XVII Steel Development Strategy Conference, hosted by SteelHome, was successfully held in Shanghai Tower during 9-11 April, 2021. Over 1,000 delegates from governments, associations, steel mills, miners, traders, research institutes and media attended.

The 10th International Steel Raw Materials Supply Chain Summit, 11th International Coal & Coke Development Strategy Summit, 9th China Commodities E-Commerce Summit and 2021 SteelHome Spring Report were simultaneously held.

Li Xinchuang, Secretary of the Party committee and chief engineer of metallurgical industry planning and Research Institute, delivered the speech titled Opportunities and Challenges Brought by Low Carbon Development for Steel Industry

Li Xinchuang, Secretary of the Party committee and chief engineer of metallurgical industry planning and Research Institute

Carbon peaking and carbon neutralization is a very complex system engineering. Carbon peaking and carbon neutralization are not only about energy conservation and environmental protection, but also about the right to development and the way of development.

Low carbon development needs to deal with three relationships: the relationship between development and emission reduction, the relationship between the whole and the part, and the relationship between short-term and long-term. It is required that enterprises should take the lead in implementing carbon peak in areas and industries with conditions, and the iron and steel industry is one of the industries with conditions to take the lead in implementing carbon peak.

China's iron and steel industry is leading the green revolution of the world, China's iron and steel industry, which implements the world’s most stringent standards. At present, the iron and steel industry has started the stage of high-quality development. In the future, we will enter the low-carbon stage of high-quality period.

As for the path of low-carbon development of iron and steel industry, the first step is to promote green layout, the second step is to save energy and improve energy efficiency, the third step is to optimize energy use and process structure, the fourth step is to build a circular economy industrial chain, the fifth step is to apply breakthrough low-carbon technology, and the sixth step is to establish system construction and policy system guarantee.