In the recently-held COP30, which is the 30th annual UN Climate Change Conference (Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC), the Center for Environmental Education and Communications of the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment joined hands with C Team to release the 2025 Collection of Corporate (Industrial Parks) Climate Action Cases, which is designed to share with the world 27 Chinese enterprises or industrial parks’ innovative practice and achievements. Typical experiences and practices of one industrial park and three enterprises in Qingdao have been included in the collection. This shows that Qingdao has scored notable results in the cultivation of new quality productive forces, clean energy development, recycling and regeneration of resources, and smart energy and carbon management, and contributed China’s wisdom and its experience to the global response to climate change.

The Qingdao National High-tech Industrial Development Zone has prioritized the integration between the energy chain, the industrial chain and the management chain to establish a model for green transformation in a systemic way. The zone is included among the first batch of Chinese industrial parks piloting coordination innovation in pollution reduction and carbon mitigation. In 2024, carbon emissions per unit of industrial added valued slumped 45.5% from the level in 2020, 20% of power consumed was generated by renewable sources, and 99.71% of industrial solid wastes were recycled. Furthermore, typical experiences of North Star Advanced Recycling Technology (Qingdao) Co., Ltd., Sailun Group Co., Ltd. and Sinopec Qingdao Refining & Chemical Co., Ltd., were included in the collection. (Wu Shuai)