Seize the dual strategic opportunities of digitalization and greening, and empower the transformation of the manufacturing industry with a smart green energy system! Recently, the 2022 APEC Business Leaders China Forum with the theme of "Towards a Green Economy" was held in Beijing. With its high-quality practices in digital transformation and green development, Midea Group was successfully selected as the annual industrial case of the "Sustainable China Industrial Development Action".
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At present, addressing climate change and promoting sustainable development have become a global consensus and an urgent task. It is reported that the "Sustainable China Industrial Development Action" was jointly initiated by the APEC China Business Council and the International Cooperation Center of the National Development and Reform Commission, aiming to extract suggestions and measures applicable to the sustainable development of China's industry by excavating and analyzing excellent enterprise practice cases.
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All along, Midea Group adheres to the concept of "creating a better life for mankind" and the vision of "perfect science and technology, perfect life", adheres to integrity, responsibility, health and scientific development, integrates the concept of sustainable development into every aspect of enterprise production and operation, and is committed to working with stakeholders to create shared value.
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At present, Midea is building an "industrial Internet + green" factory in an all-round way, and green production solutions are of far-reaching significance to the transformation of green manufacturing. Midea has transformed and upgraded the energy efficiency management of nearly 30 factories with digital technology, making all aspects of production transparent, visualized and controllable, and reducing the power energy of a single production unit by 15%, which is equivalent to saving 21,000 kWh of electricity per day. At the same time, Midea's self-built FEMS energy management system, Latong Group's internal production scheduling system APS, manufacturing execution system MES, and equipment management system EAM, through the data collection of SCADA industrial intelligent platform, accurately calculate and analyze the energy consumption of each product on each production line, and produce more high-quality products with the lowest energy consumption and emissions.
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In addition, Midea Group continues to promote the use of clean energy, and currently more than 20 factories and R&D and innovation centers have built photovoltaic power generation projects, with an installed capacity of more than 160MW and more than 80MW of distributed photovoltaic projects under construction. In 2021, the average proportion of clean energy use in Midea will reach more than 10%, and it plans to introduce more clean energy to further increase the proportion.
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Midea is committed to integrating the concept of green environmental protection into every aspect of the group's production and operation. In 2021, in response to the national "dual carbon" strategy, Midea Group released the "Green Strategy", and at the same time formulated the group's carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals, making continuous efforts to finally realize the vision of "building a green and beautiful home together". A few days ago, Midea obtained the world's first R454B new refrigerant high-efficiency product certification, which has become another milestone achievement of Midea Group's green strategy.
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It is worth noting that under the traction of the green strategy, the factories of various business divisions are vigorously carrying out green and low-carbon transformation, actively implementing "green design, green procurement, green manufacturing, green logistics, green recycling, and green services", vigorously developing the circular economy, strengthening green supply support, and promoting the ecological chain to peak and reduce carbon emissions as soon as possible.
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Up to now, Midea has won the titles of National Green Factory, National Green Supply Chain Management Demonstration Enterprise and Industrial Product Green Design Demonstration Enterprise, and a number of products have been selected into the national energy efficiency "leader" and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's "Energy Efficiency Star" product catalog.
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While doing a good job in its own green manufacturing, Midea Group actively plays the role of industry leader and demonstration, vigorously builds a global green and low-carbon supply chain system, gives priority to including green factories in qualified suppliers, procures green products, carries out carbon reduction empowerment for upstream and downstream enterprises, and promotes the green and coordinated development of the industrial chain. At the same time, Midea is working with world-leading partners in steel, nonferrous metals, petrochemical and other industries to jointly carry out exchanges and learning on carbon investigation, carbon footprint calculation, and green strategy, and deepen strategic cooperation, and set up joint laboratories to tackle key problems in energy conservation, emission reduction and carbon reduction, so as to provide scientific research guarantee for the realization of green manufacturing.
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Facing the future, Midea Group will actively practice the concept of green and sustainable development, continuously develop and upgrade green and energy-efficient products, meet every user's pursuit of a beautiful, comfortable, intelligent and low-carbon life, play an exemplary role in promoting the development of green and low-carbon transformation, and form green production solutions, drive the transformation of the industrial chain to green manufacturing, and contribute to the "carbon peak and carbon neutrality" of China and even the world.