On December 4, 2023, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) issued the mandatory sector standard "HJ 1321-2023 Technical Guide for Mobile Source Supervision and Verification in Key Industries." The aim is to strengthen the management of mobile source emissions in key industries and units with significant vehicle usage.
The key industries covered by this standard include: steel, coking, cement, alumina, aluminum smelting, carbon, copper smelting, molybdenum smelting, lead-zinc smelting, lime kilns, ferroalloys, casting, recycled copper-aluminum-lead-zinc, non-ferrous metal rolling, ceramics, refractory materials, rock wool, glass, brick kilns, fiberglass, cellulose, construction waterproof materials, pharmaceutical industry, pesticide manufacturing, paint manufacturing, ink manufacturing, automobile manufacturing, construction machinery manufacturing, industrial painting, oil refining and petrochemicals, carbon black, coal-based nitrogen fertilizer, furniture manufacturing, packaging printing, artificial board manufacturing, plastic artificial leather, synthetic leather manufacturing, rubber product manufacturing, leather product, and footwear manufacturing.
The key vehicle units covered by this standard are those with an average daily freight vehicle traffic of 20 or more times per year, or a daily transportation volume of 150 tons or more.
The standard requires that key industry enterprises should manage transport vehicles (including carrier vehicles), on-site transport vehicles, and non-road mobile machinery in a standardized manner to meet the industry's performance grading index requirements for transportation methods or other relevant requirements for mobile source management. Key vehicle units should prioritize the use of clean transportation methods, and for road transportation, vehicles meeting emission standards should be used. This can be achieved by signing vehicle emission compliance certificates with carrier units, raw material supply units, and product purchasing units, adding corresponding contractual terms, and requiring them to provide evidence of vehicle inspection qualification, thereby achieving vehicle compliance management. In situations where new energy vehicles can meet the transportation distance requirements, their use is recommended.
It is noteworthy that the standard requires companies to have their access control and video surveillance systems with vehicle information collection capabilities, and these systems should be interconnected with the supervisory system established by ecological environment authorities to achieve real-time monitoring of the usage of transport vehicles (including carrier vehicles), on-site transport vehicles, and non-road mobile machinery. Companies are also required to provide relevant information, such as their video surveillance camera interfaces, usernames, and passwords, for remote access by ecological environment supervisory authorities. These measures will further encourage companies to phase out vehicles and non-road machinery that exceed emission standards and reduce the use of high-emission products by purchasing and using low-emission products.