Zero carbon is a ledger you file
A park is one line on it
From 2026 the comprehensive carbon-peaking and carbon-neutrality assessment starts for provincial Party committees and governments. Indicators travel down from province to city and land on county industry, buildings, transport, public institutions and forest land. We open that ledger: where the pressure comes from, which indicators to file, which domains they split into, what we can deliver, what you can apply for, and where the money comes from.
A chain from the General Offices to the county
Many counties ask what the centre actually wants. The answer sits in four documents, linked as one transmission chain.
Set the assessment, pin the duty
The comprehensive assessment measures set 5 control indicators plus 9 supporting indicators. Results are an important reference for comprehensive evaluation, appointment and supervision of provincial leadership teams and relevant officials. The energy-conservation opinions state in parallel that Party committees and governments at every local level take overall responsibility for energy conservation and carbon reduction in their jurisdiction, with the principal leader as the first person accountable.
Set the path, issue the tools
The dual-control system work plan allocates indicators to provinces; provinces may further break them down to cities and key enterprises, and cities and provinces are to build carbon-budget management. The 15th Five-Year Plan carbon-peaking action plan sets concrete tasks and quantified targets for zero-carbon parks, zero-carbon factories, green-power direct connection and public institutions.
Break down again, open provincial tracks
Each province writes a provincial carbon-peaking action plan, turning national indicators into five-year and annual targets and further splitting them to prefecture-level cities. Provinces also typically open provincial zero-carbon park, near-zero-carbon city and low-carbon park tracks as a national reserve pool.
Take on targets, put projects on the table
Counties are not the direct object of the assessment, yet they take on targets, land projects and file materials. Provincial documents already encourage county regions and development zones to run carbon-budget management; tracks such as near-zero-carbon cities take the whole county (city, district) as the object and the county government as the applicant.
5 control + 9 supporting indicators: where a county can actually move the needle
The indicators sit at the province; the levers sit in the county. Below, each item of the assessment system lists the responsible ministry, the county-level lever, and our matching capability.
Eight domains: indicators land on projects
Each card covers three things only: which indicator, which policy lever, and what we do. Solution detail lives on the matching solution pages — it is not repeated here.
Service scope: engineering and platform in one hand, data, policy and ecosystem in the other
Counties need more than abatement projects. They need targets set, indicators calculated, projects filed, money raised, firms attracted, and results told. Both hands have to be on the table.
The left hand is MeetCarbon Cloud and engineering: from a regional supervision base to PV-storage-charging, building retrofits and public-institution hosting — plans and invest-build-operate. The right hand is MeetCarbon Insight: City Window, policy services, park services, investment promotion, plus data, experts and events. Together they are an end-to-end dual-carbon brain for the county, a full workflow around a system.
Existing site solutions and products, composed as needed; open a card for detail
Digital base and supervision
One platform ties the regional ledger, line-item scoring and project carbon evaluation — numbers in one methodology.
- Carbon-emissions supervision platformCollect, account, file, score, alert and remediate — plus multi-role cockpits
- Public-institution supervisionEnergy quotas, graded scoring and filings to government-affairs methodology
- Project carbon evaluationMeets carbon-evaluation requirements inside energy-conservation review of fixed-asset projects
- Energy-carbon product matrixEMS, carbon management, factor library, VPP and more, composed as needed
Energy and scene engineering
More than a paper plan: invest-build-operate, with us or partners funding first when needed.
- Regional energy hostingRoles, revenue stack and a path for the local platform company to take on whole-district hosting
- Energy, chemicals and new energyPV, storage, clean heat and source–load matching
- Smart O&M × PV-storage-chargingCentral monitoring and O&M of built assets, protecting generation and returns
- Buildings and parksExisting-building retrofits and park energy-carbon management
- Transport and charging/swappingCharging/swapping networks and parking-plus-charging operations
- Manufacturing and park enterprisesEnergy-carbon management for above-scale firms and zero-carbon factory support
Public and scene operations
Make abatement something residents and firms can feel — then the results can be told.
