China Helps Environmental Equipment Producers Make Greater Progress
Year:2017 ISSUE:22
COLUMN:ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Click:298    DateTime:Nov.30,2017
China Helps Environmental Equipment Producers Make Greater Progress

On October 24, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China (MIIT) issued Guiding Opinions on Accelerating Development of Environmental Equipment Manufacturing Industry.
The document sets forth many targets for the environmental equipment manufacturing industry, like increasing its production value to RMB1 trillion by 2020. Through improving innovation ability, the industry will strive for new breakthroughs in key technologies and major equipment, which are expected to basically reach international level by 2020. Further, more advanced equipment will be supplied, and industrial structure will be optimized continually. While supporting a group of leading firms in key fields, the government will foster one thousand small-and-medium-sized enterprises, producing professional, good, special and creative products. Consequently, many influential and distinctive industrial clusters will be formed by 2020.
Innovation and overseas expansion are recommended in the development. In addition, the document calls for propelling intelligent and cleaner production. Meanwhile, it requires industry players to diversify products and establish own brands. Different strategies are made based on scales of enterprises. Hence, some firms may become more comprehensive, and some may be small but special.
Nine key fields specified in the document include air pollution prevention and control equipment, water pollution prevention and control equipment, soil pollution remediation equipment, solid waste disposal equipment, resource comprehensive utilization equipment, emergency treatment equipment for environmental pollution, special instruments for environmental monitoring, special materials and agents for prevention of environmental pollution, noise and vibration control equipment.