China, People's Republic of: Industry Green Growth Indicators and Innovative Mechanisms for Guangdong Province
The proposed knowledge and support technical assistance (TA) will support the development of industry green growth indicators and innovative mechanisms through research, capacity development, and policy advice to promote green growth of the industries in Guangdong Province, the People's Republic of China (PRC).
The PRC Government has requested the TA from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as part of its efforts to establish a comprehensive indicator and evaluation framework, system, and implementation mechanism to (i) improve environmental performance of industries in Guangdong, and (ii) support decision-making for future green financing. Following a mission in May 2018, ADB and the government reached an understanding on the TA objectives, scope, implementation arrangements, costs, and terms of reference for consultants. The TA is included in ADB's country operations business plan for the PRC, 2018 2020.
Project Details
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Project Officer
Maruyama, Hinako
East Asia Department
Request for information -
Country/Economy
China, People's Republic of -
Sector
- Energy
Project Name | Industry Green Growth Indicators and Innovative Mechanisms for Guangdong Province | ||||
Project Number | 52125-001 | ||||
Country / Economy | China, People's Republic of |
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Project Status | Closed | ||||
Project Type / Modality of Assistance | Technical Assistance |
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Strategic Agendas | Environmentally sustainable growth Inclusive economic growth |
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Drivers of Change | Governance and capacity development Private sector development |
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Sector / Subsector |
Energy / Energy efficiency and conservation Finance / Finance sector development Industry and trade / Small and medium enterprise development |
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Gender Equity and Mainstreaming | No gender elements | ||||
Description | The proposed knowledge and support technical assistance (TA) will support the development of industry green growth indicators and innovative mechanisms through research, capacity development, and policy advice to promote green growth of the industries in Guangdong Province, the People's Republic of China (PRC). The PRC Government has requested the TA from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as part of its efforts to establish a comprehensive indicator and evaluation framework, system, and implementation mechanism to (i) improve environmental performance of industries in Guangdong, and (ii) support decision-making for future green financing. Following a mission in May 2018, ADB and the government reached an understanding on the TA objectives, scope, implementation arrangements, costs, and terms of reference for consultants. The TA is included in ADB's country operations business plan for the PRC, 2018 2020. |
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Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy | Since the PRC started the economic reform in 1978 and open-door policy implementation in 1979, Guangdong rapidly developed from a lagging agriculture area into the country's key manufacturing base. As of 2016, Guangdong was the most populous region in the country and ranked first among PRC regions in gross regional product, accounting for 11% of the PRC's gross domestic product. Guangdong's economic sectors (primary, secondary, tertiary) is 4.6, 43.4, and 52.0 by gross regional product ratio in 2016. About 79% of Guangdong's gross regional product is concentrated in Pearl River Delta, which creates regional disparity within the province. Environment degradation is a serious issue for the PRC. Guangdong, which took a leading role at the time of the economic opening, has also been taking very active role in addressing recent environmental issues. As guided by the central government, Guangdong has established various policies to achieve ecological society and promote green growth. However, Guangdong still relies heavily on high-input, high-consumption, and high-emission development model. Industries consume over 60% of the total energy in Guangdong. Manufacturing in Guangdong is largely supported by small- and medium-sized enterprises most of which are at lower hierarchy of the industrial supply chains, that still largely depends on traditional labor, energy, and resource intensive production method. The Guangdong government agencies issued series of policies and measures to promote green growth of industries which are fragmented and do not provide practical measures for enterprises, industrial parks, or cities to adopt and implement improvement measures. To address the challenges and issues of fragmented and impractical policy guidance for practitioners, the TA will conduct research to propose usable indicator system to evaluate green growth of enterprises, industrial parks, and cities; and propose innovative mechanisms for Guangdong to promote green growth, such as evaluation and assessment mechanism, green financing mechanisms, and selection criteria. The indicators and mechanisms will be developed in consultation with Guangdong Economic and Information Commission (GDEI) and Guangdong Provincial Finance Department. The pilot evaluation exercise will rate the green performance of enterprises, industrial parks, and cities for internal references. GDEI will adopt the research outcomes and recommendations as standardized tools and mechanisms and apply them to the activities such as comprehensive utilization of industrial solid waste, assessment of energy conservation, planning of pollution prevention and control, development of resource recycling base, fund support for industries' energy conservation and environmental protection, and adoption of proposed mechanisms as standardized tools. The policy proposals will be submitted to Guangdong provincial government for inclusion in its Fourteenth Five-Year Plan. |