- Zero-carbon cardRegional carbon accounts and entitlements for offices, campuses, hospitals and communities
- Low-carbon communityCommunity-side scenes and resident carbon-benefit operations
- Zero-carbon organisationOrganisation-level accounting and neutrality for offices and public units
- Zero-carbon MICEEvent carbon accounting, reduction and neutrality statements
Advisory and talent
Planning, accounting, finance and training — the specialist hands counties most lack.
- Carbon-management consultingInventories, verification, carbon-asset development and compliance support
- ESG consultingESG systems and reports for SOEs and platform companies
- Green-finance consultingProject packaging, green credit and bonds, climate-finance matching
- Training and capability buildingDual-carbon training and assessment coaching for officials and enterprises
Digital base: stand up the ledger first, then talk about how much to cut
Target breakdown, line-item scoring, project review and outward disclosure share one data base. Without a unified base, every later step has to reconcile numbers again.
Regional GHG inventory
Five domains: energy, industrial processes, agriculture, LULUCF and waste — map the jurisdiction’s emissions.
Regional and unit carbon accounts
One master ledger for the region, sub-ledgers for key energy-using and emitting units — line targets and enterprise duty line up.
Electricity-to-carbon model
Use electricity as the main lever to estimate emissions, so you are not waiting for year-end statistics.
Carbon-budget management
Compile and dynamically adjust an annual carbon budget; quarterly progress analysis and target forecasts, matching the dual-control work plan.
Project carbon evaluation
Embed carbon evaluation in energy-conservation review of fixed-asset investment projects; keep a project carbon-evaluation ledger.
Product carbon footprint and carbon labelling
For export-oriented firms in the jurisdiction: product carbon-footprint accounting and carbon-label readiness for export compliance.
One-minute self-check: which pilots can our county file now
Answer four questions to see which tracks currently meet the bar and in what order to push them. Criteria come entirely from public eligibility rules; the result is a first screen only.
Hard bar for a national zero-carbon park; provincial zones should in principle be on the latest China Development Zone Catalogue
Sets the room for zero-carbon factories, green-power direct connection and industrial energy retrofits
Forest stock growth is one of nine supporting indicators; sinks count toward scores and can be monetised
The number of offices, schools and hospitals decides how fast the public-institution line can scale
Once all four are selected, you will see eligible tracks and a suggested order.
A six-step path: from diagnostic to verification
Each step states our actions, government cooperation and deliverables, so the opening conversation is not a giant platform and a giant investment.
Diagnostic survey
- Collect jurisdictional energy and emissions data; first-pass accounting across five domains
- Map key energy-using units, public institutions, parks and enterprises
- Against the assessment indicator system, find the three to five largest gaps
- Name a lead department and a liaison
- Coordinate statistics, development-and-reform, industry-and-IT and government-affairs data
Targets and planning
- Back-calculate five-year and annual county targets from province/city assignments
- Compile a regional GHG inventory; pilot an annual carbon budget
- Form a domain-by-domain roadmap and a priority project list
- Confirm the methodology for taking on targets
- Hold a joint departmental meeting to confirm roles
Pilot applications
- Benchmark eligibility and indicator requirements track by track
- Draft the application, construction plan and indicator calculations
- Prepare defence and expert-review materials
- Issue applicant documents and commitments
- Coordinate briefings with higher competent authorities
Engineering construction
- Design and delivery of PV, storage, charging/swapping and energy retrofits
- Take on via energy-cost hosting or energy-performance contracting; fund first when needed
- Full-process management of construction, grid connection and acceptance
- Coordinate sites and rooftop resources
- Support filing, grid connection and construction permits
Platform and data
- Deploy regional energy-carbon supervision and a carbon ledger; ingest metering and monitoring data
- Configure line-item scoring, alerts and a filing cabin
- Open cockpits by role and connect to government-affairs systems
- Data authorisation and interface coordination
- Confirm scoring methodology and report formats
Operations and verification
- Asset O&M and continuous efficiency improvement
- Carbon-asset development: sinks, carbon-benefit programs, green power, GECs and demand response
- Annual assessment-pack preparation and results-display support
- Confirm annual assessment data
- Connect policy and funding
Three phases: you need not cover the whole jurisdiction at once
Stand up the ledger and run a pilot first, then talk about scale-out and replication. Spreading the whole jurisdiction from day one usually stalls on data and money.
