Baotou in Inner Mongolia officially kicks off the winter heating season. [Photo/baotounews.com.cn]

The city of Baotou in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region officially kicked off its winter heating season recently, with centralized heating coverage reaching 107 million square meters in main urban areas.

With the popularization of central heating and the promotion of combined heat and power generation, Baotou's central heating has gradually replaced scattered coal-fired small boilers for heating, forming an urban heating pattern with combined heat and power as the mainstay and supplemented by clean energy such as gas.

The urban areas in the city have basically achieved full coverage of heating supply using clean energy.

In 2012, Baotou city's heating authority commissioned MCC Xibei Engineering & Technology Co to compile the Baotou Heating Plan (2011-2020).

The plan redesigned Baotou's heat sources, heat networks, and heat loads, and created the urban central heating pattern characterized as "cogeneration as the mainstay and clean energy heating as the supplement".

In addition to the overall heating plan, the design of major thermal power plants in Baotou and the banners and counties under Baotou's administration was primarily undertaken by MCC Xibei.

These project designs make full use of new technologies and new concepts to greatly optimize the heating pipeline network, reduce operating energy consumption, increase heating efficiency, improve heating effects, and reduce environmental pollution.