Back to Home News Concentration on environmental protection in the tenth Five-year Plan         The Chinese government gives the highest priority to water treatment where the investment will be US $ 36,2 billion for the next five years. The wastewater treatment capacity shall increase to 40 tons/day. Gas treatment is also given high priority because the big problems with air pollution. The projects are desulfuration in coal-fired power plants, air pollution in the cities and industrial air pollution. The investment in this area will be US $ 30,2 billion. The third important environmental sector is solid waste treatment. This means treatment of hazardous waste, industrial solid waste and urban waste. US $ 10,9 billion will be invested in this sector. Other sectors are ecology protection and infrastructure. US $ 6 billion will be invested in ecological protection zones, oceanic protection zones, etc. US $ 1,2 billion are going to be invested in information, law enforcement, scientific research, environmental monitoring and so on. Investment source The polluting enterprises shall invest US $ 40.5 billion in water protection, air protection and waste treatment. The government, non-governmental and foreign funds will pay construction of municipal environmental protection infrastructure. The amount is US $ 36.8 billion. The State government and the local governments will pay ecology protection and construction of environmental protection management infrastructure. Key projects Several projects are centred around activities like “Three Rivers” and “Three Lakes”. More than 120 wastewater treatment plants are planned in these areas. Other clean-up activities are “Two Acid Rain Zones”, “One Municipality” (Beijing) and “One See” (Bohai).