I didn't see the smoke, but I smelled the dishes. Since he used biogas, Wang Jiayuan, a villager in Lianbei Village, Lianzhou Township, Hepu County, Guangxi Province, bid farewell to the traditional “smoke fire†and a 10-m3 methane tank “lights up†his new life.
The change in Wang Jiayuan's family is a microcosm of the development of China's rural biogas during the "11th Five-Year Plan" period. Statistics show that since the “Eleventh Five-Year Planâ€, the central government has invested 21.2 billion yuan in rural biogas construction. By the end of 2010, China has built more than 40 million household biogas plants, accounting for 33.3% of the country's suitable rural households, and the number of beneficiaries reached 155 million.
According to the person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, there are “four highlights†in the rural biogas construction during the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan†period:
The first is the preliminary formation of a diversified pattern. During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan†period, a total of 22 million households of biogas were newly built, 20,000 small biogas projects, and 3192 large-scale biogas projects. Straw biogas projects and campus biogas projects achieved a “zero†breakthrough.
The second is to further enhance the support capabilities. During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan†period, the central government has built a total of 77,600 service outlets for rural biogas and 50 county-level service stations, serving about 30 million biogas farmers, and the coverage rate has reached 75%. Construction of the pool, equipment installation, and spare parts supply are under construction. In addition, it has played an important role in troubleshooting and maintenance; it has spent more than RMB 31 million in biogas projects, and has launched biogas science and technology support projects based on scientific research and teaching units to strengthen research and development of biogas key technologies and equipment.
Third, the scale of the industry has grown. By the end of 2009, there were more than 260,000 biogas producers 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.
Fourth, the comprehensive benefits are very significant. It is estimated that by the end of 2010, the national biogas production will be more than 16 billion cubic meters (approximately 13% of the country's natural gas consumption), equivalent to more than 25 million tons of standard coal, which can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 50 million tons; 400 million tons, can reduce the amount of fertilizer and pesticide application of more than 20%, improve the soil 80 million mu; annual increase for the Jianchi farmers increase revenue by 40 billion yuan, to build pool technical workers to increase wage income of 8.8 billion.
The person in charge also said that at present, the development of biogas in rural areas in China is changing from the need to solve rural energy and environmental sanitation to changing the mode of agricultural and rural development. It is mainly from household biogas construction to household biogas and large and medium-sized. As the construction of biogas projects is shifting equally, from the decentralized construction management to the industrialization and socialization services, it is urgently necessary to establish new principles and measures in policies, technologies, services, standards, and overall coordination so as to facilitate the rapid and healthy development of rural biogas. Specific measures include:
- Comprehensively consider the actual difficulties of farmers, rising prices and possible funding and other factors, further increase the rural subsidy standards for biogas, and alleviate the pressure of self-financing in economically under-developed areas and frontier ethnic minority areas, especially the poor.
- While continuing to support the construction of household biogas and small-scale biogas, we will further increase support for large- and medium-sized biogas and straw biogas projects for farms that provide centralized gas supply to farmers.
——Establish a three-tiered service network with county-level stations as a leader, regional sites as support, and village-level outlets as windows, innovate service mechanisms, promote all-ceduring and construction management, use one-stop marketing models, or work with grass-roots agricultural technologies. The promotion system combines the public welfare model.
—— Further strengthen the innovation of biogas technology in rural areas, focus on the most urgent and critical bottleneck problem that restricts the development of biogas in rural areas, increase research and development efforts, and accelerate the upgrading of new processes, materials, and new equipment.
It is reported that during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the Ministry of Agriculture in accordance with the general requirements of the country's development of a green economy, building of a resource-conserving society, and a new socialist countryside, centering on "consolidating results, optimizing the structure, building equal emphasis on management, and strengthening services, comprehensive utilization and improvement. The concept of "leveling" takes rural biogas as an overall, strategic and long-term systematic project for the development of modern agriculture, the promotion of new rural construction, the promotion of energy conservation and emission reduction, the improvement of the rural environment and the improvement of the living standards of farmers, and further increase the construction of biogas. We will make efforts to promote the development of biogas in rural areas to the scale and the upper level so that more farmers will benefit.
