The fifth session of the fifth Ordos Municipal People's Congress opened on Jan 26. During the "Deputies' Passage" section, deputy Wang Xiwu addressed questions from the media on advancing green transformation.

Referring to the Central Economic Work Conference's call to "adhere to the dual-carbon goals and promote comprehensive green transformation," Wang said Ordos, as a national energy strategy base, should focus on breakthroughs across four key areas, guided by the principle of reducing existing emissions while strictly controlling new ones.

Wang said Ordos should develop a diversified and coordinated energy system integrating coal power, wind, solar, energy storage, and hydrogen.

He further suggested it should advance the construction of new energy bases in the Kubuqi Desert and Mu Us Sandy Land, and complete the energy-saving, heating, and flexibility retrofits of existing coal-fired power plants.

While consolidating coal as a pillar industry, Ordos should prioritize building a full "wind-solar-hydrogen-storage-vehicle" industrial chain, Wang noted.

He said it should promote the integration of modern coal chemicals with green hydrogen, advance trillion-yuan-level carbon-reduction projects, and cluster new energy equipment manufacturers in zero-carbon industrial parks.

Meanwhile, Ordos should pursue a dual track of resources and innovation, promote emission-reduction technologies and leverage the Ordos Carbon Neutrality Research Institute to attract top talent and deepen industry–academia–research collaboration, the deputy added.

Wang said institutional innovation should move ahead in the form of pilot programs.

By building a national modern coal chemical innovation demonstration base, Ordos will establish a leading dual-control system for carbon emissions and explore integrated models that combine photovoltaic development with desertification control to achieve ecological, economic, and social benefits, he noted.