Introduction:

Recently, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly released the "Implementation Plan for Carbon Peaking in Urban and Rural Construction", which states that carbon emissions in the urban and rural construction sector will peak before 2030. The policy system and institutional mechanisms for green and low-carbon development in urban and rural construction have been basically established; The level of building energy conservation and waste resource utilization has been significantly improved, and the efficiency of energy and resource utilization has reached the international advanced level. By 2030, the utilization rate of urban household waste resources will reach 65%, and the average utilization rate of recycled water in cities across the country will reach 30%.

Relevant departments of the State Council, housing and urban-rural development departments and development and reform commissions of various provinces and autonomous regions, housing and urban-rural development (management) commissions and development and reform commissions of municipalities directly under the central government, housing and urban-rural development bureaus and development and reform commissions of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps:

The Implementation Plan for Carbon Peaking in Urban and Rural Construction has been reviewed and approved by the Leading Group for Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality. It is now issued to you for careful implementation.

Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development

National Development and Reform Commission

June 30, 2022

Implementation Plan for Carbon Peak in Urban and Rural Construction

Urban and rural construction is one of the main areas of carbon emissions. With the rapid advancement of urbanization and deep adjustment of industrial structure, the carbon emissions in the field of urban and rural construction and their proportion in the total carbon emissions of the whole society will further increase. In order to thoroughly implement the decisions and deployments of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on carbon peak and carbon neutrality, control the growth of carbon emissions in urban and rural construction, and effectively do a good job in carbon peak work in urban and rural construction, this implementation plan is formulated in accordance with the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Fully, Accurately and Comprehensively Implementing the New Development Concept and Doing a Good Job in Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality Work" and the "Action Plan for Carbon Peak before 2030".

1、 Overall requirements

（1） Guiding ideology.We should give priority to ecology, conservation and protection, adhere to the principle of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, adhere to the concept of systems, balance development and security, take green and low-carbon development as the guide, promote urban renewal and rural development, accelerate the transformation of urban and rural development methods, improve the quality of green and low-carbon development, and constantly meet the people's needs for a better life.

（2） Working principles

Adhere to systematic planning and step-by-step implementation, strengthen top-level design, enhance result control, reasonably determine work pace, and coordinate efforts to achieve carbon peak. Adhere to local conditions, distinguish between urban, rural, and different climate zones, and scientifically determine energy-saving and carbon reduction requirements. Adhere to innovation led and transformational development, strengthen core technology breakthroughs, improve the technological system, enhance mechanism innovation, and improve the carbon emission reduction management system for urban and rural construction. Adhere to dual wheel drive and joint efforts, fully leverage government leadership and market mechanisms, form effective incentive and restraint mechanisms, implement joint construction and sharing, and coordinate the promotion of various work.

（3） Main objective.By 2030, carbon emissions in the urban and rural construction sector will reach their peak. The policy system and institutional mechanisms for green and low-carbon development in urban and rural construction have been basically established; The level of building energy conservation and waste resource utilization has been significantly improved, and the efficiency of energy resource utilization has reached the international advanced level; More optimized energy structure and methods, and more comprehensive application of renewable energy; Positive progress has been made in the green and low-carbon transformation of urban and rural construction methods, and the basic reversal of "massive construction, massive consumption, and massive emissions" has been achieved; The overall, systematic, and growth of the city has been enhanced, and the problem of "urban diseases" has been preliminarily resolved; The quality of construction and engineering has been further improved, and the quality of living environment has significantly improved; A green lifestyle has been widely formed, and the initial implementation of green and low-carbon operation has been achieved.

By 2060, we strive to achieve a comprehensive green and low-carbon transformation in urban and rural construction methods, complete systematic changes, build a beautiful living environment, modernize carbon emission control in urban and rural construction, and make people's lives happier.

