Beijing: Obsolete 515,000 old vehicles in two years

According to the person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, in 2011 and 2012, the city has cumulatively eliminated 515,000 old vehicles. At present, the goal of eliminating 400,000 old vehicles proposed by the city's "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" for environmental protection has been exceeded. The Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau stated whether the continuation of the old motor vehicle elimination and reward policy will be announced early next year.

PM2.5 will be greatly reduced

The person in charge of the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau said that monitoring analysis showed that the old motor vehicles have a "proportionate" contribution to the city's air pollution. According to analysis, about 22% of the city's PM2.5 emissions are from motor vehicles. Although the number of motor vehicles used for more than 8 years only accounts for 20% of the total number of motor vehicles in the city, the pollution emitted by them accounts for more than 60% of the total amount of pollution emissions from motor vehicles. “The number of vehicles discharged from a country’s “I” emission standard is several times that of the “National V” standard.” Experts said that the elimination of 515,000 old vehicles will significantly reduce the concentration of PM2.5 in the city, and the city’s performance will be even greater. obvious.

Next year's elimination incentive policy will be set at the beginning of the year

"In order to promote the elimination of old cars, this year the city introduced a policy of elimination and replacement of old cars." The person in charge of the environmental protection department told reporters that the old cars will be eliminated and updated, and owners will receive a maximum of $14,500 in government incentives. If the owner replaces a new car with a specified brand or model, the relevant car company will provide additional incentives based on the market price.

At the end of the year, this year's aging motor vehicle elimination update incentive policy will expire next weekend, and the number of second-hand car transfers, scrapped, etc. will begin to rise rapidly. Statistics on the old motor vehicle market in Beijing indicate that the number of transfers in the first week of December increased by 13.5% from the previous week. And some of Beijing’s motor vehicle scrap processing companies have also recently taken orders.

The Beijing Economic and Exchange Bureau also issued a notice to remind owners of old vehicles to phase out government grants, whichever occurs when the vehicle’s files are written off or transferred out. Owners wishing to receive government grants and incentives from car companies should complete the vehicle management formalities by the end of this month, submit the subsidy application through the website, and handle them by the end of January next year. It is expected that the number of people handled this week and next week will surge.

The Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau stated whether the continuation of the old motor vehicle elimination and reward policy will be announced early next year.

Exceeding the task of environmental protection and emission reduction this year

According to the person in charge of the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, due to the rapid development of the city, the increase in pollution caused by the new population is huge. In the past two years, the city’s urban permanent population has grown at an average annual rate of nearly 550,000 people, which is comparable to that of a medium-sized urban population. “The newly added population has resulted in more than 16,000 tons of new chemical oxygen demand and more than 2,000 tons of new nitrogen oxides.” Increasing population, land resources are increasingly scarce, making the construction of environmental protection facilities more and more difficult, urban sewage treatment plants, Site selection such as garbage disposal sites is obviously limited.

According to reports, this year's emission reduction targets set by the city are 2%, 3%, 2%, and 2% of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, chemical oxygen demand, and ammonia nitrogen emissions, respectively, compared with 2011. The person in charge of the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau said that according to the analysis of the progress of emission reduction work this year, it is expected that the task of emission reduction will be completed again in the year. Last year, the emissions of the four major pollutants were only reduced in this city and Shanghai.