The change in Wang Jiayuan's family is a microcosm of the development of China's rural biogas during the "11th Five-Year Plan" period. Statistics show that since the “Eleventh Five-Year Planâ€, the central government has invested 21.2 billion yuan in rural biogas construction. By the end of 2010, China has built more than 40 million household biogas plants, accounting for 33.3% of the country's suitable rural households, and the number of beneficiaries reached 155 million.
According to the person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, there are “four highlights†in the rural biogas construction during the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan†period:
The first is the preliminary formation of a diversified pattern. During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan†period, a total of 22 million households of biogas were newly built, 20,000 small biogas projects, and 3192 large-scale biogas projects. Straw biogas projects and campus biogas projects achieved a “zero†breakthrough.
The second is to further enhance the support capabilities. During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan†period, the central government has built a total of 77,600 service outlets for rural biogas and 50 county-level service stations, serving about 30 million biogas farmers, and the coverage rate has reached 75%. Construction of the pool, equipment installation, and spare parts supply are under construction. In addition, it has played an important role in troubleshooting and maintenance; it has spent more than RMB 31 million in biogas projects, and has launched biogas science and technology support projects based on scientific research and teaching units to strengthen research and development of biogas key technologies and equipment.
Third, the scale of the industry has grown. By the end of 2009, there were more than 260,000 biogas producers 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.
Fourth, the comprehensive benefits are very significant. It is estimated that by the end of 2010, the national biogas production will be more than 16 billion cubic meters (approximately 13% of the country's natural gas consumption), equivalent to more than 25 million tons of standard coal, which can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 50 million tons; 400 million tons, can reduce the amount of fertilizer and pesticide application of more than 20%, improve the soil 80 million mu; annual increase for the Jianchi farmers increase revenue by 40 billion yuan, to build pool technical workers to increase wage income of 8.8 billion.
The person in charge also said that at present, the development of biogas in rural areas in China is changing from the need to solve rural energy and environmental sanitation to changing the mode of agricultural and rural development. It is mainly from household biogas construction to household biogas and large and medium-sized. As the construction of biogas projects is shifting equally, from the decentralized construction management to the industrialization and socialization services, it is urgently necessary to establish new principles and measures in policies, technologies, services, standards, and overall coordination so as to facilitate the rapid and healthy development of rural biogas. Specific measures include:
- Comprehensively consider the actual difficulties of farmers, rising prices and possible funding and other factors, further increase the rural subsidy standards for biogas, and alleviate the pressure of self-financing in economically under-developed areas and frontier ethnic minority areas, especially the poor.
- While continuing to support the construction of household biogas and small-scale biogas, we will further increase support for large- and medium-sized biogas and straw biogas projects for farms that provide centralized gas supply to farmers.
——Establish a three-tiered service network with county-level stations as a leader, regional sites as support, and village-level outlets as windows, innovate service mechanisms, promote all-ceduring and construction management, use one-stop marketing models, or work with grass-roots agricultural technologies. The promotion system combines the public welfare model.
—— Further strengthen the innovation of biogas technology in rural areas, focus on the most urgent and critical bottleneck problem that restricts the development of biogas in rural areas, increase research and development efforts, and accelerate the upgrading of new processes, materials, and new equipment.
It is reported that during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the Ministry of Agriculture in accordance with the general requirements of the country's development of a green economy, building of a resource-conserving society, and a new socialist countryside, centering on "consolidating results, optimizing the structure, building equal emphasis on management, and strengthening services, comprehensive utilization and improvement. The concept of "leveling" takes rural biogas as an overall, strategic and long-term systematic project for the development of modern agriculture, the promotion of new rural construction, the promotion of energy conservation and emission reduction, the improvement of the rural environment and the improvement of the living standards of farmers, and further increase the construction of biogas. We will make efforts to promote the development of biogas in rural areas to the scale and the upper level so that more farmers will benefit.