Start: stand up the ledger + one pilot
A ledger to rely on, and one scene you can show
- Finish the diagnostic and confirm how targets are taken on
- Compile a GHG inventory; pilot a carbon budget
- Pick one pilot scene and run it through: public-institution hosting or park energy-carbon first
- Finish a first-pass of eligible tracks and talk with the province and city
Form: line-item scale-out + applications
Lines rolled out; pilot materials filed
- Scale out public institutions, parks, transport and buildings by line
- Go live with the regional energy-carbon supervision platform; ingest line data
- Complete applications for one or two tracks in window
- Match priority projects to fiscal, financial and market funding
Operate: whole-jurisdiction operations + replicate outward
From a set of projects to an operating system
- Bring whole-jurisdiction assets under unified operations; keep improving efficiency
- Carbon-asset development forms stable revenue and funds later investment
- Annual assessment packs become routine output
- Standard contracts and playbooks settle; replicate to neighbouring counties
Three kinds of money: fiscal and debt, finance, market
The most realistic county concern is a tight budget. The three paths are not mutually exclusive. Public-institution hosting can start without fiscal outlay first.
Fiscal and debt funds
Needs project maturity and compliant materials; earlier planning is better.
- Central budget investmentFile against the annual investment plan; must match supported directions and preconditions
- Ultra-long special treasury bondsSupport energy-conservation and carbon-reduction retrofits; Hunan and other provincial documents already name this as pursuable
- Local-government special bondsNeed expected returns and a repayment source; fit projects with operating cash flow
- Provincial budget fundsFile against each province’s annual support policy
Green finance
The key is packing the project as an asset financial institutions can read.
- Green creditProject loans or retrofit loans, backed by energy-savings and return calculations
- Green bonds and fundsFit scaled asset packages; local platform companies can sponsor
- Climate investment-and-finance pilotsThe first national batch already includes several district-level entities; pursue policy and funding together
- Green insuranceCover energy savings and equipment performance; lower the financing bar
Market mechanisms
The easiest path for a county to start when the budget is tight.
- Energy-cost hostingThe service provider funds the retrofit first and recovers from saved energy costs; hosted contracts typically last at least 5 years and not more than 10
- Green power and GECsCut Scope 2 via green-power trading and GEC retirement, and build an offtake ledger
- CCER and local carbon-benefit programsMonetise forestry sinks, resident low-carbon behaviour and similar abatement
- Virtual power plants and demand responseAggregate flexible load into the power market for regulation revenue
What we have actually done at county level
Described by service content; unauthorised data and amounts are not disclosed.
Whole-district public-institution survey and energy-cost hosting
Started from a whole-district public-institution directory and energy-bill survey, ran one pilot scene through, then scaled by line, and built district-level energy-carbon supervision in parallel so the operating ledger and the supervision score share one methodology.
Whole-park zero-carbon scheme and application materials
Benchmarked national zero-carbon park core and guiding indicators item by item, issued a feasibility judgement first, then drafted the construction plan and application, and matched priority projects to funding channels.
Whole-jurisdiction energy-carbon plan and digital-base design
Used a regional GHG inventory and carbon ledger as the base, formed a phased roadmap and priority project list, and put target breakdown, line-item scoring and project review on the same data.
Six questions county leaders ask most
The direct object of the measures is provincial (autonomous-region, municipality) Party committees and governments, from 2026. Counties are not the direct assessed party. The energy-conservation opinions still place overall responsibility on Party committees and governments at every local level, with the principal leader as first person accountable; the dual-control work plan also lets provinces further split indicators and pin duty on cities and key enterprises. So counties take on target breakdown and Party–government joint responsibility — they need projects on the table and materials that can be filed.
Run a county diagnostic first; then talk about going large
We do not recommend opening with a whole-jurisdiction platform. The first step is usually a four-to-six-week diagnostic: collect the data, find the gaps against the indicators, and issue a first-pass on eligible tracks.
Policy follows the competent authority’s latest notice. We provide application-material drafting and technical support; we do not guarantee application results.