China Business Forum 2011 Summary

China’s 12th Five-Year Plan is focused on long-term environmental sustainability with targets set to reduce water use by 30% for every new dollar of industrial output and to reduce chemical oxygen demand in water bodies by 8% before 2016. Four trillion yuan will be invested into water projects during the next decade to improve China’s water conservancy infrastructure. Vast business opportunities also lie in the Shandong province, with plans to build 136 new sewage treatment plants and 10,000 km of drainage pipelines. Tianjin Binhai New Area is looking to double its desalination capacity to 480,000 tons per day by 2015 and to improve treated water coverage up to 95%.

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