will temporarily allow ourselves to generate electricity by ourselves, thus increasing the cost of generating electricity by 20%. "

"All of a sudden, orders can't be finished!" Chen Li said, wearily holding his hair. "We have been trying to explain to our customers, but they all say it is incomprehensible, can not imagine how such a blackout will happen."

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More anxious than business operators.

In an online forum in Wenzhou, a migrant worker's post is noticeable.

"The government has issued a new working schedule, which limits us to stop for 10 days and do 5 days.

We hope that the government will pay attention to the survival of our migrant workers. We work hard every month, get busy with work, earn money, pay rent, pay basic living expenses, and have little left to work.

At present, the new work is overwhelming. We have to rest for 20 days in a month and work for 10 days. We are migrant workers. If this arrangement is made, we can not lead the most basic life.

We just want to feed ourselves with our sweat.

Now sweat is nowhere to flow. What should I do? What should I do? "

Chen Li also believes that the most affected enterprises are workers.

"As a business owner, the most important thing is to close down and join the" real estate group ".

But as a worker, the loss is very large. Most factories in Wenzhou are piecework wages. Even if they did not shut down the enterprise, the workers could only get the usual 1/3 salary because the electricity was pinched off the time of 2/3.

Do you think it's still alive? "

Why do you always love to cram at the eleventh hour?

A number of small business owners interviewed by the China Youth Daily have said that even if the so-called "orderly electricity consumption" is carried out and "one size fits all" is carried out, why not a month earlier, even if a month earlier, a notice should be issued to remind the warnings.

"In this way, there will be enough time to arrange or prepare, and gradually reduce the number of people to reduce production and reduce the number of people. If we fail to meet the requirements within a limited period of time, we will be able to take coercive measures again.

How can we send a notice today, and we must stop immediately tomorrow? Is it really urgent to tolerate no room for negotiation? If we venture to start work, and if we are afraid of being fined by electricity, small businesses will die on the spot; if we do not start work, we will not be able to deliver goods on time, and small businesses will be tortured to death. "

These complaints, the government is not unknown.

"There's not much time now. If you start earlier, you don't have to work so hard now.

If you stop for two days a week, everyone will be well accepted. "

A responsible person in charge of energy saving and emission reduction in a certain district of Ouhai District of Wenzhou city is frankly speaking.

Why does the 5 year energy saving and emission reduction work seem to be remembered in the last few months? What has the government done before?

The China Youth Daily reporter inquired that the people's Government of Wenzhou city of Zhejiang Province issued the implementation plan of Wenzhou's comprehensive promotion of energy conservation and emission reduction in May 2008.

Among them, the overall goal is formulated: "by 2010, the energy consumption of the city's gross domestic product (GDP) has dropped from 0.76 tons of standard coal in 2005 to 0.61 tons of standard coal, a decrease of 20%.

By 2010, the city has established a relatively sound policy supporting system, supervision and management system and technical service system for energy conservation and emission reduction.

The implementation plan is much the same as that of other provinces and municipalities in China.

The plan put forward the following proposals: "strictly control the construction of high energy consumption and high pollution projects, speed up the elimination of backward production capacity, actively promote the adjustment and optimization of energy structure, strengthen related technology development and application, establish and improve the statistical system and monitoring system, intensify supervision and law enforcement, improve energy saving and environmental protection standards, improve the implementation of fiscal and taxation policies to promote energy conservation and emission reduction, encourage related financial services, improve price leverage, and strengthen government agencies' energy conservation and green procurement" and other specific measures.

China Youth Daily reporter counted, these specific measures are full of ten.

The government has introduced many measures to save energy and reduce emissions. Why do we still need such a sudden power cut?

China Youth Daily reporter has been in contact with the Ouhai District orderly power leading group office for several days, but failed.

The reporter telephoned Wu Jianling, director of resource conservation and comprehensive utilization of Wenzhou economic and Trade Commission, but it has never been interviewed by reporters.

There are injunctions and complaints. In the middle, there are detailed plans for energy conservation and emission reduction. Why are some local governments still "cramming"?

According to the reporter, in the energy saving and emission reduction system in 11th Five-Year, governments at all levels were required to "establish and improve the government's responsibility system and accountability system for energy conservation and emission reduction".

Governments at all levels bear the total responsibility for energy conservation and emission reduction in the administrative region. The main leader of the government is the first responsible person.

Like most provinces and municipalities in Wenzhou, the task of energy saving and emission reduction in 11th Five-Year has been decomposed into various counties (cities, districts), municipal departments and every key unit, and the accountability system and "one vote veto" system for energy conservation and emission reduction have been implemented.

Recently, according to media reports, an official in charge of energy conservation and emission reduction in a city in Zhejiang province said he had been warned that the mayor told him, "if I get my hat removed, I will give you up first."

Experts suggest strengthening process assessment

"Mandatory power failure" is certainly contrary to the original intention of energy conservation and emission reduction.

Chen Ying, director of the Research Center for sustainable development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said: "this kind of administrative intervention is only a short-term emergency. It is not a measure to achieve low carbon economy."

Chen Ying analysis believes that the government's position is not very scientific from the initial goal setting, and secondly, the decomposition of the target is also problematic.

"In addition, there are many unforeseen special situations in the middle, such as the impact of the financial crisis on economic growth, the massive demand for cement and other high energy consuming industries after the Wenchuan earthquake.

However, after China's energy-saving and emission reduction targets and tasks are decomposed, there is no adjustment mechanism and lack of flexibility in the implementation process.

In particular, he said, "now, in the form of accountability and assessment, all localities must complete their targets.

So there is a phenomenon of "cramming".

Duan Maosheng, an associate researcher at the Institute of energy and environmental economics, Tsinghua University, argues that the index should not be simply too high.

"Because the indicators are approved by the local government, which is the result of consultation between the central and local governments."

He analyzed that the local government had to take the power to cut the electricity, so it was difficult for the local governments to complete the index.

There are two reasons for the difficulties of local governments in completing their targets: "first, the government is not very accurate in assessing its own reality; second, after the goal is set, local governments must have a long-term overall plan, and can not expect to finish the assault in the last two years.

If we decompose the five year goal in time, we won't have to resort to the last unconventional measures.

Duan Maosheng believed that the examination should be strengthened in the whole process.

"Establishing a goal of five years is easy to lead to a loosening of the policy before it can be set up for two or three years, according to the different circumstances of the year."

He also suggested that we should make full use of economic incentives to promote energy conservation and emission reduction: "on the one hand, enterprises should adopt energy saving and emission reduction technologies, and the government will subsidize them; on the other hand, energy conservation and emission reduction can bring benefits to enterprises in itself."

"The goal of energy conservation and emission reduction in 12th Five-Year is sure to continue, and it is more difficult.

Some policy design problems should be learned, such as inviting enterprises and local governments to participate in the decision-making process, so as to truly mobilize their enthusiasm.

Chen Ying said.