The Ministry of Land and Resources granted Tianjin "China Hot Spring City" Award
Source: China Daily Citation: China Daily Date: Nov.5, 2013
CHINA MINING Congress & Expo 2013 has opened on November 3rd. As one of the sessions, the keynote session "Developing geothermal industry and constructing ecological civilization “was held in Tianjin Binhai New area yesterday (November 4th). During the conference, the Ministry of Land and Resources awarded the "China Hot Spring", "China Spring City", "Hot Spring(geothermal) Development and Utilization Demonstration Units" to Tianjin Municipal People’s government, Baodi District of Tianjin Municipal People`s Government, Jinghai County People`s Government, Tianjin University of Technology and Bohai Petroleum Hydro Service Corporation respectively. The Ministry of Land and Resources together with Tianjin City Hall unveiled for "China Hot spring", which marked "China hot spring" was officially settled in Tianjin.
It was reported that the Ministry of Land and Resources previously announced the selection results of the first batch of "Chinese Spa Town". With its rich results of reserves, exploitation and utilization of geothermal resources, Tianjin City and Chongqing City, Fuzhou City gain first honorary title of "Chinese Spa Town" Baodi District of Tianjin Metro and Jinghai County Tuanpo Metro were named "Chinese Spring City".
Tianjin University of Technology and Bohai Petroleum Hydro Service Corporation were named " Hot Springs(Geothermal)Development and Utilization Demonstration Unit". Till now, The city become the only big city of "China Hot Spring”, “Chinese Spring City", "China Spa Town", "Demonstration Unit of Development of Geothermal Energy Utilization ", which laid the foundation to build demonstration base of multi-level, multi-field demonstration effect of the development and utilization of geothermal and hot spring culture display base.
For the rational development and utilization of geothermal energy, reducing carbon dioxide emissions and promoting the development of low carbon economy, the Ministry of Land and Resources has carried out the naming and creation work of the "China Spa Town" in 2010. Such provincial capital city or city specifically designated in the state plan could declare “China Hot Spring", which were rich in geothermal resources, rational development and utilization, sound management and protection system, and outstanding in the development of low carbon economy, spa (geothermal)culture, development and utilization of technology as well as recoverable heat fluid volume greater than 20000 cubic meters / day. From the beginning of 2010, Tianjin has launched the creation work of "Chinese Hot Spring".
It was reported that Tianjin city belonged to type of Low temperature deposition basin which distributed in the scope of 8700 square kilometers, accounting for about 77% of the total area. At present, the exploitation of geothermal fluid was 76.066 million cubic meters / year (25 ℃) and available heat energy was1.30×1016joule per year, i.e. 4.43×105 tons of standard coal equivalent. In addition, Tianjin city also had a rich shallow geothermal energy. The available resources of the rock below the surface and the shallow geothermal energy underground water were 1748 trillion kJ with winter heating area of 1.34 billion square meters and the summer cooling area was 1,26million square meters.
By the end of 2012, the geothermal exploitation wells registered were 285, extraction and filling systems were 90.In 2012, the total extraction volume was 32.5million cubic meters and recharge volume was 13.10 million cubic meters. Its recharge rate reached 40%. At present, all the heat reservoir were equipped with a recharge well and the number of recharge well was still increasing year by year. Geothermal development was equivalent to annual savings of 265,000 tons of standard coal (371,000 tons of coal) with a reduction of the carbon dioxide emissions by 632,000 tons. Geothermal heating residential and public building were 213, coving an area of about 15.53 million square meters (about 5% of the total area of the city central heating and is the largest city supplying heating by the utilization of geothermal resources); 113 districts were supplied hot water by geothermal heat, i.e. around 100,000 households; a total of 11 agricultural facilities units using geothermal resources, which covering an area of about 10 million square meters; spa tourism in a total of 8 units with a construction area of about 210,000 square meters and the number of hot spring bath was about 9.5 million passengers / year. According to incomplete statistics, the city`s projects of developing and utilizing shallow geothermal energy resources reached more than 200, with an area of about 5.75 million square meters.
It was reported that to build beautiful Tianjin and rationally use clean energy, the city enacted "Regulations of Tianjin City Geothermal Resource Management", which clear geothermal departments, unified planning and management, developed and utilized scientifically, establish a strict management system, and worked out the planning of development and utilization of geothermal resources. Meanwhile, the city also built a dynamic monitoring network, which closely monitored the real-time status of all mining wells and recharge and gave the effective protection of resources and environment to maintain a sustainable use.
During "The 12th Five Year Plan" period, the city would further strengthen the management of geothermal resources, give scientific establishment of utilization plan of geothermal resources, vigorously promote and apply geothermal gradient utilization and recharge and other new technology on the basis of the construction of the Jingjin Metro Group, Dongli lake and Mission Park Lake in accordance with the principle of "Developing in Protection, Protecting in Development "together with "Beautiful TianjinNo.1 Project", which promoted the development and utilization of the geothermal demonstration project and constructed a number of tourism projects characterized by the spa physiotherapy, leisure and vacation and in order to enhance the cultural quality of Tianjin, construct ecological civilization, promote the construction of "China Hot Spring City".
During the forum, Professional Committee of Geothermal of China Mining Association, People’s governments of Chongqing City and Fuzhou City and Land and Resource & Housing Management Bureau of Tianjin City respectively delivered keynote speech on "Development and Ecological Civilization Construction of China Hot Spring City (Town, Village)". ( Wu Mei/Feng Wanxin)（Translated by TLRHVC）
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