2、 Building Green and Low Carbon Cities

（4） Optimize urban structure and layout. The urban form, density, functional layout, and construction methods have a fundamental and important impact on carbon reduction. Actively carry out the construction of green and low-carbon cities and promote cluster development. The area of each cluster shall not exceed 50 square kilometers, and the average population density within the cluster shall not exceed 10000 people per square kilometer, with a maximum of 15000 people per square kilometer in some areas. Strengthen the overall layout of ecological corridors, landscape viewing corridors, ventilation corridors, waterfront spaces, and urban greenways, leaving sufficient urban river and lake ecological spaces and flood control and drainage spaces. Ecological corridors between clusters should be continuous and have a net width of no less than 100 meters. Promote urban ecological restoration and improve urban ecosystems. Strictly control the construction of super high-rise buildings and generally prohibit the construction of super high-rise residential buildings. Reasonably control the ratio of work to housing in the new city and district, and promote the balanced integration of employment opportunities and residential spaces. Reasonable layout of urban fast trunk transportation, residential distribution transportation, and green slow traffic facilities, the road network density in the main urban area should be greater than 8 kilometers per square kilometer. Strictly manage the demolition of existing buildings, adhere to the promotion of urban renewal from "demolition to retention" to "retention to demolition". Except for illegal buildings and buildings identified as dangerous by professional institutions and without repair and preservation value, small-scale and large-scale centralized demolition of existing buildings should be carried out. The area of demolished buildings within urban renewal units (areas) or projects should not exceed 20% of the total current building area. Revitalize existing housing and reduce various types of vacant housing.

（5） Carry out the construction of green and low-carbon communities. Community is an important place to form a simple, moderate, green, low-carbon, civilized and healthy lifestyle. Promote mixed use neighborhoods with composite functions, advocating for a mixed layout of residential, commercial, and pollution-free industries. According to the "Standards for the Construction of Complete Residential Communities (Trial)", basic public service facilities, convenient commercial service facilities, municipal supporting infrastructure, and public activity spaces should be built to increase the coverage of complete residential communities in prefecture level and above cities to over 60% by 2030. Connect several residential communities through walking and cycling networks to create a fifteen minute living circle. Promote the creation of green communities and integrate the concept of green development throughout the entire process of community planning, construction, and management, with 60% of urban communities meeting the creation requirements first. Explore the construction of zero carbon communities. Encourage property service companies to provide home-based elderly care, housekeeping, childcare, fitness, shopping and other living services to homeowners, meeting their basic living needs within walking distance. Encourage the use of colored household appliances and reduce the use of disposable consumer goods. Encourage green and low-carbon energy consumption methods such as "partial space, partial time", advocate turning off lights at will, and turning off power sockets for appliances such as televisions, air conditioners, and computers when not in use. Encourage the use of new energy vehicles and promote the construction of community charging and swapping facilities.

（6） Comprehensively improve the level of green and low-carbon buildings. We will continue to carry out the action of creating green buildings. By 2025, new urban buildings will fully implement green building standards, and the proportion of star rated green buildings will reach over 30%. New government invested public welfare and large-scale public buildings will all reach one star or above. By 2030, newly-built residential buildings in extremely cold and frigid regions should meet the energy-saving requirements of 83%. In areas with hot summers and cold winters, hot summers and warm winters, and mild temperatures, newly-built residential buildings should meet the energy-saving requirements of 75%, and newly-built public buildings should meet the energy-saving requirements of 78%. Promote the large-scale development of low-carbon buildings and encourage the construction of zero carbon and near zero energy buildings. Strengthen the identification and evaluation of energy-saving renovation, formulate special renovation plans, and renovate all residential buildings with renovation value and conditions. The energy-saving level of the renovated parts should meet the current standards and regulations. Continuously promote the construction of key cities for improving the energy efficiency of public buildings, and by 2030, all key cities at or above the prefecture level will complete their renovation tasks, achieving an overall energy efficiency improvement of over 20% after renovation. Promote energy consumption monitoring and statistical analysis of public buildings, and gradually implement energy consumption quota management. Strengthen the operation and adjustment of key energy consuming equipment such as air conditioning, lighting, and elevators, improve equipment energy efficiency, and achieve a 10% increase in overall energy efficiency of public building electromechanical systems from the current level by 2030.

