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National and provincial main tracks, laid out: applicant, eligibility, cadence, materials, and what we provide. There is a path even without a provincial-or-above development zone.

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Main tracks
National and provincial
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Paths that do not depend on a development zone
Counties can advance on their own
≤ 2
Zero-carbon park recommendations per region
发改环资〔2025〕910 号
A key stretch

No provincial-or-above development zone — what then

The bar for a national zero-carbon park is a provincial-or-above development zone, and each region may recommend no more than two. That does not close the other paths — the five below do not depend on a zone.

1

Take the provincial near-zero-carbon city, file the whole jurisdiction

Some provinces already set the near-zero-carbon city object as the whole county (city, district), with the county people’s government as the applicant. This is the path that best fits as a whole-jurisdiction zero-carbon handle, and it matches the county’s administrative boundary.

Provincial near-zero-carbon city (whole county/district)
2

Break through on the enterprise side: cultivate zero-carbon factories

The applicant for a zero-carbon factory is the enterprise; park grade does not matter. The county can build a zero-carbon factory pipeline, push one or two above-scale firms with a foundation, and have the provincial industry-and-IT department review and recommend.

National zero-carbon factory
3

Break through on the energy side: file a village micro-energy-network pilot

For counties whose energy use is rural and township, village micro-energy networks are a national energy-side track. Each province may file at most two different directions. Projects already filed as zero-carbon parks or similar pilots may not apply again.

Village and township micro-energy-network pilot
4

Start from public institutions: demonstration programmes

Public institutions do not depend on any park condition, and energy-cost hosting means finance need not pay first. The 15th Five-Year Plan targets — energy use per floor area down 5%, emissions down 8.5% — are explicit; delivery is a result on the books.

Conservation-oriented public-institution demonstration units and low-carbon public institutions
5

Start from ecological resources: develop forestry sinks

Forest stock growth itself is one of nine supporting indicators. Counties with scaled forest resources can, after tenure registration and aggregation, advance scaled sink development — it counts toward the score and it earns.

County forestry sinks and ecological sink development

Without a development zone, the missing piece is the national zero-carbon park plaque. Whole-jurisdiction near-zero carbon, zero-carbon factories, village micro-energy networks, public-institution demonstrations and forestry sinks — a county can start all five on its own.

Tracks, item by item

Eligibility and cadence are excerpted from public documents. Material lists and our services are our compilation and the scope we commit to.

Eligibility
  • Construction entity is a provincial-or-above development zone; provincial zones should in principle be on the latest China Development Zone Catalogue
  • Scope may be the whole park or a “park-in-park” with a clear cadastral boundary
  • A foundation in energy and emissions statistics, accounting, metering and monitoring
  • No major safety, environmental or other adverse events in the past three years
Cadence and key limits
  • Each region may recommend no more than two parks — competition is intense
  • The national level advances on a “plan a batch, build a batch” overall arrangement
  • After the construction period, the provincial development-and-reform commission organises self-assessment, then national-level assessment and acceptance
Materials needed
Application and construction plan per the outlineBaselines for emissions per unit energy and other indicators per the trial accounting methodEconomic, environmental and social benefit estimatesPriority project list and funding arrangements
What we provide
  • Item-by-item benchmarking against the core indicator and five guiding indicators — a feasibility judgement before writing materials
  • Park carbon accounting and indicator-baseline calculation
  • Application and construction-plan support; priority project planning
  • Construction-period digital energy-carbon centre and acceptance-data preparation
Policy basis
发改环资〔2025〕910 号 · Notice on Carrying Out Zero-Carbon Park Construction国发〔2026〕22 号 · 15th Five-Year Plan Carbon Peaking Action Plan发改能源〔2025〕650 号 · Notice on Orderly Promoting Green-Power Direct Connection

On application windows

Policy on this page last checked：2026-07-29

Dated information is concentrated on this page, with a common last-updated stamp. Windows change every year; the competent authority’s notice that year always prevails.

  • National zero-carbon parks: advance on the national “plan a batch, build a batch” arrangement; each region may recommend no more than two
  • National zero-carbon factories: staged, gradient cultivation; provincial industry-and-IT departments review, recommend and file within that year’s notice window
  • Village micro-energy-network pilots: each province may submit at most two different directions; a batch of pilots to be built by end-2028
  • Provincial tracks: batches and cadence differ by province; some set a construction-period cap and automatic exit
This page is compiled from public documents, for orientation. We provide application-material drafting and technical support; we do not guarantee application results.

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