As the largest and indispensable basic raw material in China, sand and gravel aggregate has seriously affected the construction of key projects and even local economic development in some places in recent years with the shortage of sand and gravel supply and soaring prices. it has become the focus of attention of government departments at all levels, the focus of attention of engineering units, and the focus of attention of local people. How to promote the high-quality development of the sand and gravel industry and provide support for economic development has naturally become a hot topic of concern to the representatives of the two sessions and related experts.
Sand and gravel industry ushered in a major positive
According to the government work report, it is planned to arrange 3.75 trillion yuan of local government special bonds this year, an increase of 1.6 trillion yuan over last year, increase the proportion of special bonds that can be used as project capital, and arrange 600 billion yuan of investment in the central budget.
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This set of seemingly simple numbers has revealed a series of huge signals, providing new momentum for the transformation and upgrading of the sand and gravel industry and high-quality development.
"These figures are extremely important for the sand and gravel industry. As local government special bonds focus on the infrastructure sector, coupled with the leveraging of infrastructure investment, this means that the amount of investment in China's infrastructure construction will be significantly increased, the total scale of infrastructure investment or will reach the level of 10 trillion yuan. In addition, as mentioned in the government work report, 39000 new urban old residential areas will be renovated in 2020. Strengthen the construction of major projects such as transportation and water conservancy; Increase the capital of national railway construction by 100 billion yuan, and continue to promote the large-scale development of the western region, the comprehensive revitalization of the northeast, the rise of the central region and the leading development in the east. These set the tone for China's infrastructure investment in 2020 and the demand for sand and gravel aggregate market this year. 2020 is bound to be a year when the demand for sand and gravel continues to remain high, and it is also a year when the sand and gravel industry is facing development opportunities." In an interview, Hu Youyi, president of the China Sand and Stone Association, used a set of simple figures to interpret the development momentum and prospects of the sand and stone industry this year.
As an important raw material for infrastructure, in recent years, with the increase of national investment in infrastructure and the increasingly strict ecological and environmental protection, sand is hard to find in many places. Since last year, many departments of the state have issued a series of policies to promote the healthy and orderly development of the sand and gravel industry and machine-made sand.
And some of the key tasks mentioned in the government work report of the two sessions this year have undoubtedly added a lot of new momentum to the sand and gravel industry, which is gaining momentum. It is understood that the local government special bond of 3.75 trillion billion yuan to be arranged this year will focus on supporting the construction of "two new and one heavy", which not only promotes consumption and benefits people's livelihood, but also adjusts the structure and increases the stamina. It is mainly to strengthen the construction of new infrastructure, develop a new generation of information network, expand 5G applications, build charging piles, promote new energy vehicles, stimulate new consumer demand, and help industrial upgrading, in order to meet the increasing demand of farmers to find jobs and settle down in county towns; new construction has started to renovate 39000 old urban communities, support the installation of elevators, and develop various community services such as dining and cleaning; strengthen the construction of major projects such as transportation and water conservancy; increase the national railway construction capital 100 billion yuan. We will improve the market-oriented investment and financing mechanism and support the equal participation of private enterprises.
"In the 'six stability' and 'six insurance' work proposed in this year's government work report, the sand and gravel industry is an important support, closely related to sand and gravel industry enterprises, will drive the demand for sand and gravel aggregate to continue to maintain a high level of about 20 billion tons, through loans, taxation, electricity and other ways to promote the development of sand and gravel enterprises." Hu Youyi introduced, from the above can be seen, this year in the expansion of effective investment, infrastructure is one of the key areas. From the aspect of further promoting the new urbanization, we can see that infrastructure is a must, and to speed up the implementation of regional development strategy, infrastructure is a strong support, so in 2020, the focus of the market demand for sand and gravel aggregates is infrastructure construction.
The government work report pointed out that the "14th Five-Year Plan" will be prepared this year to draw up a blueprint for the new journey of the second centenary goal, which will also have a profound impact on the future development plans of sand and gravel enterprises. Hu Youyi analyzed that the sand and gravel industry will be included in the national mineral resources "14th Five-Year Plan. In the high-quality co-construction of the "Belt and Road", sand and gravel equipment enterprises will have a lot to do; in a number of measures to optimize the development environment of the private economy, private sand and gravel enterprises will become beneficiaries; deepening the reform of "release, management and service" will effectively promote the resumption of work and investment in sand and gravel enterprises. Strengthening the financial support policy for stable enterprises will effectively improve the ability of sand and gravel enterprises to cope with capital risks; various measures to promote the reduction of production and operation costs of enterprises can effectively reduce the cost of sand and gravel enterprises; the increase of tax reduction and fee reduction will effectively alleviate the financial difficulties of sand and gravel enterprises.