（7） Constructing green and low-carbon residential buildings. Improve the quality of residential properties, actively develop small and medium-sized ordinary residential units, and restrict the development of super large residential units. Reasonably determine the orientation, window to wall ratio, and shape coefficient of residential buildings based on local climate conditions to reduce energy consumption. Reasonably layout living spaces, encourage large openings and small depths, and fully utilize sunlight and natural ventilation. Promote flexible and adaptable residential space design to reduce resource waste caused by renovation or demolition. Promote the full decoration and delivery of newly-built residential buildings to reduce resource consumption and environmental pollution. Actively promote prefabricated decoration, promote the application technology of modular components such as overall bathroom and kitchen, and realize the detachable and recyclable use of component parts. Improve the maintenance level of shared facilities and equipment, and enhance the level of intelligence. Strengthen the maintenance and management of shared areas in residential buildings to extend their service life.

（8） Improve the operational efficiency of infrastructure. The systematic, intelligent, and eco-friendly construction and stable operation of infrastructure can effectively reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. Implement renovation projects for old heating pipelines that have been in use for over 30 years, strengthen the replacement of insulation materials for heating pipelines, promote the intelligent transformation of heating stations and pipelines, and reduce heat loss in urban heating pipelines by 5 percentage points compared to 2020 by 2030. Carry out a special action to purify sidewalks and construct bicycle lanes, improve supporting facilities such as connecting corridors or underground passages between urban rail transit stations and surrounding buildings, increase the construction of urban bus lanes, improve the operational efficiency and service level of urban public transportation, and steadily increase the proportion of urban green transportation travel. We will comprehensively promote garbage classification, reduction, and resource utilization, improve the system for classified disposal, collection, transportation, and treatment of household waste, and achieve a resource utilization rate of 65% for urban household waste by 2030. Taking into account the characteristics of the city, fully respecting nature, strengthening the effective connection between urban facilities and the ecological background of existing rivers, lakes, etc., adapting measures to local conditions, promoting the construction of sponge cities in a systematic and comprehensive manner, comprehensively adopting the "infiltration, retention, storage, purification, utilization, and discharge" methods, increasing rainwater storage and utilization, and achieving an average permeable area ratio of 45% in urban built-up areas nationwide by 2030. Promoting the construction of water-saving cities, implementing the renovation and transformation of old urban water supply pipelines, promoting pipeline zoning measurement, improving the intelligent management level of water supply pipelines, and striving to control the leakage rate of urban public water supply pipelines within 8% by 2030. Implementing the renovation of sewage collection and treatment facilities and the action of urban sewage resource utilization, the average utilization rate of recycled water in urban areas nationwide will reach 30% by 2030. Accelerating the promotion of urban water use. Renewal and renovation of gas supply pipelines and facilities. Promote urban green lighting, strengthen the management of the entire process of urban lighting planning, design, construction and operation, control excessive lighting and light pollution, and by 2030, the proportion of high-efficiency and energy-saving lamps such as LED will exceed 80%, and more than 30% of cities will have built digital lighting systems. Carry out actions to enhance urban landscaping and greening, improve the urban park system, promote the construction of greenway networks in central and old urban areas, strengthen three-dimensional greening, increase the proportion of local and suitable plant applications, and by 2030, the green space rate in urban built-up areas will reach 38.9%, and the length of greenways in urban built-up areas will exceed 1 kilometer per 10000 people.

