After the power plant is in operation, the boost to tax revenue is also obvious.
Nuclear power brings many jobs and promotes employment.
Nuclear power will create a business circle in the local area, around the power station.
"Developing nuclear power efficiently on the basis of ensuring safety" is an important policy for China's current energy construction and nuclear industry development. The development of nuclear power to ensure energy supply and security, protect the environment, achieve structural optimization of the electric power industry and sustainable development, to enhance China's comprehensive economic strength, industrial technology level and international status, are of great significance.
The role of pulling economic growth is obvious
Nuclear power construction investment, construction time is long, high technology content, involves many industries, the construction of the national economy has a strong pulling effect.
In 2011, China's total nuclear power generation reached 87.4 billion kilowatt-hours, accounting for 1.9% of the country's total power generation, nuclear power production and operation output (sales revenue) of about 37.5 billion yuan, pulling the total output of about 83.2 billion yuan, the gdp of about 44.2 billion yuan. Assuming that by 2020 nuclear power installed capacity in operation reached 65 million kilowatts, 35 million kilowatts under construction, in 2020 China's nuclear power production and operation output of about 1994 billion yuan, pulling the total output of 442.3 billion yuan, GDP of about 235.1 billion yuan.
As of the end of 2011, China's mainland nuclear power units under construction 26, with a total installed capacity of 29.24 million kilowatts, the world's largest under construction. According to the current development trend of China's nuclear power, in accordance with the construction of a 2 million kilowatts of nuclear power plant requires 29.4 billion yuan of investment (Ling Ao II as a reference power station, 2 sets of 1 million kilowatts built price 28.5 billion yuan, 1 / 3 of the first furnace charge of 900 million yuan, *** 29.4 billion yuan), and assuming that the 35 million kilowatts of nuclear power plant under construction in 2020 **** to complete the investment of half of it, then the average annual Need to invest in the construction of 6.15 million kilowatts, investment of 90.6 billion yuan, pulling the total output growth of 275.4 billion yuan, gdp growth of 93.4 billion yuan, can make the economic growth rate of more than 0.3 percentage points.
Nuclear power development on local economic development can bring multiplier effect. A nuclear power plant with an installed capacity of 5 million kilowatts can have a total investment of 65 billion yuan. Calculated on the basis of 7800 hours, after the commissioning of the planned installed capacity, the annual power generation of about 39 billion kWh, electricity sales revenue of nearly 20 billion yuan, the nuclear power plant construction period can be increased by about $ 50 million a year in construction and installation tax, all completed each year can be 3 billion yuan of direct tax payments. In addition, the nuclear power project can also attract many investors to seize the local real estate and other markets, drive the development of the construction industry, improve the local transportation conditions, improve urban infrastructure; improve the visibility of the city, increase tourism income, and enhance the level of consumption in the city; the nuclear power plant operation and management of the official staff of about 3,000 people, the station employs about 9,000 people in the drivers, security guards, janitorial and logistical personnel (calculated on the basis of 1:3), plant No less than 10,000 people around the nuclear power plant and supporting employees; drive investment in supporting pumped storage power plants and other nuclear power supporting industrial system development.
In the current context, on the basis of ensuring safety, and steadily promote the construction of nuclear power, will create hundreds of billions of dollars of gross domestic product each year, for the realization of the goal of maintaining stable and rapid growth of the national and local economies play a significant role.
Pulling the transformation and upgrading of the industrial system
Nuclear power industry is a modern high-tech-intensive national strategic industries, and its development has not only realized a substantial increase in independent innovation capacity, expanding China's nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear power equipment, nuclear technology applications and other high-tech areas of industrial scale, while effectively driving China's high-tech industries (involving materials, electromechanical, electronic, instrumentation, metallurgy, chemical industry, construction), and advanced nuclear science and technology can realize the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries.
According to the Development Research Center of the State Council, if the current development trend of China's nuclear power, the annual investment of 87 billion yuan, pulling the output growth of important related industries: construction industry about 27.2 billion yuan, general, special equipment manufacturing industry, 20.8 billion yuan, metal smelting and calendaring industry, 18.1 billion yuan, 16.3 billion yuan of integrated technical services, agriculture, 15.4 billion yuan, the chemical industry, 15.4 billion yuan, the financial and insurance industry, 15.4 billion yuan, and the chemical industry, 15.4 billion yuan, the financial and insurance industry, 15.4 billion yuan. 15.4 billion dollars, finance and insurance industry 15.4 billion dollars, electrical, machinery and equipment manufacturing industry 12.7 billion dollars, petroleum processing, coking and nuclear fuel processing industry 10.8 billion dollars.
In recent years, China has made important achievements in the field of nuclear fuel research and production, maintaining a complete nuclear fuel industry system: the planned completion of the domestic uranium geological drilling workload indicators have increased significantly, the results of the deposit exploration is remarkable, the development of overseas uranium resources to speed up the advancement of the; more than one uranium conversion, purification, enrichment projects to start the construction of the nuclear fuel production capacity to ensure the security of fuel supply; has basically mastered the It has basically mastered the independent design, construction and operation capabilities of spent fuel reprocessing for reprocessing power reactors.
At present, the pace of introduction, digestion, absorption and re-innovation of third-generation nuclear power has been accelerated; the demonstration project of high-temperature gas-cooled reactor with independent intellectual property rights is in a position to start construction; the design of independent advanced pressurized-water reactor nuclear power units (ACP1000, ACPR1000, etc.) has made important progress; and China's experimental fast reactors have realized independent research, independent design, independent construction, independent operation and independent management. In addition, it has high scientific and technological research and development strength through its continuous expansion in the fields of fast reactors, advanced research reactors, nuclear military industry, nuclear technology applications, controlled nuclear fusion, and so on.
