Energy Bureau: China will gradually become the world's nuclear power industry center
Source: China New Network Network Date: 2015-05-182015
China News Agency, Beijing, May 15th. Liu Qi, deputy director of China's National Energy Administration, said on May 15th that China's nuclear power is entering a safer, more stable and orderly development stage, and China will gradually become the world's nuclear power industry center. A historic leap from a nuclear power nation to a nuclear power nation.
Liu Qi said at the Third Energy Forum on the 15th that the development of nuclear power is of great significance for ensuring China's power supply, optimizing the energy structure, protecting the ecological environment, driving the development of the nuclear industry and related industries, promoting scientific and technological progress, and comprehensive national strength. Since last year, China has launched new nuclear power projects in coastal areas. The demonstration project of the third-generation nuclear power technology Hualong No. 1 has started, and follow-up projects are being actively prepared.
Energy issues are related to national economy, people's livelihood and national security. With the rapid growth of China's economy, energy resources are increasingly constrained, ecological and environmental issues are becoming increasingly prominent, and pressures to improve energy efficiency, clean use and energy security have increased. At present, the proportion of fossil energy in China's energy structure is relatively high, especially the proportion of coal consumption is as high as 66%, which is 35.8% higher than the world average. In terms of power generation, the proportion of coal power is 75%, which is about 28 percentage points higher than the world average.
Liu Qi said that China's goal of achieving peak carbon emissions by 2030 and non-fossil energy share of about 20% by 2020 is a very arduous task that requires our persistent and unremitting efforts.
"We must support a rational, coordinated, and progressive view of nuclear safety, adhere to sustainable development based on safety, adhere to both autonomy and cooperation, and address both the symptoms and the root causes, and implement the principle of safety first into nuclear power planning, site selection, and design. , Construction, operation, and decommissioning to ensure safety and security. "Liu Qi emphasized.
Zhou Ji, president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, also attended the forum on the same day, saying that China's nuclear power is currently developing in the direction of modernization, scale, autonomy and series, and has reached the international leading level in some fields. In addition, China has successfully developed the third-generation nuclear power technology of Hualong No. 1 with independent intellectual property rights, and has the research and development capabilities of fast reactors and high-temperature gas-cooled reactors of the fourth-generation nuclear power technology. Major achievement.
Qi Zhouji emphasized that the ability to seize the strategic opportunity period of China's nuclear power development is very important for the steady development of large-scale nuclear power. From now to 2020 is a critical period for China to build a well-off society in an all-round way, and it is also an important strategic opportunity period for energy development and transformation. Under such a situation, it is of great practical significance to promote the energy production and consumption revolution and promote the safe, steady and large-scale development of nuclear power.