Minister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu: Guiding More Financial Resources to Precisely Support Private Enterprise Green and Low-Carbon Development

People’s Financial News, March 21 — On March 21, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment held a symposium to support the green and low-carbon development of private enterprises. The meeting listened to policy needs from private enterprise representatives, jointly studied countermeasures, and promoted the green and low-carbon development of private enterprises. Minister Huang Runqiu presided over the meeting and delivered a speech. Huang emphasized the need to further increase support, optimize institutional supply and policy environment, and continuously improve the green development level of private enterprises.

He called for deepening market mechanism construction, optimizing resource and environmental factor allocation, fully leveraging carbon pricing functions, and continuously advancing reforms in pollution rights trading to provide a fairer, more transparent, and predictable market environment for the green transformation of private enterprises.

Huang also stressed strengthening fiscal and tax policy guidance, innovating the use of fiscal funds, implementing and improving green tax policies, optimizing green pricing mechanisms, and reducing the transformation costs for private enterprises.

He highlighted the importance of vigorously developing green finance, establishing a coordinated promotion mechanism for green and low-carbon projects, innovating investment and financing models, improving green financial standards, and guiding more financial resources to precisely support the green and low-carbon development of private enterprises.

Additionally, he called for standardizing corporate environmental information disclosure and credit evaluation, promoting environmental information interconnection, and providing more comprehensive credit enhancement services for private enterprises.

Finally, Huang emphasized strengthening technological innovation empowerment, encouraging participation in national science and technology projects, establishing departmental special projects, actively supporting the application and promotion of new technologies, and continuously stimulating the intrinsic motivation of private enterprises for green transformation.