Regulations of Shanghai Municipality on the Conservation of Energy Resources

Regulations of Shanghai Municipality on the Conservation of Energy Resources

September 22, 1998

Chapter I General Provisions
　
Article 1 With a view to promoting energy conservation in a social scope, raising the rate of effective utilization of energy, protecting the environment and implementing the strategy of sustainable development, these Regulations are formulated in accordance with the Law of the People' s Republic of China on the Conservation of Energy Resources and other laws and administrative regulations, and in the light of actual circumstances of this Municipality.
　
Article 2 The energy resources as mentioned in these Regulations refer to coal, crude oil, natural gas, electric power, coke, coal gas, heating power, refined oil, liquefied petroleum gas, biomass energy and all sources from which useful energy is obtained either directly or by means of processing and conversion.
The energy conservation as mentioned in these Regulations refers to the strengthening of management of energy use, the adoption of such measures that are technologically practicable, economically reasonable and socially and environmentally acceptable, with the aim of reducing the loss and waste in every link from energy production to energy consumption, and of utilizing energy resources move effectively and more rationally.
　
Article 3 These Regulations are applicable to the energy conservation and the related administrative activities within the administrative areas of this municipality.
　
Article 4 The energy conservation work of this municipality shall follow the principles of macro control and regulation, management in accordance with law, progress in technology, reduction of consumption, rising of efficiency, mass participation and effective supervision.
　
Article 5 The municipal and district/county people' s governments shall map out, in conformity with the targets of the national economy and social development of this Municipality, an energy conservation plan to regulate, in a rational way, the industrial structure, the enterprise structure, the product structure and the structure of energy consumption, to advance energy-saving techniques, to reduce per-unit-of-output-value energy consumption and per-unit-of-product energy consumption, to improve the exploitation, processing, conversion, transportation and supply of energy recourses to raise progressively rate of effective utilization of energy and to promote the development of national economy towards the one of energy-saving pattern.
　
Article 6 This Municipality encourages the development and utilization of new energy sources and regenerable energy sources, the establishment and perfection of the energy-saving technical service system, and the cultivation and standardization of energy-saving technology markets, and the industrialization of high and new technology of energy-saving products.
　
Article 7 In all trades and professions, the advocating and education about energy conservation shall be strengthened, the scientific knowledge of energy conservation shall be popularized the energy conservation consciousness of all the people shall be heightened, and the whole course of energy conservation work from energy production to energy consumption shall be promoted.
Every unit and every individual person shall perform the duty to conserve energy and have the right to inform against any act of squandering energy resources.
　
Article 8 The Shanghai Municipal Economic Commission (hereinafter referred to as the SMEC) is the energy conservation administrative department in charge of the supervision and administration of the energy conservation work within the areas of this municipality.
The administrative departments in charge of energy conservation of the district/county people' s governments, professionally guided by the SMEC, shall be responsible for the supervision and administration of the energy conservation work within their respective administrative area.
The Shanghai Municipal Energy Conservation Supervisory Center (hereinafter referred to the SMECSC) under the SMEC is responsible for the day-to-day supervisory work of energy conservation and is authorized to enforce administrative punishments in line with these Regulations.
　
Article 9 Municipal administrative departments in charge of planning, science and technology, construction, environmental protection, technical supervision, statistics and finance shall coordinate to accomplish the work of energy conservation according to their respective duties.

Chapter II Administration of Energy Conservation
　
Article 10 The municipal and district/county people' s governments shall strengthen their leadership over the energy conservation work and, in the light of the targets of energy conservation, shall periodically deploy, coordinate, supervise, examine and promote the energy conservation work including the rational utilization of energy resources.
　
Article 11 This municipality encourages and supports the industrial development of high added value and low energy consumption industries, while the high energy consuming industry shall be regulated step by step in a planned way or be urged to accelerate the technological transformation to reduce energy consumption.
　
Article 12 The feasibility research report on any project involving investment with fixed assets shall include a special-subject exposition on rational energy utilization or an
Article (chapter) focusing on energy conservation. The high energy-consuming projects shall be evaluated by qualified consulting services, and the standards of high energy consumption shall be set by the SMEC.
The designing and building of the project involving investment with fixed assets shall conform to the standards of rational energy utilization and the design norm of energy conservation.
The administrative organs responsible for examination and approval according to law shall not approve the building of the projects that fail to meet the standards of rational energy utilization and the requirements of design norm of energy conservation, and those projects that fail to meet the standards of rational energy utilization and the design norm of energy conservation upon their completion shall not be checked and accepted.
　
Article 13 The SMEC, jointly with other related departments, shall, on the basis of the scientific and rational principle, set the per-unit-of-product energy consumption quota for the high energy-consuming products in the course of production in this municipality.
The municipal technical supervisory departments may, on the principle of advanced technology and rational economy, organize the formulating of local standards in the fields where the State and trade standards of energy conservation have not yet been worked out, and shall constantly improve and perfect such standards.
　
Article 14 The units that produce products featuring higher energy consumption must follow the per-unit-of-product energy consumption quota set according to law.
　
Article 15 The units producing or dealing in energy and the units consuming energy shall consolidate their management of energy measurement in accordance with the Metrologies Law of the People' s Republic of China and the relevant stipulations and be equipped with energy metrological apparatuses in the light of the situation of their energy consumption.
　
Article 16 The statistical departments shall, jointly with other related departments, do well in the statistical work of energy consumption and utilization, and issue bulletins on the per-unit-of-product energy consumption and other information in terms of major energy consuming products.
The units producing and dealing in energy and the units consuming energy shall strengthen the system of energy consumption statistics and energy utilization analysis.
　
Article 17 This municipality shall encourage the implementation of centralized heating and cooling systems in the newly developed areas and the sections of the old town area planned for reconstruction.
　
Article 18 This municipality encourages the use of clean energy.
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