<strong>China: STMA Reports Energy Conservation, Emission Reduction by Tobacco Industry in 2013</strong>

Source from:  TobaccoChina Online 03/17/2014

The State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA) – the regulator of China's tobacco industry – issued on March 20 a report on the work of energy conservation and emission reduction by the tobacco industry of China in 2013, and made arrangements for the work of energy conservation and emission reduction by the tobacco industry in the next step.

The report reveals that in the 2013, the total quantity of energy consumption, water consumption, emission of carbon dioxide, emission of sulfur dioxide, chemical oxygen demand (COD), and ammonia nitrogen emissions by the tobacco industry of China for generating every 10,000 yuan (1,628 U.S. dollars) in value added respectively went down by 5.69 percent, 3.3 percent, 23.4 percent, 8.5 percent and 15.2 percent year-on-year. In the same period, the whole tobacco industry relatively well fulfilled its staged tasks, with the work of energy conservation and emission reduction remaining in a favorable trend of development.

Specifically, cigarette making enterprises saw their average energy consumption for producing every 10,000 cigarettes in the same period decline by 5 percent year-on-year, while leaf tobacco redrying enterprises registered a 2.8 percent reduction in energy consumption for redrying each ton of tobacco sheets, while tows enterprises registered a 6.7 percent reduction in energy consumption for producing each ton of tobacco tow. In the work of reducing the emission of sulfur dioxide, seven provincial-level China Tobacco industrial companies including Shanghai Tobacco Group basically realized the target of zero emission hereof.

The report analyzes that in 2013, all tobacco manufacturing enterprises in China attached greater importance to the work of energy conservation and emission reduction, and relatively well fulfilled staged targets for the work of energy conservation and emission reduction on the part of the tobacco industry.

The report points out that the targets of energy conservation and emission reduction by the tobacco industry of China in 2014 are: the total quantity of energy consumption,  emission of carbon dioxide, emission of sulfur dioxide and chemical oxygen demand (COD), ammonia nitrogen emissions, and emission of oxynitride by the tobacco industry of China for generating every 10,000 yuan (1,628 U.S. dollars) in value added respectively go down by 8 percent, 5 percent, 8 percent, 3 percent, 2 percent and 5 percent year-on-year. Enditem