Relying on nuclear power projects, nuclear power equipment manufacturing localization, autonomy continues to advance, to promote the upgrading of industrial structure, to cultivate and enhance the ability of independent innovation, change the mode of industrial development is of great significance.
"Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, through the nuclear power equipment manufacturing and key technologies into the national major equipment localization planning, nuclear power equipment manufacturing industry to increase technological transformation and upgrading and investment in nuclear power equipment manufacturing breakthroughs in the manufacturing of key equipment in the second generation of the improvement of the unit in the construction of an average localization rate of 68%. And the country has a strong production capacity of key equipment, nuclear power equipment supply capacity has been improved faster, the initial formation of the annual supply of about 8 sets of million kilowatts of pressurized water reactor nuclear power equipment capacity. It is expected that by improving their own manufacturing equipment capacity, accumulate manufacturing process experience, strengthen the technical research, "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" the end of China can form a stable three-generation nuclear power equipment supply capacity, equipment, the goal of autonomy can be basically achieved.
In addition, nuclear power involves the development of technology in the industrial field basically represents the most complex metallurgy, materials, machinery, electronic instruments and many other industries, the most cutting-edge technology, the development of design, smelting, casting, heat treatment, precision manufacturing and other production processes have very high requirements, which led to the technological upgrading of these industries.
Strong national defense to maintain nuclear deterrence
Development of nuclear power is to maintain and improve the strength of China's nuclear industry, stability and growth of nuclear science and technology talent force is an important dependency, but also the construction of China's strong national defense, to further enhance the status of the nuclear power, the peaceful construction of a modernized and powerful country, is to promote the modernization of the construction of a strong country to take the road to enhance the comprehensive national strength of the important strategic initiatives.
Nuclear science and technology has typical dual-use characteristics. Nuclear power is an important part of civil energy development and utilization, but also can be used for military nuclear-powered ships; nuclear fuel cycle technology can provide fuel for civil reactors, but also for nuclear weapons to provide charge. Advanced nuclear power, nuclear fuel, nuclear safety and radiation protection technologies, nuclear monitoring and control, as well as high-end equipment manufacturing, special materials and other technologies can be used in the development and production of military nuclear-powered ships, nuclear power sources for space vehicles, and nuclear strategic and tactical weapons and equipment. The nuclear power industry is an important part of the country's nuclear capability, and the key technologies for the design, manufacture, construction and operation of nuclear power plants are often more difficult and demanding than those of military reactors. By vigorously developing the nuclear power industry, it can promote the vigorous upgrading of nuclear technology, enrich and improve the national defense security guarantee capacity.
At present, the development of civil nuclear power remains an important consideration for the world's nuclear powers to maintain their nuclear deterrence capabilities. Since the 1950s the United States, the former Soviet Union and other major powers in addition to the active development of naval nuclear power, space laser weapons nuclear power, military vehicle-mounted mobile nuclear power, torpedoes and rockets nuclear power propulsion devices and other new concepts of military nuclear power at the same time, vigorously develop civil nuclear power as an important means of maintaining nuclear deterrence. Right now, Russia is still developing a larger-scale nuclear power construction plan. After the Obama administration came to power after the U.S. nuclear power policy is also more clear and active.
"Going out" to enhance international competitiveness
The Fifth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Party put forward the requirements of "strengthening the construction of modern energy industry", "in order to ensure the safety of the basis of the efficient development of nuclear power
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee put forward the requirement of "strengthening the construction of modern energy industry", "efficiently developing nuclear power on the basis of ensuring safety", and requested to actively change the mode of development, realize the safe development of China's nuclear power industry in a good and fast manner, accelerate the scientific and technological progress and innovation, and build a nuclear power brand with independent intellectual property rights, and form a strong competitiveness as soon as possible to go out of the country to take the place in the world's high point of nuclear power technology and the market and to realize the transformation of the big country of nuclear power to the powerful country.
First of all, the export of nuclear power technology and products will play a unique role in enhancing China's competitiveness in the world economic market. By helping countries wishing to develop nuclear power to establish the necessary infrastructure to provide support, including the establishment of legal and regulatory frameworks, training, helping them to cultivate their own nuclear energy personnel, helping them to understand the various nuclear technologies, promoting and supporting the financing of new nuclear power plants, or by using the export of nuclear power projects as an important form of economic assistance, we can meet the energy and economic development needs of these countries, gain the acceptance of the people and the trust of the governments of these countries, and enhance the competitiveness of our country in the world economic market. It also aims to gain the recognition of the people and trust of the governments of the host countries, to enhance our influence in these countries and to strengthen the ties of cooperation in which our interests are intertwined.
Secondly, through the development of overseas nuclear power market, we can carry out industrial restructuring and resource optimization in a broader space. By virtue of high-end, intensive nuclear power technology, products and services, we can really enter the high value-added segment of the world industrial pattern, enhance our role in the international industrial division of labor, and share more benefits of economic globalization.
Third, nuclear power projects cost huge sums of money, the development of overseas nuclear power market will significantly drive China's foreign direct investment, financing and exports, and investment, exports are two important engines of China's economic growth. At the same time, nuclear power "going out" project as a large foreign investment projects, will further balance China's international capital surplus.
Lastly, nuclear power export is conducive to the cultivation of a number of large multinational enterprises with international competitiveness, and enhance the technical level of China's nuclear power industry chain. China's powerful nuclear power-related enterprises can take advantage of the opportunity of industrial restructuring of multinational corporations to develop their own brands with their own comparative advantages, participate in the development of overseas nuclear power market and project construction, and learn to improve their own technological capabilities and levels in all aspects of research and development, design, manufacturing, construction, etc. in the process of competition and cooperation.