In fact, a series of information released in this year's government work report does not seem to be directly related to the sand and gravel industry, but from a deep analysis, the impact on sand and gravel aggregate enterprises is also positive and far-reaching. Hu Youyi said that sand and gravel enterprises are mostly local economies, and their products are mainly for local services. Therefore, the development of sand and gravel aggregate enterprises must be combined with the fight against poverty in the government work report, play a role in the fight against poverty in the remaining poor counties and villages, and tilt to the local areas in terms of employment to support the local people to shake off poverty and become well-off.
"In the past two years, the Party Central Committee and the State Council have attached great importance to the development of the sand and gravel industry. The central and national ministries and commissions have issued a number of documents closely related to the development of the sand and gravel industry. In November 2019, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other ten national departments issued the ''Several Opinions on Promoting the Development of the Mechanism Sand and Gravel Industry''; in March 2020, the National Development and Reform Commission and other fifteen departments and units issued the ''Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Healthy and Orderly Development of the Sand and Gravel Industry"; The third meeting of the 13th National People's Congress proposed the direction and intensity of China's infrastructure investment in 2020. These favorable policies have brought unprecedented development opportunities, the high-quality development of China's sand and gravel industry will not be far away." Hu Youyi said.
Recycled aggregates still need force
With the acceleration of urban construction, especially urban transformation, construction waste has become a difficult problem. In recent years, although the relevant departments of the state have issued some relevant policies, there are still many places that have not fundamentally solved this problem.
"At present, the national construction waste stock has reached more than 20 billion tons, which is the largest part of urban waste." Xu Yanan, member of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and vice mayor of Ningbo City, suggested that we should speed up the reduction, recycling and harmlessness of construction waste disposal, so as to solve the problem of construction waste disposal.
When talking about the outstanding problems in the current construction waste treatment process, Xu Yanan analyzed that from the survey, the most prominent common problem in the process of disposal of construction waste in various places is the low utilization rate of resources, which is mainly caused by the lack of policy guidance, the disconnection of utilization of production and marketing, and insufficient investment in scientific research.
"In order to solve the above problems, all localities must explore the establishment of a long-term mechanism for the resource utilization of construction waste based on their own advantages, so as to realize the standardized management, market-oriented disposal, resource utilization and industrial development of construction waste." Xu Yanan suggested that we should further strengthen policy guidance, introduce relevant laws and regulations on the resource utilization of construction waste, implement mandatory classification and resource recovery of construction waste, and introduce supporting policies in supporting relevant technologies and cultivating relevant enterprises, so as to increase support for enterprises in product sales and land use security.
With regard to the resource utilization of urban construction waste, Hu Youyi, president of the China Sand and Stone Association, believes that after the resource utilization of urban construction waste, recycled aggregates with good quality can be produced to replace some sand and gravel aggregates. it will reduce the mining of raw ore from the source and be conducive to the protection of the ecological environment. At the same time, recycled aggregates can produce permeable bricks, which meets the needs of sponge cities.
"To promote the resource utilization of urban construction waste, technology and equipment are not a problem, the key is to start from the two key links of 'import' and 'export', not only to ensure that construction waste can be concentrated for unified disposal, but also to ensure that the products produced have a market. This requires local governments to introduce relevant policies to support construction waste resource utilization enterprises." Hu Youyi suggested.
In fact, the relevant departments of the state are still issuing relevant policies to strongly promote the resource reduction of construction waste.
On May 8, before the two sessions this year, the Ministry of Housing and Construction issued guidance on promoting the reduction of construction waste (hereinafter referred to as "opinions"). The "Opinions" set the work target. By the end of 2020, the working mechanism for construction waste reduction in various regions will be initially established. By the end of 2025, the working mechanism of construction waste reduction in various regions will be further improved to achieve a discharge of no more than 300 tons per 10,000 square meters of construction waste (excluding engineering muck and engineering mud) at the construction site of new buildings, and no more than 200 tons per 10,000 square meters of construction waste (excluding engineering muck and engineering mud) at the construction site of prefabricated buildings.
