[Ferro-Alloys.com] China aims to peak CO2 emissions by 2030, achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, with environmentally friendly production

Factories in China will become increasingly green as companies scramble to pursue high-quality development and the nation works hard to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, officials and company executives said.

Xiao Yaqing, minister of industry and information technology, the country's top industry regulator, said that as 2021 is the first year of the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), the nation will make more efforts to cut carbon emissions in the industrial sector and roll out plans for key sectors to achieve the goal of peaking carbon emissions.

Moving back and forth beside an automobile assembly line, Zhang Tianshun conducts vehicle checks before they roll off the production line.

"My job is to check the functionality of seven parts of the car－four windows, front and rear wipers and the sunroof. It takes two minutes to test each vehicle, and I need to handle about 200 cars per day. Things are even busier now than before the holiday," Zhang said.

This year was the first time Zhang spent Spring Festival away from his hometown of Zhumadian, Henan province. The 19-year-old works at Hefei Chang'an Automobile Co Ltd in Anhui province.

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