There will be no unified organization to limit production of steel this winter.

On July 26, Liu Youbin, a spokesman for the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that the Ministry of Ecology and Environment planned to classify enterprises with ultra-low emissions as Grade A. When dealing with heavy pollution in winter this year, such enterprises need not adopt emission reduction measures such as production restriction or shutdown, set up benchmarking enterprises, and promote the level of industry governance.

That is to say, as long as the iron and steel enterprises are classified as Class A, during the heavy pollution period in winter this year, the enterprises can produce normally and are no longer affected by the shutdown of production. This is different from the previous year's policy of environmental production restriction. It is the first time that three kinds of production restriction measures, A, B and C, are put forward at the national level to implement "differential management" for enterprises with different environmental protection levels.

This means that the adjustment and optimization of the policy of environmental protection and production restriction in autumn and winter are strengthened at the national level, and the policy of production restriction tends to be more scientific and rational, especially considering the fairness, which is more beneficial to those steel enterprises that invest more in ultra-low emission renovation and have remarkable results. But at the same time, it should be noted that the implementation of classified production restriction does not mean that the policy of environmental protection production restriction is relaxed. In Liu Youbin's opinion, this will help to promote the formation of a fair competition environment of "good money expelling bad money" and the high-quality development of key industries.

According to the provisions of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law, local governments at or above the county level should start emergency plans in time according to the warning level of heavily polluted weather, and take emergency measures such as ordering relevant enterprises to stop production or limit production according to emergency needs. At present, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment is formulating technical guidelines for emergency emission reduction measures in key industries of heavy polluted weather in order to guide local governments to cope with heavy polluted weather.

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment intends to divide enterprises into three categories according to their environmental performance levels, i.e. technological equipment, control measures, organized emission limits, non-organized control measures and transportation modes, and adopt different early warning levels of heavy pollution to inform enterprises in advance, guide enterprises to arrange production reasonably and ensure safety. While impairing the public's health, it minimizes the impact on the economic activities of enterprises. Liu Bingjiang, Director of the Department of Atmosphere, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that we classified enterprises into A, B and C levels, and those that will achieve ultra-low emissions will be classified as A level, while others will be classified as B and C level. Among them, A-level enterprises are limited or not limited, C-level enterprises are limited, and emission reduction measures between different levels widen the gap.

"We should let enterprises investing more in environmental protection enjoy the sweet end, not suffer losses, support the good and weed out the bad, reward the good and punish the bad, and form a fair competitive environment in which good coins drive out bad coins." Liu Bingjiang said, "Regulation can not make enterprises with excellent environmental performance"worry", but make them more excellent. We must set up environmental benchmarking enterprises, whether to achieve ultra-low emissions is the key to normal production and operation of steel enterprises."

The head of environmental protection department of a large state-owned iron and steel enterprise expressed the same expectation to reporters of Economic Observatory Network. He confessed that "the state proposed classified measures to limit production, which are more fair and beneficial to our enterprises. Since this year, we have invested 4 billion yuan in ultra-low emission renovation. If the government does not differentiate the management in the future, it will still impose a mandatory shutdown on enterprises, even adopt a "one size fits all" policy, or as state-owned enterprises, let us assume more responsibility for limiting production, which will have a great impact on our profits. "

He said that the implementation of classified and differentiated management for enterprises with different levels of environmental protection is a progress of the national environmental protection policy. However, in the process of implementation and implementation, local governments are still facing many challenges. We should do it in earnest to avoid the emergence of "one size fits all" problems in environmental protection.

In April this year, the Ministry of Ecology, the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport jointly issued the Opinions on Promoting the Implementation of Ultra-Low Emissions in the Iron and Steel Industry (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions") to guide iron and steel enterprises to carry out the transformation of ultra-low emissions. This is an important measure to promote the high-quality development of steel enterprises.

The Opinion puts forward that by the end of 2020, significant progress has been made in the transformation of ultra-low emissions of steel enterprises in key regions, striving to complete the transformation of about 60% of production capacity, and promoting the transformation of ultra-low emissions of steel enterprises in other regions in an orderly manner; by the end of 2025, the transformation of ultra-low emissions of steel enterprises in key regions will be basically completed, and more than 80% of production capacity will be achieved in the whole country. Renovation.

At present, the transformation of ultra-low emission in iron and steel industry is still accelerating, but iron and steel enterprises are also facing a dilemma, there are some concerns.

The head of environmental protection department of the above-mentioned iron and steel enterprises told the reporter of Economic Observation Network: "On the one hand, it is impossible to reform without investing money, we have no choice but to invest under the big policy environment, otherwise we will be shut down; on the other hand, if we invest a lot of money, the effect will not appear so quickly, because of the market, operation, cost and so on. Problem, or local implementation of classified production restriction policy is not in place, under the influence of a variety of factors, there are major risks, that enterprises will face greater difficulties.

Liu Bingjiang said, "We must not allow enterprises with low environmental protection level, low investment and high environmental protection level and large investment to compete in the same environment. If there is such a phenomenon, it is the dereliction of duty in supervision, which is inconsistent with the principle of fair supervision. We are not only concerned about the excess capacity of iron and steel, but also about the adequacy of clean capacity. If the government regulation can not let the enterprises with high environmental performance produce more and earn more money, it is not the real supervision.

In recent years, the air quality of our country has been continuously improving. In the first half of this year, the air quality of the whole country has been steadily improving.