The "Opinions" also specifically pointed out that it is necessary to strengthen overall management, improve the working mechanism and policy measures for construction waste reduction, and incorporate construction waste reduction into the local green development and ecological civilization construction system. Local environmental health authorities at all levels should coordinate the establishment and improvement of construction waste management systems, further strengthen construction waste collection, transportation, resource utilization and disposal management, and promote the improvement of construction waste management capabilities. It is necessary to actively guide and support, encourage construction waste reduction technology and management innovation, and support the rapid transformation and application of innovative results. Determine the construction waste discharge limit, and establish the corresponding incentive mechanism for the project of less or zero emission. It is necessary to improve the standard system and speed up the formulation and improvement of relevant standards for the classification, collection, statistics, disposal and recycling of construction waste on the construction site, so as to provide technical support for the reduction work. It is necessary to strengthen supervision and guidance, incorporate the reduction of construction waste into the content of civilized construction, and encourage the establishment of a construction site construction waste discharge publicity system. Implement the construction waste reduction instruction manual, carry out demonstration and guidance of construction waste reduction projects, and promote the exchange of construction waste reduction experience.
With the convening of the two sessions and the suggestions and suggestions of the committee members in the field of construction waste, the reduction, resource utilization and harmlessness of construction waste disposal will accelerate.
The illegal mining of sea sand should be severely punished.
In recent years, with the shortage of sand and gravel, the phenomenon of illegal mining of sea sand in some places has been repeatedly prohibited, which has seriously affected the healthy and orderly development and high-quality development of the sand and gravel aggregate industry, and has also laid major safety hazards for some key projects.
"in recent years, most fishermen have reported that in the waters of Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong, some lawbreakers have used modified large ships to illegally mine sea sand in coastal areas, and the illegally mined sea sand has been sold to Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and other coastal areas, and it has become increasingly serious. Lin Huazhong, deputy to the National people's Congress and secretary of the general party branch of Aojiao Village, Chencheng Town, Dongshan County, Fujian Province, said that according to the principle of territorial management, all projects involving the use of sea sand should be investigated and supervised, and once found, measures such as confiscation, fines, and order to stop work for rectification should be strictly taken; it is suggested that the standing Committee of the National people's Congress should make corresponding legal amendments to the illegal mining of sea sand in order to better to maintain marine sand.
Lin Huazhong said that there are major security risks in the illegal mining of sea sand: these ships have been concentrated in the waters near the Taiwan Strait for a long time, resulting in serious geological changes in Taiwan's waters. Fishing boats cannot produce in the waters, and the production and life of fishermen in coastal areas have been seriously affected. According to expert analysis, long-term illegal mining of sea sand has led to the deterioration of marine water quality, serious damage to marine ecology, and the inability of fish to inhabit and breed in the area; once the sea sand that has not been desalinated is abused, it will seriously endanger the quality and safety of construction projects; hundreds of ships that illegally mine sea sand are neither registered nor have contact information, are not equipped with safety facilities, and the crew members are not certified to work. These ships have long-term super-wind illegal operations, and there are certain hidden dangers in traffic production safety.
In order to better protect marine ecology and fishery resources, Deputy Lin Huazhong suggested that the State Council should attach great importance to coordinating the strict supervision of relevant law enforcement departments. Establish a special management agency to coordinate relevant law enforcement agencies to strengthen inspections of coastal areas, and increase the crackdown on sea sand piracy; strengthen on-site investigation and supervision of suspicious ships that have docked, and will not tolerate it once verified.
Yin Ping, a representative of the National People's Congress and deputy chief engineer of the Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology of the China Geological Survey of the Ministry of Natural Resources, also submitted to the conference the ''Recommendations on Combating Illegal Exploitation of Sea Sand, Strengthening Supervision and Strict Accountability''. The legal standard system for marine ecological compensation and restoration, the national sea sand resource survey and resource exploration of key sand sources, the preparation of sea sand resource development plans, and orderly start, strengthen the construction and supervision of sea sand utilization standards in the construction field, organize sea sand concrete performance improvement technology and other aspects to strengthen the supervision and rational development of sea sand resources.□
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