The Dual Carbon Marathon: Who Are We? — From Pacer and Companion to Guardian, We Accompany You Throughout the Journey

▲ Dual Carbon is a marathon without a finish line, and we are your partner for the entire journey.

Hello, we are Changzhou Yuanjian Energy Technology Co., Ltd.—your energy and carbon management consultants.

Through this article, we would like to formally introduce ourselves—the roles we play on the long track of Dual Carbon and how we can serve you.

Let’s use an analogy. Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality are not a hundred-meter sprint, but a super marathon. In this long-distance race, every manufacturing enterprise is an athlete at the starting line—some have finished warming up and are ready to go, while others are still looking around: Where is the track? How should the pace be set? Where are the supply stations?

We are not spectators applauding at the finish line, nor are we cheerleaders on the sidelines. We are fellow travelers in this team who constantly switch identities based on your stage:

When you don’t know where to start, we are the ‘Pacer’ leading the way; once you are on track and running independently, we are the ‘Companion’ walking beside you; when you are mature and experienced, we are the ‘Guardian’ supporting you from behind.

One identity corresponds to one stage; three roles span the entire life cycle of your green transformation. Next, I will explain each one to you.

I. The ‘Pacer’ at the Starting Line: When You Don’t Know Where to Run

▲ Pacer: Helping you scout the track and define the route

When many companies first hear about ‘Dual Carbon,’ their reaction is the same: they have heard of it but have no idea where to start. How are carbon emissions calculated? Which links are the priorities? Where are the policy red lines? What is the ROI? A series of question marks keeps you from taking the first step at the starting line.

At this time, our role is the ‘Pacer.’ The value of a pacer is not to run for you, but to use professional expertise to help you scout the track, define the route, and teach you methods, transforming you from ‘not knowing how to run’ to ‘knowing where and how to run.’

1. Carbon Baseline Inventory: First, helping you perform a “comprehensive physical exam“

Just as a marathon runner undergoes a comprehensive physical exam before a race, your first step is to understand your carbon emission assets. Based on national greenhouse gas emission accounting standards, we cover Scope 1 (direct emissions), Scope 2 (purchased electricity and heat), and key Scope 3 (upstream and downstream indirect emissions). We perform comprehensive data collection and accounting for the enterprise’s energy consumption structure, production processes, and logistics links to draw your first panoramic carbon emission portrait.

This is the first time you will receive an authoritative and complete carbon emission report—covering total volume, intensity, structure, and trends. From then on, you will have a clear understanding and no longer be ‘feeling the elephant in the dark.’

2. Carbon Heat Map Analysis: Precisely locating “energy-consuming pain points“

Knowing the total volume is not enough; you also need to know where the problems lie. Through our self-developed carbon flow analysis model, we precisely locate the ‘hot spots’ of your carbon emissions: Which links consume the most energy? Which processes have the lowest carbon efficiency? Which equipment has outdated energy efficiency? Ultimately, a visualized carbon emission heat map is formed, making problems clear at a glance.

The pacer’s vision is to point out where the slopes, hurdles, and shortcuts are before you even notice them yourself.

3. Carbon Reduction Path Planning: Customizing a “pacing plan“ for you

After understanding the baseline and identifying the pain points, the next step is to prescribe a solution. Combining industry best practices and cutting-edge technical routes, we tailor a ‘one enterprise, one policy’ energy-saving and carbon-reduction action plan for you, covering three levels:

Short-term quick-win measures—achieving 5% to 10% ‘zero-cost’ or ‘low-cost’ rapid cost reduction through management optimization and simple technical retrofitting; medium-term technical transformation—implementing systematic technical retrofitting for high-energy-consuming links to release 15% to 30% of energy-saving and carbon-reduction potential; long-term strategic transformation—building long-term competitiveness around low-carbon products, clean energy, and green supply chains.

This plan is your ‘pacing chart’—clearly outlining how to run the first 5 kilometers, how to distribute energy midway, and how to exert force during the sprint phase.

4. Policy and Compliance Navigation: Helping you see the “track rules“ clearly

Rules on the Dual Carbon track are tightening rapidly: carbon quota management, the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), supply chain carbon footprint disclosure… enterprises that do not implement carbon management will face significant compliance risks in the next 2 to 3 years. Our professional team (Registered Energy Managers, Carbon Auditors, and Industry Engineers) continuously tracks policy dynamics at national, provincial, and municipal levels to interpret rules and warn of risks, ensuring you stay on the right track without deviating or crossing lines.

The Pacer’s mission: To take you from ‘not daring to run’ to ‘daring to start,’ and from ‘not knowing how to run’ to ‘running with skill.’

II. The ‘Companion’ En Route: When You Are Already on Track

▲ Companion: Walking side by side to help you pocket the dividends

After the initial diagnosis and planning, you have completed the first batch of energy-saving and carbon-reduction retrofits, the energy and carbon management system is initially established, and the operations team has begun to master daily management methods—you are now able to run independently.

At this stage, we move from the front to your side, switching our identity to ‘Companion.’ The companion does not make decisions for you but always walks side by side: you run the main body, and we fill the gaps; when you encounter bottlenecks, we provide support; when you have doubts, we respond immediately.

1. Technical Retrofitting Implementation Support: Turning “blueprints“ into “results“

No matter how well a carbon reduction plan is written, it is just a piece of paper if it cannot be implemented. We accompany you throughout the technical transformation process: from equipment selection and plan comparison to construction supervision and effect verification, ensuring every technical retrofit is implemented as planned and achieves expected results. We promise to deliver not a report to be shelved, but a set of actionable, quantifiable, and traceable action plans.