（9） Optimize the energy consumption structure of urban construction. Promote the integration of building solar and photovoltaic systems, and strive to achieve a photovoltaic coverage rate of 50% on the roofs of newly constructed public institutions and factories by 2025. Promote the installation of solar photovoltaic systems on the roofs of existing public buildings. Accelerate the promotion of intelligent photovoltaic applications. Actively promote the application of solar thermal buildings in areas with abundant solar energy resources and buildings with stable hot water demand. Promote the application of geothermal and biomass energy according to local conditions, and promote various electric heat pump technologies such as air sources. By 2025, the renewable energy substitution rate for urban buildings will reach 8%. Guide the development of building heating, domestic hot water, cooking, etc. towards electrification, and by 2030, the proportion of building electricity consumption in building energy consumption will exceed 65%. Promote the comprehensive electrification of newly constructed public buildings, with the electrification ratio reaching 20% by 2030. Promote alternative gas products such as heat pump water heaters and high-efficiency electric stoves, and promote the application of high-efficiency DC electrical appliances and equipment. Promote the application of technologies such as smart microgrids, "light storage direct flexible", cold and heat storage, flexible load regulation, virtual power plants, etc., prioritize the consumption of renewable energy electricity, and actively participate in the demand side response of electricity. Explore intelligent group control technology for building electrical equipment, reasonably allocate electricity load while meeting electricity demand, and achieve less capacity increase and no capacity increase for electricity. Based on existing energy infrastructure and economic capacity, explore hydrogen fuel cell distributed cogeneration according to local conditions. Promote the low carbonization of building heat sources, comprehensively utilize waste heat from cogeneration, industrial waste heat, and nuclear power waste heat, and apply them to the fullest according to the actual situation in various regions. Fully utilize the urban thermal and electric heating capacity and improve the coupling ability of urban thermal and electric biomass. Guide buildings in cold regions to achieve ultra-low energy consumption and no longer use municipal centralized heating.

（10） Promote green and low-carbon construction. Vigorously develop prefabricated buildings, promote steel structure residential buildings, and by 2030, the proportion of prefabricated buildings in urban new construction will reach 40%. Promote intelligent construction, cultivate 100 intelligent construction industry bases by 2030, create a number of construction industry Internet platforms, and form a series of landmark products of construction robots. Promote precision processing and refined management of building materials in factories, and reduce the loss rate of building materials on construction sites by 20% compared to 2020 by 2030. Strengthen the control of construction waste on construction sites, and by 2030, the amount of construction waste discharged from new construction sites should not exceed 300 tons per 10000 square meters. Actively promote energy-saving construction equipment, monitor the energy consumption of key equipment, and implement group control management for multiple similar devices. Prioritize the use of building materials products that have obtained green building material certification, establish a government procurement mechanism for green building materials, and promote green building materials in star rated green buildings by 2030. Encourage regions with conditions to use wooden and bamboo building materials. Improve the universality of prefabricated components and parts, promote standardized, low specification, and multi combination design. Promote centralized treatment and graded utilization of construction waste, and achieve a resource utilization rate of 55% for construction waste by 2030.

3、 Building green and low-carbon county towns and rural areas

（11） Enhance the green and low-carbon level of the county town. Carry out the construction of green and low-carbon county towns, and build an intensive and economical county town pattern with a pleasant scale. Fully utilize natural conditions and adapt to the original terrain and landforms to achieve integration and coordination between the county town and the natural environment. Combining the practical implementation of a distributed infrastructure layout that combines large-scale decentralization with small-scale concentration, we aim to build green and energy-saving infrastructure. We should strengthen the density and intensity control of county town construction according to local conditions. The population density of the built-up areas of county towns located in ecological functional areas and major agricultural product producing areas should be controlled between 6000-10000 people/square kilometer, and the ratio of total building area to construction land should be controlled between 0.6-0.8; The building height should match the firefighting and rescue capabilities. Newly built residential buildings should mainly have 6 floors, with a maximum of 18 floors. Residential buildings with 6 floors or less should account for no less than 70% of the total building area; If it is necessary to construct residential buildings with more than 18 floors, strict and sufficient demonstration should be conducted, and the construction of fire emergency and municipal supporting facilities should be ensured to be in place; Promote "narrow roads, dense road networks, and small blocks", with the red line width of roads within the county town not exceeding 40 meters, the area of concentrated hard ground in squares not exceeding 2 hectares, and the pedestrian network should be continuous and unobstructed.

