Officials from the National Development and Reform Commission answer questions from reporters on the "Notification on Launching a Three-Year Action Plan for Energy Saving and Carbon Reduction Transformation in Key Industries".

Question: What policy measures are proposed in the "Notice"? The "Notice" focuses on aspects such as funding support, price regulation, policy incentives, and standard leadership, further strengthening policy guarantees for energy conservation, carbon reduction, and transformation in key industries. 1. Strengthen funding support guarantees. Increase central investment support, providing funding subsidies of 20% of the approved total investment for eligible projects, prioritizing projects that achieve benchmark energy efficiency levels after renovation. Encourage local governments to use existing funding channels to support renovation projects, and encourage financial institutions to provide diversified financial products and services. 2. Improve price guidance and regulation. Clarify that regions can integrate current differential electricity prices, tiered electricity prices, and punitive electricity price policies into a unified differential electricity price policy, with a surcharge of no more than 0.1 yuan per kilowatt-hour added on top of the market trading electricity price, with the additional revenue used to offset system operating costs. 3. Strengthen policy incentives. The carbon dioxide emissions reduced by existing industrial enterprises through energy conservation and carbon reduction can be used as a carbon offset source for new "two highs" industrial projects in the region after verification. For key industries included in the national carbon emission trading market, support is provided for enterprises that achieve carbon emission intensity below the benchmark value to receive reasonable carbon emission quota benefits. 4. Strictly follow standards and constraints. Projects that do not meet the mandatory energy consumption limit standards and benchmark levels should be renovated by the end of 2028. Continuously improve energy consumption and carbon emission limits for key industries, energy efficiency of key energy-consuming products and equipment standards, and promptly update benchmark energy efficiency levels and baseline levels for key industries.