The energy-saving and environmental protection industry is a typical green industry, covering multiple fields such as energy conservation, energy utilization efficiency improvement, pollution prevention and control, ecological protection and restoration, and resource recycling. Strengthening, optimizing, and expanding the energy-saving and environmental protection industry is not only an important measure to build a resource-saving and environmentally friendly society, but also an inevitable choice to implement the new development concept and promote high-quality economic development. Currently, although China's energy conservation and environmental protection industry has entered a fast lane and achieved a series of achievements, there is still a significant gap compared to the goals of ecological civilization construction in the new era and the requirements of high-quality economic development. It faces a series of prominent problems such as low industrial concentration, heavy pollution control tasks, insufficient business model innovation, funding shortage, and weak technological innovation momentum. We should face the gap squarely, focus on solving the prominent problems faced in the development of energy conservation and environmental protection industries, and promote high-quality economic development in our country.
Vigorously promote professional integration. At present, China's energy-saving and environmental protection industry is mainly composed of small and medium-sized enterprises, with low industrial concentration and obvious characteristics of small, scattered, and weak. There is an urgent need to cultivate large leading enterprises and improve the concentration of China's energy-saving and environmental protection industry. From the historical experience of the development of energy-saving and environmental protection industries in developed countries, it is necessary to vigorously promote professional integration to cultivate large leading enterprises and enhance industrial concentration. Mainly relying on market forces to support advantageous enterprises in mergers and acquisitions, expanding and strengthening, achieving optimized resource allocation and reshaping the industrial landscape. We should fully leverage the leading and driving role of large enterprises, enhance their ability to promote resource integration, expand industrial scale, and thereby enhance the promoting role of energy conservation and environmental protection industries in high-quality development. Actively promote the deep integration of energy-saving and environmental protection industries with new generation information technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence, explore the implementation of smart energy management and smart environmental monitoring, and promote the development of energy-saving and environmental protection industries towards intensification, standardization, and intelligence.
Strengthen source reduction and full process control. Pollution prevention and control is one of the important goals for developing energy-saving and environmental protection industries. At present, the role of China's energy-saving and environmental protection industry in pollution prevention and control is still relatively limited, and there is a common phenomenon of emphasizing end of pipe treatment and neglecting source control. To fundamentally solve this problem, on the one hand, it is necessary to do a good job in top-level design and overall planning, strengthen the coordination between end of pipe governance measures and source reduction measures, and reasonably formulate comprehensive solutions; On the other hand, it is necessary to increase the innovation of core technologies in relevant enterprises, and achieve full process control of source reduction and pollutant emissions through technological innovation.

Actively promote third-party governance of environmental pollution. Third party governance refers to polluters entrusting environmental service companies to carry out pollution control by paying or paying fees as agreed in the contract. Promoting third-party governance of environmental pollution is an important measure to adapt to the profound changes in China's current environmental protection situation and the profound changes in environmental services and regulatory systems and mechanisms. We should adhere to market-oriented operations, respect the status of enterprises as the main body, create a good market environment, actively cultivate sustainable business models, and avoid "matching up" against the wishes of enterprises. Drawing on the mature experience of the contract energy management model, the contract energy management mechanism will be introduced into the environmental pollution control industry to promote the healthy development of third-party environmental pollution control.
Develop and strengthen green finance. The energy-saving and environmental protection industry belongs to the heavy asset industry, which has the characteristics of large investment, long payback period, low return rate, and significant public welfare characteristics. China's energy-saving and environmental protection enterprises generally face prominent problems such as difficulty and high financing costs, which seriously restrict industrial development. To strengthen, optimize, and expand the energy-saving and environmental protection industry, it is necessary to develop green finance, construct a green credit policy system, and form loan incentive and constraint mechanisms that are conducive to the development of the energy-saving and environmental protection industry. Explore the development of green bond indices, green stock indices, and related financial derivative products, and encourage eligible energy-saving and environmental protection enterprises to issue green bonds; Fully utilize the capital market, establish energy-saving and environmental protection industries and green development funds, and encourage and support social capital to participate in the development of energy-saving and environmental protection industries.
Coordinate and promote the research and development of major technologies and the transformation of achievements. The lack of technological innovation motivation, low level, insufficient originality, and low level of achievement transformation are important factors that constrain the strength, optimization, and expansion of China's energy conservation and environmental protection industry. We should improve the incentive mechanism and policies for scientific and technological innovation, fully leverage the leading role of national special funds, do a good job in the overall planning of scientific and technological innovation in the energy conservation and environmental protection industry, vigorously promote applied basic research and key core technology innovation, and strive to accelerate the development of the industry through breakthroughs in core technologies. Based on large leading enterprises, we will strengthen the construction of innovation platforms, support leading enterprises to take the lead in undertaking national science and technology projects for energy conservation and environmental protection, and promote the construction of national and provincial energy conservation and environmental protection engineering (technology) research centers, key laboratories, and enterprise technology innovation centers. Build a group of energy-saving and environmental protection technology innovation alliances and information exchange platforms led by enterprises and participated by universities and research institutes to accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.