The world's first zero-carbon industrial park is reportedly now under construction in the city of Ordos in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

The industrial park is being jointly built by the municipality and Envision Group.

Inner Mongolia is regarded as being a large carbon emissions region in China and its annual carbon emissions amount to about 700 million metric tons, with Ordos accounting for a third.

"Ordos has the demand for and the conditions for building a zero-carbon industrial park," said Du Yanbin, deputy head of Ejin Horoo Banner in Ordos city.

Ordos also has abundant renewable energy resources and additionally a smart grid system, which can reportedly achieve low-cost and efficient production and the use of renewable energy.

The zero-carbon industrial park built in Ordos is projected to provide know-how for the transformation of traditional high-energy-consuming cities in China and the global zero-carbon industrial transformation.

Industry analysts believe that with progress towards global carbon neutrality, the zero-carbon industrial park in Ordos will help promote the development of two trillion-yuan electric vehicles and new energy industries.

As it is at present, the industrial park has formed an integrated industrial chain around the upstream and downstream sectors of power batteries and energy storage, electric heavy trucks, battery materials and green hydrogen production.

"Our power battery manufacturing base has a planned total production capacity of 20 gigawatt hours," said Yu Le, chief executive of Envision Northern Co.

"It will provide more than 30,000 electric heavy trucks with high safety, high energy density, high durability and cost-effective power batteries each year," Yu added.

The facility can also provide more than 10 GWh of storage for wind and solar storage applications, which can help solve the problem of renewable energy consumption and reduce power costs on a large scale, Yu said.

Additionally, the company will build a new energy commercial vehicle demonstration operation base in Ordos and successively replace 330,000 coal diesel trucks in the city.

The move will reduce 30 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year, reportedly saving operating costs by 30 billion yuan.

Moving forward, plans are for Ordos city to achieve the wide application of new energy commercial vehicles in the fields of transportation, sanitation, urban refuse collection, logistics and public transportation.