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Impact | The energy consumption per unit of Guangdong's major manufacturing products reduced The circular economy of more than 100 economic parks in the province improved |
Project Outcome | |
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Description of Outcome | Comprehensive indicator and evaluation framework on green growth in Guangdong established |
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Description of Project Outputs | Good practices and lessons on industry green growth and evaluation system studied and documented Indicators to comprehensively evaluate Guangdong industries' green growth developed Financial system and mechanism to promote green development and design of innovative financing projects prepared |
Status of Implementation Progress (Outputs, Activities, and Issues) | The individual consultants are recruited. The inception mission was held on 28 June 2019. Surveys have been conducted, and the draft final report was prepared. An online consultation meeting was held in June 2020, and the draft final report will be discussed in October 2020. The TA was extended for another 6 months from 30 June 2021 to 31 Dec 2021 to (i) conduct TA workshop; (ii) finalize knowledge product contents; (iii) conduct TA final workshop. |
Geographical Location | Guangdong |
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Business Opportunities | |
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Consulting Services | ADB will engage a total of 15.5 person-months of consulting services three international consultants for a total of 6.0 person-months of input, and three national consultants for a total of 9.5 person-months of input through individual selection following the ADB Procurement Policy (2017, as amended from time to time) and its associated project administration instructions and staff instructions. Individual consultants will be recruited because of the need for specialized and country-specific expertise. |
Responsible ADB Officer | Maruyama, Hinako |
Responsible ADB Department | East Asia Department |
Responsible ADB Division | Urban and Social Sectors Division, EARD |
Executing Agencies |
Guangdong Economic and Information Commission 6th Floor, No. 11 Lianxin Road, Guangzhou Guangdong Province, 510030, PRC Guangdong Finance Bureau (GFB) Department of Finance of Guangdong Province Floor 11, No. 26 Cangbian Road Guangzhou, PRC 510030 Guangdong Provincial Finance Department 11th Floor, No. 26 Cangbian Road, Guangzhou Guangdong Province, 510030, PRC |
Timetable | |
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Concept Clearance | 27 Aug 2018 |
Fact Finding | 21 May 2018 to 22 May 2018 |
MRM | - |
Approval | 20 Nov 2018 |
Last Review Mission | - |
Last PDS Update | 29 Sep 2021 |
TA 9649-PRC
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Approval | Signing Date | Effectivity Date | Closing | ||
Original | Revised | Actual | |||
20 Nov 2018 | 14 Dec 2018 | 14 Dec 2018 | 30 Jun 2020 | 31 Dec 2021 | 12 Apr 2022 |
Financing Plan/TA Utilization | Cumulative Disbursements | |||||||
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ADB | Cofinancing | Counterpart | Total | Date | Amount | |||
Gov | Beneficiaries | Project Sponsor | Others | |||||
300,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 300,000.00 | 17 Jun 2022 | 217,034.92 |
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Title | Document Type | Document Date |
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Industry Green Growth Indicators and Innovative Mechanisms for Guangdong Province: Technical Assistance Report | Technical Assistance Reports | Nov 2018 |
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Tenders
Tender Title | Type | Status | Posting Date | Deadline |
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Green finance specialist (International) | Individual - Consulting | Closed | 12 Mar 2021 | 18 Mar 2021 |
International green finance expert (resource person) | Individual - Consulting | Closed | 18 Sep 2020 | 24 Sep 2020 |
Green finance expert (International) | Individual - Consulting | Closed | 14 May 2019 | 20 May 2019 |
Green finance expert (national) | Individual - Consulting | Closed | 13 Mar 2019 | 19 Mar 2019 |
Fiscal policy expert (national) | Individual - Consulting | Closed | 13 Mar 2019 | 19 Mar 2019 |
Team leader; industry green growth specialist (International) | Individual - Consulting | Closed | 27 Jan 2019 | 12 Feb 2019 |
Industrial chain and circular economy expert (International) | Individual - Consulting | Closed | 27 Jan 2019 | 12 Feb 2019 |
Deputy team leader; Industrial chain and circular economy expert (national) | Individual - Consulting | Closed | 26 Jan 2019 | 12 Feb 2019 |
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