The environmental taxation policy has increased or decreased, and the coal resource tax reform window has been opened. Despite the relatively large investment in the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan”, there are still many debts owed to environmental protection in China. According to estimates, the investment demand for environmental pollution control during the 12th Five-Year Plan period was about 3.4 trillion yuan, an increase of 57.4% over the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period.

Recently, at the "Seminar on Environmental Protection Investment and Industrial Development" held in Beijing, Wu Yuze, the deputy director of the Environmental Planning Institute of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, made the above statement.

On the same occasion, Yi Bin, the deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences, estimated that during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of the environmental protection industry will still be no less than 15%, and the total market will reach more than 10 trillion yuan.

Investing in the direction of investment in environmental protection industry Yu Yuantang, deputy director of the Department of Public Finance and Investment Consulting at the Environmental Planning Institute of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, predicts that during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, China's environmental protection investment will have three phases: First, large-scale construction of pollution control facilities; The second is to solve the prominent environmental problems; the third is the stage of pollution control investment based on scale, rather than efficiency.

According to Wu Yuze’s introduction, during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” investment in environmental pollution control, environmental infrastructure construction projects accounted for 54%, industrial pollution source pollution control projects accounted for 15%, and environmental protection projects for construction projects “three simultaneous” (Environmental protection in construction projects Facilities must be designed, constructed, and put into production simultaneously with the main project, accounting for 34% of the total.

"Cannot oversize the scope of environmental protection investment." Wu Yuze teas out the investment direction of the environmental protection industry as follows: urban wastewater treatment, de-NOx removal, municipal solid waste disposal, and key areas of air pollution control and other key emission reduction areas, as well as the people's livelihood Major projects.

An environmental industry researcher at Founder Securities said that most investment institutions are now following the market, and waste incineration projects are hot. Everyone invests in the waste incineration field. After a period of time, the soil is remedied and the organization turns to the field of soil remediation. “There is not a single point of clarity. Planning."

It is worth noting that the ***** report for the first time set out a separate section on ecological civilization and proposed the goal of "beautiful China" as an ecological civilization. In this regard, the "Learn Times" published on December 10 published an article on an interview with Minister of Environmental Protection Zhou Shengxian. In the article, Zhou Shengxian mentioned eight key tasks of ecological civilization construction that he personally understands. The first and foremost is to “strengthen the development of a green economy, circular economy, and low-carbon technologies to cultivate and expand energy-saving and environmental protection industries.” In addition, "deepening energy-saving emission reduction, increasing water, air, soil and other pollution control efforts, and strengthening nuclear and radiation monitoring capabilities," ranked the third major task.

The coal resource tax reform window is opened. The phenomenon that the environmental protection service industry is out of touch with the environmental protection industry is also mentioned.

Liu Zhiquan, deputy director of the Department of Science and Technology Standards Department of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, pointed out that the overall environmental protection service industry in China lags behind. "France has a few environmental protection service companies and it is a service company throughout the country."

Su Ming, deputy director of the Institute of Fiscal Science of the Ministry of Finance, disclosed at the meeting that the direction of fiscal and taxation policies for environmental protection in the near and medium term was mainly based on the principle of increasing or decreasing the degree of integration.

Su Ming said that the next step is to increase financial and tax support for energy conservation, environmental protection, and ecology. For example, the fiscal and taxation policies and financial and accounting policies of the energy-saving services industry will be applied to environmental service industries, such as investment credits, corporate income tax deductions and deductions for R&D costs, etc., to encourage environmental protection investment and technological R&D.

Su Ming said that in the field of energy conservation and environmental protection, tax policies have both tax cuts and tax increases.

The tax reduction measures include: the increase of business tax and the merger of corporate income tax and two taxes. The general product may increase the export tax rebate rate next year. The "two high and one capital" products may lower the export tax rebate rate, import advanced equipment and spare parts, and reduce tariffs.

The tax increase measures include: raising the resource tax rate of coal, changing the current sewage charges to environmental taxes and increasing the tax (fee) rates, and in the long run, the introduction of carbon taxes on the coal and crude oil industries.

"On the resource tax, the next step is to transfer coal, especially the resource tax of coal (ad valorem). It should be said that this is the trend of the times. Now it is mainly stuck in coal-fired power. I think that the next step in China's coal-electricity reform should be linked to the adoption of electricity prices. The reform has led to the reform of China's coal resource tax, which should be very beneficial to China's resource conservation, energy consumption reduction, and environmental protection,” said Su Ming.

Recently, rumors about the linkage between coal and electricity prices have continued. "People's Daily" reported on December 10 that "The plan to cancel the key contracts and advance the coal-fired coal prices has been formulated. If the plan is approved, the coal-fired coal for the last plan of the domestic coal market will be completely put. The state will no longer intervene in the price of coal. By that time, the 'coal power top-cow' situation around the power coal price is expected to be eliminated."