Looking Back on the Eleventh Five-Year Outlook Twelfth Five: Green Methane Dressing New Countryside

“I don’t burn wood and charcoal for cooking, lighting doesn’t use oil and electricity, cattle don’t use earth washers, and there is no pollution in the ecological environment; a biogas digester, liberates farm women; a biogas lamp illuminates the new countryside...” The jingle from the peasant's mouth tells the joy of the peasants in Gangu County, Gansu Province, and sings the praises of Gangu peasants for their new life.

Since the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the central government has invested 21.2 billion yuan in rural biogas construction, including 6 billion yuan, 5 billion yuan and 5.2 billion yuan in 2008, 2009 and 2010 respectively. Driven by the central investment and joint efforts of all parties, biogas in rural areas has achieved leapfrog development, becoming one of the most important livelihood projects in the new era and a major highlight of new rural construction.

Small biogas made a big industry In recent years, household biogas in Linyi County, Hebei Province has a new “full care, nanny style” integrated service. This service can ensure that 10 thousand rural households in the county can use 8 gasses for 3 meals a day. Months, between January and April 1 two meals or one-day meals. Through this type of service, an all-in-one integrated service model with biogas association as the leader, county property service terminal as the core, regional station as the main body, service network as the base, and professional and technical personnel as the backbone is formed. At present, the county's biogas coverage rate reaches 95%.

The biogas service provided by Linyi County and some regions is a successful model for the development of biogas industry. In July last year, when the police went to the biogas service station in Luoyang, Luoyang, Henan Province, when they heard farmers responded that this "all-managed" service was very convenient for users, they were pleased to praise this service for solving practical problems. In recent years, in China's rural areas, vigorously developing rural biogas is becoming a carrier for farmers to build green homes, a link for agricultural restructuring, and a breakthrough in solving the 'three rural issues'. Small biogas has become a large industry, and central leaders praised the promotion of rural biogas. Application is one of the most effective and universal actions in China's response to climate change.

According to statistics, by the end of 2009, there were more than 260,000 biogas production workers in the country and more than 3,900 biogas production and service companies. According to incomplete statistics, the output value of biogas in rural areas in 2009 reached more than 24 billion yuan, which has quadrupled compared to 2005. The rural biogas industrialization system with biogas equipment, biogas construction, biogas technology, and biogas services as the main content has taken shape. By the end of 2010, there were 40 million household biogas households, 65,000 small biogas, 4,700 large and medium-sized biogas, 80,000 rural service outlets, and 700 county-level service stations.

Biogas has become a new bright spot in circular economy Hubei Yidu is a major agricultural county with citrus and tea as the major agricultural areas. In recent years, 45,000 biogas digesters have been fully utilized in the construction of ecological homes to promote the use of biogas fertilizers and biogas slurry. The utilization rate of biogas residue reached more than 95%, which promoted pollution-free and labor-saving production in agriculture. At present, the city has promoted a total of 15,000 mu of "Pig-Marsh-Fruit" and "Pig-Marsh-Cup" models, benefiting 5,500 homeowners and farmers, reducing 3,000 tons of chemical fertilizers and 200 tons of pesticides each year, saving 45,000 laborers and increasing income. 7.5 million yuan.

The development of Yidu City allows us to see that in recent years, biogas has played an important role in improving rural production and living conditions, promoting the transformation of agricultural development methods, promoting energy-saving and emission reduction in agriculture and rural areas, and protecting the ecological environment, highlighting its role as an energy engineering and ecology. The huge comprehensive benefits of engineering, enriching people's projects, cleaning projects, and energy-saving and emission-reducing projects have become the ties for the development of rural recycling economy.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture, the current annual production capacity of biogas in the country is more than 16 billion cubic meters, which is about 13% of the country's natural gas consumption. It can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 50 million tons; it can produce nearly 400 million tons of organic biogas every year. Reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides by more than 20%, improve the soil by 80 million mu, and increase the annual income for the Jianchi farmers by 40 billion yuan, and increase the wage income of the construction pool technicians by 8.8 billion yuan.

Biogas becomes a cornucopia

“Every family’s hotel uses biogas for cooking, bathing with solar energy, and effluent to clean the pool. The yard is clean and the tourists are willing to come. This year’s income has quadrupled from previous years!” at the end of the year, in Xibaipo, Pingshan County. In the family lodge of Han Huazhen in the town of Xibaipo Village, Han Aunt said she could not help but talk about the benefits of new energy. Like Han Aunt, since the implementation of the “Ecological Homeland Enrichment Project” by the Ministry of Agriculture, people in the old districts of the 16 villages in Xibaipo have enjoyed a new life brought about by green energy.

Biogas not only improved the local environment, but also strung the "golden chain" of the masses. Pingshan County actively explored and promoted the construction of biogas power generation facilities for the cultivation and cultivation base biogas digesters, large and medium-sized biogas digesters, domestic sewage purification biogas digesters, and large-scale breeding farms, and established “Livestock and Poultry Farming—Manure Treatment—Organic Fertilizer Production and Utilization, Biogas Residues, and Biogas Digesters Returning Fields to Crops: Ecological Cycle Economy Model. “Utilizing this model, the village has built 500 acres of organic apple base, has passed SGS international certification, and has reached the export standard.” Han Fanggang, Party Branch of Yuanfang Village, said with pride.

During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, the comprehensive benefits of rural biogas were greatly highlighted, and it became a “treasure bowl” for enriching the people and promoting the improvement of peasant life. Statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture show that during the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, a total of 22 million household biogas households were invested and constructed. It is estimated that by the end of 2010, more than 40 million household biogas will be built up nationwide, accounting for 33.3% of the country's suitable rural households and the number of beneficiaries will reach 155 million.

During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the Ministry of Agriculture will further accelerate biogas science and technology innovation, improve support policies, standardize project management, highlight centralized gas supply, and strengthen follow-up services, increase construction efforts, and promote the development of biogas in rural areas to scale and level. More farmers benefit.