National introduction of efficient lighting products to promote financial subsidies

Learned from the office of energy saving and emission reduction work leading group of the State Council reporter before the Ministry of finance, the national development and Reform Commission jointly issued the "Interim Measures for efficient lighting products to promote financial subsidies to fund" (Cai Jian [2007]1027). This is the Chinese government to increase efforts to promote efficient lighting products, and promote energy-saving emission reduction targets to achieve another important measure.

The focus of financial subsidies to support efficient lighting products to replace incandescent lamps in use, and other inefficient lighting products, mainly for self ballasted fluorescent lamps, three color double end straight fluorescent lamps for general lighting (T8, T5) and metal halide lamp, high-pressure sodium lamp, electric light source products, semiconductors (LED) lighting products, as well as supporting the necessary ballast.

Country to take an indirect way of subsidies to promote, namely unified bidding to determine the promotion of efficient lighting products enterprises and supply agreement price, financial subsidy funds supply of successful enterprises, again by the enterprise according to the sales price minus the agreement to supply financial subsidies after the price to the end user, the ultimate beneficiary is large users and urban and rural residents.

The "measures" provisions, the bulk users each efficient lighting products, the central government by the successful supplier of protocol 30% of the price subsidies; urban and rural residents per user efficient lighting products, the central government by the successful supplier of protocol 50% of the price subsidies. Successful enterprises to provide efficient lighting products must ensure that such evaluation of the quality of lighting products reached the national standards for energy efficiency value, has perfect customer service service system, in product packaging and printed on the body of "government subsidies, according to the green project".

The national development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance issued a batch of financial subsidies to promote efficient lighting products, the Department in charge of the provincial energy conservation in conjunction with the finance department to formulate specific implementation plan, organization of successful enterprises promote the implementation of tasks, to ensure the realization of the "11th Five-Year" period, through financial subsidies. The promotion of efficient lighting products 150 million, saving 29 billion kwh, reduce carbon dioxide emissions 29 million tons.

Source: Sankei - consumer daily