OREANDA-NEWS. August 30, 2013. The academic annual conference 2013 of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences was held in Kunming, Yunan Province.

About 800 of the related experts and scholars, government managers, representatives of the competitive enterprises in integration and application of environmental technologies and experts of engineering technical application attended the conference and discussed the environmental scientific and technological innovation and the construction of ecological civilization.

TISCO is the only representative from the iron and steel enterprises. President of TISCO, Gao Xiangming, made the keynote speech in the Seminar of Environmental Management Strategic Transformation. TISCO won widespread acclaim for its achievement made through promoting green development and accelerating the enterprise transformation and great-leap-forward development.
     
At the beginning of this century, TISCO eliminated all the backward melting and rolling equipment such as the old coke ovens, small sintering machines, small blast furnaces and small EAFs, at the same time, invested more than 10 billion yuan to implement about 130 environment protection projects, established the energy conservation & emission reduction mode for the whole production process, formed comparative systematic and perfect circulatory economy industrial chain of the solid, liquid and gaseous wastes and realized cleaner production through green manufacturing.
   
TISCO continues to strengthen the scientific and technological innovation, concentrate on the R&D of new steel materials such as heat resistant, high pressure resistant, corrosion resistant, ultra-low temperature resistant and high strength and toughness steel products and cold rolled silicon steels, speed up the optimization and upgrading of product structure. Among them, the market share of 28 types of product is the top one in China, 36 types of product have successfully substituted the imported ones and filled the domestic gap, provided strong support for the transformation and upgrading of the downstream industries and served the "two type" social construction by manufacturing green products.
     
TISCO, through independent innovation, has formed a batch of advanced technologies and solutions for energy-saving and emission reduction with independent intellectual property rights, such as acid-making through coke oven gas desulfuration and decyanation, sintering flue gas purification, saturated steam power generation, sewage treatment by membrane method, waste acid regeneration, smelting dust recycling, production of fertilizer with slag. The technologies have been transferred to the related industries at a lower cost and helped the society to promote the green development level. TISCO also utilized advanced technologies to actively expand the resources and energy transformation of the steel plant and the treatment of the municipal life wastes, which effectively perfects the function system of the city and make the steel plant and the city become the true “ecological community” through developing and utilizing the “urban mines.” The green industry of TISCO is pushing forward the transformation from the business enterprise level (tiny circulation) to the social level (wide circulation).
 
Compared with 2002, in 2012 the comprehensive energy consumption per ton of steel in TISCO has declined by 42.8%, the consumption of makeup water by 88.3%, the emission of flue gas and dust by 86.1%, the emission of sulfur dioxide by 94.3%, the COD by 97.2%, the key indicators for energy saving and emission reduction have reached the advanced world standards.
     
Gao Xiangming said in the seminar that TISCO would invest 6 billion yuan more to construct some new environmental projects and build itself into a resource-saving and eco-friendly enterprise with a higher level and more complete circulatory economy industrial chain and a demonstrator of ecological civilization and make more contribution to the construction of beautiful China. 
 
The conference theme is the environmental scientific and technological innovation and construction of ecological civilization. During the conference, the leaders from Ministry of Environmental Protection, academicians and experts made keynote speeches. During the conference, a lot of academic exchanges were made, the seminars, poster presentations of excellent papers, exhibition of excellent environmental technologies and Cross-straight Senior Expert Forum on Environment Protection were held.