OREANDA-NEWS. October 14, 2011. The sixth Central China Expo "International Mining and Low Carbon Economy Technology Investment Forum" was held in Lihua Hotel. Deputy Director of Shanxi Province People's Congress Standing Committee Wang Yaan, entrepreneurs, experts and scholar representatives from home and abroad attended the conference. TISCO President Li Xiaobo delivered a speech with title as Low Carbon Development Road in High Carbon Industry. In the meeting, people believed in recycling economy, TISCO has tried a lot of beneficial methods, and made outstanding achievements. The representatives expressed their desire to make further cooperation with TISCO, reported the press-centre of TISCO.

In the speech, Li Xiaobo said, during “the eleventh five-year plan" period, with 8.2 billion yuan RMB of investment, TISCO had implemented 87 cyclic economy key projects, took the lead in the domestic application of the world most advanced technology of circular economy. TISCO formed a recycling economy industry chain of solid wastes mainly on metallurgy dust ash, fly ash, blast furnace slag and steel slag comprehensive utilization, a recycling economy industry chain of liquid wastes mainly on industry waste water, sewage water and acid regeneration, a recycling economy industry chain of gas wastes mainly on acid-making by coke oven gas desulfurization, sintering flue gas desulfurization and denitration, power generation by residual pressure and residual heat, by which,  secondary energy recovery counted 48% of the total energy consumption in a year, saved 1.07 million tons of standard coal, each environmental protection index were in advanced level in the industry. Compared with the year of 2000, TISCO comprehensive energy consumption per ton steel, new water consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, smoke and dust emissions were down by 47.14%, 90.95%, 90.59% and 96.12% respectively.

Li Xiaobo said, during “the twelfth five-year plan" period, TISCO is planning to invest more than 6 billion yuan in order to continuously implement a group of cyclic economy key projects, speed up the transformation from small circulation inside enterprise to big circulation in the city, gradually form a complete cyclic economy industry chain, and realize the complementary function and harmony development with the city. At the end of "twelfth five-year plan", comparing to the same time of "eleventh five-year plan", comprehensive energy consumption per ton steel will decrease by 5%, new water consumption by 20%, smoke and dust emissions by 10%, sulfur dioxide emissions by 50%, NOx (nitrogen oxides) emissions by 20%, solid waste comprehensive utilization rate will reach 100%.

Zhang Hanya, the host of the forum, researcher of Investment Research Institution of National Development and Reform Commission and President of China Investment Association, said in his speech, over the past few years, TISCO has tried many beneficial methods in promotion of low carbon development and realization of recycling economy, which gained outstanding achievements, encouraged people, and shown the hope for the development of low carbon to many enterprises. For the future, TISCO sets out high goal for cycle economic development, I hope TISCO could realize it as soon as possible. Nigeria representatives expressed their desire to cooperate with enterprises in central China, and I hope TISCO could further deepen the communication with Nigeria entrepreneurs, outputting TISCO mature circular economy technology to the abroad.
 
In the meeting, some domestic enterprise representatives showed their desire of further cooperation with TISCO.