（12） Create a natural and compact rural layout. Reasonably layout rural construction, protect rural ecological environment, and reduce resource and energy consumption. Carry out the construction of green and low-carbon villages to improve the ecological and environmental quality of rural areas. The site selection for the construction of farmhouses and villages should be safe and reliable, in line with the terrain and landforms, and protect the ecological network of mountains, waters, forests, fields, lakes, grasses, and sands. Encourage the construction of new farmhouses to gather in villages with well-developed infrastructure, superior natural conditions, complete public service facilities, and beautiful landscape environments. The farmhouse community should be natural, compact, and orderly.

（13） Promote the construction of green and low-carbon rural houses. Improve the level of green and low-carbon design and construction of rural houses, enhance their energy efficiency, and build a batch of green rural houses by 2030. Encourage the construction of star rated green and zero carbon rural houses. Develop and improve relevant standards for rural housing construction in accordance with the requirements of structural safety, functional completeness, energy conservation, and carbon reduction. Guide the implementation of relevant standards such as the "Energy saving Design Standards for Rural Residential Buildings" in the construction of new rural houses, improve energy-saving measures for rural houses, and promote the use of renewable energy such as solar greenhouses according to local conditions. Promote the use of high-efficiency lighting, stoves and other facilities and equipment. Encourage the use of local materials and local materials, promote the use of green building materials, and encourage the use of prefabricated steel structures, wooden structures, and other construction methods. Vigorously promote clean heating in rural areas of northern China. Actively promote energy-saving renovation of rural houses in winter clean heating projects in northern regions, improve the comfort of permanent rooms, and achieve an overall energy efficiency improvement of over 30% after renovation.

（14） Promote low-carbon treatment of household waste and sewage. Promote rural sewage treatment, reasonably determine discharge standards, and promote the local resource utilization of rural domestic sewage. Adapt measures to local conditions, promote small-scale, ecological, and decentralized sewage treatment processes, and promote micro power, low-energy consumption, and low-cost operation modes. Promote the classification and treatment of rural household waste, advocate for the resource utilization of rural household waste, and reduce the amount of rural household waste generated from the source.

（15） Promote the application of renewable energy. Promote the application of renewable energy such as solar energy, geothermal energy, air thermal energy, biomass energy, etc. in rural gas supply, heating, and power supply. Vigorously promote the installation of solar photovoltaic systems on roofs of farmhouses, abandoned land in courtyards, and agricultural facilities. Promote further improvement of electrification level in rural areas, and encourage electrification of energy consumption such as cooking, heating, lighting, transportation, and hot water. Fully utilize solar thermal systems to provide domestic hot water and encourage the use of solar stoves and other equipment.

4、 Strengthen safeguard measures

（16） Establish and improve laws, regulations, and standard measurement systems.Promote the improvement of laws and regulations related to carbon peaking in urban and rural construction, establish and improve carbon emission management systems, and clarify responsible parties. Establish a comprehensive energy-saving and carbon reduction standard measurement system, and develop and improve standards for green buildings, zero carbon buildings, and green construction. Encourage regions with the necessary conditions to establish mandatory and recommended standards for local engineering construction that are higher than national standards. Based on the requirements of carbon emission control targets and industrial structure, various regions reasonably determine the carbon emission control targets for urban and rural construction. Establish a green and low-carbon indicator system for urban, county, community, administrative village, and residential development projects. Improve the energy-saving supervision platform for public buildings at the provincial and municipal levels, promote the sharing of energy consumption data, and strengthen the provision and management of measuring instruments in the construction field. Strengthen the investigation and analysis of permanent residents in cities, county towns, and rural areas.