2. Digital Platform Dynamic Monitoring: Letting you “view data while running“

Our self-developed carbon diagnosis digital platform provides real-time collection, dynamic monitoring, and intelligent analysis of carbon emission data. You no longer ‘settle the accounts once at the end of the year’; instead, you can view carbon emission fluctuations, energy efficiency changes, and target progress at any time—just like a sports watch on an athlete’s wrist, with pace, heart rate, and mileage visible in real-time to adjust your rhythm.

3. Policy Project Application Support: Helping you “dividends“ pocket the

Green transformation involves not only investment but also tangible policy returns. We accompany you in step-by-step applications for policy projects at all levels, transforming your carbon reduction actions into real financial support:

At the municipal level, Changzhou’s near-zero carbon factories receive up to 500,000 RMB, energy-saving technical transformation projects up to 2 million RMB, and circular economy projects up to 2 million RMB; at the provincial level, Jiangsu’s zero-carbon factories receive 2 million RMB each, near-zero carbon factories 1.5 million RMB each, Dual Carbon technological innovation special funds range from 5 to 10 million RMB, and Environmental Infrastructure Loans for green technical retrofitting offer a 1.5% interest subsidy; at the national level, subsidies for National Green Factories, National Zero-Carbon Factory construction projects, and energy-saving carbon-reduction transformation projects in key industries are verified at 20% of the total investment.

From the preparation of application materials and on-site defense to project acceptance, we follow up throughout the process, allowing you to focus on running while leaving the ‘supply collection’ to us.

4. Certification and Rating Guidance: Helping you obtain the “Green Passport“

Carbon emission data is becoming a ‘Green Passport’ for enterprises to participate in global supply chain competition. Leading companies such as Apple, Tesla, and CATL have put forward clear carbon neutrality requirements for their supply chains. We guide you through certifications for Green Factories and Zero-Carbon Factories, making your green transformation results a competitive advantage in bidding, financing, and brand communication.

The Companion’s mission: When you can run, we don’t steal the spotlight; when you can’t, we give you a lift. We walk side by side until you form your own ‘muscle memory.’

III. The ‘Guardian’ Behind You: When You Are Already Experienced

▲ Guardian: You just focus on running at full speed; we handle everything in the rear

When your energy and carbon management system is operating maturely, your team is proficient in daily work, and carbon reduction targets are progressing steadily—you are already an experienced and mature runner.

At this stage, we move from your side to behind you, switching our identity to ‘Guardian.’ The guardian does not interfere with your running rhythm but provides logistics support and technical backing: Is the data accurate? Is the system stable? Has the policy changed? What to do in an emergency? Leave these ‘rear-end’ matters to us.

1. Regular Review and Data Calibration: Ensuring “results“ are authentic and valid

We provide regular carbon inventory review services, performing annual updates, cross-validation, and quality audits of carbon emission data to ensure your data remains accurate, traceable, and verifiable. Meanwhile, we timely update carbon baselines and reduction paths based on changes in production capacity, process adjustments, and energy structure upgrades, ensuring your ‘report card’ is always authentic and valid.

2. Digital Platform O&M and Technical After-sales: Ensuring stable operation of “equipment“

Continuous operation and maintenance, functional upgrades, and data security assurance of the self-developed carbon diagnosis digital platform are the basic after-sales services we provide to mature enterprises. Rapid response to system failures, data interface docking, and on-demand expansion of new modules ensure your energy and carbon management ‘equipment’ is always online and stable, preventing technical issues from slowing down your pace.

1. Policy Dynamic Tracking and Early Warning: Helping you “see the weather ahead“

Dual Carbon policies are still being released intensively, with tightening carbon quotas, expanding carbon tariffs, and updated industry standards… any change could affect your running strategy. We continuously track national and local policy dynamics, providing you with policy warnings and impact assessments so you can adjust your pace in advance and avoid rhythm disruptions caused by ‘sudden weather changes.’

4. Carbon Asset Optimization and Supply Chain Extension: Helping you “run further“

For mature enterprises, we also provide carbon asset management optimization suggestions (such as carbon quota compliance strategies and carbon credit development consulting) and support you in extending energy and carbon management to the upstream and downstream of the supply chain—helping core suppliers carry out carbon inventories and promoting product carbon footprint accounting, allowing your green influence to expand from ‘yourself’ to the ‘entire chain,’ building more lasting competitive barriers in the long run.

5. Emergency Technical Response: We arrive immediately when you “cramp“

Emergencies are inevitable in energy and carbon management: urgent data correction before audits, sudden windows for policy applications, or emission abnormalities caused by equipment failure… We provide an emergency technical response channel; with one phone call, our professional team intervenes quickly to ensure problems do not escalate and your rhythm is not interrupted.

The Guardian’s mission: You just focus on running at full speed; we guard everything in the rear. You may not see us, but we are always there.

Starting with Diagnosis, Ending with Zero Carbon

From Pacer to Companion, and then to Guardian—these three roles are not three independent service packages, but a service chain that runs through the entire life cycle of your green transformation.

We take ‘Carbon Diagnosis’ as the starting point to build a full-process closed loop of ‘Diagnosis—Prescription—Treatment—Review’: In the diagnosis stage, we are the Pacer, helping you understand your assets and find the right direction; in the treatment stage, we are the Companion, accompanying you in implementing technical retrofits and securing all policies; in the review stage, we are the Guardian, guarding the rear for you to ensure steady and long-term progress.

There are no shortcuts in the Dual Carbon marathon, but there are fellow travelers.

We look forward to walking with you—from the starting line to the finish line, from the first kilometer to the last.

——Changzhou Yuanjian Energy Technology Co., Ltd.

Your Partner Throughout the Energy and Carbon Management Journey