It is learnt from the “2017 China Environmental Industry Summit Forum” hosted by China Environment Service Industry Association that the traditional pollution treatment is likely to complete by 2030. Environmental industries have to turn to green manufacturing to assume the responsibilities for pillar industries with a forward-looking insight. China is mulling a fund with 50 billion yuan for green development to support environmental industries.
“China is currently at the peak period of pollution,” indicated Luo Jianhua, vice-director of China Environment Service Industry Association. The U.S., Japan and Britain also witnessed such pollution. Based on the practice of other countries, the environmental industry will shrink after the completion of pollution treatment. The narrow environmental industry has never become a pillar industry in any countries.
Chinese environmental industry should focus on “integration”, “actions”, “strength” and “new” to become a pillar industry, indicated Wu Shunze, deputy head of the Ministry of Environmental Protection’s reform office.
For integration, Wu pointed out that the environmental industry should be integrated with green industries and products. For action, relevant enterprises should take actions to become a pillar industry as it is a policy-driven industry. It also has to rely on innovation to attract new technologies, new models and new investments. The development of a pillar industry has to depend on strong enterprises.
Huang Runqiu, vice-minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), indicated that the MEP will focus on the construction of environmental infrastructure and introducing supporting policies to ensure the implementation of quality PPP programs, strengthen the endogenous drivers for environmental protection and actively develop environmental industries into pillar industries.
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is also mulling supporting policies. An official from the NDRC indicated that it will take more measures to promote the ecological civilization construction. It will speed up in the preparation of plans on ecological civilization pilot zones in Jiangxi and Guizhou and study the negative list for market access to the Yangtze River Economic belt.
Rumor also has it that the NDRC is mulling the establishment of a fund for green development with a size of about 50 billion yuan.
Translated by Star Zhang
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