（17） Build a green and low-carbon transformation and development model.With the goal of green and low-carbon development, we will establish a vertical to bottom, horizontal to edge, co construction, co governance, and shared development model, and improve the government led, group driven, and social participation mechanisms. Establish and improve the urban physical examination and evaluation system of "annual physical examination and five-year evaluation". Establish an evaluation mechanism for rural construction. Utilize Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology and City Information Modeling (CIM) platforms to promote the construction of digital buildings and digital twin cities, and accelerate the digital transformation of urban and rural construction. Vigorously develop the energy-saving service industry, promote contract energy management, and explore a "one-stop" comprehensive service model for energy-saving consulting, diagnosis, design, financing, renovation, and custody.

（18） Establish a mechanism for integrating industry, academia, and research.Organize basic research, key core technology breakthroughs, engineering demonstrations, and industrial applications to promote the coordinated development of scientific and technological research and development, achievement transformation, and industrial cultivation. Integrate and optimize industry, academia, research and technological resources, promote the construction of high-level innovation teams and platforms, and strengthen the cultivation of innovative leading enterprises. Encourage and support leading enterprises to collaborate with universities, research institutes, industrial parks, financial institutions, and other forces to form various forms of innovation alliances such as industrial technology innovation alliances. Encourage universities to add courses related to carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and strengthen the construction of talent teams.

（19） Improve financial and fiscal support policies.Improve relevant fiscal policies to support carbon peaking in urban and rural construction, and implement tax incentives. Improve the government procurement demand standards for green buildings and green building materials, and promote the application of green buildings and green building materials in the field of government procurement. Strengthen green finance support, encourage banking and financial institutions to innovate credit products and services to support energy conservation and carbon reduction in urban and rural construction under the principles of controllable risks and commercial autonomy. Encourage developers to purchase fully furnished residential quality insurance, strengthen insurance support, and leverage the risk protection role of green insurance products. Reasonably open up the market for investment, construction, and operation of urban infrastructure, and attract social capital investment through means such as franchising and government procurement of services. Improve the policies of differential electricity prices, time of use electricity prices, and tiered electricity prices for residents, and accelerate the promotion of heating metering and charging based on heating capacity.

5、 Strengthen organizational implementation

（20） Strengthen organizational leadership. Under the leadership of the Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality Working Group, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments have strengthened cooperation and formed a joint force. Each region and relevant department should strengthen coordination, scientifically formulate detailed implementation plans for carbon peak in urban and rural construction, clarify task objectives, and develop a list of responsibilities.

（21） Strengthen task implementation.

Each region and relevant department should clarify their responsibilities, implement and refine various tasks, timely summarize good experiences and practices, and solidly promote related work. The housing and urban-rural development, development and reform departments of each province (region, city) shall report the implementation situation of the current year to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development and the National Development and Reform Commission before the end of November each year.

（22） Increase training and publicity.Making carbon peak and carbon neutrality an important part of cadre training in the field of urban and rural construction, and enhancing the ability for green and low-carbon development. Through various methods such as business training, competitions, and experience exchanges, we aim to improve the professional skills of talent in planning, design, construction, and operation related units and enterprises. Intensify the promotion of excellent projects and typical cases, and cooperate with the implementation of activities such as "National Energy Conservation Action" and "Energy Conservation Promotion Week". Develop a green lifestyle brochure, actively promote green and low-carbon lifestyles, mobilize all sectors of society to participate in carbon reduction actions, and create a strong atmosphere of support from all sectors of society and active participation from the masses. Carry out voluntary commitments for emission reduction and guide the public to consciously fulfill their responsibilities for energy conservation and emission reduction.

Secretariat of the Office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development

Issued on July 4th, 2022