**Adhere to strict energy efficiency requirements to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, and guide the orderly withdrawal of inefficient production capacity

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**According to the website of the National Development and Reform Commission, the \"Action Plan for Strengthening Energy Efficiency Requirements in Key Petrochemical Industries to Promote Energy Saving and Carbon Reduction (2021–2025)\\" has been issued. The Plan proposes to guide the orderly withdrawal of inefficient production capacity. Strictly enforce regulations such as the \"Guidelines for Industrial Structure Adjustment\" to promote the phasing out of refineries with a capacity of 2 million tons per year or less, synthetic ammonia production using atmospheric-pressure batch conversion processes for natural gas, calcium carbide furnaces with a single furnace capacity of less than 12,500 kVA, and open-type calcium carbide furnaces. The construction of new units with a capacity of less than 10 million tons per year for atmospheric and vacuum distillation, less than 1.5 million tons per year for catalytic cracking, less than 1 million tons per year for continuous reforming (including aromatic extraction), less than 1.5 million tons per year for hydrocracking, less than 800,000 tons per year for ethylene production via naphtha cracking, and units for producing synthetic ammonia using fixed-bed batch gasification technology is strictly prohibited. For new oil refining projects, capacity reduction is implemented as a form of replacement; for new calcium carbide and urea (one of the products in the synthetic ammonia production chain) projects, equal or reduced capacity replacement is carried out. Efforts are made to accelerate the phasing out of ethylene plants with an annual production capacity of 300,000 tons or less, as well as calcium carbide plants with an annual production capacity of 100,000 tons or less, while stepping up the disposal of idle and underutilized production capacities.