According to the State Administration for Market Regulation, a few days ago, the State Administration for Market Regulation and the National Standards Committee released the foreign language versions of 16 national standards in the field of energy conservation, including the "Limited Values of Electricity Consumption and Energy Efficiency Levels for Household Refrigerator", including household refrigerators, electric washing machines, Dishwashers, rice cookers, smart toilets, squatting toilets, LED products for indoor lighting and many other key product categories in my country's foreign trade.
According to the State Administration for Market Regulation, energy-saving standards are an important part of the national energy-saving system and an effective means to improve economic quality and efficiency, promote green, low-carbon and circular development, and build ecological civilization. Mandatory energy efficiency standards are energy conservation standards that stipulate the minimum energy efficiency requirements for energy-consuming products and equipment to enter the Chinese market. The goal of peaking and carbon neutrality provides strong support.
It is understood that my country started to study energy efficiency standards in the mid-1980s. The current effective mandatory product energy efficiency standards have reached 75, and the number of standards has achieved international leadership. The energy efficiency standard indicators of typical products such as room air conditioners and electric motors have reached the international advanced level. From 2016 to 2020, China issued 26 mandatory energy efficiency standards for products and equipment, saving 49 billion kWh of electricity annually, equivalent to 2.86 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
The State Administration for Market Regulation said that the release of the 16 national standards in the field of energy conservation in foreign language responded in a timely manner to the CPC Central Committee and the State Council's energy conservation decisions and deployments on carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, highlighting the normative leadership and source control of my country's advanced energy conservation standards. It will help my country to carry out international energy efficiency standardization cooperation and support the realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
In the next step, the State Administration for Market Regulation and the National Standards Committee will speed up the improvement of the standard system in the related fields of "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality", continue to strengthen the formulation of the foreign language version of my country's existing green and low-carbon standards, promote the coordination of domestic and international standards, and promote economic and social Develop a comprehensive green transition and contribute more Chinese experience and Chinese solutions to the global response to climate change.